[tex-live] pdfetex command line handling

[Gerben Wierda]

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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] pdflatex with dvi-output
From:    Jérôme Laurens <jerome.laurens at u-bourgogne.fr>
Date:    Thu, November 10, 2005 11:51
To:      "TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List" <MacOSX-TeX at email.esm.psu.edu>
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Le 10 nov. 05, à 10:40, Michael Hoppe a écrit :

> Dear listeners,
>
> for a special purpose, i. e., to get microtype and pst-pdf work
> together, I need dvi-output via pdflatex, prefferable from the command
> line.  Have a look at the file fehler.tex:
>
> %------------------------
> \documentclass{minimal}
> \usepackage[verbose,expansion=basictext]{microtype}
> %\pdfoutput=0
> \begin{document}
> Blubb. akdjhsa slcfjhlsd vlkjasd vloisjdwv lsidhvolis vpsoujdpocvi
> aoiducoasi ducosiducopaiducp adopiupsiodfu vpsoduvp psaoducpo
> dpciupod cpaoidcupodiuop
> \end{document}
> %--------------------------
>
> The very obvious from pdftex --help, namely
>
>     pdflatex -output-format=dvi fehler
>

About the "=" sign. This might be of no help but I use

pdflatex -output-format dvi blah.tex

with no "=" sign. This resembles more the man page and works for me.
However, the man page also tells us to

pdflatex -src-specials cr,display,hbox,math,par,parent,vbox blah.tex

but this does not work for me: instead I have to use

pdflatex -src-specials=cr,display,hbox,math,par,parent,vbox blah

with the "=" sign

Mystery and bubble gums

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