Re: [NTG-pdftex] pdftex -ini

8 Sep 2004

      On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
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"Hartmut" == Hartmut Henkel  writes:
>> $ pdftex -ini '\pdfoutput=1 \end'
    >> This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.3)
    >> (INITEX)
    >> \write18 enabled.
    >> %&-line parsing enabled.
    >> output format initialized to DVI
Yes, maybe the message should be deferred until the output file is
opened.  When the output file is opened, pdftex definitely knows
whether it produces DVI or PDF.
Have tried it. A good place for the check and message seems to be
procedure fix_pdfoutput, which freezes the output mode once and forever.
Then one gets:

This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.3)
entering extended mode
(./xx.tex (output format initialized to PDF)
 [1{/usr/lo...

Needs this blank and some kind of brackets () around the string, and
unclear is which convention to follow, as ( officially already means
open file and [ means begin page...
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Unfortunately then in my example the message wouldn't appear at all.
Right, but who would care?

Regards, Hartmut