[tex-live] Re: Please drop the DVI-with-pdfTeX hack!

[Ralf Stubner]

"Jonathan Fine" <J.Fine at open.ac.uk> writes:

> Ralph's draft announcement wrote:
>> The advantage of this change is that now packages like microtype.sty can
>> be used to produce DVI files with the microtypographical extensions from
>> pdfTeX.
>
> In other words, the microtypographic extensions.

No, 'the microtypographical extensions _from_pdfTeX_'. Maybe on could
say 'provided by pdfTeX'.

> But you are saying it is all pdfTeX additional primitives.
>
> Could someone clarify this.  Which is it?

Both: The 'microtypographical extensions from pdfTeX' which are
accesible via additional primitives implemented in pdfTeX.

cheerio
ralf