[dviout] Settings of dviout in TeX Live

Norbert Preining preining at logic.at
Fri Aug 30 03:30:11 CEST 2013


On Do, 29 Aug 2013, T T wrote:
> > I thus propose to include the changes laid out by Yusuke. I have
> > tested them myself with success.
> 
> OK, can you commit the patch?

Done so.

> Well, using registry for settings won't work for portable
> installations (you will leave your settings behind on whatever
> computer you happen to save them on).  The other argument to give is

Well, so what. That is up to the user.

> that, if you have dviout installed separately from TL, it might
> interfere with the one from TL (or vice versa).  OTOH, I'm not sure

THat is also fine. We just leave the users the freedom to hack themselves
;-)

> (the -NULL switch doesn't seem to do what I thought it does,
> apparently), so we might as well follow through with the patch.

FIne, let us see how it goes.

Yusuke, please test after todays update, thanks.

Norbert

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