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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Ulrike Fischer wrote:
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cite="mid:149182325.20200623101042@nililand.de"><br>
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<pre wrap="">Consider the following example:
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<pre wrap=""> \documentclass[dvipdfmx]{article}
\begin{document}
Some \special{pdf:bann}{\Huge\phantom{text}}\special{pdf:eann} goes here
\end{document}
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Processing that example with TeX Live 2020 PdfTeX, I am told :<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">This is pdfTeX, Version
3.14159265-2.6-1.40.21 (TeX Live 2020/W32TeX) (preloaded
format=pdflatex)
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">
restricted \write18 enabled.</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">entering
extended mode</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">(./untitled-1.tex</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">LaTeX2e
<2020-02-02> patch level 5</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">L3
programming layer <2020-06-03></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">(c:/TeX/Live/2020/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">Document
Class: article 2019/12/20 v1.4l Standard LaTeX document class</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">(c:/TeX/Live/2020/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))</p>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px;
margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;
-qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><br>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">! LaTeX3
Error: Backend request inconsistent with engine: using 'pdfmode'</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">(LaTeX3)
backend.</p>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px;
margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;
-qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><br>
</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">For
immediate help type H <return>.</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"> ... </p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"> </p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">l.2
\begin{document}</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"> </p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">? </p>
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What engine should I be using ?<br>
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Philip Taylor<br>
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