[OS X TeX] Solved: latex command produces PDF instead of DVI

[Gerben Wierda]

This has been fixed, uploaded to the *EXPERIMENTAL* i-Directory and it 
is uploading to the other i-Directories now. This update is recommended 
for all users of a TL2004-based setup.

G

PS. latex now uses the pdfetex engine so that stuff there (like 
microtype) becomes available in DVI-producing TeX as well. TL2004 has a 
backward compatble fix for all those packages that check for pdfTeX the 
wrong way. I have added that fix to my setup.

On Nov 22, 2004, at 16:58, Gerben Wierda wrote:

> On Nov 22, 2004, at 16:31, Gerald Teschl wrote:
>
>> Dear Gerben,
>>
>> first of all thank you for you wonderfull TeX-packakes. I use them 
>> for quite some time now and never had any problems.
>> However, I got a now mac and did a fresh install (TeX package version 
>> 2004/11/16 22:33:48).
>>
>> I selected "Full/2004" during installation. Now the problem is that 
>> latex does no longer produce dvi files.
>> Some investigation showed
>>
>> madmushroom:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current root# 
>> ls -l latex
>> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel  7 22 Nov 16:23 latex -> pdfetex
>>
>> that "latex" is a link to "pdfetex". Why did you remove "latex"? Is 
>> there an easy version to fix this.
>
> TL2004 has unififed most engines to pdfetex. pdfetex is perfectly able 
> to produce DVI. However as it now turns out there is an 
> incompatibility between teTeX and TeX live that makes latex read a 
> pdfTex configuration file which sets the output format to PDF.
>
> I will be fixing this asap.
>
> G
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