[tex-live] Problems with TeX-Live 7

[Michael Barr]

Thanks.  He has finally succeeded in turning it off (in texmf.cnf).

--Michael

On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Fabrice Popineau wrote:

> * Michael Barr <barr@barrs.org> writes:
> 
> > Between initex, Windedit, the configuration file, and the calling
> > program, something is invariably turning on these source specials and
> > we have not been able to figure out how to turn it off.
> 
> It can be turned on by default in either of these locations :
> 
> - texmf.cnf (find the right one, probably in $VARTEMXF/web2c)
> 
> % Allow TeX, eTeX, Omega to include `src:' specials in the dvi file.
> % These specials are used by viewers to jump from the viewer into
> % the editor at the right page/lineno.
> % Possible values : none auto cr display hbox math par parend vbox
> src_specials.pdftex = none
> src_specials = auto
> 
> and comment both lines above.
> 
> - Look into your WinEdt configuration, unfotunately I'm of not help here
> except that I have grep'ed among all WinEdt files (in c:\Program
> Files\WinEdt Team\WinEdt\) and found a couple of occurences of the
> '--src' string. 
> 
> > clearly buggy since it should not be changing the subsection
> > indentation in any case.
> 
> There doesn't seem to be a clean way to implement these specials. This
> side effect will be removed with the next version.
> 
> Fabrice
>