Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: article "standard" header/footer

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> > i'm DEEPLY opposed to conditional branching in tex documents. 
> > even if there is one good use i assure you some bright spot
> > down the line will figure out a way to conditionally build 
> > algebra documents based on half-a-thousand switches. and if 
> > something gets skipped it is hard to recognize that something 
> > that "should" be there isn't.
> 
> OK.  But that still leaves us with the problem of how to handle
> necessary options for pdf vs. dvi.  TeTeX 3.0 and up seem to insist on
> making a pdf if the options to hyperref include pdf specific options,
> which is why I had to use the ifthen package for hyperref.

can you give me an example to play with?
i've never seen latex output a pdf. always a dvi.
this must be new behavior.

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