Re: texi2dvi: --dvipdf and --ps

[Akim Demaille]

Le 19 juin 06 à 21:01, Karl Berry a écrit :

>             Support dvips and dvipdf for sake of pstricks, and to
>
> dvipdf is a tiny wrapper that calls dvips | gs.  That's fine, but the
> user should have the option of specifying other dvi-to-pdf  
> translators.
> In particular, dvipdfmx is the native translator currently being
> maintained, and is a superset of dvi2pdf and dvipdfm, among others.
>
> In the patch, it looked like the command names and options were
> hardwired.  Can you change things so that they can be overridden?

They are hardwired because it's a preliminary state :)  I was
hoping for feedback such as yours.  I also know dvipdf and dvi2pdf
and both do not have the same interface (one is input -o output,
the other input output).

What is your recommendation?  Should I use these tools?  Should I
make direct calls to dvips and them ps2pdf or even gs directly?

I don't know dvipdfmx.  I can try a --help to see if the
interface is "input output" or "input -o output".  What's
the --help for dvipdfmx?

Thanks in advance!