Re: [Axiom-developer] Axiom, Ubuntu and texlive

[Michel Lavaud]

Le 04/06/2014 18:31, u1204 a écrit :
> > > I believe I've solved the dvipdfm problem.
> > For what reason is dvipdfm in the code anyway?
> >
> > Sounds like Axiom uses tex->dvi->pdf instead of directly going with
> > pdflatex: .tex -> .pdf. Or am I missing something?
> History, actually. At one point Axiom was going to use an open
> source dvi viewer as part of the hyperdoc interface. Thus all
> pamphlets were translated to a dvi final format.
And rigor, I suppose? pdf format is not frozen, pdf viewers are not 
bug-free. Remember an RMLL conference in Metz where the pdf file of a 
colleague didn't display some text of the file. dvi format is very 
simple and frozen, dvi viewers exist and can be supposed bug-free for 
these reason. Same old recurrent debate of "new" vs "old", it seems (use 
new xml instead of old latex, use new pdf instead of old dvi, use new 
python instead of old lisp, etc.) ?
> The later transition from standalone pamphlets to book format
> introduced PDF files and dvipdfm.
>
> Tim
>
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