changebar also with the pdftex option?

[ouboub]

Hi

I think nowadays people tend to use more pdflatex than vanilla latex (this is at least my impression from discussions in the auctex mailing list) That is why I would like to suggest: could latex also provide the changebar package with the pdftex option instead of the dvips option? regards Uwe Brauer

[ftilmann]

This functionality more or less exists already, just use --driver=pdftex option (this option as an effect only on the changebar styles. You are probably right that pdftex would nowadays be a more appropriate default; for myself it is certainly true that pdflatex is the usual choice (I can't even remember the last time I used plain latex as part of my general work). On the other hand I am normally a stickler for backwards compatibility, although in this case the number of affected users should be very small, and the fix for them is trivial

[ouboub]

This functionality more or less exists already, just use --driver=pdftex option (this option as an effect only on the changebar styles. You are probably right that pdftex would nowadays be a more appropriate default; for myself it is certainly true that pdflatex is the usual choice (I can't even remember the last time I used plain latex as part of my general work). On the other hand I am normally a stickler for backwards compatibility, although in this case the number of affected users should be very small, and the fix for them is trivial

Ok. I admit I was not aware of this driver option, although I thought I scanned the man pages.

[ftilmann]

I have to confess that I put this option in the man pages but not the help text shown with -h option. So thanks for this report, which prompted me to fix this (and I also changed the default to pdftex now).