Closed ouboub closed 4 years ago
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
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.
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).
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