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

[Ralf Hemmecke]

> 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",

You misunderstood my question about dvipdfm.

I don't like .dvi and .pdf. These are binary formats. Source counts.

It probably doesn't depend on dvipdfm whether one can do

  latex book.tex

and

  pdflatex book.tex

to optain .dvi and .pdf at the same time.

I had an effort (still unfinished in my 'fricas-book' branch) to revive
the AXIOM book.

http://www.hemmecke.de/fricas/book.pdf

My .sty file

https://github.com/hemmecke/fricas/blob/fricas-book/src/doc/fricas.sty

doesn't use dvipdfm, although (because of eps figures) the translation
also goes .tex -> .dvi -> .pdf and not straight to .pdf.

I am simply not sure whether Tim needs dvipdfm at all and wanted to give
him a hint to try without it.

Ralf