Hello Rolf,
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 09:37:43PM +1200, Rolf Turner wrote:
>
> I said ***explicitly*** that "powerdot is not compatible with pdftex". I
> did
> "latex demo", ***NOT*** "pdflatex demo" and got the error that I reported.
A little patience and being concise helps a lot. If you knew that, why
do you use the package hypdestopt? As the error in your previous
message says, it requires pdftex.
> ! Package hypdestopt Error: This package requires pdfTeX in PDF mode.
> See the hypdestopt package documentation for explanation.
> Type H <return> for immediate help.
> ...
>
> l.55 }\@ehc
So either change from powerdot to something that is supported in pdftex
(beamer, prosper, etc) or do not use hypdestopt.
> But there are two further things to note:
>
> (1) Looking more closely at the screen output from the latex command
[...]
> So it seems that I was inadvertently using *pdftex*. This seems to be
> simply what happens under texlive2012.
[...]
> So I need somehow to get an installation of texlive where "latex" really
> means
> ***latex*** and not "pdftex". How the hell do I arrange that?
This is intentional. All modern TeX distributions symlink latex,
pdflatex, etc to pdftex. pdftex figures out what it should run as by
looking at the calling name (arg 0 in technical parlance).
This is the same for most shells, for example.
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 user user 6 Aug 15 2009 /opt/texlive/2012/bin/x86_64-linux/latex -> pdftex
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 user user 1721312 Jun 28 2012 /opt/texlive/2012/bin/x86_64-linux/pdftex
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 4 Mar 17 01:09 /bin/sh -> bash
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 978160 Mar 11 21:18 /bin/bash
Next time when you post a minimal example, make sure it actually
replicates the problem. Including the line "\usepackage{hypdestopt}"
replicates your error message from the earlier post.
Hope this helps,
--
Suvayu
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