Tilman Höner zu Siederdissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I assume there is a good reason why the usage of \pdfoutput was changed. > Maybe > rather osajnl.sty should be changed than teTeX.
Yes, indeed style files that have such tests for \pdfoutput should be changed. They were wrong from the beginning, and in this simple form the test works only once - as soon as you load two style files that try this test, the second one would have assumed PDF even with teTeX 2.0.2. > I still think this is an > important issue since it might concern a lot more commonly used style files > and users usually do not edit tex style files. You are right, it's an important issue. But it's really the authors of such buggy style files who should fix their things. This has been discussed at length by upstream, and the conclusion was that there are only two possibilities: Either we break compatibility here and make \pdfoutput a useful variable, or pdfTeX would have to drop respecting that primitive (breaking all non-buggy packages) and invent a new one, like \pdfoutputdontabuse. And hope people would be more clever than before. You can imagine which decision was made... Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
