Re: symbol/color/line consistency in terminals

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Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:

>> That would gravely endanger any usefulness of this driver.  The only 
>> real virtue of "latex" compared to other Tex-family drivers (emtex, 
>> eepic, and PostScript+LaTeX ones) is that its output is pure, 
>> unextended, driver-independent LaTeX.  Pulling in terminal-specific 
>> packages like "colour" would break that.

> Not sure I follow.  The LaTeX driver already uses the symbol 
> package(s).  

Using packages as such is not the problem.  Using packages that only 
work with a certain subset of DVI drivers, is.

> monochrome but also have no color commands.  Similarly, there is now 
> rotated text, for which we can use the LaTeX rotate package. 

... which used dvips specials last I looked, so causes the same kind of 
problem.

The moment "set term latex" produces dvi files with \special in them, it 
becomes pointless to have it.