l3backend: adding new DVI specials?

David Carlisle d.p.carlisle at gmail.com
Fri Feb 14 10:57:00 CET 2020


On Fri, 14 Feb 2020 at 09:49, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> It's a long time when I used DVI last time but if I remember the
> specification well, if a DVI driver does not understand a \special, it
> should emit a warning and ignore it.
>
>
Yes but if you wrap in a regression test that's checking no new warnings
occur, then
"emit a warning and ignore" can still  cause tests to fail, which is
probably what happened here.

David
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