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Posted: Thu 09 Jul 2020, 02:57 Post subject:

.sty files (Tex Programming) and input Options

I was troubleshooting a texlive installation that was likely missing some files due to insufficient memory during installation (at least that's my working theory).

I got the following error:

Code:

No driver specified
You should make a default driver option in a file
graphics.cfg

Here, is the code that produces the error:

Code:

\if!\Gin@driver!
\PackageError{graphics}
{No driver specified}
{You should make a default driver option in a file \MessageBreak
graphics.cfg\MessageBreak
eg: \protect\ExecuteOptions{textures}%
}
\else
\PackageInfo{graphics}{Driver file: \Gin@driver}
\@ifundefined{ver@\Gin@driver}{\input{\Gin@driver}}{}
\fi

From lines 97 to 107 of:
/usr/local/texlive/2020/texmf-dist/tex/latex-dev/graphics/graphics.sty

The solution is to add the [drive] option as an input to the usepackage command as follows:

Code:

\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}

According to the following link one shouldn't need to do this:
https://latex.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=21570
due to good auto-detection. I haven't tried to get autodetection to work. In some packages you can specify autdetect. For example:

Code:

\usepackage[driver=none]{geometry}

http://texdoc.net/texmf-dist/doc/latex/geometry/geometry.pdf

I notice that for the geometry pacakge the name of the driver is previxed with "driver=" but for the graphicx package using this (asignment style) prefix will break the latex document. What I don't understand is why we don't use this asignment style prefix in the graphicx package when specifying the driver. Some code from the graphicx package:

Code:

LN#65 \providecommand\Gin@driver{}
...
LN#72 \DeclareOption{pdftex}{\def\Gin@driver{pdftex.def}}

It seems that \DeclareOption must be an input option (like an argument) rather then some kind of select case control structure. I was originally thinking it was like select case so that when I pass driver=pdftex, we would select the case based on the value of the driver variable and return a configuration file for that driver (e.g. pdftex.def). However, this initial understanding was wrong and the option is an input argument rather than a branch in a case statement.

Since the notion for the geometry package is how I originally expected the graphicx package to work, I should look at how the coding differs. I'll probably paste this on a subsequent post.
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