How to view a .tex file

tada...@yahoo.com

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Oct 14, 2007, 11:56:45 AM10/14/07

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I am having trouble finding a way to view this file on my Windows ME
box.

http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00002144/

I downloaded ProTEX and set up a Mike tex program but it view on .dvi
files.

How can I see this file I am interested in?

Maarten Bergvelt

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Oct 14, 2007, 12:51:09 PM10/14/07

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You need to compile the texfile (probably twice). I must say that it
is rather impolite of this archivenot to provide a directly viewable
version of the file. I would complain.
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Maarten Bergvelt

Patrick Steegstra

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Oct 14, 2007, 1:08:43 PM10/14/07

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not sure if I sent my first message just to you or the newsgroup. I
didn't notice that there's a bibliography as well. After compiling to
pdf for example you need to enter:

bibtex doomsrev

and then repeat the compilation to pdf. Sometimes it is needed to repeat
to get everything right. I always forget when exactly :-)

Cheers,
Patrick

Robin Fairbairns

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Oct 14, 2007, 2:57:41 PM10/14/07

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Maarten Bergvelt <be...@math.uiuc.edu> writes:
tada...@yahoo.com wrote:
>> I am having trouble finding a way to view this file on my Windows ME
>> box.
>>
>> http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00002144/
>>
>> I downloaded ProTEX and set up a Mike tex program but it view on .dvi
>> files.
>>
>> How can I see this file I am interested in?
>
>You need to compile the texfile (probably twice).

indeed, twice.

>I must say that it
>is rather impolite of this archivenot to provide a directly viewable
>version of the file. I would complain.

but while you're waiting for the complaint to have effect, see

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rf10/doomrev.pdf

(i went and ate dinner, then thought "someone *must* do this.
no-one's posted that they have, so ...)

copied to op.
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Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge

Bob Tennent

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Oct 14, 2007, 3:12:55 PM10/14/07

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On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:51:09 +0000 (UTC), Maarten Bergvelt wrote:
> In article <1192377405.1...@i38g2000prf.googlegroups.com>, tada...@yahoo.com wrote:
>> I am having trouble finding a way to view this file on my Windows ME
>> box.
>>
>> http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00002144/
>>

> I must say that it
> is rather impolite of this archivenot to provide a directly viewable
> version of the file. I would complain.

Almost certainly a mistake: the .tex was posted instead of the .dvi. The
site suggests using windvi as a viewer.

Bob T.

Joost Kremers

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Oct 14, 2007, 3:56:44 PM10/14/07

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the link at the bottom of the page points to a ps version, btw.

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tada...@yahoo.com

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Oct 15, 2007, 7:48:10 AM10/15/07

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On Oct 14, 3:56 pm, Joost Kremers <joostkrem...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Bob Tennent wrote:
> > On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:51:09 +0000 (UTC), Maarten Bergvelt wrote:

> > > In article <1192377405.178296.236...@i38g2000prf.googlegroups.com>, tadams...@yahoo.com wrote:
> > >> I am having trouble finding a way to view this file on my Windows ME
> > >> box.
>
> > >>http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00002144/
>
> > > I must say that it
> > > is rather impolite of this archivenot to provide a directly viewable
> > > version of the file. I would complain.
>
> > Almost certainly a mistake: the .tex was posted instead of the .dvi. The
> > site suggests using windvi as a viewer.
>
> the link at the bottom of the page points to a ps version, btw.

Actually that's a different paper from 2001. I wanted the 2005
version.

Thanks to Robin for posting the ps!

>
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