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Przemyslaw Klosowski
Oct 11, 1986, 9:02:03 PM10/11/86
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I am interested in seeing such a beast; I think that the ability to (selec-
tively) inspect DVI files on screen is important. The first implementation of
TeX I used (in 1982) had this in it; after that I had to use paper copies.
I saw the approximation to this being distributed on the net (namely DVITYPE)
but it needs to re-run TeX on your document (because a special font is used),
which defeats somehow the purpose of the previewer (or did I get this wrong?)
SO:
1) does anybody know of a public domain previewer for let say
Tektronix 4010/4014
2) maybe some pointers to information about DVI file layout,
and why it is not obvious how to write such program.
tively) inspect DVI files on screen is important. The first implementation of
TeX I used (in 1982) had this in it; after that I had to use paper copies.
I saw the approximation to this being distributed on the net (namely DVITYPE)
but it needs to re-run TeX on your document (because a special font is used),
which defeats somehow the purpose of the previewer (or did I get this wrong?)
SO:
1) does anybody know of a public domain previewer for let say
Tektronix 4010/4014
2) maybe some pointers to information about DVI file layout,
and why it is not obvious how to write such program.
:^) Here I am, waiting for a computer with the editor having the function
:^) 'format-and-show-the-text', with ~ real time response. This would be
:^) WYSIWYG again...
prz...@psuvaxg.bitnet
psuvax1!gondor!przemek
spray@smu
Oct 19, 1986, 2:37:00 PM10/19/86
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I think Talaris sells a terminal/software combination TeX previewer.
--Rob Spray
--S&M U.
...convex!smu!spray
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