laser-lovers@uw-beaver (11/04/85)
From: Mike Jipping <jipping%uiowa.csnet@CSNET-RELAY.arpa>
Along the lines of Peter Milne's request of 29 Oct, I'm also looking
for a TeX82 dvi -> <anything readable but formatted>. I need something
that will convert the dvi file to a draft copy I can run off the
lineprinter. We're running 4.2 Unix over here -- and a filter like that
would be a great help! Thanks in advance!
-- Mike Jipping
U of Iowa Dept. of CS
jipping@uiowa (via CSNet)
jipping%uiowa@CSNET-RELAY
(via ArpaNet)
[[Editor's comment: This is a request that comes up pretty frequently.
To the best of my knowledge, there is a filter that does a version of
this on Tops-20 but none on Unix (by this, I mean the one from Ohio
State). There was talk of an older filter that worked with TeX78 but
not TeX82 output. The big difficulty of course is representing the
output obtained with variable width fonts in a fixed-width medium. If
you have such a filter, please let me know (Furuta@Washington or
uw-beaver!furuta). I am particularly interested in a filter that
could be put onto the Unix TeX distribution tape.
If you are working in an environemnt with bit-mapped screens, the most
appropriate thing to do would be to write a screen previewer. For the
Sun, the Berkeley VorTeX package and also the more rudimentary dvitool
contained in the Unix TeX distribution come to mind (in addition to
Textset's commercial product, of course). --Rick ]]