langdon@lll-lcc.UUCP (Bruce Langdon) (06/06/89)
In article <14622@duke.cs.duke.edu>, gm@romeo.cs.duke.edu (Greg McGary) writes: > There is no inherent reason why (La)TeX should lose on a tty.... > ... TeX does this fixed-width stuff wonderfully if the right-margin is ragged- Yes, I could get results acceptable to me only with a \rightskip like 0pt plus 4em. I added \spaceskip 1em too. > .... I know of two such free-ware drivers: dvi2tty and dvidoc. > These are not entirely suitable though, > since their primary reason for existing is to provide fast and dirty > previewing on ttys, not necissarily high-quality plain-text output. At the Clarkson archives, dvidoc.shar3 (I think) has source and results that I consider to be high quality. > ... Plain TeX and LaTeX don't have macros > built-in that conveniently switch to such a mode--you have to roll your > own or use the macros that come with dvi2tty or dvidoc (and even these > were buggy and incomplete last I looked). When did you look? If you used the shar3 macros with plain TeX and had trouble, let me know. We still need a latex style, as far as I know. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Bruce Langdon L-472 langdon@lll-lcc.llnl.gov Physics Department 14363%f@nmfecc.llnl.gov Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Livermore, CA 94550 (415) 422-5444 UUCP: ..{qantel,ucdavis,pyramid,harvard,topaz}!lll-lcc!langdon