grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu (04/06/89)
The most recent revision of the set of TeX tools, primarily previewers, that I've written and/or maintained is available for anonymous FTP. I am unable to handle individual requests, because I'm interviewing and am thus out of town a great deal. The FTP site is a.cs.uiuc.edu. The file name is ``pub/TeX/uiuctex2.0.tar.Z'', a compressed tar file. The tools include: texsun: Now includes support for Sun 386i. The most complete version, with scrollbars, menus, whole nine yards. Supports tpic specials, outlines bounding boxes of \psfig, marking pages for printing, etc. iptex/imagen1: This is a re-work of the original imagen1. Changes were made to use a ``common core'' for the print loop, shared with texsun and texx. Additional options have been added as well. Support tpic specials. texx: This is the version as distributed with X11R3, but with all patches applied. Known to work on Vax, Sun, PC/RT, and now the DEC 3100. This version is rather gross; fonts are shrunk to fit ``on the fly''. Handles tpic specials (albeit slowly - if someone really likes texx, they should look at the special code in texx2 & back-patch it) texx2: This is currently at version 2.8.5. texx2 is another X previewer, but it uses resident X-11 fonts (generated by a companion program) to display the page. Thus, it's a lot faster. It has options similar to texsun: you can goto pages, `mark' pages for printing, select different mag sizes, put up multiple pages, print the document (or marked pages). This will undergo some more changes, but not until late this summer. If someone does change this, please let me know. BTW: if you put ``*BackingStore: whenMapped'' in your .xresources file, scroll motion is smooth, not jerky. Documentation for texx2 is rather sketchy, to say the least. At least there's a README, but not much else. If someone *does* write any thing, or improve on the code, I'd appreciate hearing about it. dviselect, the CTeX library & other junk -- much of this is as distribtued by Chris Torek at UMD. Dviselect hasn't changed. The CTeX library for font routines, however, has changed, and you need the version distributed here for these tools. It now cleanly compiles using the Gnu C compiler, with no warning messages. Also, I went over everything using lint once, and it's clean as far as I can tell. I've removed some of the machine specific assembler hacks designed to fix VAX compiler bugs; if your VAX compiler is broken, use GCC or complain to your vendor. -- Dirk Grunwald Univ. of Illinois grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu