kevinwu%lionsgate@Sun.COM (Kevin Wu) (01/19/89)
I'm looking for dvitool, a program for previewing TeX documents on Sun workstations running SunView. I'd appreciate any pointers to this program. If it's distributed at no cost, a site with anonymous ftp would be great. Please reply by e-mail because I don't read this newsgroup any more. Thanks. -- Kevin Wu Sun Microsystems, Inc. Internet: kevinwu@sun.com Mail Stop 5-40 UUCP: ...!sun!kevinwu 2550 Garcia Ave. Bell: (415) 336-6873 Mountain View, CA 94043
ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap) (01/20/89)
Dvitool is part of the VorTeX tools and can be licensed from the group for a small fee. I think their net address was vortex-dist@ berkeley.edu. Here is an announcement of theirs posted to TeXHax a while back. Date: Tue, 26 Jul 88 14:23:08 PDT From: harrison@renoir.Berkeley.EDU (Michael Harrison) Subject: X11 previewer, PS previewer and VorTeX I started out to answer Micah Beck's request about an X11 dvi previewer, but it is time to give an update on the VorTeX prioject. The VorTeX project has dvi2x11, written by Steve Procter which has been operational for a couple of weeks. This is a nice previewer similar to dvi2x but it is not yet as fast as the latest version of dvi2x. Some of you may have the old dvi2x which had not beeen optimized. The latest one is very fast under X10. We will probably release the X11 version soon if we find no bugs. There is a lot of new stuff to report on what has been happening on the VorTeX project and perhaps this is not the place for a lengthy report. Here is an abstarct. VorTeX is running. It passed the trip TeX some months ago as well as what we call the trip^\ast test since an incremental formatter has to be able to restart from an intermediate point. More reverse mapping code needs to be added and we are doing it. In addtion the often delayed PostScript interpreter will be release in the next few weeks too. This is becoming much more complete and has commands not always implemented like setscreen. This work is mainly due to John Coker. The macro packages have been enhanced to give better access and display of bibliographic information and has hooks for more functionality. We'll announce a major update on the software release very soon. Stay tuned. Credits: This nice software has been written by a lot of talented people. Mainly by, Pehong Chen, John Coker, Ikuo Minakata, Ethan Munson, and Steve Procter.