DAN@IBM.COM.UUCP (04/17/87)
Can someone supply more info on VorTex? like where and how to order it and what restrictions there are on use.
ken@rochester.ARPA (Ken Yap) (04/17/87)
Here is a posting to Unix-TeX I saved. It is dated but the contact address is the same. They have more stuff now. Received: from ur-cayuga.rochester.arpa (ur-cayuga) by ur-seneca.rochester.arpa id AA00400 (4.12t); Mon, 21 Oct 85 14:47:40 edt Received: from WASHINGTON.ARPA by ur-cayuga.rochester.arpa id AA19797 (4.12r); Mon, 21 Oct 85 14:47:05 edt Return-Path: <phc@ucbrenoir.Berkeley.EDU> Received: from UCB-VAX by WASHINGTON.ARPA with TCP; Thu 17 Oct 85 11:43:18-PDT Received: by UCB-VAX (5.28/5.13) id AA18901; Thu, 17 Oct 85 11:43:46 PDT Received: by ucbrenoir.ARPA (5.5/4.48) id AA20671; Thu, 17 Oct 85 11:43:41 PDT Date: Thu, 17 Oct 85 11:43:41 PDT From: phc@ucbrenoir.Berkeley.EDU (Peehong Chen) Message-Id: <8510171843.AA20671@ucbrenoir.ARPA> To: unix-tex@washington.arpa Subject: Announcement from Berkeley VorTeX group Resent-Date: Mon 21 Oct 85 11:21:48-PDT Resent-From: Richard Furuta <Furuta@WASHINGTON.ARPA> Resent-To: "Unix TeX":; Status: R Announcements from Berkeley The Berkeley VorTeX project now has a new distribution of their work ready for public release. It consists of a tape containing a number of programs which greatly facilitate using TeX and related systems for high quality document preparation. Here is an overview of the major subsystems: 1. ``dvitool'' is a previewer for DVI files which runs on the SUN workstation. This system is very robust, handles arbitrary DVI files, and provides a great many features. It is a full tool in the sense of the SUN window system and can be adjusted to any size the user finds appropriate. It is possible to keep a small window on the screen for previewing at the same time a source window is present. This is extremely valuable in debugging. Changing the view you have of a page is instantaneous. 2. ``texdvi'' is a program that runs TeX and previews the results using ``dvitool.'' If the tool does not exist it is started, if the tool exists it is opened and the file is read into it automatically. ``latexdvi'' and ``slitexdvi'' are similar systems for LaTeX and SliTeX respectively. This is actually one program and would work with your own version of ``FooTeX'' as well (by linking ``texdvi'' to ``foodvi'', for example). 3. ``pxtool'' is a SUN-based font editor for PXL files. It is similar in spirit to ``icontool'' or ``fonttool''. A graphics window is available and an image of the font is shown with the pixels depicted on the screen. Using the mouse, one is able to edit pixels. There is also a ``show mode'' in which the finished character is displayed on the screen. This tool is very useful for creating and editing fonts. 4. FONTS: A rather complete set of fonts is available for TeX and LaTeX in the sizes needed for the previewer (note that SliTeX fonts are not included in this distribution.) These are regularly in use at Berkeley and rarely have people run into missing font problems (``dvitool'' responds gracefully to missing fonts.) These fonts, mostly supplied by the UNIX TeX distribution at the University of Washington, are somewhat bit-tuned using ``pxtool'' for the SUN screen. 5. ``bibtex.ml'' is a very large macro package for Gosling Emacs that greatly facilitates the preparation of ``.bib'' files for document preparation. This is intended for use with LaTeX and BibTeX. The user selects the type of reference intended such as an article and the program provides fields to be filled in, copies fields from previous entries, provides various kinds of checking and assists you in other ways. One particularly useful option is preparing a draft bibliography which includes numerical references, symbolic references and a formatted version of the entries. Another of the options allows previewing on the SUN or printing on any of your local printers. This particular system is not SUN specific although it does interface nicely with ``dvitool'' mentioned above. A companion program ``texbib.ml'' can be used as a bibliography preprocessor for TeX documents under Emacs. These programs are expected to be ported to GNU Emacs in the near future. If you are interested in the this distribution, please write to: Professor Michael A. Harrison Re: VorTeX Distribution Computer Science Division 571 Evans Hall University of California Berkeley, CA 94720 or through the net, to: dist-vortex@berkeley.edu.
mayer@hplabsc.UUCP (Niels Mayer) (04/17/87)
And please post summaries of responses to the net! Others may be interested too! Last I heard about vortex was a poting in comp.emacs from: > John Coker > University of California, Berkeley > Berkeley VorTeX Project > john@renoir.Berkeley.EDU My question is this: is VorTex just a multiwindow gnuemacs-like editor, or is it something more? -- Niels Mayer.