[comp.text.desktop] LaTeX questions

margulis%qucis@waterloo.edu (Eugene Margulis) (06/25/88)

I am starting to use LaTeX and I have a number of questions:

1. Is anyone aware of a LaTeX package for MS-DOS machine
   that allows transformation of .dvi files into a 
   form that is printable on a dot-matrix printer?

2. Is there any tool that transforms LaTeX files into standard
   formatted ASCII files (e.g. for writting e-mail letters, etc)?

3. Is it possible to include pictures/figures produced by
   Framemaker into LaTeX documents?

Thank you,

- Eugene Margulis (e-mail: margulis@qucis)

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jchester@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Henry S. Horn) (06/25/88)

1.  You can get DVI drivers for the most popular dot-matrix printers,
including 9 pin and 24 pin printers from IBM, Epson, Toshiba, etc.
Personal TeX, Inc. sells a bunch of them, a lesser quantity are 
available as PD software.

2.  There are LaTeX to plain text converters.  I've heard that none of
them are really very good, but I've never tried one myself.


3.  I don't know what Framemaker puts out, but as a general rule, any
graphics other than ones composed with characters and lines (those
curves, circles, and lines that LaTeX provides, for example) are a
function of DVI driver support.  Some of the Postscript DVI drivers can
handle Postscript graphics, etc.

There is a TeX specific arpanet digest.  Request it from
texhax-request@score.stanford.edu

--Jon Rade
jonradel@icecream.princeton.edu

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