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) ---------------------------------------- Submissions to: desktop@plaid.sun.com Administrivia to: desktop-request@plaid.sun.com UUCP: {amdahl,decwrl,hplabs,ihnp4}!sun!plaid!desktop{-request} Archives can be gotten from the archive-server. To get information on the archive-server, send mail to: archive-server@plaid.sun.com -or- sun!plaid!archive-server with a subject line of help
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 ---------------------------------------- Submissions to: desktop@plaid.sun.com Administrivia to: desktop-request@plaid.sun.com UUCP: {amdahl,decwrl,hplabs,ihnp4}!sun!plaid!desktop{-request} Archives can be gotten from the archive-server. To get information on the archive-server, send mail to: archive-server@plaid.sun.com -or- sun!plaid!archive-server with a subject line of help