lavinus@csgrad.cs.vt.edu (03/25/91)
Hello out there!
Please excuse me if this is a FAQ, but does anyone know of a previewer
for troff or TEX or any commonly-used document processing system, that runs
under A/UX?
Thanks...
Joe
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Joseph W. Lavinus (lavinus@csgrad.cs.vt.edu) | / \ |_
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lavinus@csgrad.cs.vt.edu writes: >Please excuse me if this is a FAQ, but does anyone know of a previewer >for troff or TEX or any commonly-used document processing system, that runs >under A/UX? Yes. First of all, are you running X Window? If so, this widens your options considerably. There are a few X Window previewers for (di)troff floating out there, but I don't have much experience with them--as I recall, I tried to get xditview (out of the MIT X11 distribution) to work, but it never did work right. I mostly use TeX, and I can vouch for the fact that the "xdvi" previewer works just fine (well, almost; it was written for a Sun, so the default size and spacing for the buttons in the preview window puts half the buttons off the bottom of the screen; this isn't too hard to hack around, or just ignore if you don't mind using the keyboard commands instead). I suspect SeeTeX and the other X Window previewers would work equally well. Most of this X Window stuff should be available for anon ftp from export.lcs.mit.edu. If you're just using the MacOS environment under A/UX, you don't have as many options. I don't know of any ditroff previewers for MacOS. The OzTeX package for MacOS works under A/UX (at least, v1.2 did; I haven't tried 1.3) and not only previews TeX DVI files, but also is a TeX program in and of itself--you can just feed your TeX input into OzTeX and have it make the DVI file for you. You might also want to track down "ditdvi", a program that translates ditroff output into TeX DVI files, thus allowing your TeX DVI previewers and device drivers to handle troff output. Alas, it's somewhat incomplete and does not handle "pic" or "eqn"-generated troff output well, and that's some of the stuff that's complicated enough to demand previewing :-(. -- Richard Todd rmtodd@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu rmtodd@chinet.chi.il.us rmtodd@servalan.uucp "Try looking in the Yellow Pages under 'Psychotics'." -- Michael Santana