[comp.unix.aix] TeX viewer for RS/6000?

jsalter@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com (03/20/91)

In article <1991Mar19.085319.28330@agate.berkeley.edu> wostner@garnet.berkeley.edu (Ulf Wostner) writes:
>Is there a TeX viewer for the RS/6000?

Yes, its available with the "TeX and Metafont for AIX Version 3 on the
IBM RISC System/6000" package.  (This may be an RPQ, rather than an LPP.)

>We would like to view TeX files produced automatically in Mathematica,
>and manually in GNU Emacs.

You can view the resulting dvi files using the command: texlook

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andreess@mrlaxs.mrl.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen) (03/20/91)

In article <1991Mar19.181658.27654@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com> jsalter@slo.awdpa.ibm.com (Jim Salter) writes:
>In article <1991Mar19.085319.28330@agate.berkeley.edu> wostner@garnet.berkeley.edu (Ulf Wostner) writes:
>>Is there a TeX viewer for the RS/6000?
>
>Yes, its available with the "TeX and Metafont for AIX Version 3 on the
>IBM RISC System/6000" package.  (This may be an RPQ, rather than an LPP.)

Yeesh, isn't that a fairly expensive answer to a fairly simple request?
A damn fine TeX previewer called xdvi is available from any number of FTP
sites (including export.lcs.mit.edu, in contrib) and works absolutely
great on the RS/6000.

Marc

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shair@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Bob Shair) (03/21/91)

Marc asks whether the IBM TeX and Metafont PRPQ for the 6000
is expensive.  The US price is $275, which includes
TeX
LATeX
Metafont
AMSTeX (mathematical extension)
BibTeX a "bibliographic compiler"

A number of pre-generated font files are included for use with
TeX.  Also included is font description data which can be used
as input to Metafont in creating additional font files.

I presume that a user could ftp, compile and build these same 
objects from publically available sources
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