kalt@nmsu.edu (Kerry Alt) (05/15/91)
I'm having a world of problems of with any type of previewer11. We're running openwins. -Pageview: Any file produced by dvi2ps comes up all as one page (all pages overwritten) under pageview. One reply suggested removing the extra %! of dvi2ps, but this didn't work. Any ideas? -xtex: For some reason, the fonts created with bldfamily come out with a ..ff extension rather than a .ff extension. Renaming them doesn't help. Any ideas? In general: Does anybody out there have a working set of previewers for tex/latex troff etc that works in both the X11 AND the open-look environments? Any pointers would be deeply appreciated. Thanks, Kerry -- ************************************************* ************************************************* ** Kerry Alt at The Computer Operations Group ** ** kalt@nmsu.edu ** ** ph. 505/646-3645 (at COG) ** ** 646-5318 (messages) ** ** 524-7247 (home) ** ************************************************* *************************************************
darius@edm.isac.CA (Darius S. Naqvi) (05/16/91)
In article <1286@opus.NMSU.Edu> kalt@nmsu.edu (Kerry Alt) writes: >In general: >Does anybody out there have a working set of previewers for tex/latex >troff etc that works in both the X11 AND the open-look environments? >Any pointers would be deeply appreciated. > I don't know about troff, but for TeX/LaTeX etc. you could try xdvi. I've found it to work pretty well. I prefer dvipage on a sun with a color monitor, because of the low-pass filtering and whatever other tricks it does to create its nice output, but it will only work on sunview or openwindows (running as a sunview program under openwindows). I got xdvi from export.lcs.mit.edu (actually it was expo.lcs.mit.edu, but I've heard that the name has changed to export) as the file ~/contrib/xdvi.shar.Z. There will probably also be a bunch of files like xdvi.patchN.Z (where N is some integer) in the same directory, which (I think) you will need as well. I noticed that openwindows seems to be missing a bunch of the include files and libraries that a ``real'' X11.4 distribution has, but you can set a #define in the xdvi Makefile, and it will leave out most of its nice user-interface stuff (but it will compile and link successfully). As I recall, I had to compile it with -Bstatic as well. -- Darius S. Naqvi mail:darius@edm.isac.ca ISA Corp. uucp:{uunet,alberta}!ncc!isagate!darius Edmonton, Alberta, Canada phone:(403) 420-8081
vojta@powdermilk.berkeley.edu (Paul Vojta) (05/17/91)
In article <1991May15.190013.11853@edm.isac.CA> darius@edm.isac.ca (Darius S. Naqvi) writes: >I got xdvi from export.lcs.mit.edu (actually it was expo.lcs.mit.edu, >but I've heard that the name has changed to export) as the file >~/contrib/xdvi.shar.Z. There will probably also be a bunch of files like >xdvi.patchN.Z (where N is some integer) in the same directory, which >(I think) you will need as well. No you don't need them as well. Just the file xdvi.shar.Z; the patch files are only if you have an earlier version and want to update it (or if you have the current version and want to go back ... B-) ). --Paul Vojta, vojta@math.berkeley.edu
darius@edm.isac.CA (Darius S. Naqvi) (05/20/91)
In article <1991May17.030603.15204@agate.berkeley.edu> vojta@powdermilk.berkeley.edu (Paul Vojta) writes: >In article <1991May15.190013.11853@edm.isac.CA> darius@edm.isac.ca (Darius S. Naqvi) writes: >>I got xdvi from export.lcs.mit.edu (actually it was expo.lcs.mit.edu, >>but I've heard that the name has changed to export) as the file >>~/contrib/xdvi.shar.Z. There will probably also be a bunch of files like >>xdvi.patchN.Z (where N is some integer) in the same directory, which >>(I think) you will need as well. > >No you don't need them as well. Just the file xdvi.shar.Z; the patch files >are only if you have an earlier version and want to update it (or if you >have the current version and want to go back ... B-) ). > >--Paul Vojta, vojta@math.berkeley.edu Well, perhaps things have changed in the months since I got xdvi, but when I got it, I noticed that the patchlevel.h in xdvi.shar.Z indicated that the patches on export.lcs.mit.edu had *not* been applied to it. So I retrieved all the xdvi.patch*.Z files I could find (I think there were only two), applied them, and successfully compiled xdvi. -- Darius S. Naqvi mail:darius@edm.isac.ca ISA Corp. uucp:{uunet,alberta}!ncc!isagate!darius Edmonton, Alberta, Canada phone:(403) 420-8081