[comp.text.tex] what's the best little latex previewer in texas?

mrm@puffin.Eng.Sun.COM (Marianne Mueller) (03/20/91)

What's the best latex (postscript file or dvi file) previewer for
suns, for openwindows?

Mail mrm@eng.sun.com if you would or post to this newsgroup.  Thanks. 

des@frogland.inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd) (03/26/91)

In article <10055@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, mrm@puffin.Eng.Sun.COM (Marianne Mueller) writes:
|> What's the best latex (postscript file or dvi file) previewer for
|> suns, for openwindows?

pageview is pretty good as a PS previewer though it does have
some major gotchas when numbers get too big to be 16 bit integers.
i had to modify dvitops to scale all its co-ordinate scheme down by
10000 to get its PS to preview with pageview.

For a DVI previewer I always use Xtex (i use X11 not OW now, OW is
TOO SLOW). Again some problems here as it uses X fonts that don't have
ligatures and don't match X char set exactly. This problem occurs
as I use PS fonts with TeX encodings - this won't occur with cm
fonts as you have the right encoding of the bitmaps.

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