des@frogland.inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd) (02/08/91)
I have a minimal TeX setup at home (SBTeX from floppy disks) which I like to use for any text processing I do at home (eg minutes of meetings etc from various organisations I'm in) as I'm familiar with LaTeX and have no desire to learn a different system. My output device is a Star 9-pin printer. I can output to this with cm fonts using an adapted version of the Beebe drivers ... but its about 8mins per page :-) I have therefore been using dvidoc mostly which produces acceptable output -- however it has no font changing whereas the printer will do italics and bold, roman and sans serif and a sort of small caps. I have been modified dvidoc recently to incorporate these font changes so that I can now use \bf, \em etc. What I would like to do now is to play around with the possibility of using the printers proportional spaced mode to get a better standard of output. But .... dvidoc has horrendous code (web->pascal->c). Does anyone know of a cleaner dvi to ascii program that i could use as a basis for further changes (preferrably something actually written in C so that it may be clearer what's going on. BTW before you all jump up and down screaming use dvidoc.web i don't know web and I don't think it translates into C properly. (in any case cweb i think assumes 32bit unix target & not 16 bit MS-DOS) if not it looks like donning a full body wading suit and jumping in :-) -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- david shepherd: des@inmos.co.uk or des@inmos.com tel: 0454-616616 x 529 inmos ltd, 1000 aztec west, almondsbury, bristol, bs12 4sq if you've got a hammer .... find someone with a sickle