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From: sgf@cs.brown.edu (Sam Fulcomer)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: dvipage on Silicon Graphics
Summary: we have a tex previewer
Keywords: dvipage, NeWS, Iris
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Date: 9 May 90 14:30:52 GMT
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In article <3242@usceast.UUCP> sharp@usceast.UUCP (Harry Sharp) writes:
>Greetings!
>We have brought TeX up on the Irises and would like to be able to 
>preview files.

One of our grad students hacked up a previewer using dviterp.c (a tex 
interpreter/previewer) and some homebrewed display stuff using gl's 
defrasterfont() to translate the pxl to sgi_font for previewing.

As it says in defrasterfont.z: "The hardest part of creating a new
raster font is generating a bit map for each character."

If there's enough interest I'll bug him to post it.

sgf@cfm.brown.edu
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