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From: murthy@algron.cs.cornell.edu (Chet Murthy)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Desktop publishing for X
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Date: 11 Aug 90 18:52:46 GMT
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mike@raven.uss.tek.com (Mike Ewan) writes:

>How about something that isn't buggy and is FREE.  The combination of
>TeX and xdvi will apparently do the same thing, is solid, and free.
>If it's of interest TeX is also available for the DOS PC, including
>a nice previewer.

>TeX is available from labrea.stanford.edu (ftp), or via tape and mail
>for U of Washington.  Xdvi is available on expo or gatekeeper.dec.com.

And if you use the VorTeX Elisp macros, and structure your document so
that all your definitions (e.g. \def, \newcommand, \hyphenation) are
in the LaTeX prologue (i.e. before \begin{document}), VorTeX has a
little function which will grab the current region in your edit
buffer, slap it into a standalone LaTeX file, and LaTeX it.  So you
get the ability to edit a little piece of text, and see what it looks
like, on-screen, quickly (without re-formatting your entire document).

It's a bit clumsy, but it gets the job done with a couple of
keystrokes and a mouse click (to place the xdvi).

With a little more hacking on the code it could be really transparent.

--chet--