Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!know!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!rice!uupsi!sunic!kth.se!hemuli.tik.vtt.fi!tml From: tml@tik.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist) Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted Subject: Re: dvi2tty utility Message-ID: Date: 12 Dec 90 07:04:02 GMT References: <1343@digi.lonestar.org> Sender: news@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi Followup-To: comp.sources.wanted Organization: Technical Research Centre of Finland, Laboratory for Information Processing (VTT/TIK) Lines: 27 In-reply-to: mdefelic@digi.lonestar.org's message of 10 Dec 90 17:08:15 GMT In article <1343@digi.lonestar.org> mdefelic@digi.lonestar.org (Mitch DeFelice) writes: I'm currently using a version of dvi2tty program and it does a good job converting the dvi file to ASCII. However, the dvi2tty program does not seem to compensate for the different font sizes... Consequently the output spacing is uneven and difficult to follow at times. (Please see below example) 1) Could anyone direct me to a version of dvi2tty that produces a "Clean" output. \begin{flame} Oh geez, get a life.... I mean, get a suitable output device or don't use TeX. Dvi2tty is not a "draft quality dvi driver," its purpose is just to get a crude look at the line breaks etc. Dvi2tty cannot "convert a dvi file to ASCII." Dvi2tty doesn't know how big the characters are, because it doesn't open the tfm files. 2) Does anyone have a detailed format description of the dvi file? Sure. Look in dvitype.web. \end{flame} Sorry for the flame... Nothing personal. -- Tor Lillqvist, working, but not speaking, for the Technical Research Centre of Finland