Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Path: utzoo!utdoe!david
From: david@doe.utoronto.ca (David Megginson)
Subject: Re: TeX/LaTeX info sent to atari.archive
Message-ID: <1991Jan8.000840.1588@doe.utoronto.ca>
Organization: Dictionary of Old English Project - U of Toronto
References: <8841628@arium.stgt.sub.org> <1991Jan4.115756.1@simvax.labmed.umn.edu> <0323228@arium.stgt.sub.org>
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 91 00:08:40 GMT

In article <0323228@arium.stgt.sub.org> be@arium.stgt.sub.org (Bernd Ebach) writes:
>> "TeX and LaTeX source files (with the .tex file extender) are ASCII files."
>
>Bingo, you are right... But it definitly looks ugly and I hate to
>read it that way. How about uploading plain ASCII??? What use is all
>those typesetting-stuff, if you never use to read this AFTER you got
>everything up and working...
>

I have ported dvi2tty to the ST, and I will be sending it to
comp.binaries.atari.st as soon as I figure out how to. dvi2tty prints
out a rough ASCII version of a .dvi file, for all you non-TeX users.
That still won't help with .texinfo files, but you can use Emacs to
read those.

David

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