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From: lubkt@vax1.cc.lehigh.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Where are "texsun" and "texx"?
Message-ID: <141.27886036@vax1.cc.lehigh.edu>
Date: 7 Jan 91 16:49:09 GMT
References: <2783DB48.24C4@deneva.sdd.trw.com> <1991Jan4.222930.16784@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
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In article <1991Jan4.222930.16784@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>, mwette@mr-ed.jpl.nasa.gov (Matt Wette) writes:
> In article <2783DB48.24C4@deneva.sdd.trw.com>, jumper@spf.trw.com (Greg Jumper) writes:
> |> 
> |> According to the latest TUGboat, the DVI previewers called "texsun" and
> |> "texx" are available via ftp from "cs.uiuc.edu".  However, I just looked
> |> on that host and was unable to locate them.
> |> 
> |> Does anybody know where these previewers can be found?
> |> 
> On the west coast, gatekeeper.dec.com in
>  ~ftp/pub/X11/contrib/SeeTeX-1.16.1.tar.Z.
> On the east coast, try expo.lcs.mit.edu.
> 
> Incidentally, xtex, which is also included, is superior to texx.
> 

But xtex does  not display dvi  files in  proportionate fonts. I  have
created all the fonts for xtex using  MetaFont 2.0  (i.e., base 85 and
its \magstep   multiples), but xtex   still  displays   everything  in
typewriter fonts with a lot of overlapping characters. I  like the way
xtex manages files, and its control panels are very convenient to use,
but I feel its display quality is quite poor when compared to texx (or
texsun under SunView). Is this correct or am I missing something?

/Binod.
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