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From: des@frogland.inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: what's the best little latex previewer in texas?
Keywords: latex, preview, openwindows, x11, suns
Message-ID: <13118@wraxall.inmos.co.uk>
Date: 26 Mar 91 11:02:08 GMT
References: <10055@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
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In article <10055@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, mrm@puffin.Eng.Sun.COM (Marianne Mueller) writes:
|> What's the best latex (postscript file or dvi file) previewer for
|> suns, for openwindows?

pageview is pretty good as a PS previewer though it does have
some major gotchas when numbers get too big to be 16 bit integers.
i had to modify dvitops to scale all its co-ordinate scheme down by
10000 to get its PS to preview with pageview.

For a DVI previewer I always use Xtex (i use X11 not OW now, OW is
TOO SLOW). Again some problems here as it uses X fonts that don't have
ligatures and don't match X char set exactly. This problem occurs
as I use PS fonts with TeX encodings - this won't occur with cm
fonts as you have the right encoding of the bitmaps.

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