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From: darius@edm.isac.CA (Darius S. Naqvi)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: xtex,pageview, dvips, HELP!!!!!!
Message-ID: <1991May15.190013.11853@edm.isac.CA>
Date: 15 May 91 19:00:13 GMT
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Reply-To: darius@edm.isac.ca (Darius S. Naqvi)
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In article <1286@opus.NMSU.Edu> kalt@nmsu.edu (Kerry Alt) writes:
>In general:
>Does anybody out there have a working set of previewers for tex/latex
>troff etc that works in both the X11 AND the open-look environments?
>Any pointers would be deeply appreciated.
>

I don't know about troff, but for TeX/LaTeX etc. you could try xdvi.
I've found it to work pretty well.  I prefer dvipage on a sun with a
color monitor, because of the low-pass filtering and whatever other
tricks it does to create its nice output, but it will only work on
sunview or openwindows (running as a sunview program under
openwindows).

I got xdvi from export.lcs.mit.edu (actually it was expo.lcs.mit.edu,
but I've heard that the name has changed to export) as the file
~/contrib/xdvi.shar.Z.  There will probably also be a bunch of files like
xdvi.patchN.Z (where N is some integer) in the same directory, which
(I think) you will need as well.

I noticed that openwindows seems to be missing a bunch of the include
files and libraries that a ``real'' X11.4 distribution has, but you
can set a #define in the xdvi Makefile, and it will leave out most of
its nice user-interface stuff (but it will compile and link
successfully).  As I recall, I had to compile it with -Bstatic as
well.
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