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From: kuo@skatter.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Why troff?
Message-ID: <276@skatter.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 28-Jan-87 17:55:38 EST
Article-I.D.: skatter.276
Posted: Wed Jan 28 17:55:38 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 31-Jan-87 06:51:05 EST
References: <362@linus.UUCP> <2570@phri.UUCP>
Distribution: comp.text
Organization: Accelerator Lab, Saskatoon, Sask.
Lines: 30
Keywords: TeX, troff
Summary: You can PREVIEW TeX outputs.. although on selected systems

In article <2570@phri.UUCP>, roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
> 	From a purely theoretical standpoint, you can preview troff on an
> ASCII CRT or on a line printer.  You can't do that with TeX.  I do a lot of
> writing at home where I don't have a bit-map screen or a laser printer to
> proof drafts with.
> -- 
> Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy
> System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
> 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016

Well.. depending on the system you are talking about, one can preview the
TeX output. For example, the latest version of TeX (v1.3 I think) for VAX/VMS
comes with a pd version of a previewer. It could (I only read about this in
the TUGBoat, have not seen or use it yet) preview dvi files on VT100, VT220,
VT240/241, TEK4010, and ANSI terminals. As for the micros go, most of them
also come with (or you can buy) previewers. Also, someone on the net has
a program (called dvidoc I think) allows one to "preview" dvi files on an
ASCII printer.


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