Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!uxc!garcon!flute.cs.uiuc.edu!grunwald From: grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu (Dirk Grunwald) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: texx2 Message-ID: Date: 13 Feb 89 20:48:27 GMT Sender: news@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu Distribution: comp Organization: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Lines: 32 I've placed a copy of texx2 in expo.lcs.mit.edu contrib/texx2.tar.Z a.cs.uiuc.edu pub/TeX/texx2.tar.Z Annoyingly enough, this software is without documentation, and I haven't really put together an Imakefile for it (I know, boo hiss). However, the upside is that it's significantly faster than either texx, xdvi or even texsun. It handles tpic specials and makes a passing attempt to do something with psfig specials (shows the bounding box). Pages are rendered using ``dvi'' fonts converted to X bdf fonts. By default, it's configured to use 300 dpi fonts at mag 500. You can also configure it to use whatever font sizes you like. I provided a few pre-built bdf files that handle all the documents I've used it on. There's a companion program, mftobdf, that converts the ``dvi'' fonts to bdf files. If you've installed ``texx'', it should be easy to install this. I'm certain I'm violating X design principles left and right, so if anyone with copious amounts of time wants to make it a nicer packager, please do go right ahead -- I'll take patches. However, please don't send me mail asking to distribute it -- it's too big and I don't have time. Dirk Grunwald Univ. of Illinois grunwald@m.cs.uiuc.edu