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From: gae@sphere.mast.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Public domain TeX previewer for the macs?
Message-ID: <516@sphere.mast.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 13 Apr 89 12:33:29 GMT
References: <2143@pur-phy>
Reply-To: gae@sphere.UUCP (Gerald Edgar)
Organization: The Ohio State University, Dept. of Math.
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In article <2143@pur-phy> sho@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (Sho Kuwamoto) writes:
>Is there a public domain TeX previewer for the mac?  I can make the
>.dvi files on the deparment vax, but there's no good way to look at
>them without printing them out.  Ideally, this previewer would use
>the system fonts, forsaking readability for hard disk space.  (Maybe 
>it would need the math symbols font, but...)
>
I have the beginnings of such a thing.  The spacing is not perfect, it
is fairly slow, has no documentation, etc.  It is called "DVI to PICT".  
It's also BIG--nearly fills an 800K disk.


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