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From: paul@mecazh.UUCP (Paul Breslaw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: TeX on a HP9000/xxx .... Does it exist ?
Message-ID: <346@node14.mecazh.UUCP>
Date: 29 May 89 18:57:04 GMT
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In article <556@mmlai.UUCP> burzio@mmlai.UUCP (Tony Burzio) writes:
>The UNIX TeX distribution from Univ. Washington compiles and produces
>DVI files, but none of the previewers/displayers work.  Anyone have a
>working output program for X or postscript?

I also had no problem building TeX and LaTeX using the Washington distribution
and web2c on a 319 and 340 under 6.2 and 6.5.

Under the current X11 distribution from HP (== MIT Release 2) we use xdvi
from comp.sources.x. No problem here.

Under X10, HP supplied a hack to the old xdvi (xdvi-hp) which was built
with the X10 XRay kit. Again no problems.

PostScript output falls into two parts:-

For printers: dvi2ps available on the Washington tape needed a very small
amount of massage to work.

For displays: This is less succesful. We use the Rutherford Labs (UK) 
X11 version PostScript interpreter (ralpage) for drafting easy pictures 
and include them in LaTeX files with psfigtex. I have not yet been able to get
dvi2ps output of complete documents to successfully display through ralpage.
Fortunately xdvi kindly leaves a 'Watch This Space' space where the PS
should appear, so we manage.

Paul Breslaw.   mcvax!cernvax!mecazh!paul