About ShowDVI

ShowDVI<#21#><#21#>, What do you need it for? ShowDVI<#22#><#22#> is a program, with which you can view the output of the TEX<#23#><#23#> -program on the screen. Usually such a program is called TEX-Previewer

What do you need this program for? Though TEX<#24#><#24#> is an excellent wordprocessor, but not a WYSIWYG-program. You have to enter the TEXinput in a normal ASCII editor and then process it with <#26#>virtex<#26#> or <#27#>tex<#27#>. The program TEXproduces from this -- provided the input is error free -- a DVI file. This can be printed with a printerdriver. But as you wouldn't want to print the entire document again after correcting an error, there has been made a beginning with developing previewers, with which you can display the document on screen before printing it.

ShowDVI<#29#><#29#> is my contribution to the already existing previewers, and as you shall see in this manual not a bad one.

A few particularities upfront: <#30#>• <#30#> Support of fontlibraries (saves memory and speeds up access). Elaborate search-algorythm with the help of environment-variables and definition files, to locate fonts. Can work with PK-files also. Fast on screen diplay. ARexx port. Highly configurable. Display of current status in a configuration file.