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DVI2TTY - Amiga Port.
Copyright 1992 by Kent Dalton
Freely Distributable for non-commercial use.
QUICK OVERVIEW:
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This is a port of the DVI2TTY package from UNIX to the Amiga. DVI2TTY
allows the user to convert a TeX or LaTeX generated DVI file to an
ASCII representation. This capability is useful for people who wish to
use LaTeX to format documents and still have the option to view, make
or available or print their documents in ASCII form. I personally use
PasTeX coupled with MetaFont and DVIPrint as my LaTeX system and
frequently find that for small documents previewing and printing using
MetaFont is too slow and a hassle. It's also useful
It's also useful for those who do not use LaTeX frequently but
sometimes wish to view or print DVI files from other sources. The GNU
software documentation comes to mind.
For advanced users there is also the disdvi a program which
disassembles .dvi to a more human readable form. If you don't
understand what this program does don't worry, because that means you
probably do not need it. :^)
For the Amiga Port, I've included binaries for the 68020 or above in
addition to binaries for the vanilla 68000. The 68000 versions are
distinguished by an extension of .68k you'll probably want to rename
these without the 68k
QUICK TIPS:
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I recommend running dvi2tty as follows when displaying to the screen:
dvi2tty -w75 file.dvi
the w75 option specifies a column width of 75. You'll notice that
dvi2tty breaks lines that are too long to display with a continuation
character of '*' and prints the second fragment after a linefeed and
prepended with a '*'. When converting files to ASCII for editing or
printing, I'll usually use a very long column width to avoid this and
then use GNU Emacs paragraph fill feature to tidy up the paragraphs.
People who prefer other less featureful editors could use a word
processor instead. NOTE: dvi2tty has a maximum width limit of 132.
This is usually what I use. For example:
dvi2tty -w132 file.dvi > file.ascii
Another option would be to change the LaTeX source to use a larger font
this would mean the DVI file would contain fewer long lines.
BUG REPORTS:
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Kent.Dalton@FtCollinsCO.NCR.com