Mike wrote:
> RM>How do you view .TEX (TeX, LaTex) in DOS ???
> RM>I'm looking for a Tex viewer for DOS for a very long time ....
edit (or any other text-editor) will do perfectly fine. What you probably
need is a tex2dvi utility (and then a dvi2ps). I don't remember where I got
mine from but do a search for "latex dos" at google.com and you should find
it. If you can't I can probably upload the download I did.
>I'm afraid I don't even know what a .tex file is. :(
A .tex file is a LaTeX file (pronounced as "LaTech") you can drop the "La"
if you want on both - I'm not entirely sure on the diffrences. This file is
much like a HTML file since it contains rules on how the test should be
presented. It's not very hard to learn the basics (with almost no info at
all <g>), but several of the things that makes it "look good" also makes it
very hard (atleast for me - even with info) to make it look exactly as I
want it to. For instance the following text needs some tricks to be done in
a .tex file:
I want to continue
here (with two empty lines in between)
The diffrence with a HTML file is that it contains *exact* rules and
therefor it's not worth much as electronic documents (converted to ex. pdf,
ps or dvi) but on paper it looks great (if the printer is any good at all).
It almost makes Word documents look like ASCII (but without the benefits) ;-)
Now if I only can bypass the printing system at uni. (that costs money) and
print free (via the printer port instead of the LAN) I'll gladly download
.pdf or .ps files :)
//Bernie
http://bernie.arachne.cz/ DOS programs, Star Wars ...
