[tex-live] TL2008 installation under Windows
Reinhard Kotucha
reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Thu Aug 14 01:58:40 CEST 2008
Karl Berry writes:
> If someone wants to come forward and do the substantial work involved in
> getting a native DVI viewer for Windows working in the context of TeX
> Live, that would be great. Do not think it is trivial. Here are some
> options that come to mind, in no particular order:
>
> - work with the dviout author to make it use kpse and the standard
> configuration setup (if he's willing; or maintain patches, if he's not);
> - start from the old Y&Y previewer code, which is now free (but it
> relies on ATM, so font rendering would have to come from somewhere
> else). http://tug.org/yandy
> - resurrect Fabrice's windvi from fptex.
> - see about making yap from miktex work in TeX Live.
> - plenty more I'm not thinking of offhand.
I mentioned a simple solution some time ago but maybe nobody took me
serious because the solution had been *so* simple. We have a great
PostScript viewer already. Supporting dvi is extremely easy. All
what ps_view has to do is to invoke dvips when the input file has the
extension ".dvi" and then display the resulting PostScript code.
I suppose that about 5 lines of Lua code will make it work.
Certainly too late for TL-2008.
Regards,
Reinhard
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