[fptex] Trouble setting up windvi

Sebastian Rahtz sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk
Sun, 4 Feb 2001 14:09:38 +0000


Guy Worthington writes:
 > I'm having trouble displaying the following plain tex file:
 > 
 > %--------------------------------------------------
 > \input rotate  % Tomas Rokicki's rotate package
 > 
 > LINE ONE
 > 
 > \newbox\MyBox \setbox\MyBox=\hbox{ROTATE} \rotl\MyBox
 > 
 > LINE TWO
 > 
 > \bye

what sort of "trouble"? your file displays normally using Ghostscript. 
It will not work in windvi, because windvi does not interpret raw
PostScript \special commands.

sebastian