[OS X TeX] Reading LaTeX on Palm OS?

[David Derbes]

On Oct 22, 2005, at 4:36 PM, Jason Davies wrote:

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>> Adobe has a (fairly old) Acrobat Reader and conduit for Palm OS. I
>> have successfully uploaded LaTeX PDF's to a Palm, but the equations
>> are mostly devoid of their symbols. I guess this is a font issue, but
>> I don't really know.
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> It's not there yet - Palm PDA setups don't render PDFs but only  
> their content. I recently asked for help
> with creating rtf here(but just haven't had a chance to implement  
> it.) But a Palm will render rtf through
> various readers and hmtl too. But not pdf- which makes sense - who  
> wants to read a full-size sheet of
> paper on a tiny screen - you'd be scrolling indefinitely...

Alan Munn has been extremely helpful, and things are better.

However, there is an alternative to PDF's. There is a DVIViewer for  
Palms, freeware:

http://www.freewarepalm.com/utilities/dviviewer.shtml

You may need, as I do, to create some fonts with metafont, but the  
author of this program gives instructions on how to do this.

David Derbes

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