[OS X TeX] Reading LaTeX on Palm OS?

[Jung-Tsung Shen]

On 10/22/05, David Derbes <loki at uchicago.edu> wrote:
>
> On Oct 22, 2005, at 4:36 PM, Jason Davies wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >
> >
> > 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
>

On Windows, the best solution is to convert your document to RepliGo

http://www.repligo.com

No any other software can compete with it even remotely. There's no
such converter on Mac (yet?).
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