[OS X TeX] Reading LaTeX on Palm OS?

[Jung-Tsung Shen]

On 10/22/05, Jung-Tsung Shen <jushen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?).
>

And here's the comparison between Adobe Reader for Palm and RepliGo:

http://www.cerience.com/compare/index.htm

RepliGo beats Adobe Reader for Palm hands down. I have been using
RepliGo on both my Palm T3 and Zodiac 2. It's one of the best software
for these devices.


JT
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