[pstricks] dvi for windows

[Jean-Côme Charpentier]

Greg Hersh wrote:
> --- Jean-Côme Charpentier
>>Greg Hersh wrote:
>>
>>>I imagine such a thing is not possible in principle.
>>
>>>DVI viewer deals with DVI. PStricks is embedded PS. 
>>
>>In principle, that's possible. A dvi viewer could
>>interpret PostScript 
>>code.  In fact, many dvi viewers are able to
>>interpret a Postscript 
>>language subset. I believe that it doesn't exist a
>>dvi viewer which 
>>interprets *all* the PostScript language.
>>   For instance, xdvi reads almost all but the
>>rotations.
>>
>>My windows experience is far away!  When I worked on
>>this system, dviwin 
>>was able to process some PostScript code. What's for
>>yap ?
>>
>>   Jean-Côme Charpentier
>>
> Oh, the DVI viewer capable of interpreting (subset of)
> postscript code is no longer a DVI viewer but
> something more than that.

You play with words!  A dvi viewer is a program which can display a dvi 
file. In a dvi file, there is sometimes some \special command and the 
devi viewers are allowed to deal or not with that sort of extra code.

> And --- well, interpreting
> subset only --- what's the point? Would you rather see
> nothing than something drawn incorrectly? Personally,
> I would rather see nothing. 

If I know exactly when that will be correct or not, I could use my dvi 
viewer. For instance, xdvi is not able to display correctly \rput{n}... 
(n \neq 0) and \uput... that's all (I think). The point is I haven't to 
process with dvips (time saved) :-)

> And regarding YAP - as I remember, a while ago, I've
> tried it and got that perfect nothing in place of
> pstricks drawings. So I've decided to use gsview from
> now own. In fact I find gsview more satisfactory than
> Yap even if I don't use pstricks.

That's right!  However, I believe that windvi is *much* better than yap. 
In fact that was true in 1995!

   Jean-Côme Charpentier