[tex-live] texlive 2005
David Kastrup
dak at gnu.org
Wed Mar 16 16:50:08 CET 2005
Siep Kroonenberg <siepo at cybercomm.nl> writes:
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 07:27:18PM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote:
>> Fabrice Popineau wrote:
>>
>> >Definitely. I wouldn't even encourage anybody new to TeX to use dvi
>> >anymore.
>>
>> indeed, we only need it for metapost but only as intermediate format; i
>> don;t even have a dvi viewer installed (at least not that i know of)
>
> If one wants to stick to dvi documentation, then an alternative
> solution would be a documentation browser which converts dvi to
> ps/pdf on the fly.
That's not an alternative since it is dead-slow even without an extra
conversion. One of the main points about DVI viewers is that they are
fast, and also that they support Source Specials.
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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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