[yandytex] Y&Y TeX Source

[Robin Fairbairns]

Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu> wrote:

> What might the situation be with respect to "specials" in a dvi file -- 
> to be viewed in a newly compiled dviwindo -- when the TeX engine is not 
> Y&Y's?

\special is \special; if you use the same macros to create the special,
it'll be the same in the dvi file.

> And won't dviwindo lose some of its speed, when printing, if it's not 
> using dvipsone?

actually, the thing that made _me_ keenest on the y&y distribution was
the possibility of upgrading dvips with some of the neat features of
dvipsone.

> Of course just about anything surely will be better than Yap with MiKTeX.

i used to think yap was quite good, but i've not used it in earnest for
years: people complain about it, a lot, but it's not clear (to me)
whether the difficulty is just configurating ghostscript to work with
yap.

whatever, an alternative would be welcome.

r