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From: wcl@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Wayne Long)
Subject: Easy way to create unix man pages?
Keywords: unix manual hypertext
Organization: Motorola Inc., Austin, Texas
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 17:24:47 GMT


I'm looking for a filter, utility, or editor that
will take normal, what-you-see-is-what-you get
text, and convert it into a unix man page with
minimal hassle.

I realize that some of the major sections and headings
would have to be delimeted in some way, but I'd like to
be able to do this editing with a normal text editor
(or framemaker or MacIntosh Word) in as minimally
cryptic way as possible.


Wayne

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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy)
Subject: Re: Larger Fonts than \Huge and or \HUGE...
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 17:13:19 GMT

anselmo@cumesb.mech.columbia.edu (Andrew P. Anselmo) writes:

>I've tried reading the FAQ, but I'm still confused about creating bigger
>fonts than I can get with \Huge.  Any quick pointers?  I need to get
>characters up to 6" high.  Is there a style file for this, or must I get
>a new set of fonts?  Is it possible to blow up a regular font to do this?


I'm not sure if I've understood your question correctly,
but you can always say something like

\font\HUGEPalatino = Palatino-Roman scaled 5000
\font\HUGEbf = cmbx17 scaled\magstep5

at the beginning of your TeX/LaTeX file,
and then say {\HUGEPalatino My Own Story} or whatever.

If you are using a PostScript printer and font,
as eg Palatino-Roman,
then you needn't worry about PK font files.
(But I think there is a limit to the magnification allowed in PostScript;
I'd guess 6in high is too high.)

If you are not using a PostScript printer
you will have to create a PK font file
of the appropriate size using Metafont (and gftopk).
There is a limit also to the size of Metafont glyphs;
much smaller than 6in, I imagine.

-- 
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e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie
tel: +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: sanders@server.physics.lsa.umich.edu (Michael Sanders)
Subject: Re: LateX to text (cleaning up)
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 11:30:50 EST
Organization: Physics Department, University of Michigan
Keywords: detex DOS
Summary: detex for DOS at simtel

In article <BzDA30.Jq8@news.udel.edu> rafia@ravel.udel.edu (Rafia N Bhore) writes:
>From: rafia@ravel.udel.edu (Rafia N Bhore)
>Subject: Re: LateX to text (cleaning up)
>Date: 16 Dec 92 19:28:11 GMT

>In article <4413@sicsun.epfl.ch> ebel@lcaohp1.epfl.ch writes:
>>
>>Sorry If this is a weekly FAQ.

I believe it will be added to the next FAQ.

>>Somebody knows of a LaTeX  package for cleaning up of every TeX command
>>of a file. Thanks for answering.

>According to my knowledge, the detex program (on the Unix OS of my university)
>is a filter to strip TeX and LaTeX commands from file.  

>As stated above, this is the command on the UNIX OS.  I don't know whether
>detex works on other operating systems.

DETEX10.ZIP, a port to DOS, is in the tex directory at simtel mirrors.
(/pub/msdos/tex/ at oak.oakland.edu)

Michael Sanders                                Internet: t.m.sanders@umich.edu
Physics Department                             Bitnet: sanders@umiphys
University of Michigan                         Telephone: (313)936-0799
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1120                       FAX: (313)763-9694
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: hyphen in math mode
From: jeremy@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Jeremy Gibbons)
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 11:01:53 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept. University of Auckland
Cc: jeremy@cs.aukuni.ac.nz

In <9688078@MVB.SAIC.COM> "Daniel H. Luecking" <DL24794@UAFSYSB.UARK.EDU> writes:

>>Try \hbox{-}, as in $x - y\hbox{-}z$.

>This will not allow the hyphen to change sizes in sub/superscripts. I'd use
>{\rm-} as in $A_{y{\rm-}x}$. I do not use the NFSS, so I don't know if it
>will handle this properly.

Or even

   \mathchardef\hyphen="00xx

where "xx" is the position (in hex) of the hyphen in CMR. (Sorry, my books
are at work and I'm not, so I don't know the number offhand.)

Jeremy

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From: steiny@steiny.com (Don Steiny)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Bug in TeXBook
Date: 14 Dec 92 17:35:39 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Don Steiny Software

heller@heller.slip.uiuc.edu (Helmut Heller) writes:
>> 
>> 	Does anyone know why exercise 8.7 in the TeXBook is repeated on
>> pages 48 and 49?   
>> 
>> 	The book is not indexed too well either.   For instance there is
>> no index entry for "margins" something that it seems would be a normal
>> thing that document preparers would be interested in.
>> 
>What kind of TeXbook do you have?
>I have the hard cover version, 6th printing, march 1986 and 
>a) the exercise 8.7 is NOT doubled
>b) margins IS in the index

	Interesting.   I have a soft cover version, that is the "twenty-first
printing" dated June 1992.     I still wonder how things like that happen.

	There is a reference to "margins" but it is to a macro in the plain
tex macro portion.    When I was learning TeX, I had to buy another book
to figure out margins.    Now I see I could have just bought an older
TeXBook.



	
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Don Steiny Software
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(408) 425-0382
From: dd@ra.cs.umb.edu (Dave Dunbrack)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: indentation of LaTeX sections, subsections
Date: 16 Dec 92 06:57:10 GMT
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Boston, Dept of Math and CS


  I'm writing a Software Requirements Specification for a CS class
following the IEEE standard (std #830-1984). The format works well
using LaTeX \section ... \paragraph except all our examples have
each new subsection indented from the previous one, eg:

3. Specific Requirements

   3.1 Functional Requirements

       3.1.1 Library of simulation classes

             3.1.1.1 Introduction
                     This library will contain ...
             3.1.1.2 ...
       3.1.2 ...
             3.1.2.1 ...


The sections will never get more than four deep (ie. past \paragraph
in article style). Is there a decent way to set up this type of
indentation? I considered making *lots* of boxes, but it's not too 
elegant and will mess up page breaks. Any help would be greatly
appreciated.

	Thanks,
	 Dave

PS. I'm not saying that I necessarily *like* the layout, just that I
    want to mimic it...
From: steiny@steiny.com (Don Steiny)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Bug in TeXBook
Date: 14 Dec 92 18:13:58 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Don Steiny Software

bjal_ss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Ben Alexander) writes:

>In <193@steiny.com> steiny@steiny.com (Don Steiny) writes:

> The index in this version is not only excellent but
>also has an entry for ``margins'' which says to see \hsize and \narrower.

	Mine says that too, but it SHOULD say "see \hoffset,"  because what
I am doing is making a VI quick reference, three column in landscape mode
and I want the left margin to be less than 1 inch.   TeX does not put 
that margin there, so in order to do this I have to do "\hoffset -.5in"
or change the origin using the "-O" option of dvips.   I sure can't find
any place in the TeXBook where he mentions that, though the beginning
of Chapter 23 suggests an experiment that eventually lead to a solution.
However, reading a book from cover to cover and trying experiments is kind
the opposite of looking something up in the index.

	Since I am a hacker, I love TeX.   But I am hoping to avoid glitches
in my stuff and I was wondering about the glitches I found in the TeXBook
(especially the repeated exercise 8.7).

-don
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From: Wolfgang Ratzka <wolfgang.ratzka@rphs1.physik.uni-regensburg.de>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Conversion between LaTeX and WordPerfect
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 16:55:12 +0100
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

   I have a need to be able to convert files between LaTeX and WordPerfect.
   There is a program available to convert from WP to LaTeX, WP2LATEX.
   However, I do not know of a program for going the other way.
   Does anyone know of such a program?
Sounds very improbable that anybody
\begin{sarcasm}
Do you know a translator from
\end{sarcasm}
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: goldberg@techunix.technion.ac.il (Jacques Goldberg)
Subject: Parsing
Organization: Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 06:32:09 GMT

I asked help for parsing a line read from a file.
I found the bug in my program a couple of hours later, I had misplaced
the \expandafter, of course.
Sorry to have disturbed, thanks to who has answered!

Jacques Goldberg, Technion.
From: skarkada@ho10.eng.ua.edu (Sudarshan Karkada)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Help me with indenting on LHS
Date: 14 Dec 1992 21:08:24 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu


Hi everyone,

I have problem in indenting the text using LaTeX.  For instance,
consider the following text

This is an example text to demonstrate one of the minor difficulties
I am facing in using the LaTex.  This is main part of the text which 
will be followed by another text that should be indented by a space
determined by the user.

		This next paragraph is indented on left hand side but
		NOT indented on right hand side.  ( \begin{quote} can
		not produce this kind of effect.)
		   
	   Can you help me in obtaining this effect using the LaTeX
	   commands?  Thanks in advance.


Sudarshan.
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skarkada@buster.eng.ua.edu
From: cgra@btma74.nohost.nodomain
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: singof
Date: 14 Dec 92 14:46:24 GMT
Reply-To: cgra@btma74.nohost.nodomain ()


In article <9212120819.AA12050@rphs1.physik.uni-regensburg.de>, wolfgang.ratzka@rphs1.physik.uni-regensburg.de (Wolfgang Ratzka) writes:
|>Path: se.alcbel!alcbel!ub4b!mcsun!uunet!spool.mu.edu!agate!ames!network.ucsd.edu!mvb.saic.com!info-tex
|>From: wolfgang.ratzka@rphs1.physik.uni-regensburg.de (Wolfgang Ratzka)
|>Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
|>Subject: singof
|>

of what do you sing?
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: xiao@ie.utoronto.ca (Yan Xiao)
Subject: How can I get rid of 'underful' message?
Summary: Help wanted: reducing messages when latex
Keywords: badness 10000
Organization: University of Toronto, Department of Industrial Engineering
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 19:06:20 GMT

I am pretty sure this question has been asked many times before
but it is not in FAQ to my surprise:

	How do I get rid of warning messages such as underful
	(badness 10000)?  Other important messages are buried
	in tons of badness 10000.

Thanks,

xiao
<xiao@ie.utoronto.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: atterlep@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Cardinal Ximenez)
Subject: Another Stupid Question
Organization: National Association for the Disorganized
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 08:11:01 GMT

  At least, I hope it's stupid.  Having fixed all the \tt statements in my 
document, I have now found a problem with the tabbing environment.
  After a certain number of tab stops (usually two, but sometimes three), the
document simply doesn't show the text that's supposed to appear after the tab
stops.  I have looked through everything I could think of, and I haven't had
any luck.  Does anyone have any ideas?
  Thanks again,

Alan Terlep				"I'm so hip I can't see past my own
Oakland University, Rochester, MI	   pelvis."
atterlep@vela.acs.oakland.edu				--Zaphod Beeblebrox
Rushing in where angels fear to tread.
From: ecsgrt@luxor.latrobe.edu.au (Geoffrey Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: DVI - WhAT Is IT
Keywords: dvi, dpl, special, psbox, pk graphics.
Date: 21 Dec 92 00:45:27 GMT
Organization: La Trobe University

00:45 GMT Mon 21 Dec 1992 - ecsgrt@luxor.latrobe.edu.au

1.  Want ascii?

(a)  DVI files are binary, but you could uuencode them.  :-|  Well,
uuencode is available for ms-dos as well as for unix.

(b)  Alternatively, you can look at their code using Knuth's "dvitype".

(c)  I find dvitype inconvenient to use as a filter, so I wrote two
filters, "dv2dp" and "dp2dv" to convert DVI to and from DPL.

DPL is a _much_ more verbose (so not economic for transport or
storage), human-readable representation of the DVI code, based on the
command names used in Appendix A of the "DVI Driver Standard,
Level 0", draft 0.05 document, by a TUG committee chaired by Joachim
Schrod, and to be found at many TeX archives, e.g. at:

    ftp.uni-stuttgart.de : soft/tex/drivers/driv-standard/level-0/*

Joachim wrote in the README for 26 Sep 91:
"Comments, suggestions, etc., to schrod@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de"

2.  Specials.

Clarence Wilkerson referred to the fact that \special commands are
not portable to different printer drivers and previewers.  TeX input
is better than a DVI file, because it uses high-level macros, which
are more easily modified for a different driver than a pure \special
command is.

For example, Jean Orloff's "psbox" (available at Niord.SHSU.edu - and
which other sites?), as I understand it, lets you use the same
high-level syntax, and select from a range of drivers.  This makes the
same TeX file easily ported, even with specials.

To use a DVI file that contains \special commands, you have to know
which printer it is intended for, or try to guess from the \special
syntax, then try to translate.

A second problem in working with the DVI format is that it contains
numeric pointers, which will need to be corrected.  So editing a DVI
file needs either a specialised editor, or (what is probably quicker
to devise and more portable) a higher-level representation than either
DVI or DPL with a 2-way converter.  Do such things exist?

So I recommend TeX with something like psbox, if you must use
specials.

Sometimes you can avoid \special even for graphics.  For example,
"bm2font" converts a variety of bitmap graphics to PK form; "mfpic"
and "diagramf" use metafont to draw PK graphics; and "ghostscript"
converts PostScript compatible code to bitmaps (then you can use
"bm2font").

Geoffrey Tobin
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: agw@dsm.fordham.edu (Art Werschulz)
Subject: ImakeTeX 2.02 and AIX 3.2.2
Organization: Fordham University/CLC, Division of Science and Math
Distribution: comp
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 20:19:14 GMT

Hi all.

I am currently using ImakeTeX 2.02 to build TeX 3.14 for an IBM
RISC/6000 running AIX 3.2.2.  I am using the files
  /pub/src/TeX/imaketex202.tar.Z
  /pub/src/TeX/labrea9103.tar.Z
which were anonymous-ftp'ed from psuvax1.cs.psu.edu.

Only a few little fiddlings were needed to get things to work
reasonably well:

(1) I used the machine.mkf for RS6000/AIX that came with ImakeTeX
    version 2.00.

(2) I had to use CC=bsdcc, rather than CC=gcc, since the latter caused
    problems when compiling common/getopt.c.

To be safe, I did the trip and trap tests.  The diffs on the trap test
seemed to be trivial (big vs. small version and the like).  The diffs
between trip.log and TeXtrip/trip.log appear to also be trivial,
mainly explainable by roundoff differences.

However, I had the following diffs between TeXtrip/trip.typ and trip.typ

241c240
< 693: down4 1072300032 
---
> 693: down4 1072300031 
284c283
< 818: down4 1065418752 
---
> 818: down4 1065418751 
391c390
< 1031: down4 1071448064 
---
> 1031: down4 1071448063 
419c418
< 1120: down4 639342208 
---
> 1120: down4 639342177 
875c874
< 1985: down4 1070596096 
---
> 1985: down4 1070596094 
937c936
< 2135: down4 1072300032 
---
> 2135: down4 1072300031 
951c950
< 2204: down4 1071513600 
---
> 2204: down4 1071513599 
1028c1027
< 2392: down4 1072300032 
---
> 2392: down4 1072300031 
1087,1088c1086,1087
< 2534: y4 203921760 
< 2539: y0 203921760 
---
> 2534: y4 203921756 
> 2539: y0 203921756 

Can these also be explained away as roundoff error, and thus ignored?

One other question ... I noticed that after a "make all", a "make
install" would appear to remake virtex, initex, virmf, and inimf.  Can
this be easily-avoided?

Thanks.
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From: hacker@cco.caltech.edu (Jonathan Bruce Hacker)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: TeX support for IBM Enhanced Editor (EPM)
Date: 17 Dec 1992 04:41:09 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: punisher.caltech.edu

Does anyone know if there are any macros written for the IBM enhanced
editor (EPM) that allow TeX to be run from the menu bar?

-- 
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Caltech, Pasadena CA
hacker@tumbler-ridge.caltech.edu
From: yc@snail.cis.ufl.edu (Yaw-Huei Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Help wanted: underline long text
Date: 11 Dec 92 15:17:44 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Florida CIS Dept.

Hi,

I want to underline a portion of text in a paragraph.  Since the
LaTeX command \underline{text} puts the text in an hbox, this 
won't work for long text.  I know a trick to get around the problem.
For example, \underbar{this}\underbar{\ }\underbar{\will}\underbar{\ }%
\underbar{do}\underbar{\ }\underbar{the}\underbar{\ }\underbar{job}.  
However, this is very cumbersome.  Knuth wrote in the TeXbook ``If
you really want underlined text, it's best to have a special font in
which all the letters are underlined'' (page 323).  I think the command
should be something like {\ul long text}.  Could anyone tell me how to
do it?  Any other suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

Yaw-Huei Chen
yc@snail.cis.ufl.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: <none>
From: goodhear@husc9.Harvard.EDU (Eric Goodheart)
Date: 18 Dec 92 16:47:38 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

Where can I find the FAQ for emtex?

Please respond by e-mail.

Eric
From: Miroslav Dont <DONT@CSEARN.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: MetaPost
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 09:54:48 MDT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

Is the MetaPost available as a public domain software?
If yes, where can I get it?
Thank you in advance
Miroslav Dont
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: gregv@gdstech.grumman.com (Greg Vilardi)
Subject: Help needed in producing a large Helvetica font.
Followup-To: comp.text.tex
Reply-To: gregv@gdstech.grumman.com (Greg Vilardi)
Organization: Grumman Data Systems-Woodbury
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 22:12:58 GMT

Hello All.  I'm having a problem producing a large Helvetica font for
emtex.  I would like to get a Helvetica 14 point bold, or a 10pt bold
scaled to \\magstep2.
I have a Helvetica Softfont for the HP LaserJet, in 10pt normal and bold,
and a 12pt normal. I have the hp2tex package by David Strip and Dmitri Vulis,
but I can't seem to get that to produce a font which is larger than the 
original font.  When I do a preview of the document, the text (which is 
"\centerline"d) will move to the right or to the left, as if the text is 
changing size, but the text is always 10 point.

I have all of the associated texware programs and metafont, so I can 
manipulate the files around if needed.  I'm also not afraid to get technical
and learn about things.  

I guess what I'm really asking for is one of two things. A) An explanation of
how to get the above pieces to work together and make my font. B) The MetaFont
source for Helvetica 14pt bold, or the .tfm and .pk files for the same.

If anyone can shed some light on this subject, please post or E-mail me, I
will gladly summarize for the net. I will be very grateful for any assistance,
as will my wife, since I am TeXing her resume.

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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel)
Subject: Re: DVI - WhAT Is IT
Organization: Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 17:30:57 GMT

In article <2108@scax18.pki-nbg.philips.de> user@pki-nbg.philips.de writes:
>|> What is dvi? I am guessing its the intermediate dev indep form producved
>|> by tex?
>
>first guess: right! (It's not so device-independent though. People prefer to
>move source files between machines, rather than dvi s)

     I think that dvi files are actually quite device-independent.  The
biggest problem that I have encountered is that almost no two TeX
installations have the same set of fonts in all the same magnifications.
If the dvi file names a font you don't have, you're hosed.  And then
there's the small matter of files formatted for A4 paper which we don't
have in North America...  At least if you have the .tex files you can
muck with this sort of detail until the document formats and prints
properly.

				Marc R. Roussel
                                mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca
From: gilligan@bldrdoc.gov (Jonathan M. Gilligan)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: CWeb for C++
Date: 17 Dec 92 20:58:12 GMT
Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology

In article <1992Dec17.201551.7039@u.washington.edu> e7227@hardy.u.washington.edu (Neil Theobald) writes:
>
>Does anyone know if there is a version of Web or CWeb available for C++ ?
>
>Any help would be appreciated.

If you can't wait for cweb 2.9 (which will offer support for C++ when
it's released in a few months) get Hans-Hermann Bode's excellent port
of CWEB 2.7, called CWEB-P. This offers a first attempt at C++
support. It's imperfect (there are a few small bugs with weaving C++
code (but they're small) and Bode decided not even to try to support
templates, which are hard to handle.

CWEB-P compiles under Borland C++ for DOS users and it whould compile
fine under the usual unix suspects as well.

Ask archie for a location (I believe it's on ftp.shsu.edu as well).

Also, be aware of the Literate Programming mailing list (send the
message ``SUBSCRIBE LITPROG <your real name>'' to LISTSERV@shsu.edu).

---Jon
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From: Miroslav Dont <DONT@CSEARN.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: MataPost - summary
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 07:09:36 MDT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

The question was whether the MetaPost is public domain or not.
I found that the MetaPost language interpreter is *not* public
domain, but it is available free ti academic institutions under
AT&T non-disclosure agreement. If you want to have it you should
contact John Hobby, the inventor of the MetaPost, on the address

hobby@research.att.com

On the other hand, the manual of the MetaPost language is available
as a PS file for anybody on the netlib. To obtain it send a mail to

netlib@research.att.com

with the line

send 162 from research/cstr

I recommend this to anybody who wants to make *really* good pictures
especislly for mathematical or technical textbooks.

All the above informations can be found in the EuroTeX92 proceedings
in the Hobby's lecture Introduction to MetaPost. I apologize for
that I have not observed it before.

Note that the manual of DVIPS tells that one of the features of DVIPS
is the support for MetaPost, but without detailed specifications what
it means exactly.
Merry Christmas
Miroslav Dont
From: pmoore@hemel.bull.co.uk (Paul Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: DVI - WhAT Is IT
Date: 17 Dec 92 17:00:12 GMT
Organization: Bull HN UK

Im sorry if this is a dumb question.

I have looked in this groups FAQ.

What is dvi? I am guessing its the intermediate dev indep form producved
by tex? Is it in 7bit ascii (like the ditroff ouput)? Is there a published
standrard?

Paul