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diff --git a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-previewers.html b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-previewers.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..cf673a555da --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-previewers.html @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +<head> +<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label previewers</title> +</head><body> +<h3>DVI previewers</h3> +<p>EmTeX for PCs running MSDOS or OS/2, MiKTeX and +fpTeX for PCs running Windows and OzTeX for the Macintosh, all +come with previewers that can be used on those platforms. EmTeX's +previewer can also be run under Windows 3.1. +<p>Commercial PC TeX packages (see +<a href="FAQ-commercial.html">commercial vendors</a>) +have good previewers for PCs running Windows, or for Macintoshes. +<p>For Unix systems, there is one 'canonical' viewer, <i>xdvi</i>. +<i>Xdvik</i> is a version of <i>xdvi</i> using the +<i>web2c</i> libraries; it is now built from the same distribution +as <i>xdvi</i>. Unix TeX distributions (such as +teTeX) include a version of <i>xdvik</i> +using the same version of <i>web2c</i> as the rest of the +distribution. +<p>Alternatives to previewing include +<ul> +<li> conversion to 'similar' ASCII text (see + <a href="FAQ-toascii.html">converting to ASCII</a>) and using a + conventional text viewer to look at that, +<li> generating a PostScript version of your document and viewing it + with a <i>Ghostscript</i>-based previewer (see + <a href="FAQ-PSpreview.html">previewing PostScript files</a>), and +<li> generating PDF output, and viewing that with + <i>Acrobat</i> <i>Reader</i> or one of the substitutes for that. +</ul> +<dl> +<dt><tt><i>xdvi</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/dviware/xdvi.zip">dviware/xdvi</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/dviware/xdvi.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/dviware/xdvi/">browse</a>) +</dl> +<p><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=previewers">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=previewers</a> +</body> |