retitle 430129 O: dvi2tty -- Previewing dvi-files on text-only devices thanks
This is a program that I have used and loved since its early days so
it is unfortunate that I have to abandon it :-(
On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote:
> Since Paul Wise has helped to clarify the copyright issue the package
> can continue in Debian. So I'm adopting it.
Further investigation has led me to conclude that the issue is murkier
than I thought. See additional remarks sent to #424018 for details.
As far as I can see the following options are available for users of
this package:
- sort out the copyright issues and maintain the Debian
package. To possibly aid this I have attached all the changes
that I made as a Debian diff.gz file. The patches to the
source have been classified and separated.
- re-write the programs from scratch. However, you may want
to help with the "catdvi" effort. See below.
- use the following more complex solutions. Note that *all*
these solutions depend on the use of additional font-related
files. dvi2tty has the feature (occasionally a bug!) that it
works with DVI files without *any* additional font information.
catdvi: this seems to be under development. In spite of
playing with the options I could not get output quite as
good as dvi2tty.
dvips/dvipdf followed by ps2ascii/pdftotext: This produces
reasonable output on the files I tried.
If you have the TeX source then you have more options:
untex: this is barebones.
hevea/htlatex followed by w3m/lynx -dump:
this produces the best results.
Regards,
Kapil.
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