[tex-live] Some remarks about dviout
Denis Bitouzé
denis.bitouze at lmpa.univ-littoral.fr
Fri May 1 19:40:26 CEST 2009
Hello,
here are some remarks, from a GNU/Linux user point of view :), about
dviout viewer on a Windows XP box, as provided by TeXLive 2008...
1. Very terrifying README. I didn't read it ;)
2. No trouble to start the programm from the Windows menu but for a
long time, impossible to launch it from Texmaker IDE: all the commands:
dviout %.dvi
or
dviout.exe %.dvi
or
"C:\Program Files\texlive\2008\tlpkg\dviout\dviout.exe" %.dvi
or
"C:\Program Files\texlive\2008\bin\win32\dviout.vbs" %.dvi
or
"C:\Program Files\texlive\2008\bin\win32\dviout.vbs" %.dvi
lead to "could not start the command". Finally, I succeed by copying
the command line used in the menu:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\wscript.exe "C:\Program
Files\texlive\2008"\bin\win32\dviout.vbs %.dvi
This could be helpfull for other IDE or editors.
3. Dviout isn't portable in the sense that hyperref package cannot be
used as usual: hypertex option should be passed to the package,
otherwise dviout will crash!
4. Original computer modern fonts look better than lmodern one's! When
viewing a dvi file with lmodern, it looks as if these fonts were not
correctly installed. But with bookman package for instance, no
trouble.
I don't know if it is possible, but it could be helpful for beginners
if dviout had a better integration in TeXLive...
--
Denis
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