Re: Gnome DVI viewer?

[D-Man <dsh8290 rit edu>]

Do you have/know of a good tutorial for latex?  I've found a few reference docs, but they don't _teach_ much.  They're only good if you already know the principles. :-)

-D

On Thu, 16 Nov 2000 12:42:09 Albert Schueller wrote:
 | Quoting Ben FrantzDale (bfrantzdale thuban ac hmc edu):
 | > I've searched the archives with only a few, vague results. Is there
 | > and/or will there be a gnome DVI viewer? (I find xdvi quite anoying and
 | > often resort to running yap under wine.)
 | 
 | What features of xdvi do you need?  You might find that always
 | generating postscript and using ghostview will give you the features you
 | need.  I use xdvi for speed, but it is definitely not feature rich.
 | Ghostview has a lot of nice features.  The cost of doing this is always
 | having to generate the .ps file whenever you run latex, but this has got
 | to be better than running YAP under wine.
 | 
 | > Along the same lines, what plans are there for math typesetting in
 | > gnome? I have found no output better than (La)TeX and no input less
 | > frusterating. Math typesetting is generally not something to be done
 | > with a mouse.
 | 
 | I don't think you'll ever beat latex here.  Increasing your familiarity
 | with latex will certainly reduce your frustration.  I actually like it.
 | 
 | Albert
 | 
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