Mail Archives: djgpp/1994/02/24/08:39:30
Anthony Duben writes:
> Is it not true that you need a Postscript cartridge in order
> to run off Postscript files on an HP Laserjet printer? If you
> do not have one, you are out of luck.
Even if you have a postscript printer, you're limited to printing the
whole documentation or none at all.
> The problem of having documentation in readable form is not an
> inconsequential problem. It would seem to me that some of
> the following would be useful --
> (a) ASCII text versions of the documentation
I'd love this! I've experimented with TEX to text converters, but
none of them can cope with the djgpp docs.
> (b) PostScript interpreter to run off Postscript documentation
> on the more humble printers that do not have built in
> Postscript.
> (Is this not what Ghostscript is supposed to do? If so, where
> do you get a version that runs on an MS-DOS machine?)
It does. You can get it by gopher at gopher.src.ic.ac.uk, but
AFAIK you can only print the whole document...
> (c) Readily available Tex -- (Where does one get EmTex?)
Same place as above.
> (d) Documentation in the file format of a generally used word
> processor (Word for Windows, Word Perfect, Ami Pro?)
Yes, yes, yes! Or how about a TeX import filter for Word? Or a DVI
to Word converter or... anything that allows you to print out
selected pages, really.
> On the one hand, I am aware that gnu-djgpp for ms-dos is a
> UN*X oriented port of the gnu compiler, but it is to be run
> on ms-dos machines on which users can be expected to have a
> normal complement of MS-DOS/Windows tools and applications.
Yup. The TexInfo verison is a big improvement - at least it is now
possible to consult the docs online, but I would *love* to be able to
search for keywords with a standard text search program.
Just my 1.5p worth (that's two cents to our American cousins).
Peter.
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