Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 11:34:12 -0600 From: Young U Ryu Subject: Re: documentation on djgpp To: Peter A Robinson

Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu On Thu, 24 Feb 1994, Peter A Robinson wrote: > > > 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. That's not true. There is a program: psselect which allows you to select centain pages in a ps file and create another one. It comes with other useful postscript goodies, such as pstops (used for 2up, 4up etc.), psbook, etc. I got the source codes from, I guess ftp.shsu.edu, and compiled using DJGPP. > > > 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. > Have you tried dvitty, dvi2tty, or dvispell (of emTeX)? > (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. There is a utility dvi2rtf which converts dvi files to rtf files. Most sophisticated PC word processors (such as Word, WP, etc.) can import rtf files. I guess, again, it is available from ftp.shsu.edu. > > 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. TeXInfo was created to provide on-line documents, with nice searching features. Once used to it, you may *love* it ... Young