Re: Inform Manual Format
21 Feb 1995 21:22:08 GMT
>My problem is the TEX format manuals. I am a lowly DOS user and I
>scarcely have any knowledge of TEX--and certainly no way I know of to
>display, print or convert it to a format known to me. I have been using
>the one "designer's manual" that has been dumped to ascii by some
>ruthless machine. It's a whole lot better than nothing, of course, and
>i've surely learned a lot from it. However I'm wondering if anyone has,
>or if anyone *can*, convert them to some other format.. RTF (rich text
>format) comes to mind.
Well, if you have access to a unix machine that has TeX installed, you
can do 'tex whatever.tex' and produce a dvi file. From there, you can do
two things:
a) see if you have dvips installed, and if so, dvips whatever.dvi to
produce a postscript file that can be printed out on most postscript
printers (or viewed with ghostscript)
b) see if you have dvi2tty, and do dvi2tty whatever.dvi > whatever.txt.
Of the two, the former is preferable.