Mail Archives: djgpp/1994/02/25/05:36:05
> 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.
>
This is not true, you can select any pages you want with Ghostview.
>
> > 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.
>
emTeX works great with all GNU docs in my experience
> > (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...
>
See above
> > (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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