TEXVIEW

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: August 21, 1989
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NAME

texview - preview TeX dvi files on screen

SYNOPSIS

texview [ dvifile ]

DESCRIPTION

The texview program displays dvi files generated by TeX on the NeXT megapixel display. The program is operated through menus and buttons generated by Interface Builder.

Full support for PostScript fonts and graphics is supported in the same manner as dvips(1).

Any missing fonts are generated automatically, unless this feature is disabled from the Preferences menu item. Missing fonts may also be scaled from existing sizes.

A script for generating fonts is supplied in /usr/lib/tex/Make_Fonts; it should be used to generate a base set of fonts for texview.

Note that this program will change directories to where the dvi file is located so any included graphics files can be found.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

This program uses the contents of two environment variables to search for fonts. The variable TEXPKS holds the colon-separated path to search for pk files; its default value is

.:/LocalLibrary/Fonts/TeXFonts/pk:/usr/lib/tex/fonts/pk

The environment variable TEXFONTS holds the colon-separated path to search for tfm files if a pk file cannot be found and font generation is disabled; its default value is

.:/LocalLibrary/Fonts/TeXFonts/tfm:/usr/lib/tex/fonts/tfm

FILES

/usr/lib/tex/fonts/pk
                          Where pk bitmap fonts are stored

/NextLibrary/Fonts/TeXFonts
                          A link to /usr/lib/tex/fonts

/LocalLibrary/Fonts/TeXFonts

/usr/bin/MakeTeXPK

BUGS

Three forms of specials must appear on the first page of the document if they are to be recognized; these are the landscape special, any header file specials, and any literal macro (exclamation point) specials. Refer to the dvips(1) man page for more information on these specials.

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