retitle 430129 O: dvi2tty -- Previewing dvi-files on text-only devices thanks This is a program that I have used and loved since its early days so it is unfortunate that I have to abandon it :-( On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > Since Paul Wise has helped to clarify the copyright issue the package > can continue in Debian. So I'm adopting it. Further investigation has led me to conclude that the issue is murkier than I thought. See additional remarks sent to #424018 for details. As far as I can see the following options are available for users of this package: - sort out the copyright issues and maintain the Debian package. To possibly aid this I have attached all the changes that I made as a Debian diff.gz file. The patches to the source have been classified and separated. - re-write the programs from scratch. However, you may want to help with the "catdvi" effort. See below. - use the following more complex solutions. Note that *all* these solutions depend on the use of additional font-related files. dvi2tty has the feature (occasionally a bug!) that it works with DVI files without *any* additional font information. catdvi: this seems to be under development. In spite of playing with the options I could not get output quite as good as dvi2tty. dvips/dvipdf followed by ps2ascii/pdftotext: This produces reasonable output on the files I tried. If you have the TeX source then you have more options: untex: this is barebones. hevea/htlatex followed by w3m/lynx -dump: this produces the best results. Regards, Kapil. --
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