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Re: Some thoughts on Latex, troff, and lout
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Mark Griffith |
Subject: |
Re: Some thoughts on Latex, troff, and lout |
Date: |
Thu, 4 Nov 93 11:38:59 CST |
Gene sez:
> Here are some thoughts on Lout -- basically reasons why I haven't
> used it, despite my best attempts
> 2. No hook for graphical previewers for X11. Sorry, Ghostview
> doesn't cut it. It's very slow compared to xditview,
> xtroff, or (blyeach) xdvi.
I have used Lout with ghostscript with great success. I haven't noticed it
being too slow, only a second or so to render a page. I normally run it on
an X terminal with a window opened for editing my file, another to compile
it with Lout, and another to run ghostscript. I've found this to be very
quick. On a 19" screen, the ghostscript previewer positions everything
fairly accurately. I only need to print a copy for final previewing and
fine placement. This is with ghostscript ver. 2.6.1 by the way.
I've used Lout for over a year now and would not use anything else for my
documents. I haven't figured out yet how to use the eps include feature,
but everything else works very well for me. If you add other utilties for
printing postscript files n up and some others for doing page imposition for
you, Lout serves all my needs.
/\/\ark