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Re: is xdvi broken?

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On 2019.04.20 19:42, David Wright wrote:
> Then it might be worth revisiting your deliverables and seeing whether
> a DVI workflow is still worth using after two decades.
...
> It's too long to remember exactly how I produced output for both
> static HTML pages and hardcopy. I still have macros for the hyperlatex
> package (CTAN, not .deb), but I also used tex4ht ...

I once used hyperlatex to maintain a web site with documents in both 
HTML and PDF.  Execution of a single makefile regenerated the entire 
website from the LaTeX source documents; that took about ten minutes.  
But then HTML5 came along, and hyperlatex was not renovated to generate 
HTML5.

Since that time I have used tex4ht and at least one other Debian package 
for direct conversion of a LaTeX document to HTML.  But I recently 
discovered an advanced debian package "latex2html" which came out about 
a year ago and is designed to build an entire web site directly from 
LaTeX document files.

> So you expect that visitors can print from PDFs but you print locally
> with PS. Any reason?

Mine is a one-horse outfit.  I cannot afford to publish by printing and 
mailing material.  But I can afford to publish by posting documents in 
HTML and PDF on a web site.  HTML accommodates the visually-impaired.  
On occasion, however, there is need print and mail out a document to 
someone.  And I like to keep a paper copy for myself; I do not enjoy 
reading a long document displayed on a computer screen.  Whenever I 
read, I keep close at hand a red pen and a yellow high-lighter.

>> I constantly switch between the emacs screen and the xdvi screen as
>> I compose.
> How do you "switch" between them?

Alt-TAB, multiple times if necessary.  I switch back and forth between 
four or five windows: Emacs, dictionary, xdvi, terminal, and sometimes a 
reference document on a web page.  Running latexmk, I hardly ever needed 
to switch to the terminal window.

To print a copy for proofreading, I execute dvips, then lpr.


> Of course, a PDF preview will give a preview as close to WYSIWYG as
> a DVI one, if that's what you like. (I prefer typing content into
> a context that doesn't keep shifting around, and leave the layout
> to a later phase when I'm not preoccupied with content.)

Understood; I agree.  I should not have said WYSIWYG.  I am very 
comfortable with the LaTeX markup on the Emacs screen, so I do not look 
at the xdvi screen all that often.  But viewing the typeset document 
does display the table of contents; also, it facilitates decisions on 
structure (such as bulleted list vs. enumerated list, and list vs. 
subsections), and it helps me produce a document which is attractive and 
reader-friendly.



> That's why I asked how you "switch" between them, above, in order to
> find out what shortcut you're using that makes hitting "R" in the
> preview window too onerous. I find a major advantage in not having
> the viewer update itself automatically.

I agree; so just before switching to the viewer, I save the document 
(Ctr-x s) in Emacs and then switch; but if I wish to look again at the 
old version, I switch without saving.

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  Re: is xdvi broken? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2019-04-16 21:30 +0200
    Re: is xdvi broken? rlharris@oplink.net - 2019-04-16 22:30 +0200
      Re: is xdvi broken? Kushal Kumaran <kushal@locationd.net> - 2019-04-17 02:30 +0200
        Re: is xdvi broken? rlharris@oplink.net - 2019-04-17 05:20 +0200
          Re: is xdvi broken? Kushal Kumaran <kushal@locationd.net> - 2019-04-17 19:40 +0200
            Re: is xdvi broken? rlharris@oplink.net - 2019-04-17 20:30 +0200
              Re: is xdvi broken? rlharris@oplink.net - 2019-04-19 23:20 +0200
                Re: is xdvi broken? Étienne Mollier <etienne.mollier@mailoo.org> - 2019-04-20 00:40 +0200
                Re: is xdvi broken? rlharris@oplink.net - 2019-04-20 01:20 +0200
                Re: is xdvi broken? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-04-20 03:30 +0200
                Re: is xdvi broken? rlharris@oplink.net - 2019-04-20 05:40 +0200
                Re: is xdvi broken? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-04-20 10:00 +0200
                Re: is xdvi broken? Étienne Mollier <etienne.mollier@mailoo.org> - 2019-04-20 11:50 +0200
                Re: is xdvi broken? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-04-21 02:50 +0200
                Re: is xdvi broken? rlharris@oplink.net - 2019-04-21 09:40 +0200
                Re: is xdvi broken? rlharris@oplink.net - 2019-04-21 10:00 +0200
                Re: is xdvi broken? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-04-22 03:50 +0200
                Re: is xdvi broken? rlharris@oplink.net - 2019-04-22 07:20 +0200
                Re: is xdvi broken? Bill Wood <william.wood3@comcast.net> - 2019-04-22 09:00 +0200
                Re: is xdvi broken? rlharris@oplink.net - 2019-04-22 10:10 +0200
                Re: is xdvi broken? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-04-22 10:40 +0200
                Re: is xdvi broken? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-04-22 21:00 +0200
                Re: is xdvi broken? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-04-22 05:20 +0200
                Re: is xdvi broken? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-04-20 15:00 +0200

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