Re: [Axiom-developer] Advi

[Ralf Hemmecke]

Have you tried xdvik?

http://xdvi.sourceforge.net/

It is similar to kdvi, but for me it works better in the sense that 
klicking on a hyperlink in kdvi is sometimes half a page wrong on my 
computer.

Ralf

On 06/22/2006 06:36 AM, Andrey G. Grozin wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Richard Harke wrote:
> > I pulled the CVS version of Axiom. The README file in the top
> > directory mentions Active DVI as a tool for reading dvi's but I didn't
> > find anywhere, let alone in zips as stated. I did find the script showdvi
> > which is just a front end to xdvi. But i find xdvi reaaly awful for more
> > than a quick review of a file. (The magnifier seems to be the one really
> > good feature, if you need to check out details of the fonts.)
> > I found advi at INRIA and downloaded the package. No prepackaged
> > version for Ubuntu. But it requires installing ocaml which wants a
> > different version of gcc.
> > Currently I have been running dvipdf and using kpdf.
> > Is anyone using advi or are there any other good alternatives?
> I also find xdvi rather inconvenient; I think kdvi is much better.
> I usually use dvips and view ps by gv (a front end to ghostscript).
> If you prefer pdf, I think it's better to use dvipdfm.
>
> Andrey