On lun, 2008-09-29 at 13:46 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > > Having a decent dvi viewer was one of the strong points when showing > > ubuntu to windows users in my department. Now will I show xdvi? And > what > > if my voice trembles when doing so? :) Notice that dvi is ONLY used > > because of inverse searches of latex code - or else pdf covers all > the > > needs of a latex user and is more widely supported. > > > > Vincenzo > > Did you try Okular?
I was perhaps unclear: sorry for long reply but it's better to summarise everything. The situation with document viewers in ubuntu is as follows: 1) evince has a nasty bug with printing which prevents any serious usage in a scientific environment. I reported this one year ago https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bug/150187 nevertheless, evince does not support inverse searches in dvi files. 2) consequently, one has to resort to alternatives. A possibility is acrobat reader, but besides being non-free and heavy, it has NO way to reload a document. This makes it unconfortable to be used when texing. The other sane alternative is the kde document viewer. 3) Until intrepid, one had the choice between kpdf and kdvi. One used the former if only interested in being able to view, print and reload a document, the latter if also wanting "inverse search", a nice feature where you click on the dvi document and the editor (e.g. emacs or kile) goes to the source code. Very very useful when you typeset a paper. 4) In intrepid we have only one choice, which is okular - evince is ruled out for the printing bug, acroread because it can not reload documents. However, okular does NOT support inverse search, this breaks my workflow and that of many others https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdegraphics/+bug/273018 5) As a solution, I think I will have to get back to dirty-hands-hackish-good-old-unix and re-learn xdvi. That's all, and the reply to your question is, of course I am using okular right now, it's opened and showing my Ph.D. thesis :) But it's not as useful and powerful as kdvi. And it's much slower, btw. Vincenzo -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
