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8. Other Formats of this Document

This document is published in 10 different formats namely - DVI, Postscript, Latex, LyX, GNU-info, HTML, RTF(Rich Text Format), Plain-text, Unix man pages and SGML.

The document is written using a tool called "SGML tool" which can be got from - http://www.xs4all.nl/~cg/sgmltools/ Compiling the source you will get the following commands like

This document is located at -

Also you can find this document at the following mirrors sites -

In order to view the document in dvi format, use the xdvi program. The xdvi program is located in tetex-xdvi*.rpm package in Redhat Linux which can be located through ControlPanel | Applications | Publishing | TeX menu buttons. 

        To read dvi document give the command -
                xdvi -geometry 80x90 howto.dvi
        And resize the window with mouse. See man page on xdvi. 
        To navigate use Arrow keys, Page Up, Page Down keys, also
        you can use 'f', 'd', 'u', 'c', 'l', 'r', 'p', 'n' letter
        keys to move up, down, center, next page, previous page etc.
        To turn off expert menu press 'x'.
You can read postscript file using the program 'gv' (ghostview) or 'ghostscript'. The ghostscript program is in ghostscript*.rpm package and gv program is in gv*.rpm package in Redhat Linux which can be located through ControlPanel | Applications | Graphics menu buttons. The gv program is much more user friendly than ghostscript. Ghostscript and gv are also available on other platforms like OS/2, Windows 95 and NT. 
        To read postscript document give the command -
                gv howto.ps

        To use ghostscript give -
                ghostscript howto.ps

You can read HTML format document using Netscape Navigator, Microsoft Internet explorer, Redhat Baron Web browser or any other web browsers.

You can read the latex, LyX output using LyX a "X-Windows" front end to latex.

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