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- ANNOUNCEMENT --- ASCREEN 3.1
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- I'm pleased to announce that ASCREEN 3.1 is now available for anonymous
- FTP.
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- ASCREEN 3.1 is a GEM-based DVI screen previewer for the Atari ST/TT
- series of computers. Its features include
-
- *** SPEED: One of the fastest previewers available for the Atari.
-
- *** CONVENIENCE: Depending on how much memory is available, formatted
- pages are cached for later retrieval (You can cache about 8 normal-sized
- pages on a 1MB ST. With a 4MB ST or a TT, the sky's the limit). Memory
- usage can be deliberately limited so other programs won't be crammed in.
- While you are looking at one page, a unique `cache-ahead' feature
- formats the next one. You can open as many windows as GEM will let you
- have, and look at several pages or various parts of the same page all at
- once. You can also shrink pages to check their overall layout. ASCREEN
- 3.1 can be controlled by mouse or by keyboard, and keyboard commands can
- be changed to suit your preferences.
-
- *** COMPATIBILITY: ASCREEN 3.1 is completely GEM-based and should be
- able to take advantage of any graphics hardware that supports GEM. It
- has been tested on various configurations ranging from an Atari 520ST
- with a SM124 monitor to an Atari TT driving a TTM195 hi-res monochrome
- display. No known dependencies on the TOS version exist (checked against
- 1.0, 1.02, 1.04, 3.16).
-
- ASCREEN 3.1 fits neatly into most implementations of TeX on the ST. You
- can even go on using your native previewer's fonts since ASCREEN lets
- you configure its resolution and font naming scheme. ASCREEN supports
- graphics \special commands of Christoph Strunk's csTeX as well as Stefan
- Lindner's CTeX for the ST. ASCREEN also supports packed font libraries
- in emTeX's FLIB format.
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- ASCREEN 3.1 can be called from the GEM desktop, from any command line
- shell that can start GEM applications, or from leading TeX shells like
- Christoph Strunk's `cTeX' or the `TeXshell' by Kiessling, Heidrich and
- Maluschka.
-
- ASCREEN 3.1 works together with PAM's MultiGEM, too: you can even set up
- your TeX system so that ASCREEN will automatically re-display the
- current DVI file after a TeX run.
-
- *** CUSTOMIZABILITY: Defaults for most settings can be specified in a
- configuration file. Any one of several configuration files can be
- selected from the command line or loaded from the menu bar while the
- program is running. The defaults may be overridden from the command
- line, and there are dialog boxes available as well. At any instant, a
- snapshot of the current settings may be saved to another configuration
- file. Items that can be customized include:
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- - path names for DVI files, fonts and graphics files
- - font resolution and naming
- - minimum page dimensions
- - memory management parameters: number of pages cached,
- size of font management arena
- - DVI buffering parameters
- - diverse switches controlling program behavior
-
- *** INTERNATIONALIZATION: ASCREEN 3.1 comes with German and English user
- interfaces. Adding yet another language is as simple as editing one of
- the enclosed resource files. You can even use ASCREEN in various
- languages on the same computer: just assign the name of the appropriate
- resource file to a special environment variable.
-
- You can get and use ASCREEN 3.1 for free. You may also redistribute it
- if you don't make any money off it or pretend that you wrote it.
-
- ASCREEN 3.1 is available for anonymous FTP from
- ftp.math.uni-frankfurt.de [141.2.90.2], directory pub/atari.
- *Please note that this site is in Germany, Europe, and retrieve the
- software only at off-peak times, that is, 1800-0800 hours CET (UT+0100),
- or during the weekend.*
-
- There is a mailing list for announcements, bug reports, comments,
- questions and general discussion about ASCREEN; send mail to
- `ascreen-request@math.uni-frankfurt.de' to subscribe or to find out
- more.
-
- - Anselm Lingnau
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