[SOLVED] texlive-latex3 on two different machines

prudra · 11-07-2013, 11:02 AM

I have two 32-bit machines, a Zenith India Always On Netbook and a Dell Vostro 1014 laptop. On both I have Debian Wheezy 7.2 installed from Live *.iso on usb media. And on both I have installed #apt-get install texlive-laex3 .
But when I run $xdvi group.dvi & I get two different things, as in the attached files. First why this difference. Secondly, what shall
I do so that Dell machine shows like netbook.pdf?
Thanks for help.

evo2 · 11-10-2013, 06:53 PM

Hi,

if I understand correctly you want to turn on the xdvi tool bar on the Dell machine. I had a quick look at the xdvi man page and it seems that hitting the x key should do this.

See the man page, and check the "FILES" section to understand how to set default options for this type of thing.

HTH,

Evo2.

prudra · 11-11-2013, 12:43 AM

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Originally Posted by evo2

Hi,

if I understand correctly you want to turn on the xdvi tool bar on the Dell machine. I had a quick look at the xdvi man page and it seems that hitting the x key should do this.

See the man page, and check the "FILES" section to understand how to set default options for this type of thing.

HTH,

Evo2.

Thanks. Actually $xdvi -expertmode 4 group.dvi & did it. Sorry, I could not offhand find the 'Files' section to set the defaults. I will now search in details. Thanks again.

evo2 · 11-11-2013, 12:50 AM

Hi,

Quote:

Originally Posted by prudra

Thanks. Actually $xdvi -expertmode 4 group.dvi & did it.

Great.

Regarding why it was different in the first place: perhaps xdvi has different default behaviour depending on the screen size.

Quote:

Sorry, I could not offhand find the 'Files' section to set the defaults. I will now search in details. Thanks again.

The "FILES" section is usually at the very end of each man page.

Cheers,

Evo2.