openmotif to be removed from Fedora October 2, 2006

Gérard Milmeister gemi at bluewin.ch
Sat Sep 2 00:12:49 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 00:32 +0100, Leon wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Sep 2006 17:38:19 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 
> > Leon (sdl.web at gmail.com) said: 
> >> > In contrast to your experience, I've always found latex/dvips to be
> >> > smoother and less error prone than pdflatex.  And to agree with your
> >> > other point, xdvi is definitely the best DVI viewer.  Viewing the .dvi
> >> 
> >> What about Active-DVI¹. It's the one recommended by whizzytex².
> >
> > Objective CAML???? :)
> 
> Just want to show there is something better than xdvi :-)

I just made an rpm for advi and tried it out. It is certainly not better
than xdvi. For example, it doesn't support virtual fonts, which is 
pretty essential nowadays.
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