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It seems that there is room to do clever things when viewing dvi
output from TeX or LaTeX with Mosaic.  DVI files have "\special"
commands which occur in a particular place in the document and contain
an arbitrary string.  Normally these don't print, but programs that
convert dvi files to other formats can regard the special commands as
imperatives to do something interesting.

The Mosaic DVI viewer could interpret the special commands as commands
to start and end anchors and to defined named parts.  When the mouse
is clicked on an anchor, the dvi previewer could tell xmosaic to view
the appropriate URL.

If the DVI viewer also knew to look through the text on a page to
find a named anchor, it would be easy to redefine the \label and \ref
cross-referencing commands so LaTeX automatically produces hypertext
documents.

Has anything similar to this been done?

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Tim Freeman <tsf@cs.cmu.edu>    
When they took the fourth amendment, I was silent because I don't deal drugs.
When they took the sixth amendment, I kept quiet because I know I'm innocent.
When they took the second amendment, I said nothing because I don't own a gun.
Now they've come for the first amendment, and I can't say anything at all.