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Thanks for the answers that I have received by mail. Now I have tried
emTeX and I find it a fairly good solution, even though it takes quite
some space on the harddisk. But still I am dreaming about a preview as 
fast (and small?) as e.g. WordPerfect. I does not matter if the fonts
would not be perfect. 

I have included the answers here: 

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From: hacker@cco.caltech.edu (Jonathan Bruce Hacker)


>I am looking for a good previewing solution for LaTeX on PC. I have
>seen the faq with the public domain programs (sbtex and EmTeX), but
>I have not tried them. I presently use LaTeX on a unix-system, and I
>will probably still do my printing there. But I would like also to
>be able to edit, "compile" and preview on PCs. My question is therefore:


I have tried many and like the Emtex previewer the best, it has
built in rulers, page outline, gray scaling, and will also preview graphics
files (msp paintbrush files).  It has resolution up to VGA only.

There is an 8514 (1024 x 768 pixels) previewer available (look in TeX FAQ for
source, I have forgotten) but I found it slow and crude (not even 
a page outline).  There's is also one that runs under windows
on DVIWIN I think (source in FAQ) but no page outline either.

All the previewers require standard PK TeX fonts  so 
expect to use 5-8 Mbytes of disk space. Emtex uses font library
files (.FLI) which use less room than the usual PK files but 
even they are  large( 5MB of files).

-- 
Jon Hacker
Caltech, Pasadena CA
hacker@tumbler-ridge.caltech.edu

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From: ecsgrt@luxor.latrobe.edu.au

Dear Knud,

What kind of PC have you?  I use a 286, which is far too slow
(I think) to permit "simultaneous" edit/compile/preview.

There is/was a commercial package called VorTeX that may or
may not do what you ask.  See the STI (Supp. TeX Info.) or is
it the FAQ ?

As for PD packages for the PC:  I don't know.  Is there one for
the Sun?  (I don't count X Windows thingies, as on a Sun 3,
waiting half an hour to see X Windows start up isn't what I call
"simultaneous" edit/compile/preview.  I don't have dedicated
use of any Sun, so I cannot justify having my account ruling
the roost for long enough to get X Windows started.

gt

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From: riehm@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Carl Riehm)

Are you aware of Texshell that is compatible with emtex?  It is not part of
the emtex package, but is also available at the Stuttgart node:
rusmv1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de       Carl Riehm.

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