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In article <14622@duke.cs.duke.edu>, gm@romeo.cs.duke.edu (Greg McGary) writes:
> There is no inherent reason why (La)TeX should lose on a tty....
> ... TeX does this fixed-width stuff wonderfully if the right-margin is ragged-

Yes, I could get results acceptable to me only with a \rightskip like
0pt plus 4em. I added \spaceskip 1em too.

> ....  I know of two such free-ware drivers: dvi2tty and dvidoc.
> These are not entirely suitable though,
> since their primary reason for existing is to provide fast and dirty
> previewing on ttys, not necissarily high-quality plain-text output.

At the Clarkson archives, dvidoc.shar3 (I think) has source and results that
I consider to be high quality.

> ... Plain TeX and LaTeX don't have macros
> built-in that conveniently switch to such a mode--you have to roll your
> own or use the macros that come with dvi2tty or dvidoc (and even these
> were buggy and incomplete last I looked).

When did you look? If you used the shar3 macros with plain TeX and had trouble,
let me know.  We still need a latex style, as far as I know.
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