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Title and description: AbiWord Description: general-purpose, Open Source word processor Versions: there is version skew (Sun is 2.4.5, Linux is 2.6.2) To run: athena% add abiword athena% abiword & There is 2.6 online help, and tutorials here and here See also: Applix Words, ez, FrameMaker, Star Office Word Processor, TeXmacs
Title and description: Applix HTML Author Description: HTML editor To run: athena% add applix athena% applix & (select HTML Author from the * menu) See also: HoTMetaL Pro, mapedit, Mozilla Composer, Star Office HTML Editor, WebEQ Note: Applixware will no longer be available on Athena as of 8/1/09. More information is here
Title and description: Applix Words Description: general-purpose word processor To run: athena% add applix athena% applix & (select Applixware Words icon from icon bar, or Words from the * menu) See also: AbiWord, ez, FrameMaker, Star Office Word Processor Note: Applixware will no longer be available on Athena as of 8/1/09. More information is here
Title and description: dvips Description: converts a file in dvi format (as created by LaTeX or TeX) to PostScript, then spools it to a PostScript printer To run: athena% dvips file.dvi There is a stock answers document on converting Tex to pdf See also: Acrobat, html2ps, latex, pdflatex, ps2pdf, xdvi
Title and description: Emacs Description: the GNU text editor, the most commonly used editor on Athena To run: athena% emacs & (or click on Emacs button on Gnome applet bar) There is online documentation and Emacs Answers See also: gedit, jedit, nedit, pico, vi, vim, nvi, xcoral, XEmacs
Title and description: enscript Description: converts ASCII file to PostScript and prints it on a PostScript printer. Part of the Transcript package, which includes additional printer-related utilities To run: athena% enscript file
Title and description: eq Description: equation formatter compatible with ez. Part of Andrew system To run: athena% add andrew athena% eq file.eq See also: AbiWord, ahelp, ez, table, TeXmacs, TtH, WebEQ
Title and description: ez Description: "almost WYSIWYG" text editor. Many formatting options via pull-down menus. Part of Andrew system To run: athena% add andrew athena% ez file.ez There is online documentation See also: AbiWord, ahelp, Applix Words, eq, jedit, nedit, pico, Star Office Word Processor, table, xcoral
Title and description: FrameMaker Description: document publishing system, suitable for complex documents (such as theses). Recent versions of FrameMaker have the ability to output Acrobat (pdf) and HTML format documents directly Licenses: we have 140 floating licenses To run: athena% add frame athena% maker Utilities: see files in /mit/frame/bin for run commands There is 7.2 FrameMaker documentation, WebWorks Publisher documentation, new 7.2 features and frameusers.com, a user group Web site containing a lot of FrameMaker-related information; also local FrameMaker Answers and a local Web page See also: AbiWord, Acrobat, Applix Words, latex, latex2html, LyX, pdftex, pdflatex, Scribus, Open Office Word Processor, TeXmacs, TtH, WebEQ Note: FrameMaker is only available on Athena Suns, which will be decommissioned by Summer 2009. Please plan to migrate your documents to other formats or purchase a personal license by then; there are suggestions for converting Frame documents to other formats
Title and description: gedit Description: lightweight text editor, part of the GNOME desktop To run: athena% gedit & See also: Emacs, jedit, nedit, pico, vi, vim, nvi, xcoral, XEmacs
Title and description: HoTMetaL Pro (old; there will be no future UNIX releases beyond 3.0) Description: HTML editor Licenses: we have 25 licenses To run: athena% add hotmetal athena% hmpro file.html & (Sun version 3.0) There is version 2 vendor documentation online, version 3 vendor documentation online See also: Amaya, Applix HTML Author, latex2html, mapedit, Mozilla Composer, Star Office HTML Editor, WebEQ Note: X server needs to be in 8 bit mode to run version 3.0 of this application. Log in with Other Options, select restart X in 8 bit mode
Title and description: html2ps Description: converts HTML page to PostScript file To run: athena% add outland athena% html2ps file.html > file.ps There is an author Web page See also: dvips, latex2html, mswordview, ThT
Title and description: ispell Description: spelling checker To run: athena% ispell options file See also: Webster Dictionary
Title and description: jedit Description: Java-based text editor incorporating advanced features including syntax highlighting modes for over 90 types of files and incorporating a built-in scripting and macro language called BeanShell. There is a local Web page and a developement site To run: athena% add jedit athena% jedit options files & athena% jedit -listver & (to see versions available on Athena) See also: emacs, ez, gedit, nedit, pico, vi, xcoral
Title and description: latex, tex Description: program that formats text with embedded formatting commands for printing. LaTeX is essentially a collection of macros that simplify the use of TeX, which is a page formatting and typesetting program for printers. The output of LaTeX and TeX is a file ending in a dvi extension, which can then be converted to PostScript and printed with the dvips program To run: athena% latex file.tex athena% tex file.tex There is local online documentation and thesis writing tips and advanced topics; also Inessential LaTeX and LaTeX Answers There is a stock answers document on converting Tex to pdf See also: dvips, FrameMaker, ipe, latex2html, LyX, pdftex, pdflatex, Scribus, TtH, xdvi Note: the former latex2e is the current default latex version. There are additional macros such as revtex in the newtex locker. To use it type add -f newtex at the Athena prompt. Various sources are in the texsrc locker the tex-contrib locker supplies additional packages. To use them, attach the tex-contrib locker and add /mit/tex-contrib// to the TEXINPUTS environment variable
Title and description: latex2html Description: converts LaTeX documents to html Web pages; generally converts major sections of the source document into a sequence of Web pages linked together with Next and Previous buttons. If the source document is file.tex, the output will be generated within a file subdirectory of the startup directory To run: athena% add infoagents athena% latex2html file.tex (from a directory where you have write permission) There is online documentation See also: html2ps, latex, FrameMaker, HoTMetaL Pro, LyX, mswordview, TeXmacs, TtH, WebEQ
Title and description: LyX Description: structured document authoring application, incorporating a "What You See Is What You Mean" approach. Uses latex for printed output To run: athena% add lyx athena% lyx & There is a LyX home page, 1.6 new features and 1.6.1 notes See also: Acrobat, convert, latex, latex2html, FrameMaker, ps2pdf, TeXmacs, TtH, WebEQ
Title and description: mapedit (very old, not actively maintained) Description: utility for creating and editing clickable image maps for use within Web pages To run: athena% add cwis athena% mapedit & There is an author Web site See also: Applix HTML Author, HoTMetaL Pro, WebEQ
Title and description: Mozilla Composer Description: basic HTML editor incorporated in mozilla Web browser To run: athena% mozilla & followed by Window -> Composer See also: Amaya, Applix HTML Author, HoTMetaL Pro, Star Office HTML Editor
Title and description: mswordview (wvWare) Description: converts Microsoft Word documents to HTML (and other formats, with newer version) To run: athena% add outland (for newer release) athena% wvHtml file.doc file.html (makes html copy of file.doc in file file.html) Note: new version supports conversion to multiple other formats using wvPS, wvLatex, wvDVI etc. and usage syntax has changed; type man vwWare for more information athena% add consult (for older 0.5.14 release) athena% mswordview file.doc (makes html copy of file.doc in file file.doc.html, 0.5.14 release) There is an author Web page See also: html2ps, latex2html, WebEQ Note: the name of this product has changed to wvWare. The older version on Athena is called mswordview the Open Office Word Processor can read most Word documents and allows conversion to other formats
Title and description: nedit Description: GUI-style text editor suitable for code editing and plain text files To run: athena% add editors athena% nedit & See also: Emacs, ez, gedit, jedit, vi, xcoral
Title and description: Open Office HTML Editor Description: HTML editor component of Open Office office suite- select File -> New -> HTML Document To run: athena% add -f ooffice (for new 3.1 release on Athena 10; not necessary on Athena 9.4) athena% ooffice [-ver 3.1] & (-ver switch for new 3.1 release) There is 2.x documentation: Getting Started guide, User Guide and entry point to other manuals; also the openoffice.org support page and a 3.x User Guide See also: Applix HTML Author, HoTMetaL Pro, Star Office HTML Editor, WebEQ Note: Open Office is derived from Star Office and corresponding releases of both are very similar
Title and description: Open Office Word Processor Description: word processor component of Open Office office suite- select File -> New -> Text Document To run: athena% add -f ooffice (for new 3.1 release on Athena 10; not necessary on Athena 9.4) athena% ooffice [-ver 3.1] & (-ver switch for new 3.1 release) There is 2.x documentation: Getting Started guide, User Guide and entry point to other manuals; also the openoffice.org support page and a 3.x User Guide See also: Applix Words, ez, FrameMaker, Star Office Word Processor, TeXmacs Note: Open Office is derived from Star Office and corresponding releases of both are very similar
Title and description: pdftex, pdflatex Description: converts Tex or Latex documents to pdf To run: athena% pdftex filename.tex athena% pdflatex filename.tex There is a stock answers document on converting Tex to pdf See also: Acrobat, dvips, latex, tex, FrameMaker, ps2pdf
Title and description: pico Description: simple text editor with a layout similar to the Pine mailer To run: athena% add sipb athena% pico See also: Emacs, ez, gedit, jedit, vi, xcoral
Title and description: ps2pdf Description: converts PostScript files to Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format, similar in functionality to Acrobat distill To run: athena% ps2pdf file.ps (currently defaults to pdf 1.2) athena% ps2pdf12 file.ps (to produce pdf 1.2 output) athena% ps2pdf13 file.ps (to produce pdf 1.3 output) athena% ps2pdf14 file.ps (to produce pdf 1.4 output) There is local online documentation There is a stock answers document on converting Tex to pdf See also: Acrobat, dvips, LyX, pdftex, pdflatex Note: There are a number of other, similar conversion utilities in the ghostscript locker- look in binary directory /mit/ghostscript/arch/sun4x_58/bin (and the corresponding one for Linux) for files containing "2" in the file name
Title and description: Star Office HTML Editor Description: HTML editor component of Star Office office suite- select File -> New -> HTML Document To run: athena% add soffice athena% soffice & There is 8.0 "what's new", 8.0 "getting started", Sun's Star Office site, the Star Office User Portal See also: Amaya, Applix HTML Author, HoTMetaL Pro, Mozilla Composer, Open Office HTML Editor, WebEQ
Title and description: Star Office Word Processor Description: word processor component of Star Office office suite- select File -> New -> Text Document To run: athena% add soffice athena% soffice & There is 8.0 "what's new", 8.0 "getting started", Sun's Star Office site, the Star Office User Portal See also: AbiWord, Applix Words, ez, FrameMaker, Open Office Word Processor, TeXmacs
Title and description: TeXmacs Description: freely distributable "scientific text editor" that allows wysiwyg representation of scientific and mathematical notation embedded inside documents. A number of symbolic algebra and mathematical applications can be run within it To run: athena% add texmacs athena% texmacs & There is an author Web site and a tutorial See also: AbiWord, eq, FrameMaker, gnuplot, latex2html, LyX, maple, Mathematica, matlab, maxima, octave, scilab, Star Office Word Processor, TtH, WebEQ
Title and description: troff, psroff Description: standard UNIX text formatters, designed to accept ASCII files interspersed with lines of format control information; output is normally sent to a printer. psroff generates PostScript output and is designed for PostScript printers; troff may do so To run: troff file | typesetter athena% psroff file See file /mit/usrdoc/NOTE.dev, and man pages in /mit/usrdoc/ditroff and /mit/usrdoc/ditroff/troff for additional information (do nroff -man file | more to view) See also: enscript, latex
Title and description: TtH Description: translator that converts Tex and Latex files to HTML, and related utilities. TtM converts Tex, Latex to XML in mathML format. Designed to handle mathematical expressions and notation. ps2gif converts PostScript files to gif. latex2gif converts Latex files to gif. ps2png converts PostScript to png. To run: athena% add tth athena% tth options file (converts file.tex to file.html; you can omit the .tex extension) athena% ttm file (converts file.tex to file.xml, in mathML format, Linux only) athena% ps2gif file.ps newfile.gif (converts PostScript file file.ps to gif file file.gif) athena% latex2gif file (the file should have a .tex extension, but do not type this on the command line) There is 3.82 TtH online documentation, 3.82 TtM online documentation See also: eq, FrameMaker, html2ps, latex, latex2html, LyX, TeXmacs, WebEQ
Title and description: vi Description: standard modal screen-oriented UNIX text editor To run: athena% vi See also: Emacs, gedit, jedit, nedit, vim, nvi, pico, xcoral
Title and description: vim, nvi Description: vi variants, supporting supersets of vi commands. vim is optmized for source code editing. To see differences between vim and vi, type :help vi_diff from within vim. See man page for nvi to see differences from vi To run: athena% add sipb athena% vim athena% nvi There is vim documentation See also: Emacs, gedit, vi
Title and description: WebEQ (old) Description: Java-based system for incorporating mathematical equations and notation in Web pages. Limited interactive capabilities are possible To run: athena% setup webeq athena% webeq_wizard & (to run the GUI WebEQ Wizard, in the window that appears) athena% webeq_wizard_command options file (to run the command-line WebEQ Wizard, in the window that appears) athena% webeq_editor & (to run the WebEQ Equation Editor, in the window that appears) In order for users to be able to download the WebEQ applet, add the following CODEBASE and CODE tags within the initial APPLET tag in your html pages using WebEQ: <APPLET CODEBASE="http://web.mit.edu/webeq/currenthome/classes/" CODE="webeq.Main" ...> ... </APPLET> There is a local Web page; documentation starts here ; vendor Web site is here See also: Applix HTML Author, eq, FrameMaker, HoTMetaL Pro, latex2html, LyX, mapedit, mswordview, Star Office HTML Editor, TeXmacs, TtH
Title and description: xcoral Description: GUI-style text editor suitable for code editing and plain text files; has latex support To run: athena% add editors athena% xcoral & See also: emacs, ez, gedit, jedit, nedit, pico, vi
Title and description: XEmacs Description: emacs variant with GUI interface. Allows for proportionally spaced fonts, and images embedded in buffers. It also comes with many more standard packages, and has some cleaner internal abstractions. To run: athena% add xemacs athena% xemacs & There is online info, including FAQ See also: Emacs, gedit
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Title and description: Acrobat Description: creator, annotator and reader for Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) documents; reader also available as a browser plug-in Versions: there is version skew (acroexch is older than acroread or distill) To run: athena% acroread file.pdf (for default 8.1.6 release) athena% add -f acro; acroread -ver 9.1.2 (for new 9.1.2 release, Athena 10 only) athena% acroread -help (to print command-line options) athena% acrofix (to edit a user's local .acrorc config file, replacing PostScript level 1 references with PostScript level 2 which is preferred) athena% cat file.pdf | acroread -toPostScript > file.ps (to convert file.pdf to PostScript) athena% acroread -toPostScript file1.pdf file2.pdf... directory (to convert a group of files to PostScript and put them in a directory directory) athena% distill file.ps (to create a .pdf file from a .ps PostScript file, Sun only) athena% distill -help (to print distiller help information) athena% acroexch file.pdf (to annotate .pdf files, 3.0 release Sun only) There is a local Acrobat FAQ, 8 online manual. A detailed technical discussion of distill parameters is here There is a stock answers document on converting Tex to pdf See also: dvips, FrameMaker, gpdf, LyX, netscape, pdftex, pdflatex, ps2pdf, Scribus, xpdf Note: The 7.x and 8.x Reader plugins can be used in mozilla and firefox if you put the following lines in your ~/.environment file (create this file and put the following line in it if it does not exist already; otherwise, add the following lines to it):
    add -f acro
    setenv MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH /afs/athena.mit.edu/software/acro_v7.0.9/distrib/${ATHENA_SYS}/Browser/${ATHENA_SYS} or
    setenv MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH /afs/athena.mit.edu/software/acro_v8.1.5/distrib/${ATHENA_SYS}/Adobe/Reader8/Browser/${ATHENA_SYS}
You may need to configure the plugin in Preferences in your browser and for 7.0.9 will need to type the following in the shell you launch the browser from before launching it: athena% add -f acro_v7.0.9 Note: Solaris distill is being run from the frame_v6.0.0 locker, it is not available as a separate product. This is no longer possible in newer FrameMaker releases and at this time we are not sure about availability of newer versions on Athena distill and acroexch are only available on Athena Suns, which will be decommissioned by Summer 2009. Please plan to use other applications or purchase a personal license by then
Title and description: Ghostscript Description: PostScript file viewer To run: athena% add ghostscript (only necessary to run older 7.03 release) athena% gs file.ps (to run 8.14 release) athena% gs7.03 file.ps (to run 7.03 release) There is online documentation See also: ghostview, gv Note: an older release is in the gnu locker. The documentation explains the differences; as of this writing the ghostview and gv front-ends to Ghostscript invoke the version in the gnu locker
Title and description: ghostview Description: GUI front end to Ghostscript To run: athena% add gnu athena% ghostview file.ps & See also: Ghostscript, gv
Title and description: gpdf Description: Gnome viewer for pdf (Acrobat) files To run: athena% gpdf file.pdf & See also: Acrobat, xpdf
Title and description: gv Description: GUI front end to Ghostscript To run: athena% gv file.ps & See also: Ghostscript, pstoedit
Title and description: xchm Description: viewer for chm (compiled html help) files To run: athena% add xchm athena% xchm file.chm &
Title and description: xdvi Description: previewer for dvi files (as created by LaTeX and TeX) To run: athena% xdvi file.dvi & There is local documentation See also: latex, dvips
Title and description: xpdf Description: viewer for pdf (Acrobat) files To run: athena% add outland athena% xpdf file.pdf & See also: Acrobat, gpdf

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