What Runs Where on Athena: Text

Title and Description:

AbiWord
Description: general-purpose, Open Source word processor

TO RUN:

athena% abiword &

There is an AbiWord page and documentation

See also: Open Office Word Processor, TeXmacs

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 &

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:

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:

html2ps
Description: converts HTML page to PostScript file

TO RUN:

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 (about a different version installed in the jedit locker) and a development site

TO RUN:

athena% jedit options files &

athena% jedit --listver (to see usage options)

See also: emacs, 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, ipe, latex2html, LyX, pdfedit, pdftex, pdflatex, Scribus, TtH, xdvi

Note:

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% latex2html file.tex (from a directory where you have write permission)

There is online documentation

See also: html2ps, latex, LyX, mswordview, TeXmacs, TtH

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% lyx &

There is a LyX home page, 1.6 new features

See also: Acrobat, convert, latex, latex2html, ps2pdf, TeXmacs, TtH

Title and Description:

mswordview (wvWare)
Description: converts Microsoft Word documents to HTML and other formats

TO RUN:

athena% wvHtml file.doc file.html (newer version; 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

Note:

the name of this product has changed to wvWare. The older version in the consult locker 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% nedit &

See also: Emacs, 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 (to access new 3.1.1 release; not necessary to access default version)

athena% ooffice [-ver 3.1.1] & (-ver switch for new 3.1.1 release)

For documentation look here

See also: WebEQ

Note:

In the future, the only version available will be the default one installed in the debathena release

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 (to access new 3.1.1 release; not necessary to access default version)

athena% ooffice [-ver 3.1.1] & (-ver switch for new 3.1.1 release)

For documentation look here

See also: TeXmacs

Note:

In the future, the only version available will be the default one installed in the debathena release

Title and Description:

pdfedit
Description: application that allowd editing pdf files

TO RUN:

athena% pdfedit &

There is a home page

See also: Acrobat, latex, tex , pdflatex, ps2pdf

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, pdfedit, ps2pdf

Title and Description:

pico
Description: simple text editor with a layout similar to the Pine mailer

TO RUN:

athena% pico

See also: Emacs, 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 online documentation

There is a stock answers document on converting Tex to pdf

See also: Acrobat, dvips, LyX, pdfedit, pdftex, pdflatex

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, gnuplot, latex2html, LyX, maple, Mathematica, matlab, maxima, octave, scilab, Open Office Word Processor, TtH

Title and Description:

troff
Description: standard UNIX text formatter, designed to accept ASCII files interspersed with lines of format control information; output is normally sent to a printer

TO RUN:

troff file | typesetter

See also: enscript, latex

Title and Description:

TtH
Description: translator that converts Tex and Latex files to HTML, and related utilities. 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% tth options file (converts file.tex to file.html; you can omit the .tex extension)

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 TtH online documentation (/usr/share/doc/tth/tth_manual.html on debathena machines)

See also: html2ps, latex, latex2html, LyX, TeXmacs

Note:

this application is no longer installed. You can install it from the tth Ubuntu package using aptitude or synaptic

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% vim

athena% nvi

There is vim documentation

See also: Emacs, gedit, vi

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% /mit/xcoral/arch/i386_linux22/bin/xcoral &

See also: emacs, 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% xemacs &

There is online documentation

See also: Emacs, gedit

Title and Description:

Acrobat
Description: creator, annotator and reader for Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) documents; reader also available as a browser plug-in

TO RUN:

athena% acroread file.pdf (for default 8.1.7 release)

athena% add -f acro; acroread -ver 9.2 (for new 9.2 release, debathena 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)

There is a local Acrobat FAQ, 8 online manual

There is a stock answers document on converting Tex to pdf

See also: dvips, evince, LyX, pdfedit, pdftex, pdflatex, ps2pdf, Scribus, xpdf

Note: (added 9/16/09 the plugin may not currently be functional due to a bug)

The 8.x and 9.x Reader plugins can be used in firefox if you put lines similar to the following 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_v8.1.7

setenv MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH /afs/athena.mit.edu/software/acro_v8.1.7/distrib/${ATHENA_SYS}/Adobe/Reader8/Browser/${ATHENA_SYS}

You may need to configure the plugin in Preferences in your browser

Title and Description:

evince
Description: viewer for pdf (Acrobat) and PostScript files

TO RUN:

athena% evince file &

See also: Acrobat, xpdf

Title and Description:

Ghostscript
Description: PostScript file viewer

TO RUN:

athena% gs file.ps

There is online documentation

See also: gv

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% xchm file.chm &

Note:

this application is no longer installed. You can install it from the xchm Ubuntu package using aptitude or synaptic

Title and Description:

xdvi
Description: previewer for dvi files (as created by LaTeX and TeX)

TO RUN:

athena% xdvi file.dvi &

There is documentation

See also: latex, dvips

Title and Description:

xpdf
Description: viewer for pdf (Acrobat) files

TO RUN:

athena% xpdf file.pdf &

See also: Acrobat, evince