What Runs Where on Athena: Text

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

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