CTAN update: BaKoMa TeX 7.35 - TeXWord and DVIEW improvements.
Date: July 19, 2005 10:03:34 AM CEST
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Basil Malyshev submitted an update to the bakoma
package:
Location on CTAN: systems/win32/bakoma'
> Most noticeable improvements are:
>
> * Improved moving/selection with arrows in TeXWord page window.
> * New `View/Orientation' option in TeXWord and DVIEW
> lets to choose Portrait, Landscape, Seascape, Upside-down view.
> * Refined Compatibility with EPS saved from Acrobat 7.0
> * New option (`-f') is supported at Centaur command line.
> * Console now automatically kills child process.
>
> More details about changes and another bug fixing see at:
> <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes7.html>
> -------------------- About BaKoMa TeX 7.35 ------------------
>
> BaKoMa TeX 7.35 supports two coexisting IDE:
> 1) BaKoMa TeX Word - True WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor [New in V 7.0].
> 2) Text Editor + DVI Viewer - Clasical IDE.
>
> About BaKoMa TeX Word.
>
> BaKoMa TeX Word is True WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor.
>
> The word `True' is used to highlight two following facts:
>
> 1) It is True WYSIWYG Editor.
> It means that display shows precisely the same what will be printed.
> It looks such that you edit your document immediately in DVI Viewer.
> 2) It is True LaTeX Editor.
> It edits LaTeX source text without any import/export procedure.
> It means that you can load and edit any LaTeX 2e document.
>
> BaKoMa TeX Word is built on top of BaKoMa TeX graphic engine and
> consequently it inherits all features of BaKoMa TeX related
> with import graphics, font support, and document export.
>
> It supports processors:
> (1) Standard TeX and (2) e-TeX.
> Other processors such as Omega may be added in future.
>
> It imports:
> EPS, PDF, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX,
> MSP, BMP, WMF, EMF, FIG, HPGL, and DXY.
> It supports fonts:
> OpenType (OTF/TTF), TrueType, PostScript Type1 (including MM),
> PostScript Type 3, and TeX PK/VF.
> It exports:
> DVI, PDF, SVG, PS, PNG (with HTML wrapper), and HTML (TeX4HT).
>
> It includes built-in PostScript interpreter accessible via DVIPS
> compatible special interface that supports such macro packages as:
> Prosper, PSTricks, PSFrag, graphics (psfig), draftcopy, etc.
>
> Most important application of BaKoMa TeX Word is
> final step corrections of LaTeX papers before publishing.
>
> Editing Prosper's slides in WYSIWYG interface
> is another impressive feature of `BaKoMa TeX Word'.
>
> More information about `BaKoMa TeX Word' is at:
> <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/texword.html>
>
> Some snapshots are available at:
> <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/snapshots/>
>
> Root of BaKoMa TeX distributions is at:
> <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Thanks for the update.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
bakoma – A TeX distribution for MS-Windows VISTA/XP/2000
BaKoMa TeX supports two compatible user interfaces: (1) BaKoMa TeX Word - Visual (True WYSIWYG) LaTeX Editor; (2) Text Editor + DVI Viewer - Clasical IDE. The system supports the use of scalable fonts (OpenType, TrueType, PostScript Type 1 and Type 3). It supports import of EPS, PDF, FIG, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, HPGL, DXY, PCX, MSP, BMP, and WMF graphical formats. In advance, PostScript enabled graphics engine handles such packages as PSTricks, PSfrag, PowerDot, Prosper, Beamer, etc. The system supports generation of PDF, SVG, PNG, HTML, PS, and printing on any printer supported by a driver under MS-Windows.
Package | bakoma |
Version | 9.51 |
Maintainer | Basil Malyshev (deceased) |
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