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[vojta@math.berkeley.edu: Re: xdvi and > 8.5in wide documents]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barr3y Jaspan)
Thu Sep 6 17:04:14 1990
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 90 17:03:47 -0400
From: "Barr3y Jaspan" <bjaspan@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 90 13:42:47 PDT
From: vojta@math.berkeley.edu (Paul Vojta)
To: bjaspan@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: xdvi and > 8.5in wide documents
Cc: jik@pit-manager.mit.edu
Xdvi used to be able to display the parts of a document that went
past the end of the 8.5in side margin when its window was resized
accordingly. It no longer does so. If there is a command-line option
to do this, then consider this a documentation bug as I can't figure
it out.
I tried this on our machine, and I find that xdvi can still do what you claim
it can't do any more. It must be a change in the Athena widgets.
But there are other ways to see beyond the right margin.
The first way is to use the -paper command-line option to change the size of
the logical page.
Another way is to use the 'c' keystroke to move the image over past the margin.
This is only an option when xdvi is compiled with the NOTOOL option, as the
Athena Viewport widget does not allow this behavior.
Also, xdvi reads the size of the largest vbox shipped out and uses that value
as the size of the logical image, if it is larger. But I suspect that you
are really interested in overfull hboxes, which are not reflected in the
statistics at the end of the dvi file.
--Paul Vojta, vojta@math.berkeley.edu
