CatDVI v. 0.13                                    -*- Text -*-
==============

This is a DVI to plain text converter.  The current version is a work
in progress; it may not be robust enough for production work, although
it does work fine for simple linear-text DVI files, and now even for
some more complex DVI files.

Please refer to the man page (man -l ./catdvi.1) or its plain text version,
catdvi.txt, for a discussion of what currently works and what doesn't.


Copyright 1999-2001 Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
Copyright 1999 J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
Copyright 2000-2002 Bjoern Brill
Copyright 1987-1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Copyright Karl Berry, Olaf Weber and others (kpathsea library)

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
(the file COPYING) along with this program; if not, write to the
Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.


Compiling and Installing CatDVI
-------------------------------

You need a hosted ISO C (1990) environment (almost every moderately modern
C compiler + toolchain should do) and the kpathsea library (included
with e.g. teTeX).

Detailed instructions are in INSTALL.

I want CatDVI to be as portable as possible, but can test it only under
GNU/Linux on x86. If you had to make changes to make it work on your
platform, please let me know. Code implementing font search without the
kpathsea library is also welcome.


Release Notes
-------------

New since v. 0.12:
  - New font encoding `LaTeX symbols'.
  - Three new font encodings offering the European currency symbol:
      + Henrik Theilings European currency symbol (`eurosym') font
      + TS1, the encoding of the TeX text companion fonts
      + Martin Vogels symbol (`MarVoSym') font
  - New output encoding ISO-8859-15, which offers the Euro symbol.
  - The --output-encoding option now accepts descriptive names (but still
    understands encoding numbers as well).
  - Some bug fixes.

A brief summary of differences from older version can be found in NEWS,
and the full revision history is kept in ChangeLog.

The added font encodings use a few new Unicode characters introduced in
version 3.2 of the Unicode standard. As Unicode 3.2 was (at the time of
writing) released only a few days ago, these new characters may not yet
be available in current fonts and text processing software. Apart from that,
catdvi is still at Unicode 3.1. More adaptions to Unicode 3.2 are planned for
the next catdvi release.


Contact Information
-------------------

  * The CatDVI project has a mailing list. To subscribe, visit
        http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/catdvi-misc

  * PLEASE REPORT ALL BUGS! Use the bug reporting form at
        https://sourceforge.net/bugs/?group_id=2703
    or mail me directly, or use the project mailing list.

  * The project web page is at
        http://catdvi.sourceforge.net/

  * Source can be downloaded at
	https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2703
    A reasonably up-to-date version will always be available at CTAN, in
    directory "dviware".
    CatDVI is also available in some versions of Debian GNU.

Please contact me if you have any problems with this program. I am also
interested in general feedback, e.g. platforms on which the program
works, what exactly you're using it for, or what additional features you
would like to see.


 -- Bjoern Brill <brill@fs.math.uni-frankfurt.de>  Mon,  1 Apr 2002 14:36:09 +0200