What Runs Where on Athena - Text Software

Text/HTML Editors

AbiWord

Description: general-purpose, Open Source word processor
TO RUN:
athena% abiword &
There is an AbiWord page and documentation
See also: LibreOffice Word Processor, TeXmacs, Texmaker

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, Texmaker, xdvi

Emacs

Description: the GNU text editor, the most commonly used editor on Athena
TO RUN:
From Ubuntu Dash: type emacs in Search box
From command line:
athena% emacs &
There is online documentation and Emacs Answers
See also: gedit, jedit, nedit, pico, vi, vim, nvi, Visual Studio Code, xcoral, XEmacs

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
See also: troff

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

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

ispell

Description: spelling checker
TO RUN:
athena% ispell options file
See also: Webster Dictionary

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,Visual Studio Code, xcoral

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 dvipsprogram
TO RUN:
athena% latex_ file.tex_
athena% tex file.tex
There is local online documentation; also Inessential LaTeX and LaTeX Answers
There is a stock answers document on converting Tex to pdf
See also: dvips, ipe, latex2html, LyX, pdftex, pdflatex, Scribus, Texmaker, troff, TtH, Visual Math Editor, xdvi
Note: *There are additional macros such as {}revtex* in the newtex locker. To use it type add -f newtex at the Athena prompt.
The tex-contrib locker supplies additional packages. To use them, attach the tex-contriblocker and add /mit/tex-contrib// to the TEXINPUTS environment variable

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 Previousbuttons. If the source document is file.tex, the output will be generated within a filesubdirectory 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, Texmaker, TtH

LibreOffice HTML Editor

Description: HTML editor component of LibreOffice office suite
TO RUN:
From command line:
athena% libreoffice & (select File -> New -> HTML Document)
For documentation look here

LibreOffice Word Processor

Description: word processor component of ffice office suite
TO RUN:
Click on *LibreOffice Writer *icon on Gnome applet bar
From command line:
athena% libreoffice *& (*select File -> New -> Text Document)
For documentation look here
*See also: *AbiWord, TeXmacs, Texmaker

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, 2.0 new features
See also: Acrobat, convert, latex, latex2html, ps2pdf, TeXmacs, Texmaker, TtH, Visual Math Editor

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, wvDVIetc. and usage syntax has changed; type man wvWare 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 LibreOffice Word Processor can read most Word documents and allows conversion to other formats.

nedit

Description: GUI-style text editor suitable for code editing and plain text files
TO RUN:
athena% nedit &
See also: Emacs, gedit, jedit, vi,[ Visual Studio Code|What Runs Where on Athena - Text Software#VisualStudio], xcoral

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, ps2pdf, Texmaker

pico

Description: simple text editor with a layout similar to the Pine mailer
TO RUN:
athena% pico
See also: Emacs, gedit, jedit, vi, xcoral

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, pdftex, pdflatex
Note: *Many other conversion utilities to/from ps and pdf files exist. To find them from a terminal window type: {}cd /usr/bin; ls ps2** (or pdf2*, psto*, pdfto*)

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 Website and a tutorial
See also: AbiWord, gnuplot, latex2html, LibreOffice Word Processor, LyX, maple, Mathematica, matlab, maxima, octave, scilab, Texmaker, TtH, Visual Math Editor
Note: *maple*, matlab and Mathematica sessions may be inserted in texmacs documents

Texmaker

Description: cross-platform LaTeX editor that integrates many tools needed to develop documents with LaTeX. It includes unicode support, spell checking, auto-completion, code folding and a built-in pdf viewer with synctex support and continuous view mode
TO RUN:
athena% add texmaker
athena% *texmaker & *
There is an author Website with documentation
See also: AbiWord, dvips, latex, tex, latex2html, LibreOffice Word Processor, LyX, pdftex, pdflatex, TeXmacs, troff, TtH, Visual Math Editor, xdvi

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, Texmaker

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
See also: html2ps, latex, latex2html, LyX, TeXmacs, Texmaker, Visual Math Editor
*Note: *This application is no longer installed. You can install it temporarily (on a debathena-cluster machine) or permanently (on a debathena-workstation or non-Athena Ubuntu machine) but not on the Athena dialups by doing the following:
sudo to root and install from the tth Ubuntu package using aptitude or synaptic

vi

Description: standard modal screen-oriented UNIX text editor
TO RUN:
athena% vi
See also: Emacs, gedit, jedit, nedit, vim, nvi, pico, xcoral

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 manpage for nvi to see differences from vi
TO RUN:
athena% add -f vim_v8.0 *(to run new 8.0 release, {}vim* only)
athena% vim
athena% nvi
There is vim documentation
See also: Emacs, gedit, vi

Visual Math Editor

Description: editor for math/scientific formulas that supports LaTeX, AsciiMath and MathML in HTML web pages. Does not require browser plugins or installation of extra fonts. Can be run locally or on the web, and will instantly display visual formula rendering generated from markup source entered in a text entry pane. Many examples are supplied by the authors
TO RUN:
Launch it from here
There is a home page, online documentation
See also: latex, LyX, TeXmacs, Texmaker, TtH

Visual Studio Code

Description: source code editor with built-in support for JavaScript, TypeScript and Node.js and extensions for other languages (such as C++, C#, Python, PHP) and runtimes
TO RUN:
athena% add vscode
athena% code options (to run GUI)
athena% yo code (to run extension generator)
There is a home page
See also: Emacs, jedit, nedit

xcoral

Description: GUI-style text editor suitable for code editing and plain text files; has latex support
TO RUN:
athena% add editors
athena% /mit/editors/arch/i386_linux22/bin/xcoral &
See also: emacs, gedit, jedit, nedit, pico, vi

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

Text Previewer

Acrobat Reader

Description: Adobe viewer for Adobe Acrobat _(.pdf) _documents; also available as a browser plug-in
TO RUN:
From command line:
athena% *acroread *file.pdf
athena% acroread -toPostScript_ file.pdf_ (to convert file.pdf to file.ps)
athena% acroread -help (to print command-line options)
There is a local Acrobat FAQ, online usage guide
There is a stock answers document on converting Tex to pdf
See also: dvips, evince, LyX, pdftex, pdflatex, ps2pdf, Scribus, Tabula, xpdf
You may need to configure *firefox *to view pdf files by selecting
Edit -> Preferences -> Applications -> Portable Document Format (PDF)
and setting Preview in Firefox in the Action pick list on the right side.

evince

Description: viewer for pdf (Acrobat) and PostScript files
TO RUN:
athena% evince_ file_ &
See also: Acrobat, xpdf

Ghostscript

Description: PostScript file viewer
TO RUN:
athena% gs file.ps
There is online documentation
See also:[ gv|What Runs Where on Athena - Text Software#gv]

gv

Description: GUI front end to Ghostscript
TO RUN:
athena% gv _file.ps _&
See also: Ghostscript, pstoedit

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 temporarily (on a debathena-cluster machine) or permanently (on a debathena-workstation or non-Athena Ubuntu machine) but not on the Athena dialups by doing the following:
sudo to root and install from the xchm Ubuntu package using aptitude or synaptic

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, Texmaker

xpdf

Description: viewer for pdf (Acrobat) files
TO RUN:
athena% xpdf_ file.pdf_ &
See also: Acrobat, evince