a patch for a Red Hat 5.2 /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf

a patch for a Red Hat 5.2 /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf

[Mark Galassi]

This will mostly work on a Red Hat 6.0 system too, but you might have
to fix a couple of rejections by hand.

In any case, it's made for a 5.2 system.

--- texmf.cnf.orig	Thu Sep 24 21:40:14 1998
+++ texmf.cnf	Tue Oct  6 01:45:12 1998
@@ -371,6 +371,7 @@
 
 % Extra space for the hash table of control sequences (which allows 10K
 % names as distributed).
+hash_extra.jadetex = 15000
 hash_extra.context = 15000
 hash_extra.cont-en = 15000
 hash_extra.cont-nl = 15000
@@ -379,6 +380,7 @@
 
 % Max number of characters in all strings, including all error messages,
 % help texts, font names, control sequences.  These values apply to TeX and MP.
+pool_size.jadetex = 200000
 pool_size.context = 500000
 pool_size.cont-en = 500000
 pool_size.cont-nl = 500000
@@ -391,6 +393,7 @@
 string_vacancies.cont-nl = 45000
 string_vacancies.cont-de = 45000
 string_vacancies = 25000
+max_strings.jadetex = 50000
 max_strings.context = 55000
 max_strings.cont-en = 55000
 max_strings.cont-nl = 55000
@@ -434,6 +437,7 @@
 param_size.cont-nl = 1500
 param_size.cont-de = 1500
 param_size = 500	% simultaneous macro parameters
+save_size.jadetex = 15000
 save_size.context = 5000
 save_size.cont-en = 5000
 save_size.cont-nl = 5000

lightweight RTF viewer?

[Jonathan F. Dill]

Hi all,

I've been searching on freshmeat.net and other places for a lightweight
app for viewing RTF files under Linux, such as the output from db2rtf,
but I haven't found any.

Unix WordPerfect 8 for Linux and Star Office work, but what I really
want is something lightweight that starts up fast and doesn't hog loads
of RAM.

An emacs .el would be acceptable, but the lisp archives are being
reorganized so there was no easy way to search for a particular .el for
viewing RTFs.

Any suggestions are appreciated.

-- 
"Jonathan F. Dill" (dill@umbi.umd.edu)
CARB Systems and Network Administrator
Home Page:  http://www.umbi.umd.edu/~dill

Re: lightweight RTF viewer?

[Jochem Huhmann]

 * "Jonathan F. Dill" <dill@umbi.umd.edu> wrote:
 > Hi all,
 > 
 > I've been searching on freshmeat.net and other places for a lightweight
 > app for viewing RTF files under Linux, such as the output from db2rtf,
 > but I haven't found any.

I'm using Ted: ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/editors/ted

 > Unix WordPerfect 8 for Linux and Star Office work, but what I really
 > want is something lightweight that starts up fast and doesn't hog loads
 > of RAM.

Well, Ted uses Motif and is not too lightweight, but much lighter than
WordPerfekt or StarOffice. Applix is also fine, although not free.



        Jochem

Re: lightweight RTF viewer?

[David C. Mason]

Jochem Huhmann <joh@gmx.net> writes:


> Well, Ted uses Motif and is not too lightweight, but much lighter than
> WordPerfekt or StarOffice. Applix is also fine, although not free.

Actually, Abiword is still pretty lightweight and it reads rtf quite well.

http://www.abisource.com

Dave

Re: lightweight RTF viewer?

[Jonathan F. Dill]

Thanks all for the great suggestions!

Just for your curiousity, the memory consumption for a few of these
programs looks like this, when the same few pages RTF file loaded:

Ted     VSZ = 4572  RSS = 3400
AbiWord VSZ = 8324  RSS = 6308
WP 8.0  VSZ = 13660 RSS = 8404

Just for a relative gauge as to what "lightweight" might be, with the
same RTF (although it looks like garbage, of course):

vim     VSZ = 1700  RSS =  948
emacs   VSZ = 6652  RSS = 4708

RSS will likely vary, unless you have loads of RAM like me.  Ted seems
to come up the fastest, but some of the fonts look a little chunky,
though that's probably a problem with my X fonts config.  I think
AbiWord will probably work the best in my environment since it uses
gtk+, and I'm using the GNOME desktop, so AbiWord can plug into ORBit.

-- 
"Jonathan F. Dill" (jfdill@jfdill.suite.net)

Re: lightweight RTF viewer?

[Jochem Huhmann]

 * "David C. Mason" <dcm@redhat.com> wrote:
 > Jochem Huhmann <joh@gmx.net> writes:
 > 
 > > Well, Ted uses Motif and is not too lightweight, but much lighter than
 > > WordPerfekt or StarOffice. Applix is also fine, although not free.
 > 
 > Actually, Abiword is still pretty lightweight and it reads rtf quite well.
 > 
 > http://www.abisource.com

Yes, Ted eats about 7 MB of memory with just the help-file
loaded. Hmm, someone should go and strip one of these programs down to
a pure RTF-viewer. Or has anyone had the need to write and edit RTF in
the first place? I just need RTF to view some stuff sometimes. Or to
convert my stuff to it and force it down some well known
wordprocessors throat ;-)



        Jochem