Viewing, Printing, and Revising
Postscript and LaTeX Documents

Note: If following these instructions does not work for you, please contact me (trolson@mtu.edu) so I can help you and revise the instructions (last revised Fall '00).

Viewing and Printing from Netscape

1. Under the Edit pull-down menu, choose Preferences.
   
   
2. Choose the category Navigator and subcategory Applications
   (Subcategories appear when you click the triangle to the left of Navigator)
   
   
3. Look through the applications to find something like ``image/*.ps'' or ``postscript'' or ``Postscript Document''. Select that application by clicking on it.
   
   
4. Click the Edit button (under the applications list) to begin editing that application.
   
   
5. The suffixes box should include ``ps,eps,eps.Z'' (possibly among others in a list separated with commas). If the ``ps'' is not there, be sure to type it in now (without the quotes).
   
   
6. Under ``Handled By'', click the toggle button for Application and type in ``ghostview %s'' (the only space is between ``ghostview'' and ``%s'').
   
   
7. Click OK to complete the editing and OK to close the Preferences box.
   
   
8. You are done. Next time you click on a file with a ``.ps'' tag, ghostview should automatically display the file. (You may need to re-load Netscape to reset the new Preferences.)
   
   

Customizing/Editing a Worksheet

• Editing the LaTeX (``___.tex'') document

  If you know how to use a text editor, you can edit the text of the downloaded LaTeX document. Be aware of the following special symbols:
  • The backslash `` \ '' indicates a Mathematica typesetting command.
  • The percent sign `` % '' indicates a comment: Mathematica will ignore the rest of the line (everything following the percent sign).

  
  

• Running Mathematica to generate the figures

  • Download the Mathematica notebook by holding the shift key and clicking on the link.
  • Exit Netscape and go to a free Unix window.
  • Type ``mathematica [filename].nb''. Note that the full filename (including the .nb suffix) is used and that there are no capital letters.
  • Once the notebook has come up on your screen, follow the directions shown.
  • Exit Mathematica by choosing Quit from the File menu (upper left corner of the notebook).

  
  

• Processing the LaTeX document to get a postscript (``___.ps'') file

  Suppose you have downloaded and edited the file ``w1_1.tex''. Execute the following commands (at the prompt in a Unix window) to generate the postscript file ``w1_1.ps'' and view it.
  • latex w1_1
    will generate the file ``w1_1.dvi''
  • dvips w1_1.dvi -o w1_1.ps
    will generate the file ``w1_1.ps'' (the ``-o'' option tells the computer what to name the output file)
  • ghostview w1_1.ps
    brings up the postscript file, w1_1.ps, for viewing and printing

  
  

• Viewing and printing a postscript file

  ghostview w1_1.ps
  brings up the postscript file, w1_1.ps, for viewing and printing