Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 08:25:32 -0500 To: smiths@math.uic.edu, burgiel@math.uic.edu, culler@math.uic.edu, fields@math.uic.edu, "Jeff E. Lewis", Ed Garay , "eugsadhu@uic.edu" From: "Jeff E. Lewis" Subject: cc pclab printing tex from the web Cc: radford@uic.edu, "Cynthia E Rodriguez 3-2495" , danp@uic.edu I just printed various files from the hc lab (routed through server services. The files were Math 181 homework solutions from http://www.math.uic.edu/~lewis/m181/solutions/ .dvi - printing within a few seconds after the cover page .pdf - printing within a few seconds after the cover page .html (with gifs as we have posted for math 181) - over a minute of processing time somewhere after the cover page. My suggestion: We immediately post all solutions without embedded \special (graphics) as dvi with the primary link pointing to the dvi We should include a brief explanation (see eg http://www.math.uic.edu/~lewis/m180/180sol.html Other links might be created in pdf, html "gif", or using Joe Field's htmx (I'm sorry I have not had time to test printing etc of htmx) Pluses: 1. Fast, clean printing (but see minuses below) from math labs and cc labs 2. easy for us to create 3. get students used to tex Minuses: 1. There is inconsistency on whether a second copy of pctex is launched chewing up "system resources" 2. Embedded \special graphics - I doubt they are handled well or at all 3. Not viewable or printable outside the labs without a tex helper Thanks, Jeff