On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 01:31:36PM +0200, Michel Mouly wrote:
Hi!
Did anybody ever tried to port texvc on Windows??
I did not, but trying to emulate it, I found no way to handle correctly the character + in a command line argument. This is quite annoying for math formulae!
My emulation is via a php script. The problem could be because of DOS or of php. I tried to get some help on the windows-php forum, and the answers I got are not conclusive: it could then be a DOS issue, in which case the present approach for the interface between outputpage.php and texvc will be difficult to port on Windows...
In addition, the php function escapeshellarg does not seem to be adapted to Windows, either.
My original approach, using a file as interface, has not such problem.
Michel Mouly
Your best bet is probably to use Cygwin and their shell. They have an rxvt-nox that works great. I have the base X11 font that I ported to Windows on my website: http://www.twoevils.org with instructions on how to use it with Cygwin (www.cygwin.com/setup.exe)