DVI Driver Implementation and Standardization Issues.

Last updated 31 May 1995.

This is the home page for the TeX Users Group's Technical Working Group on DVI Driver Implementation and Standardization Issues (TWG-DVI for short). The mandate of TWG-DVI is:

The major objective shall be to study the issues in the requirements of DVI drivers imposed by changing needs and technologies, and to make recommendations for implementation and standardization of such drivers to enhance the uniformity of their use. Work will include, but not be limited to, the examination of the use, syntax, and semantics of \special{...} commands.

Members:

TWG Chair:: Michael Sofka
TC Liaison:: Sebastian Rahtz
Members/Participants:: Nelson Beebe; Karl Berry; David Carlisle; Mark Doyle; Angus Duggan; Yannis Haralambous; Berthold Horn; Yasumasa Koizumi; Eberhard Mattes; Arthur Ogawa; Giorgos Palasopoulos; John Plaice; Tom Rokicki; Jens Schmidt; Joachim Schrod; Friedhelm Sowa; Barry Smith; Andrew Trevorrow; Paul Vojta

Previous Work.

The TWG-DVI is a followup to the previous DVI committee. Joachim Schrod has maintained an archive of their work at: ftp://ftp.th-darmstadt.de/pub/tex/driv-standard. These files are also available over AFS in the directory: /afs/rpi.edu/home/89/sofkam/tex/DVI/archive, and here.

The following articles are in archive/papers (due to TeX/LaTeX2html version skew they are in DVI format only for now):

A Proposal for TeX \special Commands and DVI Driver Paper Specification, Nelson Beebe.
Proposed DVI Special command standard, Don Hosek.
High Quality DVI Drivers, Klaus Guntermann.
Aligning Characters and Rules, Mahilata (a.k.a., Klaus-Peter Thull).
First report from the DVI driver standards committee, Don Hosek.
Report from the DVI Driver Standards Committee, Tom Reid and Don Hosek.
Report on the DVI Driver Standard, Joachim Schrod.
Report on the year June 1990 -- May 1991, DVI Driver Standards Committee.

The following articles are in archive/standards:

The DVI Driver Standard, Level 0, The TUG DVI Driver Standards Committee. (The standard as published in TUGBoat.)
The DVI Driver Standard, Level 0, The TUG DVI Driver Standards Committee. (The last draft proposal before publication?)

The archive/graphics/rogers directory contains the text of a proposal to TeXHaX.

The DRIV-L correspondence is in archive/driv-l.

Current Work.

TWGDVI-L Our correspondence to date:

Art Ogawa's portable \special commands:

Note: One of my soonest orders of buisness wit this page will be making all on-line proposals and current practices (including the dvisp and dvidot specials) available as HTML or DVI files. If anybody has already done this, please provide pointers.

Mike Sofka