Hallo.

I have written two modules to deal with things related to TeX.
TFM.pm allows you to read .tfm file and use information in it.
DVI.pm is for writting .dvi file -- it gives you methods to write
dvi commands rather transparently.

This is how you can use them:

use DVI;
use TFM;

my $dvi = new DVI("btput.dvi");
$dvi->preamble();
$dvi->begin_page();

my $font = new_at TFM("cmr10");
my $fn = $dvi->font_def($font);
$dvi->font($fn);
$dvi->word("AVA");
$dvi->hskip($font->space());
$dvi->word("Hallo.");
$dvi->end_page();
$dvi->postamble();

They are available at

http://www.*-*-*.com/ ~adelton/perl/DVI.pm and TFM.pm.

Please if you feel you have some comments about them, write me.
They will be further developed and your advise is highly
appreciated. Thank you.

A module for using TeX's hyphenation patterns files for finding
places in a word where it is possible to hyphen will be ready
soon.

Honza

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