3 Quick startup
Create a shortcut to Windvi on your desktop:
- click right button on the desktop,
- New Shortcut,
- browse and find windvi.exe
- OK.
Next, explore your computer, drag and drop some dvi file onto the Windvi icon. If everything goes
well, Windvi will open your dvi file and choose a suitable shrink factor for the page to be fully
displayed.
3.1 HyperTeX support
Windvi will handle specials inserted by packages such as hyperref by Sebastian Rahtz. This means
that you will be able to navigate inisde (and outside !) your document, much like with your usual
browser.
Hyperlinks are automatically hilighted. The behaviour is modified in the following
way :
- clicking on mouse left will move to the page the link is pointing to. That means if it
is inside your document, the page pointed is displayed. If it is in another dvi file, this
file is opened and the page displayed. If the link references anything else than a dvi
file, the Windows shell is called to handle the reference. That means such an url as
mailto:fabrice.popineau@supelec.fr will probably launch Outlook Express or whatever
is your default mail tool.
- clicking on control plus mouse left will do the same, except that if the link points to
another dvi file, your current dvi file will stay open, and another windvi will display
the new file. If you are running in single-instance mode, there will be no difference
between using control and not using it.
- there is a back icon tool to go back through the hyperlinks list you have browsed.