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HyperTeXt
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  Dvips has support for producing hypertext PostScript documents.  If
you specify the `-z' option, the `html:' specials described below will
be converted into `pdfmark' PostScript operators to specify links.
Without `-z', `html:' specials are ignored.

  The resulting PostScript can then be processed by a distiller program
to make a PDF file.  (It can still be handled by ordinary PostScript
interpreters as well.)  Various versions of both PC and Unix distillers
are supported; Ghostscript includes limited distiller support (Note:
Ghostscript installation.).

  Macros you can use in your TeX document to insert the specials in the
first place are available from `CTAN:/support/hypertex'.  For CTAN
info, Note: unixtex.ftp.ftp..

  This hypertext support (and original form of the documentation) was
written by Mark Doyle and Tanmoy Bhattacharya as the `dvihps' program.
You can retrieve their software and additional documentation via the
CTAN reference above.  You may also be interested in the Java previewer
IDVI, available at `http://www.win.tue.nl/~dickie/idvi', and/or in
`http://www.emrg.com/texpdf.html', which describes the process of
making PDF files from TeX files in more detail.

  Mail archives for the original project are at
`http://math.albany.edu:8800/hm/ht/'.

Hypertext caveats

Bitmaps poorly supported, psi.

Hypertext specials

The details on the specials.