Mark D. Doyle

doyle@aps.org

About Me:

I am a reformed string theorist (I wrote some papers and a thesis [237kB]). Formerly, my main task was to do the day-to-day administration of the Los Alamos E-print Archive . Now I have moved on to work at the American Physical Society, helping with their efforts in electronic publishing. While at Los Alamos, I worked on developing a HyperTeX to PDF-ready PostScript version of Tom Rokicki's dvips and enhancing Dmitri Linde's enhanced TeXview.app to better handle HyperTeX, including multi-window and multi-document support.

The latest version (Mon Sep 9 14:28:26 EDT 1996) of dvihps (the HyperTeX to PDF driver) can be found here [~400kB]. Support for HyperTeX has now been merged into the main dvips distribution as of dvips5.60a, so I will not have to maintain a separate distribution much longer. 5.60a didn't incorporate the lastest dvihps source, but this should be remedied shortly. Here are the README_HPS.txt and a list of CHANGES since the initial release. Please send mail to doyle@aps.org with bug reports (sample tex would be nice). Some examples of physics papers (written in various flavors of TeX) turned into HyperPostScript can be found here. PDF examples have re-appeared. Also, see the e-print archive for tens of thousands of physics (and other fields) electronic preprints that are automatically converted from TeX to HyperPostScript and hyperlinked PDF.

Another project was HyperTeXview.app for NeXTSTEP. Here is a quad-FAT (NeXT, Intel, HP-PA, SPARC) binary for HyperTeXview.app, release 0.1 beta 2 [254kB]. This version will enable a user to open multiple views of the same document (for instance, command-clicking on an equation number will open a second view focused on that equation) or open multiple documents. External URL's can be embedded in documents and passed off to OmniWeb (correctly now in latest version). For a good example, see this URL. [updated Wed Apr 17 12:41:12 MDT 1996]. My HyperTeXview extensions have been made available by Gregor Hoffleit as part of the teTeX distribution. You can find source code and binaries at ftp://zarquon.mathi.uni-heidelberg.de/pub/NeXT/TeX/texview. Gregor also added support for kpathsearch.

I am a very avid user of NeXTSTEP and feel sorry for those forced to suffer with other so-called GUI's.

On November 26, 1995 I married Sonya Horowitz. Some day soon she will have a web page as well.

In my spare time in NM, I enjoyed hiking around the gorgeous spots of New Mexico, skiing, surfing the Internet, and watching warped cartoons such as Duckman and (old) Ren and Stimpy. On lovely Long Island, I enjoy going to the beach and visiting with my old friends and family. I haven't had a chance to watch many cartoons lately.

My Addresses:

Work:
The American Physical Society
1 Research Road
P.O. Box 9000
Ridge, NY 11961
(516)344-8022

Home:
88 Inlet View Path
East Moriches, NY 11940
(516) 874-3467