Tips on Configuring the Browser

In the following we give some hints as how to configure various browsers for viewing and playing the songs. We indicate the version of browser with which we have tested. Other versions may or may not work with the same instructions. If you succeed in playing and viewing using other browsers and/or other OS's please let us know so that we can list them here.

Select your Browser and the OS:

Netscape 4.04 under Win'95
Netscape 3.x under Win'95
Internet Explorer 4.40 under Win'95
Netscape 4.04 under Linux
Netscape 3.01 under Linux
Netscape 2.02 under Linux
Netscape under IRIX

Netscape 4.04 under Win'95

Viewing
- As PostScript Files
  
  You must have a PostScript previewer for this. A freely available PS previewer is ghostview. An old version of ghostview is available in our ftp repository. Download all the files in the directory ghostview and install each of them. (The README file in that directory describes how to do this.)
  
  Once you have installed ghostview, when you try to view a PostScript file through the navigator, it askes whether to open the file and if you confirm, it automatically uses ghostview to display the file.
- As DVI Files
  
  You need to have LaTeX document preparation system installed for this. emTeX is a freely available LaTeX distribution. It has a command called v that displays DVI files.
  
  However, you will have to add the Sinhala fonts to that system in order to view the songs. You will find the necessary fonts in our ftp repository. in the directories SLaTeX/fonts/sss/DOS and SLaTeX/fonts/sss/tfm/. Download the font files and place them in the appropriate directories of your LaTeX installation. (For emTeX these are usually the directories c:\texfonts\pixel.lj and c:\emtex\tfm.)
  
  Once you have installed the Sinhala fonts, when you try to view a song file in the DVI format through the navigator, it asks whether to open the file and if you confirm, it automatically uses the v command to display the file.

Netscape 3.x under Win'95

Viewing
- As PostScript Files
  
  You must have a PostScript previewer for this. A freely available PS previewer is ghostview. An old version of ghostview is available in our ftp repository. Download all the files in the directory ghostview and install each of them. (The README file in that directory describes how to do this.)
  
  Once you have installed ghostview, when you try to view a PostScript file through the navigator, it asks whether to open the file and you are given the chance to specify the application to be run. Give the full path to the ghostview program. Now the navigator will display the PostScript file.
- As DVI Files
  
  You need to have LaTeX document preparation system installed for this. emTeX is a freely available LaTeX distribution. It has a command called v that displays DVI files.
  
  However, you will have to add the Sinhala fonts to that system in order to view the songs. You will find the necessary fonts in our ftp repository. in the directories SLaTeX/fonts/sss/DOS and SLaTeX/fonts/sss/tfm/. Download the font files and place them in the appropriate directories of your LaTeX installation. (For emTeX these are usually the directories c:\texfonts\pixel.lj and c:\emtex\tfm.)
  
  Once you have installed the Sinhala fonts, when you try to view a song file in the DVI format through the navigator, it asks whether to open the file and you are given the chance to specify the application to be run. Give the full path to the v command. The navigator will now display the DVI file.
Playing

Win'95 has a midi file player called mplayer. You have to tell the navigator to use that for playing the midi files. When you try to `view' a midi file, the navigator will ask you whether to open the file and you are given the chance to specify the application to be run. Give the full path to the mplayer command. The navigator will now show the control panel of the midi player.

Internet Explorer 4.40 under Win'95

Viewing
- As PostScript Files
  
  You must have a PostScript previewer for this. A freely available PS previewer is ghostview. An old version of ghostview is available in our ftp repository. Download all the files in the directory ghostview and install each of them. (The README file in that directory describes how to do this.)
  
  Once you have installed ghostview, when you try to view a PostScript file through the explorer, it asks whether to open the file and you are given the chance to specify the application to be run. Give the full path to the ghostview program. Now the explorer will display the PostScript file.
- As DVI Files
  
  You need to have LaTeX document preparation system installed for this. emTeX is a freely available LaTeX distribution. It has a command called v that displays DVI files.
  
  However, you will have to add the Sinhala fonts to that system in order to view the songs. You will find the necessary fonts in our ftp repository. in the directories SLaTeX/fonts/sss/DOS and SLaTeX/fonts/sss/tfm/. Download the font files and place them in the appropriate directories of your LaTeX installation. (For emTeX these are usually the directories c:\texfonts\pixel.lj and c:\emtex\tfm.)
  
  Once you have installed the Sinhala fonts, when you try to view a song file in the DVI format through the explorer, it asks whether to open the file and you are given the chance to specify the application to be run. Give the full path to the v command. The explorer will now display the DVI file.
Playing

Win'95 has a midi file player called mplayer. You have to tell the explorer to use that for playing the midi files. When you try to `view' a midi file, the explorer will ask you whether to open the file and you are given the chance to specify the application to be run. Give the full path to the mplayer command. The explorer will now show the control panel of the midi player.

Netscape 4.04/3.01/2.02 under Linux

Viewing
- As PostScript Files
  
  You must have a PostScript previewer for this. A freely available PS previewer is ghostview. You probably have it already.
  
  Now you need to add a line to each of the following files in your home directory (If they don't exist, go ahead and create them.): .mailcap, .mime.types
  
  In .mailcap include:
```
                   application/postscript;  ghostview %s
                   
```
  In .mime.types include:
```
                   application/postscript ps
                   
```
- As DVI Files
  
  You must have a LaTeX installation with a DVI previewer. Most Unix systems nowadays have LaTeX. It is freely available and there are a number of different distributions. teTeX is one such. It contains the DVI previewer xdvi.
  
  In order to view the Sinhala songs, you need to add the Sinhala fonts to your LaTeX installation. In teTeX distribution, you simply have to put the source files of the fonts (which are in our ftp repository. in the directory SLaTeX/fonts/sss/src ) in the appropriate directory (in one of our teTeX installations, the files were put in the newly created directory /usr/TeX/texmf/fonts/source/public/sinhala/sss.) You must now run the texhash program to add the search paths for the new fonts.
  
  Next time when you access a song file in the DVI format, all the necessary font files appropriate for your system will be created. (It will take a little time when you do this for the first time.)
  
  Now you need to add a line to each of the following files in your home directory (If they don't exist, go ahead and create them.): .mailcap, .mime.types
  
  In .mailcap include:
```
                   application/x-dvi; xdvi %s
                   
```
  In .mime.types include:
```
                   application/x-dvi dvi
                   
```
Playing

We have yet to try this out!

Netscape under IRIX

Viewing
- As PostScript Files
- As DVI Files
Playing