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- From: cord@msheinz.psych.nat.tu-bs.de (Cord Hockemeyer)
- Subject: REVIEW: Making TeX Work by Norman Walsh
- Date: 9 Feb 1995 19:20:07 GMT
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- REVIEW: Norman Walsh: Making TeX Work, O'Reilly & Associates (ORA), 1994
- ISBN: 1-56592-051-1, 522 pages, $29.95 (US)
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- Opposed to all the other books about TeX, LaTeX etc. `Making TeX Work'
- does not describe the `language' of TeX. Instead its goal is to help
- e.g. system administrators to install TeX even without having TeX
- experience as a background.
-
- Walsh describes a number of (free and commercial) TeX systems
- available for workstations (UNIX), PCs (DOS, MS-Windows and OS/2),
- and Macintoshes. There he gives the `Local Guide' mentioned in
- general TeX books so often which is nonexistent for most TeX
- implementations.
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- Besides that he gives good explanations of the things around TeX:
- macro packages, fonts, previewers, printer drivers, combination of
- TeX and Postscript, writing of indices and glossariesi, etc. The
- book is completed with an annotated list of utilities (e.g. conversion
- tools) and style files together with their location on the internet
- (in general the position in the CTAN archives).
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- First I had some problems with this book because I started reading it
- with another intention. I highly recommend it for people (i.e. system
- administrators) who want to know what they should install and how they
- should do this. For those who just want to use TeX there are other
- books. Most interesting for me were - so far - the parts on the
- different styles and utilities around TeX. The book tells you what
- exists, where you can get it, and how you can install it. Usage
- explanations you should search somewhere else.
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- (C) 1995
- Cord Hockemeyer
- Braunschweig, Germany
- C.Hockemeyer@tu-bs.de
-
- DISCLAIMER: I have no interest, financial or otherwise, in the success
- or failure of the book or materials reviewed herewith, nor have I
- received any compensation (other than a review copy offered to me by ORA)
- >from anyone who has.
- All opinions expressed are strictly my own.
-
- Trademarks are property of their holders even if not marked as such.
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- Cord Hockemeyer, TU Braunschweig, Abt. Math. u. Sozialpsychologie
- email: C.Hockemeyer@tu-bs.de / i3160503@dbstu1.bitnet
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