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- From: hankduck@postoffice.ptd.net (hankduckman)
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- Subject: Re: keep that crap away from my Amiga
- Date: 27 Feb 1996 13:08:41 GMT
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- MH> TeX is a typesetting language (similar to troff, if that
- MH> helps) that is especially good at mathematical typesetting (but very
- MH> capable with most other typesetting tasks). The learning curve is
- MH> steep, but once you "catch on", you can do almost anything with TeX.
- MH> LaTeX is a set of macros for TeX to make TeX easier to use, but less
- MH> flexible. It's usually a good idea to learn TeX first (which I had to
- MH> do, because on my first Amiga I didn't have enough RAM to run LaTeX,
- MH> but I had enough for plain TeX), and then learn the other forms of
- MH> TeX, like LaTeX. TeX creates beautiful, typographically correct,
- MH> output.
- MH> You need a text editor (emacs is very good because it includes
- MH> a TeX "major mode" that customizes emacs for TeX programming). Ispell
- MH> is also nice for spell checking (and can be done either from a shell
- MH> window, or from within emacs (and probably some other editors, too).
- MH> Ispell is smart enough to recognize the TeX/LaTeX codes and ignore
- MH> them. After writing your "source code" for your document, you run TeX
- MH> or LaTeX on it, which then (if there are no errors in the
- MH> code--unlikely on the first run :-) creates a {filename}.dvi file,
- MH> which can be viewed or printed from *any* computer system with TeX
- MH> installed. One of the things I really like about TeX is that is
- MH> portable by definition. In order for a program to be called "TeX", it
- MH> must meet the necessary standards so than any TeX code can be put on
- MH> any computer to be "TeX-ed" and viewed and printed.
- MH> It's a very nice system if you're willing to put the time into
- MH> learning it.
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- Thanks for the explanation.
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- Cordially;
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- Hank Duckman
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- from beautiful northwest New Jersey where the deer and the bear run free
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