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- From: jmrg9881@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jon Reid)
- Subject: Re: Need answer to FAQ, What the heck is TeX ?????
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- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 17:25:00 GMT
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- smneyln@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov (Michael Neylon) writes:
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- >In article <1992Jul23.131214.10027@lonex.rl.af.mil>, kopackm@lonex.rl.af.mil (Michael A. Kopack) writes...
- >>Could somebody please give me a good description of what the heck TeX is.
- >>
- >TeX is a word processing language, similar to PostScript, that can produce
- >good-looking reports and others items of that nature.
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- More accurately, from the Preface to the Lamport's LaTeX manual:
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- The LaTeX document preparation system is a special version of Donald
- Knuth's TeX program. TeX is a sophisticated program designed to produce
- high-quality typesetting, especially for mathematical text. LaTeX adds to
- TeX a collection of commands that simplify typesetting by letting the user
- concentrate on the structure of the text rather than on formatting
- commands.
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