NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #16/NN_1992_16.iso/spool/comp/sys/amiga/applicat/6231

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From: [e-mail] (Lloyd Sumpter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Need answer to FAQ, What the heck is TeX ?????
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Date: 28 Jul 92 00:50:04 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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> Andrew Arensburger - R writes:
>         TeX [*] is a typesetting language, sort of like PostScript or troff;
> that is to say, you feed it text interspersed with layout commands, and
> it spits out a file that can eventually be converted into a prettily-printed
> document. It is also the de facto standard typesetter in academia.
>         One important thing to note is that TeX is *not* a word processor:
> you need to use a text editor to create the text file that TeX will read.
>         TeX has the advantage over PostScript that you can actually write
> papers in TeX, whereas people who write PostScript are generally considered
> odd geniuses. TeX is also much more readable than troff.
>         TeX comes in two main flavors: plain TeX and LaTeX (there are lots
> of other dialects out there, like AMSTeX). Plain TeX is basically just a
> bunch of typesetting primitives and macros, and is fairly low-level. LaTeX
> is a lot prettier, but can be painful to use if you don't want to use one
> of the predefined styles.
>

      Thanks! (I, too, wondered what TeX was!) One question, though:
      What is the output? Does it use Amiga's built-in printer driver? Or can
it output a Postscript file ( similar to troff)?

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