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- From: wesdia@sniap.mchp.sni.de (Wolf-Eckart Schmidt)
- Subject: Re: Amiga TeX
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.085614.18153@sniap.mchp.sni.de>
- Sender: news@sniap.mchp.sni.de (News Admin)
- Reply-To: Wolf-Eckart.Schmidt@sniap.mchp.sni.de
- Organization: Siemens-Nixdorf AG
- References: <1992Jul28.194120.14270@ennews.eas.asu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 08:56:14 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul28.194120.14270@ennews.eas.asu.edu> prado@enuxhb.eas.asu.edu (Louis A. Prado) writes:
- >Firstly, could someone please tell me what is TeX. I thought it was a text
- >editor which included support for mathematical symbols. If this is the case
- >why does it (the one avialable on FF610-FF616) require 30Megs of HD space.
- >Are there just tons of bit mapped fonts ?
-
- Well TeX is not an editor but a system for text setting (I don't know if this is
-
- the right word).
- You have to write the plain text with your preferred editor. Then you have to
- include commands into the text to get a special format.
- To show the document, how it is printed, there is a previewer.
- Before you can start printing, you have to start the program TeX to convert
- the written .tex file into an .dvi file, which is a special format of TeX.
- Then you can print the text with dviprint.
- TeX itself needs not more than 5 MB on your HD, depending on the macro packages
- you are using (TeX, LaTeX, BibTeX, ...). This macro packages expand the capa-
- bilities of TeX. Then you need several MB for fonts (previewer fonts, printer
- fonts in several resolutions).
- So TeX needs 30 MB (plusminus) of diskspace, but if you have a computer with at
- least more than 1MB and a large HD, TeX is a good program for the Creation of
- high quality documents, especially with mathematical and chemical symbols.
- It's not comfortable to use, but you get really high quality documents!
- Many published books are made with TeX!
-
- >- Lou Prado EE Undergrad. Arizona State Univ.
-
-
- Greetings,
- Eike
-
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- Eike Reinel | private: | A500 2.04 ;-)
- Siemens Nixdorf AG | Scheinerstr.64 | 1 MB RAM :-(
- AP 421 | W-8070 Ingolstadt Germany | 44MB Quantum :-|
- email to: Wolf-Eckart.Schmidt@sniap.mchp.sni.de | IRC-Nick : Sid
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