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- From: phatak@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (Aloke Phatak)
- Subject: On-line help for TeX/LaTeX
- Message-ID: <BxyywL.CIL@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
- Keywords: TeX, LaTeX, On-line help
- Organization: University of Waterloo
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:26:44 GMT
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- On Mon, 16 Nov 92 21:02:13 -0500, I asked G. Greenwade <bed_gdg@shsu.edu>
- > Sorry to clutter up your mailbox with a direct request, but I asked this
- > question on Comp.text.tex a while ago, and I recently saw it posted from
- > another LaTeX user, without any reply:
- >
- > Is there a program for on-line help on TeX/LaTeX commands? ....
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- George responded with a helpful post about on-line help for VAX/VMS but
- MOLLENHAUER Ralf <ensp067%frmrs11.bitnet@utcs.utoronto.ca> replied
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- >There is an excellent environment for the emTeX PC installation for English
- >and/or German speaking users. It provides an On-line help for the most impor-
- >tant LaTeX-commands. The help window appears when moving the cursor onto
- >a command like \pagestyle and pressing Ctrl-F1. For the moment, only the
- >german On-line help is available via anonymous ftp, I think the english
- >version is currently in work. However, the program contains a documentation
- >describing how to develop a file for on-line help.
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- For PC users, looks like TeXshell is the way to go. It's available
- at ftp.uni-stuttgart.de in /soft/tex/systems/pc/emtex-texshell
- or at niord.shsu.edu in [FILESERV.EMTEX.TEXSHELL]
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- Thanks for all the helpful responses.
-
- Aloke Phatak
- Dept. of Chemical Engineering
- University of Waterloo
- Waterloo, Ontario
- CANADA N2L 3G1
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