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- From: fangchin@leland.Stanford.EDU (Chin Fang)
- Subject: Re: TeX, LaTeX for SVR4 386
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.191002.6708@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
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- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 19:10:02 GMT
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- >
- >Specifically, amongst the components of (what many people consider to be
- >complete) TeX are:
- >
- >- TeX itself;
- >- Metafont;
- >- LaTeX;
- >- The piles of publicly contributed LaTeX style/macro files;
- >- BibTeX
- >- TeX font sources (which need to be run through Metafont);
- >- TeX fonts (ready-to-run in .pk format);
- >- One or more screen/printer drivers for the .dvi output of TeX;
- >- (If you use PostScript) downloadable fonts for use with dvips;
- >- miscellaneous utilities like tr2latex.
- >
- For X Window users, I would add ghostscript and ghostview
- as two necessary utilities (yeah, I am elaborate the last entry
- of Evan :). The reason is that when you start using utility
- like psfig to include PostScript figures, as sooner or later
- you will, the best way to me is to view the PostScript output
- from dvips. These two FSF pkgs will make such previewing much
- easier. They are highly recommended.
-
- >You could get barely get a piece of that in 3Meg compressed.
- >On my own system, this all take up about 18MB, not including
- >source code (and that's considering I don't have many compiled fonts
- >since I use dvips). My source tree is another 15MB, but some of that
- >may be redundant.
-
- Yes indeed.
-
- >TeX is many things to many people. But the adjective "compact" is not
- >one of those things.
-
- Ditto.
-
- Chin Fang
- fangchin@leland.stanford.edu
-