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- From: sinan@Mtesol.boeing.COM (Sinan Karasu)
- Subject: Re: DVI files.
- Message-ID: <9209082018.AA08517@mtesol>
- Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
- Organization: The Internet
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 20:18:09 GMT
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- TeX,LaTeX are Donald Knuths ( Yes the same one that wrote "Art of Computer
- Programming") typesetting package. Which converts statements like
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- $\int_{-\infty}^{\infty} f(x) dx = 3$
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- to a mathematical formula like
-
- ^ 8
- |
- | f(x)dx=3
- j -8
-
- here 8 is infinity and -8 is -infinity and that weird thing
- on the left is an integral sign( this shows why we need TeX).
- DVI is a device independent graphics format that TeX uses.
- Look at it like a PostSript file in a way.
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- Now xtex I don't know about but xdvi is a program that
- takes DVI files and displays them on an x-terminal...
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- Note: If you have read any articles published in any
- of IEEE Journals, they were most likely written using
- TeX. A(merican)M(athematical)S(ociety) papers are all
- written in TeX. So much so that Mathematica outputs
- it's equations in TeX format if asked....
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- TeX is in PD and is available from many distribution sites.
- University of Washington is a major site.Donald Knuth is
- at Stanford (still I believe)... If you need more info
- send me e-mail...
- Sinan
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