WARNOCK@PRISM.CLEMSON.EDU (Todd Warnock) (09/19/87)
I'm a bit confused. I understand that TeX is a form of document processing (I've actually got a document that's in TeX) What I don't know is - what de-TeXs it ? What can you print it on ? Public domain stuff or what ? Thanks for the info - Todd Warnock VAX Systems Clemson University Clemson, South Carolina 29634-2803 ARPA: Warnock@Prism.Clemson.EDU BITnet: Warnock@Clemson
tli@sargas.usc.edu (Tony Li) (09/21/87)
In article <8709200749.AA16180@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> WARNOCK@PRISM.CLEMSON.EDU (Todd Warnock) writes:
I'm a bit confused. I understand that TeX is a form of document processing
(I've actually got a document that's in TeX) What I don't know is - what
de-TeXs it ? What can you print it on ? Public domain stuff or what ?
TeX is a sophisticated computer typesetting program which produces a
device independent page description. To process a TeX source file,
you should run it through TeX. This will generate a DeVice
Independent (DVI) file [not to be confused with the dvi file generated
by ditroff]. Then you need a device specific filter which will read
the DVI file and generate the necessary output on your particular
printer.
TeX has been ported to VMS and a large number of DVI file filters
exist for a variety of laser printers (and even typesetting machines).
For VMS machines, Kellerman & Smith in Portland Ore. can provide a
distribution of the latest version of TeX fairly inexpensively
(~$200). They also have a number of symbionts which act as DVI file
filters. Sorry, but I don't have more specific information about them
handy.
Tony Li - USC University Computing Services "Fene mele kiki bobo"
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Bitnet: tli@uscvaxq, tli@ramoth
Internet: tli@sargas.usc.edu
nagy%warner.hepnet@LBL.ARPA.UUCP (09/21/87)
In article <8709200749.AA16180@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> WARNOCK@PRISM.CLEMSON.EDU (Todd Warnock) writes: I'm a bit confused. I understand that TeX is a form of document processing (I've actually got a document that's in TeX) What I don't know is - what de-TeXs it ? What can you print it on ? Public domain stuff or what ? If you have laser printers from Talaris Systems or QMS, you can buy a complete TeX system (TeX, LaTeX, fonts and a print symbiont) from Talaris for about $800 (pretty cheap for roughly 50 MB of stuff :-). We have Talaris laser printers here and use TeX a bit and like it a lot. TeX implementations are also available for the Macintosh (TeXtures) and MS-DOS systems (MicroTeX) from Addison-Wesley. Addison-Wesley also publishes Knuth's "The TeXBook" which is the complete TeX documentation and Leslie Lamport's "LaTeX, A Document Preparation System". LaTeX is a (very large) set of TeX macros and document styles which make TeX considerably easier to use, especially for non-computer professionals. At least one national laboratory (Los Alamos) uses TeX/LaTeX for its documentation and has had great success with the secretaries picking up on things. = Frank J. Nagy "VAX Guru" = Fermilab Research Division EED/Controls = HEPNET: WARNER::NAGY (43198::NAGY) or FNAL::NAGY (43009::NAGY) = BitNet: NAGY@FNAL = USnail: Fermilab POB 500 MS/220 Batavia, IL 60510
u3369429@murdu.OZ (Michael Bednarek) (09/24/87)
In article <870921072552.003@Lbl.Arpa> nagy%warner.hepnet@LBL.ARPA writes: "In article <8709200749.AA16180@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> WARNOCK@PRISM.CLEMSON.EDU "(Todd Warnock) writes: " I'm a bit confused. I understand that TeX is a form of document processing " (I've actually got a document that's in TeX) What I don't know is - what " de-TeXs it ? What can you print it on ? Public domain stuff or what ? " "TeX implementations are also available for the Macintosh (TeXtures) and "MS-DOS systems (MicroTeX) from Addison-Wesley. And for the Amiga, ported by Tom Rokicki.