[comp.os.vms] TeX

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

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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.




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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.


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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.