mvh@lysator.liu.se (Martin V. Howard) (06/03/91)
Thank you everyone who write to explain the various TeX flavours. Here is the summary I promised. TeX - Typesetting utility plain TeX - Standard macro package for TeX LaTeX - Format package for TeX amsTeX - American Mathematical Society's format package for TeX emTeX - MS-DOS version of TeX & LaTeX & MetaFont (PD) SliTex - LaTeX flavour for producing slides ozTeX - Public domain version of TeX for Macintosh TeXtures - Macintosh port of TeX PC-TeX SBTeX DOSTeX - MS-DOS ports of TeX Contributors ============ Lazlo C Balint (laca@vipunen.hut.fi) Kari Sutela (sutela@utu.fi) Raymond Chen (raymond@math.berkeley.edu) Jan Nicolai Langfeldt (janl@ifi.uio.no) Carl Riehm (maccs!riehm@relay.EU.net) Ken Yap (ken@csis.dit.csiro.au) /mvH -- Programming isn't a science, | Foo: mvh@lysator.liu.se it's an art. | Bar: d89marho@odalix.ida.liu.se Why is it called common sense, | Fubar: Martin_Howard:d89:lith@xns.liu.se when so few possess it ? | Voice: Int +46 (0)13 261 283 (GMT + 1h)