HBX@psuvm.psu.edu (Terry Harrison 336 Beam BAB 3-3357) (11/19/90)
I am a TeX user under MS-DOS and I constantly find myself flipping through the TeXbook to look for a command or the details of its syntax. I would very much like to have a program (or a text file) that had the basics of TeX in machine-readable form. Then when I have a question, I could shell out to the program/file, find the answer, and pop back into my editor. Is there anything available either commercially or in the public domain? Terry Harrison Management Science Department Penn State University BITNET: hbx@psuvm INTERNET: hbx at psuvm.psu.edu
wjw@eba.eb.ele.tue.nl (Willem Jan Withagen) (12/07/90)
In article <90323.080254HBX@psuvm.psu.edu> HBX@psuvm.psu.edu (Terry Harrison 336 Beam BAB 3-3357) writes: >I am a TeX user under MS-DOS and I constantly find myself flipping through >the TeXbook to look for a command or the details of its syntax. I would >very much like to have a program (or a text file) that had the basics of TeX >in machine-readable form. Then when I have a question, I could shell out to >the program/file, find the answer, and pop back into my editor. Is there >anything available either commercially or in the public domain? Suffering from the same problem, is started doing the following (But have not completed by any means): I've got Norton Guides running (it's a PC resident program) and I've added a TeX topic. In this are currently all items from the index of LaTeX with the apropriate page. Some of the topics are already "copied/typed" from the original book. On ocassions I add a few extra, but I need not tell that this is very cumbersome. This gives me some help. At least I do not have to go through the index to find the correct page. If I lucky I even get direct info. I'm willing to put the sources and the ready to go guide on out anon-ftp. I'm also willing to receive updates of the sources from people lending a head :-) :-) :-) Yours, Willem Jan Withagen. PS: Norton Guides is not a PD program :-{ Eindhoven University of Technology DomainName: wjw@eb.ele.tue.nl Digital Systems Group, Room EH 10.10 BITNET: ELEBWJ@HEITUE5.BITNET P.O. 513 Tel: +31-40-473401 5600 MB Eindhoven The Netherlands