stebbins@koufax.ucr.edu (john stebbins) (02/28/90)
I've read a huge amount of info in this and other related news groups and can't find any descriptions of some of the packages that are mentions frequently. I'm sure there must be others with the same questions I have. Could someone please post short descriptions of the following: Seetex xtex SGML VORTeX I'd really appriciate a response. Thanx --------------------------------------- John Stebbins stebbins@ucrmath.ucr.edu
emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) (02/28/90)
In article <4377@ucrmath.UCR.EDU> stebbins@koufax.ucr.edu (john stebbins) writes:
Could someone please post short
descriptions of the following:
SeeTeX & xtex -- Dirk Grunwald's X11 based previewers. I see a
comp.archives posting on it as of 19-Feb-90: xtex is at v2.14,
supports Display Postscript, "still no documentation worth speaking
of". Ftp it from expo.lcs.mit.edu and foobar.colorado.edu. xtex is a
subset of SeeTeX, I'm not clear on what else is there (Dirk?).
SGML -- Standard Generalized Markup Language, an ISO standard for
marking up text. As a most general approximation it looks like <ital>
this </ital> rather than \it{this}. I've seen at least one book on
the subject & occasional net postings (in comp.text mostly).
VORTeX -- no clue.
--Ed