Re: Tex

[Mark Phillips <mark@ist.flinders.edu.au>]

> Hate to sound stupid but just what is TeTex? What is it used for?

It provides "TeX" and "LaTeX".  This allows you to do word processing
with a difference.  They are a bit like a programming language that
allow you to program nice looking documents.  You can think about
"TeX" as a lower level language.  It allows you to do all sorts of
intricate and complicated things in a document --- but takes lots of
commands to do simple things.  "LaTeX" is the one you are more likely
to want to use.  It is like a higher level language --- it allows you
to do powerful document formating very simply.

I use latex for all my word processing needs.  It is a bit of a
learning curve at first --- but once you know it, it's very good ---
especially if you want to display mathematical formulae.  There is
also a nice package for emacs called "AUCTeX" which provides an emacs
mode perfect for composing latex documents.

If you are interested, I recommend buying a book on LaTeX (there are
several good ones available --- have a look in a good book store).

Hope this helps,

Cheers,

Mark.



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