Re: Tex

[William Park <parkw@better.net>]

On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 03:27:34PM -0600, David Webster wrote:
> Hate to sound stupid but just what is TeTex? What is it used for?

teTeX is TeX/LaTeX distribution for Unix.  TeX/LaTeX is computer
typesetting software usually used for documents containing text,
graphic, and math (a lot of math).  TeX is basic "engine", and LaTeX
is macro package on top.  They are another markup language like HTML,
in that you concentrate on document structure (eg. title, section,
list, ...) and the program implements the formating (eg. font size,
style, reference, hypenation, ...)

William Park.