Re: [OT] LaTeX

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

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On 11/25/07 12:42, Michael Pobega wrote:
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> Thus far all I know is LaTeX is some sort of a graphical language (Ala
> HTML) for text and image control to create documents.

Officially, tex is a "typesetting system".

But yes, tex *is* a markup language, and a Turing-complete one at that.

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> So far I've used the latex <file> command to compile a .dvi file for
> viewing; What's the best way to process a .tex file into a .pdf?

If you print-to-file, the usual output is .ps.  Then you could run
ps2pdf.

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

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