Re: [LUG] TeX

[George Duller <G.A.Duller@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nicholas John Murison wrote:

> On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 21:35, George Duller wrote:
> > I use TEX on my machine under Mandrake 8.1 The package is tetex.
> > I was brought up on Plain TEX, but for non mathematical use LaTEX might be a 
> > better bet.
> > I create a text file Joe.tex using emacs containing the LaTEX instructions. Then
> > latex Joe.tex
> > produces a file Joe.dvi which I can view and/or print using
> > xdvi Joe.dvi
>
> What exactly is the difference between TeX and LaTeX?  I know LaTeX is
> essentially TeX macros, but what would one use straight TeX for?
>
> Regards,
> --
> Nicholas John Murison
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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You can do any type-setting job with TEX, but sometimes it gets a bit fiddly because 
you have
to create your own macros. LaTEX provides those macros ready made. Under Mandrake 
you also get
a package called  klyx which is a semi-wysiwyg LaTEX. This is well documented, but 
although I
got some examples to work I felt happier with my familiar Plain TEX.


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