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- From: ns111310@longs.lance.colostate.edu
- Subject: Re: getting started with TeX
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:55:10 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec21.194153.15080@news.acns.nwu.edu>
- tcarr@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Thomas Carr) writes:
- >I wonder if someone might tell me how to get started using LaTeX. I don't
- > want to know how to write a document but, rather, what software do I
- need?
- > I don't have the extended release so I don't have TeX on my system. In
- the
- > recent thread about word processors (or lack thereof) it was mentioned
- that
- > there are some nice "viewers." Anyway, what apps do I need to get hold
- of?
- > Thomas W. Carr
- > Northwestern Univ., Engineering Sciences & Applied Mathematics
- > tcarr@nwu.edu
-
- Well, I think that you will need all the files listed in the NeXTTeX
- package, which (may) be in /NextLibrary/Receipts but it may not be there.
- You will need all the files in the following directorys to get TeX running
- right on the NeXT:
-
- /NextDeveloper/Demos/TeXview.app/*
- /NextLibrary/Fonts/TeXFonts/*
- /NextLibrary/TeX/*
- as well as the following files:
- /usr/bin/MakeTeXPK
- /usr/bin/afm2tfm
- /usr/bin/bibtex
- /usr/bin/dvips
- /usr/bin/dvitype
- /usr/bin/gftodvi
- /usr/bin/gftopk
- /usr/bin/gftype
- /usr/bin/inimf
- /usr/bin/initex
- /usr/bin/mft
- /usr/bin/pktogf
- /usr/bin/pktype
- /usr/bin/pltotf
- /usr/bin/tangle
- /usr/bin/tftopl
- /usr/bin/vftovp
- /usr/bin/virmf
- /usr/bin/virtex
- /usr/bin/vptovf
- /usr/bin/weave
- /usr/tex/ntman.dvi
-
- As for viewers, the TeXView.app is a *GREAT* viewer for .dvi files,
- as this is what it is intended to do.
- For editing and rendering, I thik that the absolute best app is TeXmenu
- from Harald Schlangmann (schlangm@informatik.uni-muenchen.de)...
- it is available on sonata in the /pub/next/submissions... IT IS NOT
- FREE!! Althought it is *REALLY* inexpensive ($20 student) and is
- a really great app. I would (as soon as you get the affore mentioned
- files) get this... I think that the versions before 3.0 of the TeXmenu
- app are free, but I know that 3.0 is not. anyway, it is a great app,
- and the only thing crippling about it before you register is this
- "annoyance panel" (which really does get annoying, so REGISTER!)
-
-
- good luck,
-
- -nate sammons
- ns111310@longs.lance.colostate.edu
-