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From: wjw@eba.eb.ele.tue.nl (Willem Jan Withagen)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: emTeX versus sbTeX
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Date: 10 Sep 90 09:55:34 GMT
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In article <35374@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> xiaofei@acsu.buffalo.edu (Xiaofei Wang) writes:
>
>I just installed emTeX and it seems to me that emTeX print a .DVI file
>directly on a HP LJ without creating an intermediate .JEP file like sbTeX
>does. Is this right? If so, what are advantages and disadvantages?

You can have it either way. I suggest you read the manual. Since a little while
the've been translated to English.

>I think the advantage may be it simplifies the procedure in printing a file.
>But how does the comannd know the printer is on LPT1 or LPT2? and does this
>have something to do with quality?

See above. There's a config file which will tell the program where to put
what. If you specify a file, then it'll be put in a file.

>I think the good thing to have a .JEP file is one can do all the TeX work
>without owning a HP LJ and at the final stage copy the .JEP to a floppy disk
>and use some one else' PC with a HP LJ which does not have to have a TeX
>installed to print the file. I do this all the time. 
>
>If what I said in the first paragraph is true, then how can one without a
>HP LJ to use emTeX?

It is not!

Willem Jan

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