Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!csrd.uiuc.edu!s41.csrd.uiuc.edu!eijkhout From: eijkhout@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: Why is TeX so Great? (want info) Keywords: tex report Message-ID: <1990Nov12.224612.8565@csrd.uiuc.edu> Date: 12 Nov 90 22:46:12 GMT References: <1990Nov12.192018.3868@csrd.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@csrd.uiuc.edu (news) Organization: UIUC Center for Supercomputing Research and Development Lines: 25 yorkw@stable.ecn.purdue.edu (Willis F York) writes: >Well How do i Look up stuff in 'TugBoat' I know it's a TeX magazine >but i've never seen it at any news stands. I presume this is in response to something I posted although you don't quote me? I would suspect that most universities libraries have TUGboat somewhere. If yours hasn't (or if your not at a university ) send me your real address. >What does LaTeX stand for. (Lay Mans Tex?) La are the first two letters of 'Lamport', who wrote the package. >oh yea. What's AMStex. (sp) I saw a Book for it but diden't get it. American Mathematical Society. Rather an old package, mainly more powerful for inputting mathematical expressions than plain TeX. >What's the "wildest" "wierdest" thing anyone has Done with Tex? It seems the game of life has been implemented in TeX, and there is a BASIC interpretor in TeX. People write macros for chess and bridge: your macro calls are the moves, and whenever you say something like \showboard you get the current layout of the board or the hands. Victor.