Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!mstar!mstar.morningstar.com!bob From: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: What is TeX Message-ID: Date: 22 Jan 91 15:38:59 GMT References: <9101212342.aa27053@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Sender: usenet@MorningStar.COM (USENET Administrator) Reply-To: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) Organization: Morning Star Technologies Lines: 29 In-Reply-To: MRP.MIKE@melpn1.prime.COM's message of 22 Jan 91 08:16:04 GMT In article <9101212342.aa27053@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> MRP.MIKE@melpn1.prime.COM writes: 1) What is TeX, is it a desktop publishing package or an alternative to runoff (nroff). It's a document production system with a markup language. In that sense, I guess it's philosophically more similar to *roff than to any WYSIWYG "desktop publishing" systems. 2) A number of sites have TeX which can be transfered by anonymous ftp, unfortunately the volume of data seems too daunting to transfer. What do I need to convert TeX format files into postscript. You need the stuff in labrea.stanford.edu:pub/tex, which is the original home of the TeX distribution. Browse around there to get whatever you need. If you like, I can send you the FAQ document from comp.text.tex. P.P.S Wouldn't a better way of running this mailing list be to send only a list of subject titles received each day to everyone on the mailing list and then it would be up to the individual to request the full details for any message. I am seriously considering withdrawing my name as the volume of mail is becoming ridiculous. That's why I subscribe to the newsgroup comp.windows.x rather than to the mailing list xpert@expo.lcs.mit.edu. They carry the same material, but my news reader is more sophisticated at high-volume message handling than my mail reader.