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From: gildea@expo.lcs.mit.EDU (Stephen Gildea)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: What is TeX
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Date: 22 Jan 91 16:42:59 GMT
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TeX is a text processing system similar to runoff and troff, but much
much (MUCH) more advanced.  It is extremely flexible.  It runs on many
types of systems (and I don't just mean many flavors of Unix) from
large to small and produces the same results on each.  Output to many
types of printers (including PostScript) is supported.  And of course,
there are screen previewers for X.

The TeX software is free, but most distribution points charge a few
hundred US dollers to send you a tape.

 < Stephen
   MIT X Consortium