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From: dlb5404@tamuts.tamu.edu (Daryl Biberdorf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: TeX on the 3b1
Summary: check out the TeXbook or LaTeX book
Keywords: TeX
Message-ID: <15258@helios.TAMU.EDU>
Date: 24 Apr 91 18:37:00 GMT
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In article <92@morwyn.UUCP> forrie@morwyn.UUCP (Forrie Aldrich) writes:
>
>I have gotten the files from OSU-CIS and TeX version 3.0 binaries from
>elsewhere... now I'm stuck, and would appreciate it if someone could tell
>me a little more about TeX, what it does, and how to make it work.

TeX is a big program created by Donald Knuth at Stanford.  It's basically
a computer typesetter that does *real* typesetting.

For more information (there's a lot), check out the TeXbook by
Knuth or the LaTeX book by Leslie Lamport.  Both are published by
Addison Wesley.  Btw, LaTeX is a bunch of macros that sit on top of
TeX that actually make it usable (I don't like plain TeX much...but
some people will vehemently disagree).  Also, TeX is pronounced 'tech',
not 'tecks'.

--Daryl Biberdorf,  dlb5404@tamuts.tamu.edu
  Texas A&M University