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From: mvh@lysator.liu.se (Martin V. Howard)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: *TeX (Summary)
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Date: 2 Jun 91 23:52:39 GMT
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Thank you everyone who write to explain the various TeX flavours.  Here
is the summary I promised.

TeX	-	Typesetting utility
plain TeX -	Standard macro package for TeX
LaTeX	-	Format package for TeX
amsTeX	-	American Mathematical Society's format package for TeX
emTeX	-	MS-DOS version of TeX & LaTeX & MetaFont (PD)
SliTex	-	LaTeX flavour for producing slides
ozTeX	-	Public domain version of TeX for Macintosh
TeXtures -	Macintosh port of TeX
PC-TeX
SBTeX
DOSTeX	-	MS-DOS ports of TeX

Contributors
============
Lazlo C Balint	(laca@vipunen.hut.fi)
Kari Sutela	(sutela@utu.fi)
Raymond Chen 	(raymond@math.berkeley.edu)
Jan Nicolai Langfeldt	(janl@ifi.uio.no)
Carl Riehm	(maccs!riehm@relay.EU.net)
Ken Yap		(ken@csis.dit.csiro.au)


/mvH

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