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From: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti)
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Subject: Re: Some basic questions
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In article <4377@ucrmath.UCR.EDU> stebbins@koufax.ucr.edu (john stebbins) writes:

     Could someone please post short
   descriptions of the following:

SeeTeX & xtex -- Dirk Grunwald's X11 based previewers.  I see a
comp.archives posting on it as of 19-Feb-90: xtex is at v2.14,
supports Display Postscript, "still no documentation worth speaking
of".  Ftp it from expo.lcs.mit.edu and foobar.colorado.edu.  xtex is a
subset of SeeTeX, I'm not clear on what else is there (Dirk?).

SGML -- Standard Generalized Markup Language, an ISO standard for
marking up text.  As a most general approximation it looks like <ital>
this </ital> rather than \it{this}.  I've seen at least one book on
the subject & occasional net postings (in comp.text mostly).

VORTeX -- no clue.

--Ed