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Date:      Sat, 10 Jul 1999 03:48:52 +0200
From:      Roelof Osinga <roelof@eboa.com>
To:        Reinoud Koornstra <Reinoud.Koornstra@ibbnet.nl>
Cc:        Shawn Ramsey <shawn@cpl.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Latex/tetex
Message-ID:  <3786A684.600C9E43@eboa.com>
References:  <Pine.LNX.3.95.990708145117.24439G-100000@ux1.ibb.net>

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Reinoud Koornstra wrote:
> 
> Maybe i understand things wrong....
> So teTeX contains latex and more?
> So tetex is more like and expansion of the latex package?
> Sincerely,

teTeX is a distribution much akin to your average Linux distribution. teTeX
does include latex and (much) more.

Latex is "merely" a set of macros to make writing papers and stuff a
heck of lot easier than doing so in plain TeX. So Latex itself will
be of no use, you'll need way more than just the macro's. For starters
you will be needing TeX itself <g>. Since TeX only produces DVI files
a program to turn that into printer commands like PostScript might come
in handy as well.

Then there are previewers that render DVI to screen or an X window and
stuff like AucTeX to help writing TeX in Emacs.

Roelof

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