From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 9 18:45:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nl.eboa.com (unknown [212.187.0.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05CDC14FE6 for ; Fri, 9 Jul 1999 18:45:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roelof@eboa.com) Received: from eboa.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by nl.eboa.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id DAA14332; Sat, 10 Jul 1999 03:45:35 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from roelof@eboa.com) Message-ID: <3786A684.600C9E43@eboa.com> Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 03:48:52 +0200 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: eboa - engineering buro Office Automation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Reinoud Koornstra Cc: Shawn Ramsey , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Latex/tetex References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 . 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 -- Home is where the (@) http://eboa.com/ is. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message