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On Sun, 4 Apr 2004 nmeyers at javalinux.net wrote: > On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 11:28:09AM -0400, paul.cour1 at verizon.net wrote: > > > > In the context of the recent post of DTP vs Word processors, I have > > often wondered about Latex. I recall some ole Unix Guy telling me > > that Latex was the thing. > > LaTeX (The "x" is actually the Greek letter "chi", so it's pronounced > "latek") is still around. It's a "typesetting engine" from the > pre-WYSIWYG days, although there are WYSIWYG editors available for it. > You can find LaTeX and LyX (a WYSIWYG front end) in many Linux > distros. Also, Texinfo -- the markup language used by the GNU project for official documentation -- is related to but simpler than straight TeX. For example, the `info` documentation pages (try `info emacs`) work with Texinfo files, in the same way that man pages work with troff files. Texinfo may be a gentler introduction to TeX than LaTeX these days. Maybe -- I'm not actually a LaTeX user, but I've messed around with Texinfo a little, and it's no more complicated than HTML (read: easy). -- Chris Devers
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