In a message dated: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 08:12:32 EST
RABNUD said:
>If I recall correctly, these seem to be intended for newspaper and other
>typesetting firms.
Tetex is a distribution of TeX with LaTeX macros. TeX and LaTeX are
used for document processing on all scales, though primarily by those
in the math and scientific communities.
>From the TeX FAQ:
TeX is a typesetting system written by Donald E. Knuth, who
says in the Preface to his book on TeX (see books about TeX)
that it is "intended for the creation of beautiful books - and
especially for books that contain a lot of mathematics".
Knuth is Emeritus Professor of the Art of Computer Programming
at Stanford University in California, USA. Knuth developed the
first version of TeX in 1978 to deal with revisions to his
series "the Art of Computer Programming", but the idea proved
popular and he produced a second version (in 1982) is the
basis of what we use today.
LaTeX is a TeX macro package, originally written by Leslie
Lamport, that provides a document processing system. LaTeX
allows markup to describe the structure of a document, so that
the user need not think about presentation. By using document
classes and add-on packages, the same document can be produced
in a variety of different layouts.
Lots of people use TeX and LaTeX for many different reasons. Here at
MCLX (and at other places in the past), Derek and I have done all the
network/systems documentation using LyX which is a great GUI frontend
to TeX and LaTeX. I've done my resume in LaTeX, as have many others
I know. I know a lot of people who have written theses using
TeX,LaTeX, or LyX.
So I wouldn't confine it to "be intended for newspaper and other
typesetting firms", but rather, intended for anyone who wishes to
produce nice looking and professional grade documents.
Btw, I gave a talk on LyX a while back, and all my slides were done
using LyX, converted to postscript and displayed using gv :)
--
Seeya,
Paul
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