Pierre Wargnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I found them, the ones I have are in French unfortunately, but as there > are 80 times more English than French on the net, the tutorials should > be somewhere. Look in Yahoo, both TeX and LaTeX. OK. > There is a page at http://www.giss.nasa.gov/latex/index.html Thanks. > But it is a list of commands and not an introduction, perhaps there are > links to introduction from here. In fact for basic documents you have a > header of 5 line and all the remains are \chapter \section \subsection > In Fact, you write a ASCII text that is similar to a normal TXT file. In > these text you put commands like table/images inclusions/titles/cross > references/bibliography... (need a bit reading before having all > that :) ) Sounds ok so far... > After that you need a special program that is TeX. TeX is like a > compiler. > You send your dumb Text file and you get a DVI file, a binary that can > be sent to special printers. In fact as many peoples have not this you > transform is into a Postcript file (ps, a bit like PDF�). This Postcript > file can be previewed and printed with Ghost Script available for Win, > UNIX and Mac perhaps. Sounds steep to me... > Most peoples write their text in one window, with the previewer in > another. LaTeX is a set of macro commands to ease the use of TeX and > should be used(I use latex and I don't know how hard pure TeX is). But > the result is good, need a bit investment at the beginning(one day). Hm. > For the phony address, ask my admins, if there are not on the beach now. What did they do, let their Internic bill get overdue? (The error after all was unknown host!) I suggest moving to a provider that is a tad more competent. ____________________________________________________________________ Get free e-mail and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1 ________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm
