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Subject:Re: Latex and indexes? From:Len Olszewski <saslpo -at- UNX -dot- SAS -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 25 Jul 1997 19:54:36 GMT
In article <Pine -dot- GSO -dot- 3 -dot- 95 -dot- 970725145045 -dot- 18358B-100000 -at- tavarua>, Matthew J Long
<mjl100z -at- MAIL -dot- ODU -dot- EDU> writes:
|> AAAAAAHHHHH! Help!!!!
[...]
|>
|> I have never heard of Latex (and I don't think this is a reference to
|> prophylactics or gloves) before. Anyone?
[...]
LaTex is a form of procedural markup for hardcopy formatting based on
the original TeX, which also enables you to use macros and has other
more sophisticated capabilities than raw TeX. This is pronounced "tech"
and "La Tech", because the last "X" is actually supposed to be the Greek
letter Chi.
LaTex is a relatively old hardcopy formatting mechanism, and many
publishing systems rely on a LaTex engine "under the sheets" to produce
hardcopy typeset material. It is a popular markup language with anyone
doing anything mathematical or statistical, since it still provides the
most complete formatting capabilities for equations and mathematical
symbols. The idea is that you insert the markup into the text, process
the text containing the markup with a LaTex engine, and get PostScript
out of the backend.
If you've ever worked with markup languages before, you realize that
this is just another one. There are codes embedded in the text that
cause the processor to produce certain effects in formatted output.
Presumably, the requirements of this job would include your ability to
spot common LaTex structures and translate them to Frame..
Can't help you on the index component of your inquiry.
Hope this helps.
--
Len Olszewski My opinions; you go get your own.
saslpo -at- unx -dot- sas -dot- com
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