Re: Text processing under Linux - newbie question

1999-09-04 Thread shaul
You can try: http://bluesky.ecas.ou.edu/~bfiedler/tips/latex.html http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/ http://sunsite.auc.dk/auctex/ http://la1ad.uio.no/lyx/ and ftp://granroth.ml.org/pub/Latex/short_intro.ps If you are more interested in producing some documents rather in learni

Re: Text processing under Linux - newbie question

1999-09-01 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Alex V. Toropov wrote: > Hi all ! Hi, Alex > Please tell me (a new linux/Unix user) where to start learning > about possble text processing apps under linux. > > I've heard such words as "TeX", "LaTeX", "TeTeX", "Emacs" that should > deal with subj. But where can i find some

Re: Text processing under Linux - newbie question

1999-09-01 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
> (Lyx is based on Tex Actually, it isn't :) It used to describe itself as a front end for latex, but it went beyond that a couple of years ago. Therehad been plans for 1.2 to use latex as its file format, but that was dropped. It imports almost all latex with reLyX, and still outputs by

Re: Text processing under Linux - newbie question

1999-09-01 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi Alex, > I've heard such words as "TeX", "LaTeX", "TeTeX", "Emacs" that should > deal with subj. But where can i find some kind of "introduction" and > "feature description" for this apps and "general conception" for using them. Emacs is a text editor. TeX is a typesetting system developed at

Re: Text processing under Linux - newbie question

1999-09-01 Thread virtanen
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Alex V. Toropov wrote: > Please tell me (a new linux/Unix user) where to start learning > about possble text processing apps under linux. In Your case I would start with lyx. Of course it depends on, how complex and nice texts you want to do. With lyx you can do practically an

Re: Text processing under Linux - newbie question

1999-09-01 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 10:30:27AM +0400, Alex V. Toropov wrote: | Hi all ! | | Please tell me (a new linux/Unix user) where to start learning | about possble text processing apps under linux. | Please be more specific. There are editors, mark-up languages + interpreter (i.e. LaTex > DVI, PS),