:O'Reilly Network: Living Linux: Processing TeX and LaTeX Files
O'Reilly Network: Living Linux: Processing TeX and LaTeX Files Apr 23, 2000, 19 :01 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (3564 reads) (Other stories by Michael Stutz)
"Donald Knuth, the world's foremost authority on algorithms, wrote TeX in 1984 as a way to typeset his
books, because he wasn't satisfied with the quality of available systems. Since then, many extensions to
the TeX formatting language have been made -- the most notable being Leslie Lamport's LaTeX, which is
designed to facilitate the typesetting of structured documents. (LaTeX probably gets more day-to-day use
than the plain TeX format, but in my experience, both systems are useful for different kinds of documents.)"
"While not everyone wants needs to write documents with TeX or LaTeX, these formats are widely used,
especially on Linux systems. So every Linux user has the potential to encounter one of these files. This
column tells you how to deal with them...."
