[Ti] [OT] Word processor

[Arjan Bos]

On 19 apr 2004, at 13:15, Tarik Bilgin wrote:

> Thank you for all the help everyone who responded.
>
> I'm certainly going to take a look at TeX/LaTeX for my up and coming 
> dissertation write-up for my MSc degree.
>
> Thanks especially to Viktor for writing the book -- I'll take a look.
>
> I really don't know enough to even know the difference between TeX and 
> LaTeX. Is there a FAQ or a "Dummies guide" ? I'll google for it and 
> see what I get.
>
There's a lot of information available on the web for both TeX and 
LaTeX. LaTeX is basically a macro package written on top of TeX. It's 
designed to make life easier for you. TeX lets you adjust and tweak 
more than vanilla LaTeX. But there are a lot of additional packages 
available for LaTeX.

When you use Fink to install LaTeX you get almost all extra packages, 
including their documentation. I suppose that other installers do it 
the same way.

The book by Leslie Lamport is a good intro into LaTeX. The book by 
Michel Goosens describes most of the additional packages. You can also 
take your questions to news://comp.text.tex where they are very 
helpful. The few questions I had were answered very quick and to the 
point.

Arjan

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