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| The TeX Archive
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Note: This CDROM has been held up in production and may
not be ready for shipping until April 1998.
Contained on the TeX two-discs set is a complete professional typesetting system for your Unix, MS-DOS, or Win32 system. Gathered here for easy access are TeX, LaTeX, a collection of popular macro packages, and an extensive collection of fonts. New Features Include:
TeX is the professional typesetting system developed by Professor Donald Knuth of Stanford University. Designed with system and device independence in mind, TeX has proved to be incredibly flexible and expandable. TeX handles non-roman alphabets and mathematical symbols with dexterity. Whether working with documents in Japanese, Chinese, Cyrillic, Arabic, or containing mathematical or scientific notation TeX produces professional quality output. TeX can produce output for virtually any printer, be it a 9-pin dot matrix printer, a laser printer, or a 1200dpi typesetter. TeX generates DVI (DeVice Independent) files making it possible to transfer your formatted files between computers or even operating systems and still get the same professional output. And while TeX cannot be considered WYSIWYG, document preview is possible on supported graphics displays. Raw TeX is very sophisticated and can be difficult to use. This prompted Leslie Lamport to develop LaTeX. LaTeX introduces logical document layout to TeX files, essentially allowing you to develop style sheets for your documents. This two-disc set contains selected portions of the CTAN archive. Everything needed to install TeX and LaTeX on a UNIX, MS-DOS, or Win32 system is included. The source code is also provided so that you can modify and recompile the programs. Macintosh binaries are included on the disc, but are provided without technical support or testing. |
