Re: XyWrite 4.018 on abandonware website

["Martin J. Osborne" osborne@xxxxxxxx]

Patricia M. Godfrey wrote:

> Martin J. Osborne wrote:
>
> > ... which says "making it a favourite among typesetters who need to
> > convert various formats to LaTeX". I thought I was the only person
> > in the world who used it for that purpose. Are there really others?
> That's something I should like to investigate. But the one time I
> tried to find LaTex for Windows, the site said something like "not
> available now. Try later."


  There are several implementations of TeX (and hence LaTeX, which is
a set of macros for TeX). For Windows, the best is MiKTeX

http://www.miktex.org/
  The basic structure of a LaTeX document is:

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\section{Introduction}\label{s:intro}
This article is very short.
\section{Model}
As mentioned in Section~\ref{s:intro}, this article is very short.
\end{document}

  The appearance of the heading "Introduction" is determined by the
style file "article", the argument of \documentclass.
  (You create the document, then process it with TeX, which produces
beautifully typeset output. In contrast to a word processor, for
example, TeX optimizes line breaks within each paragraph rather than
line by line.)
  It's far from WYSIWYG, but you have full control over all aspects of
layout.


  Martin

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