On Wed, 20 May 1998, Matt Thompson wrote: > > For LaTeX you need TeX. > > ...and so what's LaTeX? > > Matt TeX is a very powerful text processing system that produces beautifully formatted parers (books, letters etc). It can handle mathematics very well, and a lot of books are written that way. And LaTeX are macros written in TeX to make life easier (and output better formatted). TeX is totally text based(there are "flags" that tells it how you want things to look like), you edit the source files, then "compile" them with the latex program.
If you use LyX as your word processor (I'd recommend learning LaTeX instead) you use LaTeX. (I think it is the only way to use LaTeX without knowing you use it, but I may be wrong.) HTH, Liran Zvibel. --- http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~liranz/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
