[Insight-developers] more on LaTeX resources

[Luis Ibanez]

Hi,

I'm already accepting the idea of using FrameMaker
for the documentation.

but...
just to not let TeX go with the image of being
a primitive system   :-)

these are some useful resources for  TeX.

The most complete source of information and tools is
"the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network"
http://www.ctan.org


The "not so short introduction to latex"
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/lshort/english/lshort.pdf


The "gentle introduction to latex"
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/gentle/gentle.pdf


There is a CD distribution
http://www.tug.org/texlive/index.html
that includes executables for the following platforms
       DEC Alpha OSF/1 (4.0)
       HP9000 HPUX 10.20
       Linux (on Intel Pentium)
       FreeBSD (on Intel Pentium)
       SGI IRIX (6.5)
       IBM RS 6000 AIX (4.2)
       Sun Sparc Solaris (2.7)
       Windows 95, 98, 2000 or NT (Intel machines)



MiKTeX is open source TeX version for Windows
http://www.miktex.org/


WinEdt is a shareware TEX Editor for Windows:
http://www.winedt.com/
http://www.winedt.com/snapshot.html


The Latex2html manual that shows fancier presentations
using frames and colors: (humm, we should have shown this first...)
http://www-texdev.mpce.mq.edu.au/l2h/docs/manual/manual_tf.html


The set of fonts that are available for public access:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/


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Luis