Re: Where is the Local Guide to Latex?

1997-11-18 Thread Olaf Weber
tibor simko writes: > `local.tex' means in fact `/usr/lib/texmf/doc/tetex/TETEXDOC.tex' or > `/usr/doc/tetex-base/tetex/teTeX-FAQ' under debian. traditionally, > local guide contains information relative to the implementation of TeX > on the system in use. > IMO it's not really intended to new u

Re: Where is the Local Guide to Latex?

1997-11-18 Thread tibor simko
>>> "Drake" == Drake Diedrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Drake> I've never seen such a file on any system with Latex. >>> "HH" == H Huang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: HH> I saw one on our campus' workstations. The file name is HH> local.tex. But obviously there's no file by this name

Re: Where is the Local Guide to Latex?

1997-11-14 Thread Civ Kevin F. Havener
IIRC there is a TeTeX HOWTO that says it is meant to fill in some of the information thats supposed to be in the often non-existent local guide. Of course it can't supply info on where all the files are stashed on your local system, but I, like Dale, am about to set off down the Latex path and

Re: Where is the Local Guide to Latex?

1997-11-14 Thread David Morris
On "Fri, 14 Nov 1997 13:00:07 +0100." Santiago Vila Doncel wove together: [snip] [> It may be worth to know that magicfilter supports .dvi format, so if you [> have magicfilter installed, you can even do: [> [> cat whatever.dvi | lpr Or even more simply: 'lpr whatever.dvi' -- The AtticKeeper: Rev

Re: Where is the Local Guide to Latex?

1997-11-14 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, joost witteveen wrote: > First LaTeX it, to create the .dvi. Then for a postscript printer: > dvips file > to print it directly to the printer, or > dvips file -o > to create the .ps file. It may be worth to know that magicfilter suppor

Re: Where is the Local Guide to Latex?

1997-11-14 Thread Nick Busigin
On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: > I have finally decided to learn Latex, so I bought Leslie Lamport's book > and started reading ... but the first suggestion has been difficult to > deal with. He suggests that there is a Local Guide to Latex that I should > read to find out how to use the

Re: Where is the Local Guide to Latex?

1997-11-14 Thread H Huang
>>"Drake" == Drake Diedrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Drake> On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: >> I have finally decided to learn Latex, so I bought Leslie >> Lamport's book and started reading ... but the first suggestion >> has been difficult to deal with. He suggests that there is

Re: Where is the Local Guide to Latex?

1997-11-13 Thread Drake Diedrich
On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: > I have finally decided to learn Latex, so I bought Leslie Lamport's book > and started reading ... but the first suggestion has been difficult to > deal with. He suggests that there is a Local Guide to Latex that I should > read to find out how to use the

Re: Where is the Local Guide to Latex?

1997-11-13 Thread joost witteveen
> I have finally decided to learn Latex, so I bought Leslie Lamport's book > and started reading ... but the first suggestion has been difficult to > deal with. He suggests that there is a Local Guide to Latex that I should > read to find out how to use the local implimentation To LaTeX a file, ty

Where is the Local Guide to Latex?

1997-11-13 Thread Dale Scheetz
I have finally decided to learn Latex, so I bought Leslie Lamport's book and started reading ... but the first suggestion has been difficult to deal with. He suggests that there is a Local Guide to Latex that I should read to find out how to use the local implimentation, like how to go from a .tex