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Text Processing with TeX

The TeX package is installed on all central Unix systems at Forschungszentrum Jülich. It consists of commands which translate a LaTeX (TeX) source file in a device-independent page description format (a .dvi-file), converts this in formats required by printers or shows it in a preview window on the monitor.

For creating documents the author must cycle through three steps:

• Create a source file in TeX-Format
• Compile the source code with the TeX compiler
• Preview or print the results

The TeX package is based on Thomas Esser's teTeX. A list of all local documentation about LaTeX and availably macro packages is located under file:/usr/local/texmf/doc/helpindex.html on your local machine (if TeX is installed).

A local copy of the catalogue of TeX and LaTeX related packages and tools, mostly available on CTAN, the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network is located under file:/usr/local/texmf/doc/help/Catalogue/catalogue.html.
Most entries have a link to a location on the local CTAN directory hierarchy which takes you to the source directory for that entry.

For PC/Windows ZAM distributes the MiKTeX package from Christian Schenk.

Documentation and other WWW sites for this topic:

• User manual: "TEX im Forschungszentrum Jülich", BHB-0112, PostScript (707 kB)
• User manual: "LaTeX - eine Einführung und ein bißchen mehr", BHB-0134, PostScript (20 MB)
• User manual: "LaTeX - fortgeschrittene Anwendungen", BHB-0135, PostScript (6,4 MB)

• LaTeX: A document preparation system
• CTAN - Comprehensive TeX Archive Network
  This is a mirrored network of ftp servers at ftp.tex.ac.uk and ftp.dante.de which are widely mirrored and hold up-to-date copies of all the public-domain versions of TeX, LaTeX, Metafont and ancillary programs. of the Hochschulrechenzentrum (HRZ), University of Gießen, FRG
• DANTE, Deutschsprachige Anwendervereinigung TeX e.V.
• The TeX Users Group (TUG)
• TeX-Service and "Kochbuch für LaTeX"
• AMS TeX Resources
  The American Mathematical Society offers access to a family of TeX-related products for the convenience of authors and MathSci searchers.