Modified: Aug 22 2002
- tetex is a text formatter that is available on both
the U-System and Super machines
- Use any editor to create your document files, e.g., mydocument.tex
- If the latex manpage isn't enough,
consider buying a book on latex2e. Several are available
at the UofA bookstore.
- Once you have finished creating your document, you can process
it by using the command: (.tex in parenthesis is optional).
- The above command will look at your tex file and process
all the latex macros. Several files will be produced. The most
important one has the name mydocument.dvi. Other files
(.aux and .log) usually contain very useful
information in case there are errors in the document.
- You can view the processed file by first setting up the DISPLAY
variable, then using the xdvi command
as follows:
- Once you are satisfied with the output you can produce a PostScript
file by using the command dvips
By default a file mydocument.ps will be produced. Print
it on the UITS printers with:
(for single-sided output use: a2ps -=simplex
mydocument.ps )
- There are documents on the Internet that may be of help, specifically
this Latex
introduction.
- For more help please contact
Research Support in UITS 112.
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