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In article <1992Jul6.164036.3428@darwin.ntu.edu.au>, 910436a@darwin.ntu.edu.au writes:
|> Public Domain Versions of TeX?
|> 
|> I find it a real mess trying to type all those mathematical formulas
|> using the ordinary wordprocessor. I have seen the wonders of TeX but
|> my department is short of funds to acquire such an expensive software.
|> I wonder whether anyone out there have come across Public Domain Versions
|> of TeX..like SBTeX or EMTeX..which I heard are available free of charge.
|> It would be great help if someone can pass the relevant info.

Hey, there's a little misunderstanding about TeX:
- TeX is the word processing system or better the compiler itself
- next there are several programs you need for generating fonts, viewing and
  printing the dvi-File, which was generated by TeX(--> metafont, dvips, etc. )
- then there are several additional programs and tex macro packages which
  are a easy user interface like LaTeX (general purpose), SliTeX (making slides)
  or BibTeX (making bibliography), etc.

NOW: 
- There are some packages like SBTeX or PCTeX or emTeX, which are ready
  sets for a special type of processor or operating system.
  E.g. emTeX is a package for MS-DOS machines, containing everything you need:
  MS-DOS versions of TeX, Metafont, BiBTeX, etc. and a lot of utilities for
  indexing, converting fonts, etc. and the standard TeX and LaTeX fonts and
  some documentation files and a lot of batch files for easy handling

As far as i know, nearly everything concerning TeX and the rest is freeware;
some of the utilities are not (e.g. TeXcad is shareware or so).
So you can get one of the TeX packages from every bigger ftp site without
bothering your department's funds. I am not familiar with australian sites,
in U.S.A. you'll get it for example at wuarchive.wustl.edu

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		Martin

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910436a@darwin.ntu.edu.au writes:

>Public Domain Versions of TeX?

>I find it a real mess trying to type all those mathematical formulas
>using the ordinary wordprocessor. I have seen the wonders of TeX but
>my department is short of funds to acquire such an expensive software.
>I wonder whether anyone out there have come across Public Domain Versions
>of TeX..like SBTeX or EMTeX..which I heard are available free of charge.
>It would be great help if someone can pass the relevant info.

No worries! To find out all about public domain sources of TeX the
best bet is to use the database on archie.
ie. go
	telnet archie.au
	login as archie
	prog tex
archie will then list HEAPS of places from where you can FTP TeX.
Hope all goes well,

	Tim

In <1992Jul6.164036.3428@darwin.ntu.edu.au> 910436a@darwin.ntu.edu.au writes:

>Public Domain Versions of TeX?
>
>I find it a real mess trying to type all those mathematical formulas
>using the ordinary wordprocessor. I have seen the wonders of TeX but
>my department is short of funds to acquire such an expensive software.
>I wonder whether anyone out there have come across Public Domain Versions
>of TeX..like SBTeX or EMTeX..which I heard are available free of charge.
>It would be great help if someone can pass the relevant info.

TeX and LaTeX are freely available and should be configuarable for any
sane Unix system. The code is ftp'able from a number of major sites
around the Internet.

The official sources (latest and greatest) are kept at
    labrea.stanford.edu
but you should check out archie.oz.au and other well known Australian
mirror sites before pulling it down from overseas.

If you can't find the latest version locally, perhaps you should
consider making the virgin sources available for ftp from your site
once you downlaod them.

One quick warning: TeX takes a little bit of time and patience to
get up and running 100%. Be prepared to set aside a week or so if
you haven't done this before.

                                     Michael

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timothy@lad.med.utas.edu.au (Timothy John Gale) writes:

>910436a@darwin.ntu.edu.au writes:

>>Public Domain Versions of TeX?

>>I find it a real mess trying to type all those mathematical formulas
>>using the ordinary wordprocessor. I have seen the wonders of TeX but
>>my department is short of funds to acquire such an expensive software.
>>I wonder whether anyone out there have come across Public Domain Versions
>>of TeX..like SBTeX or EMTeX..which I heard are available free of charge.
>>It would be great help if someone can pass the relevant info.

>No worries! To find out all about public domain sources of TeX the
>best bet is to use the database on archie.
>ie. go
>	telnet archie.au
>	login as archie
>	prog tex
>archie will then list HEAPS of places from where you can FTP TeX.
>Hope all goes well,

>	Tim




monu1.cc.monash.oz have a complete emTeX dated 6 Oct 1991.  This is not
the latest version though.


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