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Recently, I asked why troff and detex weren't working on my 3.0
system.  Here is the summary:

1. for troff, you need a typesetter, which it is assumed most people
don't have.  To view man pages that haven't been installed:
a) install the man page under /usr/man/man1 (or /usr/man/manx,
x=whatever you find appropriate).  The file should be named file.x
corresponding to manx.
b) use nroff instead of troff, ie. nroff -man file.1 | more.  You can
also use ptroff to get postscript output.  You can man these two
commands to find out the full syntax and info.

2. detex, makeindex, and a bunch of other TeX utilities may be
(currently) found on sonata.cc.purdue.edu under /pub/next/submissions.
The file is called TeXutil.tar.Z.  I've uncompiled it under my 3.0
system, and it appears to work fine.  I've run detex and it seems
to work (although I haven't run it from TeXmenu to try spell checking
files).  Some people also suggested compiling the source with 
the -traditional or -fwriteable_strings (or -writable_strings, I forget
the exact name of this flag, since I ended up not using it) in order
to get rid of the bus error that I experienced under 2.0.  If I
misspelled the flags, they should be noted in the cc man page.

Also, if you use TeX (latex), you may want to check out some other
useful apps on the archives such as: TeXfig, TeXice.  These let you
use formulas (or conceivably any tex input) as an image to cut and
paste into other documents.  For example, $x^2 + y^2 = z^2$ shows
up in a display window in TeXfig, and you can cut and paste the 
typeset formula into a document.

Thanks to all who helped me out with this!  I'm starting to use 
tex more (now that I'm getting more familiar with it -- sitting with
latex book on my lap) and I like the environment that NeXT provides
for creation of latex documents.

-Andrew
-- 
--   Andrew Duchowski
--   Texas A&M University
--   andrewd@cs.tamu.edu (non-NeXT mail)
--   andrewd@visual2.cs.tamu.edu (NeXT mail)