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From: | mdw AT sol4 DOT ebi DOT ac DOT uk (Mark Wooding) |
Subject: | Re: DJGPP port of TeX (with instructions for non-DJGPP'ers) (Was Re: Win95 and LaTex ?) |
Sender: | news AT ebi DOT ac DOT uk (usenet news) |
Message-ID: | <slrn5s6n5m.39l.mdw@sol4.ebi.ac.uk> |
Date: | Wed, 9 Jul 1997 09:41:11 GMT |
Reply-To: | mdw AT ebi DOT ac DOT uk |
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DJ-Gateway: | from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Kaz Kylheku <kaz AT vision DOT crest DOT nt DOT com> wrote: > Why do people do TeX/LaTeX with Windows 95? Or, more precisely, why > would a TeXpert bother with windows? You are one step away from not > needing a GUI at all if you can typeset with these tools, so it's not > like you need to run Word! :) About a year ago, I had to live with a video card which wasn't supported by XFree86, a state of affairs which lasted for about a month. I became very familiar with `screen' and Emacs during this time, and found the whole experience rather liberating. There was only one thing I missed about not being able to run X: I couldn't preview my TeX documents. -- [mdw] `It can't rain all the time.' -- Eric Draven
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