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\layout Title
Availability of LaTeX systems
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The traditional TeX implementation is a Command-Line Interface (
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cli
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)
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, that is, a `console' program which you run from a Unix or Mac shell window
or an MS-DOS command window by typing the command
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\backslash
verb+tex+
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or
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\backslash
verb+latex+
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followed by the name of your document file.
In automated (unattended) systems, this command is issued from within a
Unix shell script or MS-DOS/Windows batch file.
All the popular distributions for Unix and MS-DOS/Windows, both free and
commercial, deliver this interface as standard (teTeX, fpTeX, MiKTeX, PC-TeX,
TurboTeX, etc).
\layout Standard
While it is quite possible to run TeX and LaTeX this way, it is more normal
to use an editor as your interface to the program as well as to your document.
This allows you to control LaTeX, the typeset display, and other related
programs with a mouse-click or menu item.
This is the method assumed in this booklet.
In both the editors used for examples (
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Emacs
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and
\emph on
WinEdt
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) the typesetting process is logged visibly in an adjoining text window
so that you can see the progress of pages being typeset, and any error
messages that may occur.
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Some recent versions of
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Emacs
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hide this window by default but it is easily revealed.
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This method is called
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asynchronous
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because the typeset display only updates
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after
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you have typed the text and processed it, not
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while
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you type it.
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Some commercial implementations of TeX offer a
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synchronous
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\begin_inset LatexCommand \index{synchronous@}
\end_inset
typographic interface:
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Textures
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for the Apple Macintosh from Blue Sky Research,
\emph on
Scientific Word
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from MacKichan Software, and
\emph on
VTeX
\emph default
from MicroPress, Inc (both for Microsoft Windows) are three examples.
At least one free version for Linux and MS-Windows (
\emph on
Lyx
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) offers the same kind of interface.
In these, you type directly into the typographic display, as with a graphical
wordprocessor, using the font controls of whatever Graphical User Interface (
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gui
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)
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\end_inset
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\end_inset
are appropriate.
\layout Standard
With a synchronous display you get your instant textual gratification, but
for complete control of the formatting you still need access to the LaTeX
language.
There are several methods available free for Unix and some other systems
for close-to-synchronous updates of the typeset display (such as Jonathan
Fine's
\emph on
Instant Preview
\emph default
and the TeX daemon), and for embedding typographic fragments from the typeset
display back into the editor window (David Kastrup's
\family sans
preview-latex
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package).
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