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the <span style="font-weight:bolder">I</span>nteractive <span style="font-weight:bolder">T</span>ex <span style="font-weight:bolder">E</span>ditor
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<b><BIG>Description</BIG></b> <span class="ite">iTe</span> is an
easy to use, interactive authoring tool for
L<SUP><SMALL>A</SMALL></SUP>T<SMALL>E</SMALL>X and
T<SMALL>E</SMALL>X documents. With <span class=ite>iTe</span>, it is
possible to select arbitrary display fragments such as figures,
equations, labels, captions, etc. These fragments can then be
freely moved, rotated and scaled. Existing tools are either
awkward to use (for example cryptic
L<SUP><SMALL>A</SMALL></SUP>T<SMALL>E</SMALL>X extensions), or
they produce results of poor quality (font of captions does not
match L<SUP><SMALL>A</SMALL></SUP>T<SMALL>E</SMALL>X font, for
example). To the user, <span class=ite>iTe</span> is an easy to use
and effective tool which is a lot of fun.
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<b><BIG>Example</BIG></b> Using <span class=ite>iTe</span>, it
took my then five year old daughter only a few minutes to typeset
the simple example to the right.
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<b><BIG>How does it work</BIG></b> The user actions
(translation, scaling and rotation) are simultaneously recorded
in the L<SUP><SMALL>A</SMALL></SUP>T<SMALL>E</SMALL>X source
file <strong>and</strong> displayed on the screen by an
asynchronous <EM>ghostscript</EM> process. What you see on the
screen is exactly what you get if the source is recompiled and
printed.
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<b><BIG>How to use it</BIG></b> Because
<span class=ite>iTe</span> is written in <EM>Emacs-lisp</EM>, it
integrates nicely in the editing process. Just call it during a
normal (X)Emacs session as many times as you want. Note however,
that <span class=ite>iTe</span> is not a WYSIWYG front end for
L<SUP><SMALL>A</SMALL></SUP>T<SMALL>E</SMALL>X, and
<span class=ite>iTe</span> does not change the way you use
L<SUP><SMALL>A</SMALL></SUP>T<SMALL>E</SMALL>X to typeset 95% of
your text. But it will help you to manage the remaining 5% fast
with a high quality result.
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<b><BIG>Platform</BIG></b> <span class=ite>iTe</span> should run on
every <EM>Unix</EM> and <EM>MS Windows</EM> platform meeting the
<a href="distribution.html#requirements">requirements</a>.
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<b><big>(La)TeX related recources</big></b>
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<li><a href="http://www.tug.org">TUG</a>, the TeX Users Group. TUG
provides an organization for those who have an interest in systems
for text typesetting and font design, and are users of TeX and
Metafont.
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<li><a href="http://www.ctan.org">CTAN</a>, the Comprehensive TeX
Archive Network. CTAN is a set of fully-mirrored ftp sites providing
the most complete, up-to-date TeX-related software possible.
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<li><a href="http://sunsite.auc.dk/auctex">AUC TeX</a>, an extensible
package that supports writing and formatting TeX files for most
variants of GNU Emacs. AUC TeX is a nice package, and I suggest using
it in conjunction with <span class=ite>iTe</span>.
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<li><a href="http://www.tug.org/tetex">teTeX</a>, a complete TeX
distribution for UNIX compatible systems. You will probably have
teTeX installed on your system. Consider to get it otherwise.
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<li><a href="http://www.lyx.org">LyX</a>, a WYSIWYM style
document processor using LaTeX. <span class=ite>iTe</span> will not run under LyX,
and LyX does not provide the functionality of <span class=ite>iTe</span>.
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<div id='TIMESTAMP' style='font-size:small'><hr/>Last modified by <A HREF='http://www.decatur.de/wolfgang'>Wolfgang Kühn</a> on Apr 4 2005</div>
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