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authorKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2010-04-07 22:47:28 +0000
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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label readtex</title>
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<h3>Reading (La)TeX files</h3>
-<p/>So you&rsquo;ve been sent a TeX file: what are you going to do with it?
-<p/>You can, of course, &ldquo;just read it&rdquo;, since it&rsquo;s a plain text file,
+<p/>So you&#8217;ve been sent a TeX file: what are you going to do with it?
+<p/>You can, of course, &#8220;just read it&#8221;, since it&#8217;s a plain text file,
but the markup tags in the document may prove distracting. Most of
the time, even TeX experts will typeset a TeX file before
attempting to read it.
@@ -12,29 +12,29 @@ systems are available, free, for most sorts of computer; the bad news
is that you need a pretty complete TeX system even to read a single
file, and complete TeX systems are pretty large.
<p/>TeX is a typesetting system that arose from a publishing project (see
-&ldquo;<a href="FAQ-whatTeX.html">what is TeX</a>&rdquo;),
+&#8220;<a href="FAQ-whatTeX.html">what is TeX</a>&#8221;),
and its basic source is available free from its author. However, at
its root, it is <em>just</em> a typesetting engine: even to view or to
print the typeset output, you will need ancillary programs. In short,
-you need a TeX <em>distribution</em> &mdash; a collection of
+you need a TeX <em>distribution</em> &#8212; a collection of
TeX-related programs tailored to your operating system: for details
of the sorts of things that are available, see
-&ldquo;<a href="FAQ-TeXsystems.html">TeX distributions</a>&rdquo;
+&#8220;<a href="FAQ-TeXsystems.html">TeX distributions</a>&#8221;
or
-&ldquo;<a href="FAQ-commercial.html">commercial TeX distributions</a>&rdquo;.
-<p/>But beware &mdash; TeX makes no attempt to look like the sort of
-WYSIWYG system you&rsquo;re probably used to (see
+&#8220;<a href="FAQ-commercial.html">commercial TeX distributions</a>&#8221;.
+<p/>But beware &#8212; TeX makes no attempt to look like the sort of
+WYSIWYG system you&#8217;re probably used to (see
-&ldquo;<a href="FAQ-notWYSIWYG.html">why is TeX not WYSIWYG</a>&rdquo;):
-while many modern versions of TeX have a compile&ndash;view cycle that
+&#8220;<a href="FAQ-notWYSIWYG.html">why is TeX not WYSIWYG</a>&#8221;):
+while many modern versions of TeX have a compile&#8211;view cycle that
rivals the best commercial word processors in its responsiveness, what
you type is usually <em>markup</em>, which typically defines a logical
(rather than a visual) view of what you want typeset.
-<p/>So there&rsquo;s a balance between the simplicity of the original
+<p/>So there&#8217;s a balance between the simplicity of the original
(marked-up) document, which can more-or-less be read in <em>any</em>
editor, and the really rather large investment needed to install a
-system to read a document &ldquo;as intended&rdquo;.
+system to read a document &#8220;as intended&#8221;.
<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=readtex">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=readtex</a>
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