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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-readtex.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-readtex.html deleted file mode 100644 index 06300733ac6..00000000000 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-readtex.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,40 +0,0 @@ -<head> -<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label readtex</title> -</head><body> -<h3>Reading (La)TeX files</h3> -<p/>So you’ve been sent a TeX file: what are you going to do with it? -<p/>You can, of course, “just read it”, since it’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. -<p/>So, you need to typeset the document. The good news is that TeX -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 -“<a href="FAQ-whatTeX.html">what is TeX</a>”), -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> — a collection of -TeX-related programs tailored to your operating system: for details -of the sorts of things that are available, see - -“<a href="FAQ-TeXsystems.html">TeX distributions</a>” -or - -“<a href="FAQ-commercial.html">commercial TeX distributions</a>”. -<p/>But beware — TeX makes no attempt to look like the sort of -WYSIWYG system you’re probably used to (see - -“<a href="FAQ-notWYSIWYG.html">why is TeX not WYSIWYG</a>”): -while many modern versions of TeX have a compile–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’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 “as intended”. -<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> -</body> |