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-<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label readtex</title>
-</head><body>
-<h3>Reading (La)TeX files</h3>
-<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.
-<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
-&#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> &#8212; a collection of
-TeX-related programs tailored to your operating system: for details
-of the sorts of things that are available, see
-
-&#8220;<a href="FAQ-TeXsystems.html">TeX distributions</a>&#8221;
-or
-
-&#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
-
-&#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&#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 &#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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