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+<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?
+Well, 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 anciliary 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>However, in this context markup proves to be a blessing in disguise: a
+good proportion of most TeX documents is immediately readable in an
+ordinary text editor. So, while you need to install a considerable
+system to attain the full benefits of the TeX document that you
+were sent, the chances are you can understand quite a bit of it with
+nothing more than the ordinary tools you already have on your computer.
+<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>