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diff --git a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-readtex.html b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-readtex.html index d1a4c3b0832..7844a57b389 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-readtex.html +++ b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-readtex.html @@ -2,16 +2,16 @@ <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, +<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 +<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 +<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 @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ of the sorts of things that are available, see or “<a href="FAQ-commercial.html">commercial TeX distributions</a>”. -<p>But beware — TeX makes no attempt to look like the sort of +<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>): @@ -32,11 +32,9 @@ 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> +<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> |