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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&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,
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
&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
+<p/>But beware &mdash; TeX makes no attempt to look like the sort of
WYSIWYG system you&rsquo;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&ndash;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&rsquo;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;.
+<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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