/prog/ - TeX — World4ch

Name: Anonymous 2012-12-20 22:07

I learned TeX about twenty years ago. Now I want TeX, but I don't need all the bells and whistles of LaTeX.

Where can I get TeX? I am running Debian. It only has TeX Live packages, and even the base packages are rather large. I just want TeX with Computer Modern so I can make TeX documents and output them to DVI (and optionally PS or PDF).

I have searched the Stanford FTP but I have no idea what's going on.
Please tell me where I can find TeX.

Name: Anonymous 2012-12-20 22:10

typical linux user

Name: Anonymous 2012-12-20 22:12

Prof. Donald E. Knuth
    Computer Science Department
    Gates Building 4B
    Stanford University
    Stanford, CA 94305-9045 USA.

Name: Anonymous 2012-12-20 22:13

He'll hook ya up.

Name: Anonymous 2012-12-20 22:48

lol what is tex useful for?

Name: Anonymous 2012-12-21 2:23

Why don't you use troff -ms?

The enormously bloated -- and excellent -- GNU Groff distribution is 3 MB -- about 1/100 the average LaTeX installation!

Plan 9's is under a megabyte and still excellent.

Name: troff master race 2012-12-21 5:28

>>6
unroff, anyone?

Name: Anonymous 2012-12-21 5:29

>>7
mandoc kid. mandoc.

Name: Anonymous 2012-12-21 5:33

>>8
it poorly handles older troff macros such as man, me, and the roff language itself. [...] mandoc has built-in support for the troff soelim preprocessor and partia built-in support for tbl and eqn. It has strong support for wide-character output.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandoc

Name: Anonymous 2012-12-21 10:13

>>9
Womandoc

Name: Anonymous 2012-12-21 13:33

>>10
fuck off, misandrist

Name: Anonymous 2012-12-21 14:18

>>6
troff is great but GNU's implementation has a lot of things that confuse me. I suppose I'll try the Plan 9 version.

Name: Anonymous 2012-12-22 9:49

>>9,10
cis scum

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7 Name: troff master race 2012-12-21 5:28

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13 Name: Anonymous 2012-12-22 9:49