From: SMTP%"RELAY-INFO-VAX@CRVAX.SRI.COM" 3-MAR-1994 09:43:53.22 To: EVERHART CC: Subj: XTeXShell 0.91, a X-Windows shell for TeX/LaTeX released From: rockwell@nova.umd.edu (Raul Deluth Miller) X-Newsgroups: comp.org.decus,comp.os.vms,comp.sys.dec,comp.unix.advocacy Subject: XTeXShell 0.91, a X-Windows shell for TeX/LaTeX released Followup-To: comp.unix.advocacy Date: 2 Mar 1994 01:13:04 -0500 Organization: University of Maryland University College Lines: 108 Distribution: world Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: nova.umd.edu In-reply-to: darylb@sugar.NeoSoft.COM's message of 28 Feb 1994 09:33:53 -0600 X-Original-Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce To: Info-VAX@CRVAX.SRI.COM X-Gateway-Source-Info: USENET Intro: There have been a lot of posts to comp.unix.advocacy, recently, about how VMS is wonderful to administer and is the ideal platform for database work. This article does not address that issue but is at least as relevant to comp.org.decus as some of the recent stuff has been to comp.unix.advocacy. Daryl Biberdorf: . TeX is easy as long as you like defaults. It gets hard any time . you want to change things. LaTeX makes it even hard to change from . the provided style. Things like tables are holy terrors in TeX. . They're simpler in LaTeX. Neither compares to the likes of Word . and Ami Pro when you can either edit your text in the actual table . or transform a tab separated collection of data into a table. Perhaps this is of interest: From: Michael Hofmann Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc Keywords: TeX, TeX-Shell, X11, Tcl/Tk Reply-To: Michael Hofmann Date: Wed, 2 Mar 1994 02:16:33 GMT I have uploaded XTeXShell 0.91 (former called XTeX), a X-Windows Shell for TeX/LaTeX to tsx-11.mit.edu. The file should appear in the subdirectory tsx-11.mit.edu: pub/linux/packages/TeX/XTeXShell-0.91.tar.gz in a couple of days. Until then, you can get XTeXShell from our local ftp server: 134.93.129.91: pub/XTeXShell/XTeXShell-0.91.tgz Following is a short summary of the most important changes between version 0.9 and 0.91 and a description of XTeXShell. Many thanks to all those who sent mail and helped me to improve XTeXShell. Have fun Michael Hofmann ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes 0.9 -> 0.91 - Name changed to XTeXShell, because at least 4 other programs are called xtex. - Functions which were dependent on /proc file system were modified. /proc file system is *not* needed any more. - Wizard buttons and supported editors can now be customized easily by the user - Installation was simplified, better error handling - Some minor bug fixes. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is XTeXShell Version 0.91, the X-Windows shell for TeX/LaTeX XTeXShell was written for all those who love TeX, but hate the awkward way of handling it. The idea was to develop a system independent X-Windows shell, where you don't need to care about program calls, operating system dependencies and other stuff. Instead, you should have all the power and time to concentrate on the real task: producing high quality documents with (still) the best typesetting system for computers: Donald Knuth's TeX with Leslie Lamport's LaTeX extensions. Features: --------- - Hyper-text Help: XTeXShell includes a hyper-text help system for LaTeX commands - Interactive editor: The system includes a powerful, interactive full-screen text editor. - XTeXShell also supports your favorite editor (emacs, joe, xedit,...) - Widget support: Frequently used functions like TeX, dvips or spell checking your file can be started with a single mouse click Requirements: ------------- XTeXShell was written in the Tcl/Tk language with TclX extensions. To run XTeXShell, you need: - X-Windows (X11R5) - Tcl/Tk *with* TclX extensions - TeX (you surely want TeX/LaTeX; dvips, ghostview, xfig, psfig will be useful) XTeXShell was written and tested under Linux but should also work on other operating systems where Tcl/Tk and TclX run. The code seems to be pretty stable now. The LaTeX help system is incomplete and needs further improvement. A manual will be released soon. Copyright, Copying and License: ------------------------------- XTeXShell is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.