[Tuglist] A suggestion - contd..

Duvvuri Venu Gopal tuglist@tug.org.in
24 Aug 2002 16:08:56 -0000



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>     SV> Hi, I have a small suggestion to make.  Now that TUG
>     SV> conference is being held in India for the first time, how
>     SV> about a small article about Tex, Knuth and the theme of the
>     SV> conference in one of the computer magazines? This may help in
>     SV> popularising Tex. Earlier, I had suggested that one of the
>     SV> computer magazines could be requested give
>     SV> tex+emacs+ghostview+Auctex in a CD-ROM.  May be we can combine
>     SV> this with a write up on Tex also on the occasion of the first
>     SV> TUG being held in India.  Unfortunately, I have no contacts
>     SV> through whom I can carry out this idea! I can only offer this
>     SV> as a suggestion.

PC-Quest has already published a single page article on TeX around October 2001 and it also gave TeX for Windows. In fact I started using LaTeX after reading that article though I have Linux system for the last 1 year. But I could not use the TeX distributed by PC-Quest, instead I am using the Linux one. Thanks to CVR, I learnt about AUC-TeX and some two months back I downloaded and installed it. Now TeXing is a pleasure.


>KG: How about writing an article on TeX and friends and requesting
>PCQuest or similar ones to carry it? We can provide them a TeXLive 7
>CD for them to duplicate and supply with the issue. TeXLive 7 is a
>ready to run TeX setup for GNU/Linux, Win32 and Mac OS X in a single
>CD and its licence permits anyone to duplicate and redistribute.


The combination mentioned by SV may be got burnt on CDs in bulk (as it costs less than Rs.100/- per CD) and TUG members desirous it may get it for some nominal Price + handling charges.

1)	I want to know about the ‘reftex’ mentioned in the recent mails. How to get it and How to install it.
2)	I have gone to the Source-forge site to download the ‘preview-latex’ but confused. It is better if some one who already downloaded and installed it writes about which files to down load and the procedure for installation for Linux.


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