[texhax] best way to do texbook examples

[Axel E. Retif]

On 07/16/2015 04:47 PM, Philip Taylor wrote:


> Axel E. Retif wrote:
>
>> Let's hope that someone like Philip Taylor (who, as I understand, uses
>> both Windows and TeX) can recommend Tamás a good front-end

[...]

> I both use and can recommend TeXworks under Windows.  Whilst it has no
> intrinsic printing capability, the menu option sequence File / Print PDF
> will explain that TeXworks cannot of itself print PDFs, and asks if it
> should therefore launch the user's default PDF viewer.  Answering "yes"
> will result in the viewer being launch (Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Reader, or
> whatever) by means of which the file can be printed without difficulty.

Good to know! I also think TeXworks would be the best for Tamás, as he 
explicitly said that he wants «to remain as close to the plain TeX found 
in the book as possible».

Let's hope he is still reading this thread, so he can make a choice and 
continue with his TeX exercises.


Best

Axel