home bbs files messages ]

Forums before death by AOL, social media and spammers... "We can't have nice things"

   alt.os.linux.slackware      I think its the one without Selinux crap      87,272 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 86,233 of 87,272   
   Eric Pozharski to Mike Spencer   
   Re: Latex Re: Tnx Re: Ping Henrik Re: Ne   
   11 Mar 23 14:27:48   
   
   From: whynot@pozharski.name   
      
   with <87h6urbvjc.fsf_-_@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> Mike Spencer wrote:   
   > Henrik Carlqvist  writes:   
   >> On Wed, 08 Mar 2023 01:25:46 -0400, Mike Spencer wrote:   
      
   >>> I don't have a word processor.  On the very rare occasions that I   
   >>> need to print a business letter, I compose it in simple HTML and   
   >>> print from the browser.   
   >> HTML might work, but if you want really nice letters you should learn   
   >> latex!   
   *SKIP*   
   > But when I went to my shiny new Linux system a few years later, it had   
   > Latex or Tetex or something that was a dialect of TEX.   
      
   (disclaimer: I'm not that immersed).  It's called 'texlive' now.   
   (caveat:) proper capitalization might be an issue;  however I've not   
   seen fights about it ;)   
      
   *SKIP*   
   > Is there an online tutorial PDF for Latex that's simple-minded?  I'm   
   > never going to compose a glossy magazine page, advanced scientific   
   > paper or legal brief and my ageing brain isn't going to master a mass   
   > of arcana to be used, say, once a quarter.   
      
   'lshort.pdf' really got me going back then.  Never looked back.   
      
   *CUT*   
      
   --   
   Torvalds' goal for Linux is very simple: World Domination   
   Stallman's goal for GNU is even simpler: Freedom   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca