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5.2: TeX

TeX is a scientific typesetting package. We run the teTeX distribution version 1.0. This is documented at https://w3.pppl.gov/misc/teTeX. LaTeX latex(1) is the recommended macro package. The run it, use the command

latex file.tex

Useful (indispensible) books are:

• LaTeX, a Document Preparation System, by Leslie Lamport (2nd Ed, Addison Wesley, 1994)
• The LaTeX Companion, by M. Goosens, F. Mittelbach, and A. Samarin (Addison Wesley, 1994)
• The LaTeX Graphics Companion, by M. Goosens, S. Rahtz, and F. Mittelbach (Addison Wesley, 1997)

If you have problems running TeX, please check your environment variables, in particular TEXINPUTS. Make sure these do NOT contain references to `/usr/local/share/texmf/...', `/usr/local/lib/texmf', etc. If you have private macro files in `~/tex', then you will want to define

TEXINPUTS=.:~/tex: export TEXINPUTS
setenv TEXINPUTS .:~/tex:

in sh or csh syntax. (The default TEXINPUTS will be implicitly inserted after the trailing colon).

This version provides better support for producing documents for online viewing:

1. pdflatex produces a pdf file instead of a dvi file.
2. the hyperref package has support for carrying the cross-reference information and references to URLs in a TeX document over to the dvi or pdf file; for example, you reference your home page like this

   \href{https://w3.pppl.gov/~jsmith}{J. Smith}
   

3. xdvi can follow links (cross-refs and URLs).

The following are possible ways of producing pdf files from LaTeX

1. In the `.tex' file, put

   \usepackage{times}
   \usepackage{hyperref}
   

   Process with latex, then with dvips -Pwww -z, then with distill.

2. In the `.tex' file, put

   \usepackage{times}
   \usepackage[dvips]{hyperref}
   

   Process with latex, then with dvips -Pwww, then with distill.

3. In the `.tex' file, put

   \usepackage{times}
   \usepackage[pdftex]{hyperref}
   

   Process with pdflatex.

When you view the `.dvi' file produced in method (1) with xdvi, the links will be underlined (and you click on them to follow them).

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