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Communicating with Text

TeX/amstex/latex -- The Center maintains the current versions of the main TeX dialects , as well as tools for printing, and including graphics. TeX produces very high quality output, though the required effort is often correspondingly high.

System specific instructions

Microsoft Word -- This well-known wysiwyg word processor is available on the Center PC and Macintosh platforms. Its mathematical typesetting capabilities are only adequate, but for simpler documents, its ease of use may be a more important factor. It also handles the incorporation of graphics in text nicely.

Word is available in the "Document Apps" submenu of the "Apple" menu located in the upper left corner of the screen.

FrameMaker -- This is wysiwyg page layout application for the NeXT environment. FrameMaker has some decent mathematical typesetting capability, but it excels at integrating graphics and text in NeXT's display PostScript environment.

FrameMaker resides in the /LocalApps directory. Locate it with the workspace manager and double click on its icon.

nroff/troff -- The classic unix text and typesetting programs are also available. nroff remains particularly useful for the creation of man pages.

nroff and troff are only available on the unix platforms. On SGI machines, use the command groff. For system specific instructions, consult the appropriate man pages.

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