The canonical archive for TeX is the CTAN (Comprehensive TeX Archive
Network). The US CTAN site is pip.shsu.edu:/tex-archive; there are
also sites in the UK and Germany, and mirrors elsewhere. Finally,
you can buy a snapshot of the CTAN (as of June, 1994) on CD-ROM from
my company (:-). Send email to ptf_at_cfcl.com, asking for information
on Issue 1-1 of Prime Time TeXcetera. (We also have collections of
AI and generic UNIX freeware.)
Once you have access to the bits, I would suggest starting with web2c
and dvipsk. Together, these give you a reasonably complete starter
set for a UNIX TeX system.
Yours, Rich Morin
Prime Time Freeware
rdm_at_cfcl.com
P.S. I would strongly recommend picking up a few books, if you don't
already have them, including:
The LaTeX Companion Goossens, et al. (Addison-Wesley)
Making TeX Work Walsh (O'Reilly)
LaTeX, 2nd ed. Lamport (Addison-Wesley)
Members can get these and other products for 10% off from the
TeX Users Group. Send email to tug_at_tug.org for information...
Received on Thu Jan 26 1995 - 19:25:18 NZDT