Tex Latex DVI Postscript PDF HTML MiKTeX WinEdt Scientific Work Place Tex4ht
TEX is the name of the formatting program for producing book quality text of scientific and technical works. It was created by Donald E.Knuth (1984). Knuth provided so called Plain Tex format for typsetting. It does allow higher level commands to be defined in terms of primitive ones. In this way, a more user friendly environment (LATEX) was constructed.
LATEX is the name of the based on TEX higher level formatting program for producing book quality text of scientific and technical works. It was developed by L.Lamport (1985). See also: MiKTeX (feeware) and Scientific Work Place (commercial package).
LATEX2e is the latest version of LATEX, 1994.
TEX or LATEX file (the source file) is an ascii file with an extension .tex which contains user's introduced text and a set of lower level (TEX) or higher level (LATEX) commands. It is to be proccessed by the TEX or LATEX programs. It can by created in any text editor.
DVI file (Device Independent) is the output file obtained as the result of proccessing a TEX or LATEX file by the TEX or LATEX program. It contains the proccessed text in a format that is independent of the output printer. To get its printout one has to proccess it further. All that as well as previewing of the printout can be done through programs which accompany TEX and LATEX programs. They are distributed in a form of freeware or commercial packages. To that second category belongs Scientifc Work Place.
Postscript is a printing and plotting language created by Adobe Systems Inc.. Postscript files (PS files) are ready to print and portable by electronic transfer. To view and print such files the Ghostscript and GhostView programs: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost, are needed.
Portable Document Format (PDF), based very stronly on Postscript, is a page-oriented format for electronic documents. It was created by Adobe Systems Inc.. To view and print PDF files the Acrobat Reader program: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/alternate.html, is needed.
DVIPS is the most popular program to convert DVI files into the Postscript format. It was created by T.Rokicki.
MiKTeX: http://miktex.org, (pronounced mick-tech) is an up-to-date implementation of TeX and related programs for Windows (all current variants) on x86 systems. It is a freeware. See also WinEdt.
WinEdt: http://www.winedt.com, (shareware) is a native editor and shell for MS Windows with a strong predisposition towards the creation of TEX or LATEX documents. Can be used with MiKTeX.
Scientific Work Place: http://licensing.mackichan.com, is a commercial package for TEX and LATEX. You can type from the menu all the symbols you need and see them on the screen as they will appear in the printout. Thus, you do not need to know lower or higher level commands of TEX or LATEX to create your own document. A creation of DVI and PS files as well as previewing of the printout are automatic. However, if necessary you can modify the source file created by Scientific Workplace "manually", using any text editor. It is due to the fact that in principle the code of such a file is a standard TEX or LATEX code. There are some incompatibilities as well which are so far of minor character.
This is what HTML means.
To display an information on the World Wide Web (WWW, Web or W3) one has to create hypertext and hypermultimedia documents. The Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the language that is used to write WWW documents. The user-friendly, front end of the Web, is a browser (Internet Explorer or Netscape's Navigator). To write or modify an HTML script for WWW document (an HTML file) one can use any text editor.
Converting TEX (LATEX ) code into an HTML code.
There are certain limitations, due to simplicity of HTML language to display in WWW documents mathematics. One can overcome that difficulty by creating GIF images, (Browsers display only GIF or JPEG images.) of certain symbols, equations and figures. To automatize this rather complicated proccess one first creates a source TEX or LATEX file for such a WWW document. Then a program converting TEX or LATEX file into an HTML file can be employed. One of such programs is Tex4ht: www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~gurari/systems.html. The symbols, equations or figures are represented first in the Postscript format and then converted into the GIF format. That requires GhostView and Image Magick programs.
Unfortunately certain images do not appear always as it is expected. That however can be fixed "manually", editing the corresponding HTML file.
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