how to configure mail / how to use TeX, LATEX ?

[Guest makra]

Hi folks,

 

I want to configure mail and use it after. Cos I have used mail

on other computers, I know how to use. But I have never configured it.

 

Hard: AMD586 1.2 Ghz, 512 MB RAM, 60GB HD, Internet access

via Windows Network server and DSL.

Win2000, Mandrake9.0.

 

All the network cfg seems to be fine, it works.

 

So what to do to configure mail ?

 

I want to use TeX, it is a really fine program. But last time I used it,

is long time ago, under DOS. There it was easy. Create a file, process

it with EmTex filename, view it with another program, and print it

with another program.

How to use TeX under linux ?

 

mfg makra

[aru]

Hi folks,

 

I want to configure mail and use it after. Cos I have used mail

on other computers, I know how to use. But I have never configured it.

 

Hard: AMD586 1.2 Ghz, 512 MB RAM, 60GB HD,  Internet access

via Windows Network server and DSL.

Win2000, Mandrake9.0.

 

All the network cfg seems to be fine, it works.

 

So what to do to configure mail ?

check 'man mail' if you are talking about the '/bin/mail'

if you mean to enable a mail server, I recomend you to use postfix.

I want to use TeX, it is a really fine program. But last time I used it,

is long time ago, under DOS. There it was easy. Create a file, process

it with EmTex filename, view it with another program, and print it

with another program.

How to use TeX  under linux ?

 

mfg makra

first you must check that you have it installed. Those are the packages I have (latex, tex and lyx <-- The last one is a WYSIWG interface to latex, very useful and very well self documented):

[arusabal@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa | egrep -i "tetex|latex|lyx"

tetex-afm-1.0.7-31mdk

tetex-xdvi-1.0.7-31mdk

tetex-dvips-1.0.7-31mdk

lyx-1.1.6-8mdk

tetex-1.0.7-31mdk

tetex-latex-1.0.7-31mdk

tetex-dvipdfm-1.0.7-31mdk

lyx2html-0.2-2mdk

latex2html-2000.1beta-4mdk

[arusabal@localhost ~]$

 

As an example on how to proccess a TeX file (LaTeX):

[arusabal@localhost ~]$ latex ejemplo.latex 

This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1)

(ejemplo.latex

LaTeX2e <2000/06/01>

Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, i

talian, portuges, spanish, swedish, nohyphenation, loaded.

(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/letter.cls

Document Class: letter 1999/04/29 v1.2z Standard LaTeX document class

(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size11.clo))

(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/misc/geometry.sty

(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty)

(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/config/geometry.cfg))

(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty

(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/t1enc.def))

(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty

(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/latin1.def))

(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/babel.sty

(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/spanish.ldf

(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/babel.def)))

(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/misc/setspace.sty

Package: `setspace' 6.4 <1998/11/26>

)

No file ejemplo.aux.



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[1] (ejemplo.aux) )

(see the transcript file for additional information)

Output written on ejemplo.dvi (1 page, 2300 bytes).

Transcript written on ejemplo.log.

[arusabal@localhost ~]$

so from ejemplo.latex latex will produce the files ejemplo.aux ejemplo.log and ejemplo.dvi

The last one, ejemplo.dvi can be viewed for example with "/usr/bin/xdvi"

 

If you want to convert it to postscript to print it or to view it with "/usr/X11R6/bin/gv", you'll need to use "/usr/bin/dvips". For example, to print the file:

[arusabal@localhost ~]$  dvips -t a4 ejemplo.dvi 

This is dvips(k) 5.86e Copyright 2001 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)

' TeX output 2002.12.07:1316' -> |lpr

<texc.pro>. [1] 

[arusabal@localhost ~]$

...Or to save the postscript format into a file:

[arusabal@localhost ~]$  dvips -t a4 ejemplo.dvi -o ejemplo.ps

This is dvips(k) 5.86e Copyright 2001 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)

' TeX output 2002.12.07:1316' -> ejemplo.ps

<texc.pro>. [1] 

[arusabal@localhost ~]$ gv ejemplo.ps & # to view it.

[1] 20541

[arusabal@localhost ~]$

 

ofcourse from dvi format you can also convert the file into pdf

[Guest jwl]

I agree that LyX is a good tool. It hides the code and is pretty user-friendly, once you get into the structure organization mindset for your documents.

 

But if you want to stick with LaTeX, I highly recommend the Kile LaTeX editor/environment. You can get it here:

http://xm1.net.free.fr/kile/

There is a MDK9 rpm available. It runs very well on MDK9 with KDE.