Re: [BLACKBOX] LaTeX for BlackBox ?

From: [at]} <Robert>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:30:02 +0000

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Bob Walkden wrote:
> I suspect that they mean the files should be on the path somewhere. The path
> is an environment variable (imaginatively named PATH) containing a list of
> directory names; Windows searches the directories in sequence when it is
> looking for an executable file.

Actually I was acting a bit dumber than I really am, but only a little dumber!

I do vaguely know what a path variable is. I seem to remember that in DOS it was
in a text file (whose name I forget) in a directory whose name I forget (C:\ ?),
and it was inspected/altered by using a text editor.

Under XP I guess there will be a 'Widowey' way to inspect it. But I have no idea
where to look - in the Control panel somewhere?


 > You can also ask questions here - no need for anyone to be formally part of
 > the project.



I think that what I want in a project 'Partner' is, at least, someone who will
copy what I try, and toss in ideas when I get stuck.



Douglas G. Danforth wrote:
 > I looked at LaTeX some years ago and blanched at the
 > complexity.

I am certainly not going to defend excess complexity. But if you can
use 1% of LaTeX (which is about my level of knowledge) you can easily type
pretty equations into Wikipedia. To have that capability in BBox would be
attractive. And possibly after using that for a while one might be motivated to
learn the second %, and then maybe even the third!


Thanks for your replies

Robert.


PS Wojtek: I think that WinEdt does a similar job to TeXnicCenter
(http://www.toolscenter.org/about/about-texniccenter), the TeX friendly text
editor I use. Unlike WinEdt, TeXnicCenter is free!
These tools are not, I think, alternatives to tools like GladTeX.

My proposed 'Project' is about using existing tools (GladTex, FreeImage), not
about porting large developments (TeX, LaTeX) into Component Pascal.

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