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Commands for Preparing and Viewing LaTeX Documents on Linux



Commands for Preparing and Viewing LaTeX Documents on Linux
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Commands for Preparing and Viewing LaTeX Documents on Linux

The LaTeX system - programs, packages of macros etc., is installed on the School's Fedora Core 3 Linux workstations.

LaTeX is a text formatting and typesetting language. LaTeX documents are processed into DVI (DeVice Independent) files which may be converted by various applications for display or printing.

Command Action
latex process LaTeX source file into DVI
xdvi display DVI file in an X window on a workstation
dvips convert DVI file into PostScript for printing

On Linux, the command pdflatex can by used instead of latex to produce a PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) file instead of a DVI one.

Command Action
pdflatex process LaTeX source file into PDF
acroread display PDF in an X window on a workstation




Commands for Processing LaTeX Files


Subsections

* How to use the commands

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