Re: fuck emacs!!

On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 01:30:07AM -0300, José Rodriguez wrote:
> ¿cómo hago para salir del Emacs?, en el help no encuentro nada que me lleve
> a los comandos principales para manejarlo. Entré al emacs porque quería ver
> si tenía un compilador de basic, ¿tiene ?

mirá, quizás mi versión del emacs es más nueva o algo, pero no creo
(desde que me acuerde siempre la pantalla de arranque ha sido igual,
así llena de gráficos :). Las primeras líneas te dicen que:

-8<------------------------------------------------------------------
Welcome to GNU Emacs, one component of a Linux-based GNU system.

Get help           C-h  (Hold down CTRL and press h)
Undo changes       C-x u       Exit Emacs               C-x C-c
Get a tutorial     C-h t       Use Info to read docs    C-h i
------------------------------------------------------------------>8-

vienen varios _intérpretes_ de basic para unix; no sé si compiladores.
De última, fijate en la referencia canónica, http://www.freshmeat.net.


> otra cosa.., ¿qué es Latex ?

si no te molesta leer el inglés, "dict latex" me dice (entre otras
cosas)

  LaTeX

          <language, text, tool> (Lamport TeX) Leslie Lamport
          <lamport-6diDTOv0T+HQT0dZR+AlfA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>'s document 
preparation system built on
          top of {TeX}.  LaTeX was developed at {SRI International}'s
          Computer Science Laboratory and was built to resemble
          {Scribe}.

          LaTeX adds commands to simplify typesetting and lets the user
          concentrate on the structure of the text rather than on
          formatting commands.

          {BibTeX} is a LaTeX package for bibliographic citations.

          Lamport's LaTeX book has an exemplary index listing every
          symbol, concept and example in the book.  The index in the,
          now obsolete, first edition includes (on page 221) the
          mysterious entry "Gilkerson, Ellen, 221".  The second edition
          (1994) has an entry for "infinite loop" instead.

          ["LaTeX, A Document Preparation System", Leslie Lamport, A-W
          1986, ISBN 0-201-15790-X (first edition, now obsolete)].

          (1997-11-17)

y "dict tex",

  TeX

          <publication> /tekh/ An extremely powerful {macro}-based text
          formatter written by {Donald Knuth}, very popular in academia,
          especially in the computer-science community (it is good
          enough to have displaced {Unix} {troff}, the other favoured
          formatter, even at many {Unix} installations).

          TeX fans insist on the correct (guttural) pronunciation, and
          the correct spelling (all caps, squished together, with the E
          depressed below the baseline; the mixed-case "TeX" is
          considered an acceptable {kluge} on {ASCII}-only devices).
          Fans like to proliferate names from the word "TeX" - such as
          TeXnician (TeX user), TeXhacker (TeX programmer), TeXmaster
          (competent TeX programmer), TeXhax, and TeXnique.

          Knuth began TeX because he had become annoyed at the declining
          quality of the typesetting in volumes I--III of his monumental
          "Art of Computer Programming" (see {Knuth}, also {bible}).  In
          a manifestation of the typical hackish urge to solve the
          problem at hand once and for all, he began to design his own
          typesetting language.  He thought he would finish it on his
          sabbatical in 1978; he was wrong by only about 8 years.  The
          language was finally frozen around 1985, but volume IV of "The
          Art of Computer Programming" has yet to appear as of mid-1997.
          (However, the third edition of volumes I and II have come
          out).  The impact and influence of TeX's design has been such
          that nobody minds this very much.  Many grand hackish projects
          have started as a bit of {toolsmith}ing on the way to
          something else; Knuth's diversion was simply on a grander
          scale than most.

          TeX has also been a noteworthy example of free, shared, but
          high-quality software.  Knuth offers monetary awards to people
          who find and report a bug in it: for each bug the award is
          doubled.  (This has not made Knuth poor, however, as there
          have been very few bugs and in any case a cheque proving that
          the owner found a bug in TeX is rarely cashed).  Though
          well-written, TeX is so large (and so full of cutting edge
          technique) that it is said to have unearthed at least one bug
          in every {Pascal} system it has been compiled with.

          Several document processing systems are based on TeX, notably
          {LaTeX} Lamport TeX - incorporates document styles for books,
          letters, slides, etc., {jadeTeX} uses TeX as a backend for
          printing from {James' DSSSL Engine}, and {Texinfo}, the {GNU}
          document processing system.  Numerous extensions to TeX exist,
          among them {BibTeX} for bibliographies (distributed with
          LaTeX), {PDFTeX} modifies TeX to produce {PDF} and {Omega}
          extends TeX to use the {Unicode} character set.

          See also {Comprehensive TeX Archive Network}.

          {(ftp://labrea.stanford.edu/tex/)}

          E-mail: <tug-WUdSmCIlby8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (TeX User's group, Oregon, 
USA).

          (1997-11-20)


> PD: el que sepa de alguna página con manuales para aplicaciones de linux mi
> buzón estará siempre contento bye.

al menos en Debian viene un montón de información en el paquete
tetex-doc (tetex es una distribución de TeX para unix). Lo podés
encontrar (además de en todo mirror de debian) en

ftp://ftp.grulic.org.ar/pub/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/tex/tetex-doc_1.0-9.deb

son 11MB de cosas, desde una referencia completa en HTML hasta
tutoriales en PS, sobre cosas desde BibTeX hasta MusiXTeX pasando por
QuIsiOTeX y todo eso.

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