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Running TEX in an interactive text processing environment

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TEX for Scientific Documentation (TeX 1986)

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We describe an implementation of TEX on a workstation with a high-resolution raster display. An editor, TEX and a screen preview driver are linked via an UNIX pipe, which allows a convenient interactive creation of complicated pieces of text.

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  1. Gesellschaft für Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung mbH, 5205, Sankt Augustin, Federal Republic of Germany

    Wolfgang Appelt

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Jacques Désarménien

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Appelt, W. (1986). Running TEX in an interactive text processing environment. In: Désarménien, J. (eds) TEX for Scientific Documentation. TeX 1986. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 236. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0022688

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