ARCHIVED: What are TeX and LaTex, and where are they available at IU?

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TeX (pronounced "teck") is a typesetting program that is especially useful for formatting mathematical, scientific, and academic texts containing complex equations, formulas, tables, and footnotes. LaTeX is a macro package that simplifies the process of creating document formats in TeX. Versions of TeX and LaTeX are available for Unix, Windows, and Mac OS X systems.

At Indiana University, TeX and LaTeX are available on the Quarry cluster in the /usr/bin directory.

For information about using TeX or LaTeX on the Quarry, view the manual pages (from the command line, enter man text or man latex) and the GNU documentation (from the command line, enter info tex or info latex). Also, see ARCHIVED: In LaTeX or TeX in Unix, how do I create and print a document?

For more about TeX and LaTeX in general, see What are TeX and its friends? from the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network.

Note: After seven years of production service, Indiana University's Quarry research computing cluster was decommissioned January 30, 2015. IU students, faculty, and staff can request accounts on Karst, IU's newest high-throughput computing cluster; for instructions, see ARCHIVED: Requesting an account. User data on Quarry has not be removed; you can access your old home directory data on Quarry from your account on any other IU research computing resource (see Available access to allocated and short-term storage capacity on IU's research systems). All software modules that were available on Quarry are available on Karst. If you have questions or concerns about Quarry's retirement, or need help, contact the High Performance Systems group.

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Last modified on 2018-01-18 08:43:13.