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This paper describes the enhancements we have made at Berkeley to the TEX environment. The goal of the enhancements is to shorten the edit-compile-debug cycle in preparing TEX documents. An important step in cutting down debugging time is the development of a DVI previewer on a workstation with a high resolution bit-mapped display. Yet another approach we took is the integration of TEX with a powerful display-oriented editor whereby the editing, compiling, and certain pre- or postprocessing of a document may be automated. We present some of the important results of our work in this paper with a general critique on TEX that underscores our motivations.
This work has been sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation under Grant MCS-8311787 and by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DoD), ARPA Order No. 4871, monitored by Naval Electronic Systems Command, under Contract No. N00039-84-C-0089. Additional support was provided by the State of California MICRO program under grant number 532422-19900.
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Chen, P., Harrison, M.A., McCarrell, J.W., Coker, J., Procter, S. (1986). An improved user environment for TEX. 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/BFb0022690
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