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On 2023-03-11, Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Mar 2023 03:24:07 -0400, Mike Spencer wrote:
>> Ha! Until ca. '92 I used -- I forget, was it WordStar? -- a markup word
>> processor on CP/M with a dot matrix printer, business letters,
>> blacksmithing newsletter, assorted. 
>
> Been there, done that... WordStar was mainly intended to be used as a 
> word processor for writing letters formatted as well as they could be 
> back at the time when they were written on matrix printers with a fixed 
> font with up to 80 characters on each line. WordStar automatically added 
> some spaces to the documents so both the left and right margins became 
> aligned which made the documents look really impressive back then.
>
> I also used WordStar as an editor for programming Basic on my CP/M 
> system. Some years later, when I on university were supposed to use emacs 
> for programming I initially wanted to remap the keys in emacs to the way 
> they were used in WordStar, but I soon dropped that idea and learned 
> emacs instead.
>
>> Is there an online tutorial PDF for Latex that's simple-minded?
>
> For that quick tutorial purpose I have used 
> http://www.ddg.lth.se/perf/handledning/handledning.pdf
> which has been great for me, but might be less useful for you as it is 
> written in swedish.
>
> For reference I have used https://icl.utk.edu/~mgates3/docs/latex.pdf but 
> it is more of a reference document than a tutorial.
>
> Some googling seem to point at some tutorial pages about Latex, but those 
> are web pages rather than pdf and I can't say how good they are as I 
> haven't used them myself.
>
>
> regards Henrik

Lamport's book on latex is all you will ever need.

A lot of other books are about idiots variations,  as when a bad teacher
tells  his pupils, "The rest is obvious."

using vim as editor,  which can take a little learning.

The sacred words are, "Keep It Simple, Stupid"

I have a laser  printer, and I am thinking of  reverting to a
dot-matrix. KISS.


-- 
greymausg@mail.com
where is our money gone, Dude?

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  Re: Networking problem trying to set up CUPS Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2023-02-21 02:55 +0000
    Re: Networking problem trying to set up CUPS Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood <phaywood@alphalink.com.au> - 2023-02-22 12:32 +1100
      Re: Networking problem trying to set up CUPS Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2023-02-22 13:28 +0000
  Re: Networking problem trying to set up CUPS Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2023-02-21 06:34 +0000
    Ping Henrik Re: Networking problem trying to set up CUPS Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2023-03-05 19:14 -0400
      Re: Ping Henrik Re: Networking problem trying to set up CUPS Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2023-03-06 06:54 +0000
        Tnx Re: Ping Henrik Re: Networking problem trying to set up CUPS Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2023-03-08 01:25 -0400
          Re: Tnx Re: Ping Henrik Re: Networking problem trying to set up CUPS Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2023-03-08 20:48 +0000
            Latex Re: Tnx Re: Ping Henrik Re: Networking problem... Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2023-03-11 03:24 -0400
              Re: Latex Re: Tnx Re: Ping Henrik Re: Networking problem... Martin Schöön <martin.schoon@gmail.com> - 2023-03-11 09:25 +0000
              Re: Latex Re: Tnx Re: Ping Henrik Re: Networking problem... Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2023-03-11 10:13 +0000
                Re: Latex Re: Tnx Re: Ping Henrik Re: Networking problem... maus <maus@mail.com> - 2023-03-11 11:30 +0000
                Re: Latex Javier <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2023-03-12 03:52 +0000
                Re: Latex maus <maus@mail.com> - 2023-03-12 08:59 +0000
                Re: Latex Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2023-03-12 11:04 +0000
                Re: Latex Javier <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2023-03-12 17:10 +0000
                Re: Latex Javier <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2023-03-12 17:48 +0000
                Re: Latex Martin Schöön <martin.schoon@gmail.com> - 2023-03-12 20:42 +0000
                Re: Latex Javier <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2023-03-12 21:17 +0000
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  Re: Networking problem trying to set up CUPS Marco Moock <mo01@posteo.de> - 2023-02-21 14:47 +0100
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  Re: Networking problem trying to set up CUPS Javier <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2023-02-21 21:19 +0000
  Re: Networking problem trying to set up CUPS Giovanni <lsodgf0@home.net.it> - 2023-02-22 12:59 +0100
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