Accession Number:

ADA172854

Title:

An Improved User Environment for TEX

Descriptive Note:

Technical rept. 7 Aug 1984-6 Aug 1986

Corporate Author:

CALIFORNIA UNIV BERKELEY COMPUTER SCIENCE DIV

Personal Author(s):

• Chen, Peehong
• Harrison, Michael A.
• McCarrell, Jeffrey W.
• Coker, John
• Procter, Steve

Report Date:

1986-08-06

Pagination or Media Count:

12.0

Abstract:

This paper describes the enhancements made 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 perviewer 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.

Descriptors:

• *TEXT PROCESSING
• AUTOMATION
• COMPILERS
• DEBUGGING(COMPUTERS)
• DISPLAY SYSTEMS
• DOCUMENTS
• EDITING
• HIGH RESOLUTION
• PREPROCESSING

Subject Categories:

• Computer Programming and Software

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE