[OS X TeX] is terminal sufficient?

[Aaron Jackson]

On Jun 28, 2005, at 11:10 AM, diana beatty wrote:

> Hi, I am just setting out trying to teach myself TeX.  I downloaded 
> gwTeX
> and figured out how to create TeX files using Unix from the terminal 
> on my
> Mac, and how to compile them there into pdf's or whatever.
>
> Can TeX programming be done from Unix alone or is something like 
> TeXShop
> really necessary?  What do those additional programs do that can't be 
> done
> through the terminal?

TeX, like every other ancient UNIX program, was designed to use the 
terminal because GUI's didn't exist.  The only thing that TexShop 
provides is a nice easy non-UNIX way to edit documents.  I suppose a 
purest would consider that lazy...

Aaron

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