[OS X TeX] is terminal sufficient?

[diana beatty]

Well, if I'm just using say Pico in Unix to write my programs and edit them,
I guess I just don't see the advantage of TeXShop or something similar
unless it made fixing errors easier or something; granted I haven't actually
done much yet to know what I'm talking about, either.

diana beatty

On 6/28/05 9:25 AM, "Aaron Jackson" <jackson at msrce.howard.edu> wrote:

> 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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