[OS X TeX] is terminal sufficient?

[Alain Bélanger]

Better to use TexShop than Pico.

On 28 Jun, 2005, at 11:10, 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?
>
> Thanks,
> diana beatty
>
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