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You have put off writing up a crucial report for days, and now it is time to finally sit down and format it. You are going to use your Athena account to do this, but how? There are actually several options, and what you choose will depend a lot on what y

ou need to do.\par

Emacs (type "emacs &" at the athena% prompt), is strictly a text editor. You may already be familiar with this program because you use it to compose your e-mail on-line. Emacs does not allow

you to control the format or font of any text you type, and how you view a file on the screen may not be what the output looks like. \par

LaTeX is a text processor which allows you a great deal of flexibility in determining how you want your document formatted. You can not, however, just enter in the text and immediately see the results. You first need to create a file (with a .tex extensi

on) which contains that formatting commands and text which you wish to process. This is where emacs comes in. Most people use

emacs to create and edit their .tex files. Once you have entered everything into the file, you simply need to type "latex file.tex". This will then create a file with a .dvi extension (dvi standing for "device independent"), which you can convert to post

script and send to any athena printer.\par

Another, simpler, option is to use the word processor from the Andrew suite of tools called Ez (type "ez" at the a

thena% prompt). This is almost a "what you see if what you get" (WYSIWYG) text formatter. You can click the mouse on various menus to choose the formatting options, and there is a built-in option to preview the output. This program is

much more limited in scope in terms of complexity of its formatting. You can not left and right justify text on the same line, nor are the equation editting features very extensive.\par

The final option is to use the commercial product FrameMake

r. This is a complete desktop publishing system with a very steep initial learning curve. It is a WYSIWG formatter though, so you can see what the output will look like while you are working on a document, and there is a lot of formatting flexibility.}

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