L^ATEX on Athena

You can run L^ATEX on any Athena-ized workstation. Instructions for setting up your environment and running L^ATEX on these platforms are given in section 4 of this document. To get more information on using other software available on the Athena workstations, see the Getting Started on Athena document available from MIT Copy Tech, and the Inessential Guide to Athena available from the SIPB office (W20-557).

Versions of L^ATEX can be obtained many other types of machines. However, many L^ATEX distributions for popular platforms are commercial packages, and their features and usage may differ. Hopefully, your L^ATEX package will come with some instructions for setting it up and running it.

The version of L^ATEX described in this document is version L^ATEX2_e, which is the version currently supported by Athena and SIPB. Version 2.09 is still available in the newtex locker under the name latex209. Section 11 of this document describes the differences between the two versions.