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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I’m a TUG neophyte. But I </span></font><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>tex</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> everything.
Started in 1996 with plaintex on DOS 5.11 (?Maybe, not sure) Thought I was
savvy. But my DOS 5.11 (or Windows 3.1?) finally crashed; I’m trying to
start over on Windows XP Pro, only because it’s here. My block is this: Protext
is latex. Texlive2007 looks latex. Winshell is latex. I load Texlive2007 over
and over from the DVD and get tplmgui.ini ‘failed’. But then I
still need a plaintex editor. I’LL PAY. I would like a plaintex environment.
I know latex may be tex-du-jour but I’m conversant with plaintex, and I’m
too OLD to learn latex. You may not appreciate that such a Neanderthal exists.
Can’t be impossible to start the simple way with plaintex! And which
editor? Please, start with words of one syllable.</span></font></p>
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