StarTeX - a TeX for beginners
Dag Langmyhr · NORA - Norwegian Open Research Archives · 1996
BackgroundIn many courses taught at the Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo, students are required to write a short report or essay, typically 3-8 pages.A suitable text processing tool for this must fulfill the following requirements:• It must run under UNIX, as all our student computers use UNIX.That excludes Scientific Word as well as Word and similar programs.• It must not be too expensive.That excludes FrameMaker.• It must provide quality mathematical typesetting, as several courses involve substantial amounts of mathematics.That excludes Word Perfect and Eqn+Troff.• It should be easy to learn and use, yet robust.This is a point against L A T E X.