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About techexplorer plugin
The techexplorer plugin is a tool for intepreting and
rendering on-the-fly the files written for TeX/LaTeX document processing
system. TeX (the language, by Donald Knuth) and LaTeX (a macro package for
TeX, by Leslie Lamport) are the most complete computer typesetting packages
available in the public domain, and they are the de-facto standard language
in which physicists and mathematicians write their work. They are uniquely
well-suited for dealing with mathematical symbols and formulae, in addition
to all "normal" document (word) processing features available in other
packages.
TeX/LaTeX however, are NOT wysiwyg. You write a "program" - a text file
containing your words, and interspersed with them some commands that are
responsible for logical structures within the document (headings, sections,
tables) and any special symbols that you may want to include, and then
a "compiler" needs to be run, to process the commands of your "program" and
to produce the output as it is to appear on the page or the screen.
The techexplorer
plugin allows you to skip the second step. It acts as a TeX/LaTeX
interpreter, and aside from the need to reload (refresh) the file within the browser,
it provides an essentially wysiwig way of looking at TeX/LaTeX files.
Originally developed at IBM (former home:
www.software.ibm.com/techexplorer/,
the plugin was purchased in July 2003 by Integre
Technical Publishing, where a free download (with printing and MathML equation editor
included) is available.
Remember to save the executable file to your computer, quit the browser,
then run the self-installing executable. The plugin will be available
once you restart your browser. You may use this web page to
test if it is working correctly on your computer.
Download techexplorer
The links below are local copies of files formerly available from
http://www.software.ibm.com/techexplorer/downloads (v.3.2.31),
or from http://www.mathcad.com/download/techexplorer.asp (v.3.2.33p1), and are
provided as a temporary measure solely for the convenience of users local to
brocku.ca. These are old "Introductory editions", which do not allow printing.
(The new Integre version does!)
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