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Purpose: Views TeX/LaTeX documents Company: IBM Platform: Win95, NT Plug-in cost: Free Developer tool: Any word-processing program Download from: http://www.ics.raleigh.ibm.com/icsbeta/register.htm
In the grand scheme of things, techexplorer serves an extremely narrow audience. If you're neither a scientist nor a career academic, there's nothing here for you.
techexplorer lets your browser process papers written in TeX/LaTeX, an almost archaic markup language used for scholarly publishing (particularly in the sciences). Yes, yes. We know the Web already has its own markup language. But HTML can't accommodate advanced scientific nomenclature (TEX/LATEX can), and besides - most academics haven't the inclination to learn every newfangled protocol that comes along.
To this obdurate (if not necessarily devoted) audience, IBM offers techexplorer, a Netscape plug-in that allows them to shovel dissertations (and other scholarly sundry) onto the Web without converting TeX/LaTeX to HTML. Intended to supplement rather than replace HTML, the plug-in's a convenient way to make academic archives available worldwide. But you'll need to jump through a few hoops first; IBM has an extensive licensing agreement that must be submitted via email before downloading the software.
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