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From: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Tools for writing manuals...
Message-ID: <1187@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Date: 11 Jul 89 04:50:36 GMT
References: <8155@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> <3161@wpi.wpi.edu>
Reply-To: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu.UUCP (Jim Wright)
Organization: Iowa State U. Computer Science Department, Ames, IA
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In article <3161@wpi.wpi.edu> john@wpi.wpi.edu (John F Stoffel) mis-writes:
| One very good program is TeX, Amiga port by thomas rockiki.  TeX
| itself is an amazing program, and Tom Rockiki's port is said to be
| wonderful.  

Yes, Tomas Rokicki's AmigaTeX is truly wonderful.

| Both TeX and LaTeX (not available for the amiga as far as I know) can
| do all that and more.  The power of TeX is simply mind boggling.

TeX is the basic system.  LaTeX is a macro package which is much easier
and more intuitive to use (IMHO).  Yes, AmigaTeX *does* include LaTeX.

| Warning:  TeX is NOT a "what you see is what you get" word processor.

No, TeX is not "what you see is all you get".  It is much more powerful
than that.  The previewer with AmigaTeX is the best I've ever seen, and
I've heard it called the best previewer there is.  Sun workstations are
being replaced with Amigas because of AmigaTeX (so I've heard).

A most important feature of TeX is that it has been implemented on *many*
different systems.  So it is quite likely that the document you produce
at home on your Amiga can be sent to your office "big computer", or to a
co-author working on a different machine, or even to a publisher.

-- 
Jim Wright
jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu