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From: giguere@aries5.uucp (Eric Giguere)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Tools for writing manuals...
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Date: 11 Jul 89 16:23:11 GMT
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Yes, a lot of people on the net use AmigaTeX and can attest to how wonderful
it is.  The portability factor is an extremely big plus from my point of
view.  If you want more information on AmigaTeX see my review in the
Transactor for the Amiga a few months back.  The June issue of the TransAmi
also has an article showing off what you can do with LaTeX using AmigaTeX.
If you have access to neither copy I could mail the original text of my
review to anyone who wants it.  Tom Rokicki, the author of AmigaTeX, reads
this group regularly and can answer any questions.  He can also be reached
on BIX as radical.eye (Radical Eye Software is his company name.)       

One point that should be mentioned, though, is that using LaTeX (or TeX)
may not suit your purposes for several reasons.  One of them is that you'll
probably want your own documentation style created, which means hacking up
one of the standard LaTeX styles --- hard to do from scratch.  Another big
reason is that currently --- Tom is working on this, though --- TeX really
has no support for more than simple graphics.  If your documentation is
graphics-intensive then TeX may not be the way to go at the current time.
(Mind you, I'm not sure what is.  Most DTP programs are only designed to
handle a few pages, really, and are unsuited for long documents.  At least
this is what I've concluded.)

Eric Giguere                                  268 Phillip St #CL-46
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