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From: jlong@blackbird.afit.af.mil (Jeffrey K. Long)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Announcing BibTeX V0.99 for the Atari-ST!!
Keywords: Bibtex, Atari
Message-ID: <1349@blackbird.afit.af.mil>
Date: 18 Sep 89 15:54:49 GMT
Reply-To: jlong@blackbird.afit.af.mil (Jeffrey K. Long)
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Organization: Air Force Institute of Technology; WPAFB, OH
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I just finished porting V0.99c of Bibtex over for the atari-st.
I was able to use the PC-DOS code written for the Turbo-C compiler on the
PC's over to the ST using Prospero-C!

If you have to ask yourself, "what it Bibtex?" this anouncement will
probably have little meaning for you.  

BUT, if you are already running LaTeX and maybe the nice new .dvi previewer
that was just posted to comp.binaries.atari.st and you wanted a "complete"
LaTeX system, here is the last piece of the puzzle.
BibTeX lets you maintain a separate library of Bibliography references and
then integrate that bibliography into you LaTeX document.  

I can now do "almost" everything for my master's thesis at home on my ST
that I can do here at AFIT on our SUN systems!! (I say "almost" because
I still can't do Fig files at home).

Someday, probably after my thesis is submitted, I hope to write a complete
article on using the LaTeX environment on the ST.  Who knows, I may even
submit it to the ST mags for publication.  I think it is time that all
those who are so excited about "DTP" on the ST find out what true typeset
quality document preparation looks like!  Sure, DTP programs have their
place (ie, newsletters, flyers, etc), but lets face facts: for Professional
quality typesetting of articles (particularly those with mathematical
equations in them) LaTeX is still the academic standard!

With my LaTeX system driving my HP-DeskJet printer and previewing using the
excellent previewer just posted to the comp.binaries.atari.st, I can
produce 300dpi quality papers that I doubt even Calamus can come close to!

I have submitted bibtex to comp.binaries.atari.st and will upload it to the
terminator archive soon.  The .dvi driver for the deskjet is available from
terminator in the directory /atari/new as will bibtex very soon!  Couple
these with the stuff available in /atari/tex from terminator, and you too
can be whipping out high quality mathematical/engineering papers!

Please, no "my DTP program can beat your DTP program" flame wars!!!
If you haven't seen a LaTeX document printed on a Laser-printer or a
DeskJet, you can't appreciate the power of LaTeX!  NO, IT ISN'T VERY USER
FRIENDLY AND IT ISN'T WYSIWYG!!  But the power and advantage of LaTeX lies
in other areas.  LaTeX isn't a replacement for DTP, it is simply a better
way to go for the specific application of Professional quality document
preparation with mathematical typesetting capablilty that is unsurpassed!

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|   Jeff Long              jlong@blackbird.afit.af.mil  (ARPA net)      |
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|   humble (and getting humbler by the day) graduate student;           |
|   The Air Force Institute of Technology  (what a great way of life??) |
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