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From: barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Where is TeX?
Message-ID: <3466@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 1 Dec 89 18:02:55 GMT
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Reply-To: barrett@jhunix.UUCP (Dan Barrett)
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	I just wanted to mention a few things about the PD implementation
of CommonTeX from Germany {the one you can get by sending a mail message
"/AMYGET SRC AMIGABI TEX-DIST (PARTSEND" to listserv@mammutti.utu.fi}.

o	It does not come with LaTeX, just plain TeX.

o	It works just fine!  I haven't done any printing from the Amiga, but
	it is indeed making correct DVI files.  (I previewed them on our
	VAX.)

o	It works fine with the GNU macro package, texinfo.  I successfully
	TeX'd the texinfo manual itself, "texinfo.texinfo" from the GNU
	Emacs distribution.  (Version 1.26 of texinfo.)

o	It's pretty slow with a 65ms hard drive and a 68000 Amiga 1000!
	I think it took about 8-10 minutes to make the texinfo manual
	(106 pages).

o	In order to get texinfo to work, you'll need all the *.tfm files
	(may be taken from the UNIX TeX, I guess) in your fonts: directory.

                                                        Dan

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