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From: jac@muslix.llnl.gov (James Crotinger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Where is TEX?
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Date: 6 Dec 89 18:08:34 GMT
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  You're suspicions are partly correct. Latex is a macro package for
tex and can be found at various ftp sites. However without TeX (the program),
these macros won't do you an ounce of good so your statement that

  " in which case you would merely have to get a hold of any
    distribution of the LaTeX package to have LaTeX."

is not really correct. Kind of like getting C code and no C compiler. 

  As for the AmigaTeX demo, I think you may have to set some envronment
variables, though I thought they defaulted to the proper places. I believe
that the environment variable (set with the "set" command) specifies where
the .fmt files go. I think this is supposed to default to tex:formats.

  Jim