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From: matth@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Matthew Hannigan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: TeX - an idea to improve it
Summary: Please make this stuff available
Message-ID: <1990May4.071627.25369@metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU>
Date: 4 May 90 07:16:27 GMT
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Reply-To: matth@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Matthew Hannigan)
Organization: University Computing Service, Uni. of Sydney, Australia.
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In article <9005031222.AA13239@tubbs.dmswwu-ether> ONM29@DMSWWU1A.BITNET writes:
>I think part of my message didn't make it, so I repost it here.
>
>We ported several Graphics-systems for UNIX-systems to the amiga.
>Among these are:
>- ppm/pgm/pbm, with printer-support and programs to convert the
>  resulting bitmaps into pk-pxl-Files to include them into any
>  \TeX-Output.
>- GNUTeX, for curves and functions in \LaTeX.
>- FIG. However, we still lack FIG2LATEX. Where can I get a source?
>  I feel that this program is quite a final answer to including
>  graphics in \LaTeX, as it is easy-to-use.
>- Our PD-TeX3.0-Distribution now can include pbm directly,
>  using \special-commands for the DVI-drivers.
>Description of ppm/pgm/pbm follows:
[rest deleted]

Please make this stuff available for others, if you're
willing. If it is too big to post on comp.{sources,binaries}.amiga,
could you give it Fred Fish to put on a disk?

Thanks in advance,

Matt