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From: wizard@sosaria.imp.com (Chris Brand)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Re: Amiga \TeX
Message-ID: <4186.AA4186@sosaria>
Date: 23 May 90 22:05:38 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga
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Organization: Sosaria Realm Berne, Switzerland
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In article <384@ncc1701.stgt.sub.org> space@ncc1701.stgt.sub.org (Lars Soltau) says:
> In article <1990May16.225905.3743@watcsc.waterloo.edu> adf@watcsc.waterloo.edu > (Andrew Dellano Fernandes) writes:
> >I was wondering if anyone knew anything about Amiga \LaTeX, \TeX, and other
> >bits of goodies in the public domain.  I know that Radical Eye Software makes
> >an Amiga \TeX, but heard that there were umpteen billion public domian \TeX's
> >out there that were every bit as good.  Any truth?  Sources?
> 
> Just can't be. The AmigaTeX preview alone is worth the money. The TeX
> implementation is almost as fast on my 68000 A2000 as the PC TeX on my 386SX
> (16MHz) in the office. ARexx port, previewing while TeX is still running,
> support of IFF pictures with rescaling and various dithering techniques,
> you name it, they have it. Rokicki has used huge amounts of time to tune
> AmigaTeX and to implement every possible gimmick. What is more, he is the
> inventor of CTeX, the C translation of TeX. He is a prominent figure in the
> TeX Users Group (TUG) and in the Amiga PD scene.

I'm sure that AmigaTeX is an excellent product, however it's very
expensive, at least in Europe. 500 US$ are a normal price for the package,
without special drivers.
CommonTex does not (yet, from the latest information of the author)
include things like CAD-files input, Arexx port and so on. It does support
resizable IFF import and even PBM import. And it costs only a fraction or,
if you know somebody with a copy, nothing, since it's PD (more or less,
you can copy it anyway).


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