Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucsd!usc!apple!spies!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga \TeX Message-ID: <1990Jun1.123925.3734@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 1 Jun 90 12:39:25 GMT Distribution: comp Organization: SF Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 21 I'd just like to add my words of support to the others for Radical Eye, Tom Rokiki (will I ever learn to spell that name?) and Amiga TeX. A while back, I was essentially bullied into doing some METAFONT programming. This meant I had to learn TeX, learn METAFONT, create a development environment, code the required symbols in METAFONT, use them in TeX for proof-of-usability, transfer the whole mess to a Sun system, and install it. I bought Amiga TeX, Amiga METAFONT, a TeX deiver for my NEC 5200 printer, Knuth's METAFONT and TeX books, and sat down to learn. Three weeks later, I had the stuff sold to my customer and installed on his site. From using both the Sun and the Amiga TeX and Metafont, there is no comparision; Amiga TeX is faster, better, showed no bugs, included a marvelously clear reference manual, was better organized, and the support was great. I would recommend that anyone doing TeX or METAFONT on _any_ system investigate doing all the work on the Amiga using Radical Eye's software and just transfer the files to whatever system wants them when they produce clean copy on the Amiga. You'll save more in labor costs than the Amiga software cost you, inside a month if you are a heavy TeX user, and probably pay for the Amiga within five to six months. Kent, the man from xanth.