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From: rokicki@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Big TeX
Message-ID: <1990Jun4.224959.10236@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 4 Jun 90 22:49:59 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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Sorry it took so long for me to post this; I haven't read news in a
couple of days.

AmigaTeX currently only supports a four-byte TeX memory word,
restricting the size of the memmax array to 65500 and change
words, or 131,000 bytes.  This is not sufficient for any
documents that require both LaTeX and PiCTeX and have either
a lot of references or very complex PiCTeX pictures.

I am planning to build a large TeX, using eight-byte TeX memory
words (instantly doubling memory requirements before you can
even increase the memmax size).  This will be a completely
separate executable for those who need it.  I am also planning
complete VF support and TeX 3.0/MF 2.0.

The recommended way to do graphics is with PostScript (if you
have such a printer) or with the pfilt system for including
IFF/ILBM images.  By the end of the summer AmigaTeX may well
support PostScript images on any device, thanks to Adrian
Aylward's Post library.

-tom