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From: zinkv@azu22.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Volker Zink)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Problems with TeX on Amiga
Summary: Using TeX under SKsh causes problems
Keywords: TeX, AmigaTeX, SKsh
Message-ID: <4140@ifi.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>
Date: 22 Aug 90 09:06:57 GMT
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Organization: Informatik, Uni Stuttgart, W.Germany
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	Hello,

I've problems using TeX 3.0, AmigaTeX:

   - AmigaTeX uses Environment-Variables which are set with the
     'set'-command. This works fine when i am in the CLI. But
     when i enter the SKsh (i'm using v1.5) i cannot alter the
     values of these variables any more. How can they be changed
     in SKsh ?

   - TeX 3.0 which i have ftp-ed recently from xanth uses also variables
     for finding inputs. But it uses the setenv-command. Under
     the CLI it works fine, but after invoking SKsh it doesn't
     work any more. Also getenv doesn't work anymore. So i suppose
     that TeX cannot access the variables, and doesn't find his
     inputs. Is there a solution to this problem ?

   - Under SKsh i cannot type 'virmf &cmbase "\mode:=amiga; mag:= ..."'
     i must escape the colon between the "" . why ? is there a chance
     to use other quotes to use, so that it isn't necessary to
     escape the colon (and also the backslash) ?
     (i know that above the ampersand must also escaped, but it stands
     not between quotes)

   - Metafont has a display-Mode. This display-Mode works fine when
     i doesn't include amiga.mf. But normally i doesnt use display-Mode,
     and so my plain.base contains plain.mf and amiga.mf . When i invoke
     MF (with plain.base) the display-Mode doesnt work correct any more.
     (it opens a screen, but displays nothing). Can anyone tell me why ?

thanx

	Volker
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