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From: UH2@psuvm.psu.edu (Lee Sailer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Mathematical formula programs wanted.
Message-ID: <90251.000953UH2@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 8 Sep 90 04:09:53 GMT
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In article <35123@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>, v117gv8r@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Thom
Burnett) says:

>        I am one of those Ph.D.s using TeX on the VAX and still learning it.
>I had not heard of AmigaTeX. Does it feature WYSIWYG? How much does it cost
>(approx)?

AmigaTeX is sort of wysiwyg.  It has a very good on screen previewer of the
TeX output.  Using multitasking, you can set up an editor to send output
to TeX which sends its output, the DVI information, directly to the previewer.
So, when you are trying to develop something particularly tricky, you type it
into the editor window, and the use the editor to send just that small part
to TeX and on to the previewer.  If it works, fine.  if not, you can just
edit it and send it again and again and again and again (this is TeX, after
all 8-).

Amiga TeX costs about $200 something plus more for a printer driver.
Also, the TeX n NeXT comes from the same guy.  I assume NeXT TeX is
very similar to AmigaTeX, though I've not actually seen it.

                                                           lee