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From: echarne@ics.uci.edu (Eli B. Charne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: TeX versions for Amiga
Keywords: TeX Amiga PD
Message-ID: <2711EC61.14443@ics.uci.edu>
Date: 9 Oct 90 15:27:29 GMT
References: <2252@wn1.sci.kun.nl> <87926@aerospace.AERO.ORG>
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Organization: UC Irvine Department of ICS
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In <87926@aerospace.AERO.ORG> huebner@aero.aero.org (Robert Huebner) writes:

>In article <2252@wn1.sci.kun.nl>, vlsi4@erato.cs.kun.nl (Freddy Aries) writes:
>|> I am quite new to the TeX scene, and I heard about the TeX versions for
>|> the Amiga. I heard there is AmigaTeX (commercial), CommonTeX, TeX 3.0 and
>|> PasTeX. Could anybody please explain to me what the differences between
>|> these versions are (reviews would be appreciated). 

>  I'd like to add one thing to this question: Is there a version of LaTeX out
>for the Amiga?  The only reason I ask is because we use it here on Suns, but
>if one of the others (AmigaTeX, PasTeX, etc.) is better, I'll gladly switch.

  I have used PasTeX to "build" LaTeX for the Amiga.  I'm running it on a 3
  meg Amiga 500, and have set it up to take advantage of that.  The version
  I built (you have to set up PasTeXs memory defaults before building it)
  would probably run on an  Amiga with 2 megs memory.

  I also spent a few days generating buccu fonts on a NeXT, and PasTeX really
  performs quite well with the fonts and lplain.fmt LatTeX format.

						    -Eli

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