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From: hessmann@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de (Georg Hessmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: TeX versions for Amiga
Keywords: TeX Amiga PD
Message-ID: <1990Oct10.154212.19267@forwiss.uni-passau.de>
Date: 10 Oct 90 15:42:12 GMT
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In article <1990Oct9.151531.24933@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
|In article <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.
|
|Yes, at least the commercial AmigaTeX product from Radical Eye software does
|include LaTeX in the distribution (though you have to purchase the manual
|separately -- that's how the author, Leslie Lamport, makes his money on LaTeX).

If you have TeX (initex, virtex) you have LaTeX, too.
You can copy the LaTeX files from every TeX site (anonymous ftp).
So LaTeX via PasTeX is no problem. :-)

|I'm afraid I've never booted it up, since that wasn't the kind of thing for
|which I bought AmigaTeX, but the rest of the product is high quality, so
|the chances are good that the LaTeX is similar.

LaTeX consists only of many macro files. If you have a fast and 
good TeX implementation (the programs initex and virtex) than 
you have a fast plain-TeX and a fast LaTeX.

|Kent, the man from xanth.

	Georg. (the man from bavaria :-)

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