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From: jmeissen@oregon.oacis.org ( Staff OACIS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: TeX versions for Amiga
Message-ID: <28@oregon.oacis.org>
Date: 11 Oct 90 16:34:13 GMT
References: <32880@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <1990Oct10.152645.19129@forwiss.uni-passau.de>
Organization: Oregon Advanced Computing Institute (OACIS)
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In article <1990Oct10.152645.19129@forwiss.uni-passau.de> hessmann@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de (Georg Hessmann) writes:
>In article <32880@nigel.ee.udel.edu> @utrcgw.utc.com:mark@ardnt1 (mark) writes:
>But it is expensive. OK, it's a very good implementation,
>but IMHO it's too expensive (here in Germany) for programs 
>that are PD on every other computer system.

This is not exactly accurate. There are PD implementations on most other systems,
but there are also commercial implementations for most systems.

The considerations are the same as for other programs that have PD "equivilants":
it all depends on how much of your own time and effort you want to put into
it, how much hand-holding you will need to get up and running, and how important
support is.

I don't know how expensive Tomas' product is in Germany, but in the States it
is fairly reasonable considering most of the work is already done for you.  And
Tomas is always quite willing to help with any problems, whether it's a problem
with AmigaTeX or just a question about how to use TeX macros.

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