Xref: utzoo gnu.emacs.help:375 comp.emacs:9566 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!uahtitan.ai.mit.edu!bennett From: bennett@uahtitan.ai.mit.edu (Mark Bennett) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Subject: Help me avoid Apple / TeX, LaTeX, AMSTeX, etc. Message-ID: <9011202155.AA08315@uahtitan.uah.edu> Date: 20 Nov 90 23:54:49 GMT Sender: bennett@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Followup-To: gnu.emacs.help Organization: Gatewayed from the GNU Project mailing list help-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu Lines: 57 Hi - Please pardon all the details, but I tried to ask this question before and I got some sincere suggestions that were, unfortunately, not applicable to my situation. EQUIPMENT: I have installed GNU Emacs on our 1500 series Stardent (formerly Ardent) Titan 2. It is presently running Stardent UNIX Release 2.2 (UNIX System V Release 3.0 with some BSD extensions). Our system has a printer that takes PostScript input (a NEC Silentwriter). SITUATION: Long ago and far away - when I was first a graduate student - I learned to use TeX and then LaTeX (both acquired for free) on a Data General computer. Not so long ago, but still far away - when I was writing my Ph.D. thesis - I used and fell in love with Emacs (using LaTeX mode) on the Athena computer system at MIT. Once arriving here I found that the person in charge of the computer was (almost) totally incompetent - he could barely use vi! After much complaining *I* was put in charge of the computer - in addition to my "real" work. Please note I am not a computer scientist, nor a hacker - my degree is in Chemical Engineering. Please bear this in mind when you reply. So now I can somewhat merrily work away on this machine via emacs *except* I have no way to do word processing/text formating. All the word processing here at the Center is done on Mac's (boo, hiss). I would *MUCH* prefer to use my UNIX machine, working in LaTeX via Emacs. THE PROBLEM: Stardent customer support has not helped me find a source for LaTeX (TeX, AMSTeX) for this machine. Since it is running pretty standard UNIX, and since we have a way of outputing the standard PostScript output it seems to me that a LaTeX to run in this environment should not be hard to find. ALSO - since much of GNU Emacs uses TeX and LaTeX format I *VERY* *MUCH* *HOPE* I can put this request on the newsgroup. As a non-computer person, once I exhasted customer support, I haven't the first clue as to were to look (who to call, etc.) to get this. If I can't get LaTeX I may be forced to use Apple products to write my papers. I read the newsgroup regularly so you can reply there if you think this would be of ssome general interest, otherwise reply by e-mail. PLEASE note the return path on my outgoing mail is frequently broken, so use the address given below. Mark J. Bennett Center for Migrogravity and Materials Research The University of Alabama in Huntsville Huntsville, AL 35899 (205)895-6889 bennett@uahtitan.uah.edu (129.66.23.6) disclaimer: opinions expressed are my own and not those of CMMR or UAH.