Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!rutgers!gatech!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!news.funet.fi!tukki.jyu.fi!jyu.fi!suhonen From: suhonen@kunto.jyu.fi (Timo Suhonen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: GNU (as it applies to the ST), TeX Message-ID: Date: 7 Jan 91 09:54:04 GMT References: <37142@cup.portal.com> <2789@atari.UUCP> <9784@orca.wv.tek.com> <3781@eastapps.East.Sun.COM> <37621@cup.portal.com> Sender: news@tukki.jyu.fi (News articles) Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences Lines: 43 In-Reply-To: Yonderboy@cup.portal.com's message of 6 Jan 91 00:34:43 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: kunto.jyu.fi In article <37621@cup.portal.com> Yonderboy@cup.portal.com (Christopher Lee Russell) writes: Anyways, I have recently been trying to figure out how I might be able to play around with TeX on my ST. Will I be able to do this with only 1Meg? Also, how much HD space? Which archives do I need? TeX runs OK in 1 Meg, sure... HD usage depends on how much you have & what you want to do with TeX: For simple documents you need (much) less than 2 Megs, but if you want a "good" collection of stuff for professional book typesetting, you can easily use more than 20 megs... 5 Megs is enoug for most TeXperts. What you need?? Get sttex.xxx [xxx for arc, zoo, lzh, whatever]; get a previewer; get font files as much as you wand/you have space in your HD; get format files and last but not least get pk (or pxl)pixel files for both previewer and printer driver (forgot: get a printer driver also). All the stuff should be found from atari.archive... The main utilitarian reason I would like to get TeX working is so that I could print out the UniTerm docs. Is there a "easy" way to print these out (I.E. a utility that just prints and nothing else?) Also I am using a cheap old dot matrix printer (SG-10).. Yes.... If you don't mind those TeX commands in your doc, then just print all .TEX files you have, but if you do mind about those commands then find a detex program somewhear (migh be in atari.archive). detex eats all TeX -stuff from .TEX files so you can print them. In general: .TEX files are pure ASCII files... I think DVI is a TeX file previewer and MetaFont is a TeX font maker, is this correct? I haven't been able to get any of this stuff to run correctly yet.. NO!!! DVI is DeVice Independent output of TeX. Metafont IS a font maker, and you don't need it to run TeX (unless you wan't to make your own fonts). -- Timo Suhonen I am logged in, therefore I am suhonen@nic.funet.fi suhonen@kunto.jyu.fi Moderator for ftp site funic.funet.fi (128.214.6.100) Atari ST dir Opinions(?) are mine (if not stolen), NOT those of Univ. of Jyvaskyla.