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From: rokicki@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: AmigaTeX
Message-ID: <1991Jan15.222107.16633@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 15 Jan 91 22:21:07 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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>I've got some beginner-type questions about TeX:
>  1) What software is available?  (Commercial, pd, ftp addresses...)

AmigaTeX is available from Radical Eye Software.  I'm not sure where to
get any public domain versions of TeX for the Amiga.

>  2) What special hardware is required?  (Monitors, memory, printers...)

A megabyte of memory and two floppy disks will run AmigaTeX.  A hard disk
is always nice, and the more memory you throw at the program, the better
it works.

>  3) Do you need a laser printer, or can you get reasonable output on a
>     dot-matrix printer?

You can definitely get reasonable output on a dot-matrix, especially a
24-pin printer.  The DeskJet (and relatives) also generates wonderful
output.

>  4) Why on earth does D. Knuth say that it should be pronounced 'tek'? ;)

Actually, `tech', with a hard `ch'---he wrote the program, he can call it
what he wants.  :-)

For a free demo disk of AmigaTeX, just send your name and address to
Radical Eye Software, Box 2081, Stanford, CA  94309.