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From: Albert.Koelmans@newcastle.ac.uk (Albert Koelmans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: TeX demo on Newcastle info server
Message-ID: <1991Feb4.134658.21774@newcastle.ac.uk>
Date: 4 Feb 91 13:46:58 GMT
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Organization: Computing Laboratory, U of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK NE17RU
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A restricted version of the TeX port is now available from the Newcastle
info server. The filename is 'armatures'.

This, with Graham Toal's permission, is a demo version of his
ArMaTuReS (his PD version of TeX for the Archimedes). It is uuencoded
spark-ed (Spark 2.xx, but can be dealt with by Sparkplug) and fits on a
single floppy at 530k in uuencoded form, less when Sparkplug-ged. To
save space it contains only the fonts cmr10, cmr7, cmdunh10, and these
only in tfm and outline font versions.  So no maths, no laser-printing.
It DOES contain Graham's previewer !Preview.  It should be operable
(slowly) on a harddisk-less Archimedes, but I suspect will need at
least 2 Mb RAM.

You can get the full distribution from phoibos.cs.kun.nl via anon ftp
but
(a) this demo will help you evaluate ArMaTuReS before going to the
    hassle of pulling about 18 BIG files over by anon ftp,
(b) it may be easier to install the full distribution once you have a
    working cut-down version (certainly was easier for me :-)),
(c) you will CERTAINLY need a hard disk for the real thing!

Contributed by Wilfrid Kendall.


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