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From: gumbyltd@ronzoni.berkeley.edu (Dmitry Gokhman)
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Subject: Re: availability of TeX and emacs for PCs -- question
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Date: 31 Mar 91 05:16:01 GMT
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In article <1991Mar27.150626.375@husc3.harvard.edu>, millgram@husc8.harvard.edu (Elijah Millgram) writes:
> Is a full TeX/LaTeX/BibTeX available for PCs?  Commercial?
> Public domain?  What kind of hardware do I need to run LaTeX
> comfortably?

PCTeX is commercial.  SBTeX by Wayne Sullivan is on anonymous ftp
from vax.eedsp.gatech.edu (130.207.226.2) in ./pub/TeX
(I am a satisfied customer of this one).
EmTeX by Eberhard Mattes is on ymir.claremont.edu
(134.173.4.23) in [.tex.ibm_pc.emtex]

As far as emacs is concerned, I would strongly recommend
using Brief instead:  similar ideas, but much better organized,
particularly mnemonic keystrokes and a macro language
resembling C.  It has file extension support etc.
Another advantage is that it is contextual.
One trivial feature that I find nice is that when it needs to open a window
it doesn't mess with your buffers (splitting etc.) but overlays one.  
It is alas not free.

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