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Subject: Re: status of TeX (for randy hyde)
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Date: 15 May 91 08:06:30 GMT
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In article <1991May9.181315.2668@javelin.sim.es.com> kpopple@imp.sim.es.com (Ken Poppleton) writes:
>The University of Washington has TeX 3.1 avaible for Unix systems.  The
>source incoudes the transulator for Web to C.  I have compiled LaTeX from
>UofW on our Sun.  It may be possible to use the C code from a Unix version
>of Tex.  The hard part would be the Unix system calls.  I would consider
>the project but I do not think my 128k Apple IIe could handle TeX of LaTeX.
>
>Ken Poppleton

the version i've converted here on the Sun does not have any unix calls
at all. i did this on purpose because i will be porting it to the GS and
am just using it as a go-between right now.

i don't think the recompilation will be hard. i just don't have the time
to put together dvi drivers and the other stuff necessary to get a *decent*
implementation of TeX going (i don't want to attach my name to sorry 
software). someone might always beat me to the punch but that is not so
much my concern as doing something i would work with. a command-line TeX
on the GS really does no good if there is not a PD shell to run it off of.
therefore, i've gotta work on the stuff that will make TeX run before i
can actually get to TeX myself. but that's just me.

i wouldn't want to handle TeX on *any* 128k machine. i don't even think
it will fit. now, if you want TeX-like features, check out Gutenberg.

albert