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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Wanted: LaTeX for Amiga
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Date: 22 Apr 88 03:12:15 GMT
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In article <9029@agate.BERKELEY.EDU| doug@eris.UUCP (Doug Merritt) writes:
|In article <404@ruuinf.UUCP| harald@ruuinf.UUCP (Harald Vogt) writes:
|:Is there a public domain version of LaTeX for the Amiga ?
|:Or has anyone adapted LaTeX for the Amiga ? 
|
|This question puzzles me; I'd been expecting someone else to comment
|on this, but since no one else has: I thought LaTeX was just a macro
|package for TeX, and as such would run on *any* TeX implementation,
|including AmigaTex?
|
|I *thought* LaTeX was public domain in the first place; if it is,
|try just plain using it with AmigaTeX. Or is the whole problem
|that the original is *not* public domain, and hence you'd need a
|licensed legal "port" to the amiga in order to *legally* use it???

LaTeX, BibTeX, and SliTeX are indeed public domain.  Though I believe
that the intent of the original poster was to find out whether LaTeX
was available for the Amiga to run with a PD TeX.  There is CURRENTLY
no such beast, but you might not have to wait for long :-) And yes,
all the above are just macros, so they basically need no changes when
ported to other systems.  

-- Marco
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