Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!ingr!b11!jim
From: jim@b11.UUCP (Jim Levie )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Tex, redux
Message-ID: <249@b11.UUCP>
Date: 21 Apr 88 22:00:46 GMT
References: <23631@bbn.COM>
Organization: Far from the halls of Amber
Lines: 53
Summary: AmigaTeX, where to get it and user experiences

In article <23631@bbn.COM>, cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell) writes:
> Can anyone forward me a hard pointer to Amiga Tex?  We are using Tex more and
> more here at work and I decided that the time has come to tilt at the
> windmill of getting them to buy a TeX for my Amiga at home...  so I curled up
> with the latest AmigaWorld and Amazing and I can't find ANY ads for the
> thing.  Does it really exist -- I suspect BBN  ain't gonna be very excited
> about getting vaporware, or demoware, or betaware.  If it _does_ exist, I'll
> probably have to get something approximating some real
> literature/documentation about it to make the folks in purchasing happy.  Any
> and all pointers, existence proofs, testimonials, etc will be gratefully
> appreciated.  Thanks!!

I've seen a couple of questions about this...

AmigaTeX is available from:

	Tomas Rokicki
	Radical Eye Software
	Box 2081
	Stanford, CA 94309
	Ph (415) 326-5312

An email address that should work is: ...polya.Stanford.EDU!rokicki

AmigaTeX is definitely not vaporware, betaware, or any other such strange
beast.  I've been using it (in various versions) for over a year now.  Tomas
has done a superb job. His standard package includes the best preview I've
ever seen.
  Almost all of our text preparation in done on Amiga's running
AmigaTeX. Even though we have both VMS and Unix systems with TeX installed,
the usual question is, "when can I have an Amiga and TeX?". It is far faster
and easier to prepare a document on the Amiga, with it's multiple windows
and TeX previewer, than it is on my Sun 3/180.  The Sun is a little faster,
but the Amiga has a much more sophisticated previewer.
  I have had very few problems with AmigaTeX, and the few that I did find
involved printer drivers which were reported to Tomas and fixed in less than
a week!  How's that for service.  I think that I've gotten about 3 major
updates to AmigaTeX in the last year, each better than the previous version.
Tomas's latest addition has been Metafont, which works terrifically.  I used
to build fonts on a Microvax, not any more, the Amiga is faster and has a neat
previewer for the Metafont output which is most useful in designing logos
and such.
  Our experience has been so good that we are gradually moving everyone who
needs to do much text processing off the multi-users systems and onto
networked Amiga's.

NOTE: Neither myself nor Remtech is affiliated in any way with Tomas Rokicki.

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