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From: rokicki@polya.STANFORD.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Wanted: LaTeX for Amiga
Message-ID: <2674@polya.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 22 Apr 88 23:02:26 GMT
References: <404@ruuinf.UUCP> <9029@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <8639@oberon.USC.EDU>
Organization: Stanford University
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Keywords: LaTeX Amiga
Summary: Oops!

> 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

BibTeX is not a macro package; it is a completely separate and
comprehensive bibliography database program written by Oren
Patashnik at Stanford.  Just thought I'd clear that up.

Be careful with the phrase public domain, as well; Leslie Lamport
owns copyrights on LaTeX and SliTeX, and Oren Patashnik owns the
BibTeX copyright.  But yes, they are freely redistributable.

I'm sure we're all interested in further details on the `PD TeX'
you describe . . .
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