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From: poole@forty2.UUCP (Simon Poole)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: LaTeX ST: does it exist?
Message-ID: <223@forty2.UUCP>
Date: 21 Apr 88 07:44:38 GMT
References: <0@<8804181947.AA24125@ucbvax.Berke> <36500046@iuvax> <453@nikhefh.hep.nl>
Reply-To: poole@forty2.UUCP (Simon Poole)
Organization: Exp. Physics University Zuerich
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In article <453@nikhefh.hep.nl> t19@nikhefh.hep.nl (Geert J v Oldenborgh) writes:
>There is another version available for the ST for about the same price:
>ST-TeX from Kettler EDV-Consulting, Ludwig-Thoma-Weg 9, 8172 Lenggries,
>West Germany, (08042)8081.  When we compared the two (almost a year ago)
>this one was very much superior: faster, recognized paths and a nicer
>previewer.  This may have changed with Tools 2.0 which I have not seen.
 
The Tools 2.0 TeX version is a LOT better than the original version, faster
(if you saw the timings for the UniTerm manual which was around 9 min,
compared to 7 min on a otherwise completly empty mVax II), knows about
paths (via a setup file or enviroment variables), the previewer has improved
a lot, you can improve the speed even more if you put all your fonts for one
document into to a library. Some of the functions of the previewer are still
pretty obscure (random access of pages is one example), there is a version
which supports the Atari Laser and a lot of other goodies....

>There also is a public domain previewer which beats both in speed and
>also has the nice possibility of cooperating with a mainframe host
>(for .dvi and/or font files). 

This I simply don't believe (the speed claim), the Tools previewer is
very quick (and  is supposedly written completly in assembler), perhaps 
we are not talking about the same resolution?

What used to be a BIG problem with Tools was their customers service,
but that has improved too.


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