Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rice!titan!phil From: phil@titan.rice.edu (William LeFebvre) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga Tex, redux Keywords: AmigaTeX, wonderful Message-ID: <671@thalia.rice.edu> Date: 5 May 88 18:51:57 GMT References: <23631@bbn.COM> <249@b11.UUCP> <796@ur-cvsvax.UUCP> <493@sas.UUCP> Sender: usenet@rice.edu Reply-To: phil@Rice.edu (William LeFebvre) Organization: Rice University, Houston Lines: 35 In article <493@sas.UUCP> bts@sas.UUCP (Brian T. Schellenberger) writes: >There sure has been a lot of talk about AmigaTeX lately. A *brief* summary: >[well, I *tried* to keep it brief] It's hard to be brief about something so good....... >The AmigaTeX implementation is indisputably one of the best ports ever done, >for any machine (this sentiment is not just mine). It is, in my opinion, much better than the environemnt available on the Sun. This is primarily because the previewer will start viewing page 1 as soon as TeX is done processing it---that is, *while* TeX is still churning on the rest of the document. It fully utilizes the machine's multitasking. >The $200 includes TeX, the previewer, previewer fonts, LaTeX, AMSTeX, initex, >and all the macro source files. It is distributed on 10 disks. Something very important that you left out of that list: BibTeX. This is a separate program, much like IdxTeX is separate, that makes doing bibliographies almost trivial. This is essential to anyone working on a serious paper (like a doctoral dissertation). It's still verion .98i, but Tom said he would work on getting the latest version (.99c) working (he may even have done it already). The publication of the TeX User's Group, called TUGBoat, has an article about AmigaTeX in the most recent issue (volume 9 number 1) written by Tom Rokicki himself. "The Commodore Amiga: A magic TeX machine", pp 40--41. William LeFebvre Department of Computer Science Rice University Disclaimer, disclaimer, etc. I'm just a satisfied customer, etc.