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From: smaug@eneevax.UUCP (Kurt Lidl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: AmigaTeX (was Re: Lattice C bug)
Summary: AmigaTeX and ARP problems
Keywords: TeX AmigaTeX ARP previewer
Message-ID: <1757@eneevax.UUCP>
Date: 23 Aug 88 16:35:44 GMT
References: <2993@haven.umd.edu> <1807@kalliope.rice.edu> <25755@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
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In article <25755@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> carlson@ernie.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Richard L. Carlson) writes:
>In article <1807@kalliope.rice.edu> phil@Rice.edu (William LeFebvre) writes:
>>In article <2993@haven.umd.edu> louie@trantor.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) writes:
>>>	I suppose that if I really begin to do serious TeX work, I'll
>>>probably spend the $200 and buy AmigaTeX.  If the demo version on one
>>>of the Fish disks is any indication, its is a wonderful product.

>>[much well-deserved praise deleted]

>But, of course, the speed of AmigaTeX depends greatly on how you have your
>Amiga environment set up.  A couple of comments (that might be obvious to
>some, but hopefully will help others) -- if you have enough memory, REZ
>AmigaTeX, and it will start up instantly; similarly, put the format files
>in RAM: if you can; and I usually keep my TeX source file (and therefore
>TeX's output files) in VD0:.  I only have floppies; and any disk I/O really
>slows things down (since TeX, like a compiler, does a lot of I/O); of
>course, if you have a hard disk (especially with the FFS :-) this will
>be less of an issue.

	I recently bought AmigaTeX.  I agree it is a great product, and
one of the nicest implementations of TeX I have had the pleasure of using.
However, with all things, I feel the need to tweak the system.  So I got
out the ARP disk that has the latest and greatest on it, and got to
work on installing ARP.  Once I have *that* up and running, I go to me
Startup-Sequence and start fooling with it.

	Put in various environment variables:
	Put in new cshrc files for my startup and dmouse pop-windows
	Automagically open new cli for AmigaTeX and then try to
ARUN the previewer.

	My B2000 then faithfully gives me a task held requestor every time
I try to boot the machine.  After fiddling with this and that for many
hours on two consectutive nights, I have figured out the problem, and
a solution.  Now for the solution.  Simply use Run (AmigaDOS version) to
run the previewer - it doesn't like the ARP arun command.
	Now what I wish to know is WHY the previewer is allergic to arun?
Also, if you RUN preview, there is no entry for its task in the ps
command of M. Dillon's csh (keep up the excellent work, Matt).  Does it
somehow disconnect itself from the calling CLI?  Or am I missing something
here?
 	At any rate, I would like to know why this happens.  Other than
that and an annoying problem using the epson dvidot driver on my
panasonic 1091 (printout is way over to the right side of the paper), it
is a great program.  If you need to TeX, use AmigaTeX!  (I'm just a
relatively happy customer of Radical Eye software.)
	If you are really serious, get the latest upgrade of AmigaTeX,
there is a new option that will load the format file just once, in the
beginning of the load of TeX.  It works great and after I get it all in
ram, I never go to the floppy at all (except to access the fonts).  All
you have to do is newcli a window and run TeX in that.  Then you have an
optimal solution (unless you want to TeX a couple of documents at once :-)

>By the way, I can't wait to see Tom's previewer running on a Hedley monitor!
Me too!

>-- Richard
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