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From: phil@titan.rice.edu (William LeFebvre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Common TeX and Amiga TeX
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Date: 23 Oct 88 17:04:48 GMT
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In article <4610@polya.Stanford.EDU> rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki) writes:
>>     Does AmigaTeX contain source code or not?
>
>AmigaTeX does not contain source code.  AmigaTeX does include a
>very small and highly optimized version of TeX, along with a fast,
>powerful previewer, fonts, BibTeX, LaTeX, SliTeX, a manual, and
>lots of other goodies.

You should also mention:  a well-organized font set for the previewer; a
TeX that takes its size configurations from a separate file (making it
possible and easy to change pool sizes without recompiling); an ARexx port
in TeX, making it easy to integrate the TeX/preview cycle into an ARexx-ed
editor.

			William LeFebvre
			Department of Computer Science
			Rice University
			<phil@Rice.edu>