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From: steveg@SAIC.COM (Stephen Harold Goldstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: TeX and DVISLM; PageStream 1.8; LHARC
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Date: 7 Feb 90 15:52:37 GMT
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To the person asking about output quality from TeX on
the SLM804 Laser:

I've got the distribution of TeX from the Current Notes library, and
while I haven't used it all that much yet, I have printed out the
manual for Uniterm by Simon Poole (a great PD terminal emulator).  The
output quality is excellent.  Even small footnotes (6pt?) are quite
readable and do not suffer from the 'thinness' problem you described.
I suspect you do not have a complete set of fonts for the laser (I had
to generate a couple myself for the manual).  

to R. Covert, re: PageStream 1.8:

Kudos for PageStream from our resident critic? :-) 
I agree it's a powerful package, but it's still not bug free.  As I
mentioned a while back, it does a pretty poor job of cleaning up after
itself on the screen (even with an apparent 're-draw it all' attitude)
- I'm constantly getting object 'handles' left all over the place.
Also, UNDO does not work for all operations and you don't know what is
not UNDOable till it's too late.  It's getting better though.

Re: LHARC

Has anyone gotten the LHARC source code recently posted to compile
under Mark Williams C?  It seems to need some header files I don't
have - file.h, dir.h.  It compiles fine on our Sun workstations,
but I want a version to use at home.  Can anyone send me the 
neccessary changes or point me to an ST executable version?

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Stephen Goldstein     steveg@saic.com
My first Atari system? A 24K Atari 800, Rev. A ROMS, C(not G)TIA graphics
Disclaimer:  That's not what I said.