laser-lovers@uw-beaver (10/22/85)
From: "Roger C. King" <RCKing@MIT-MULTICS.arpa> I have been asked to inquire if anyone is aware of converters from either TeX, Troff, or other similar output, to ATEX? Not sure on the spelling of ATEX. It is a language used by a photo typesetter that produces output for the Optical Society of America. Roger King
FURUTA@WASHINGTON.ARPA (10/22/85)
From: "Roger C. King" <RCKing@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA> I have been asked to inquire if anyone is aware of converters from either TeX, Troff, or other similar output, to ATEX? Not sure on the spelling of ATEX. It is a language used by a photo typesetter that produces output for the Optical Society of America. Roger King
FURUTA@WASHINGTON.ARPA (10/25/85)
From: Michael C. Berch <mcb@lll-tis-b> > I have been asked to inquire if anyone is aware of converters from > either TeX, Troff, or other similar output, to ATEX? Not sure on the > spelling of ATEX. It is a language used by a photo typesetter that > produces output for the Optical Society of America. There is an ATEX system here at the Laboratory used by another department. I've never used it, but I understand it is simply a proprietary composition system on a dedicated mini that is connected to a typesetter (in this case, an APS Micro 5). According to one of the staff there, you can do TeX on it by simply bypassing the ATEX composition system and feeding DVI that has been prepared for the APS directly to the typesetter. The composition system itself seems to be rather archaic and apparently uses a proprietary mark-up language. He is not sure whether the ATEX supports typsetters other than the APS. This may not help you if you really need to translate to the ATEX format for further editing and composition, but it should work if you just want to print something on their system. Michael C. Berch Control Data Corp. / Lawrence Livermore Natl. Laboratory mcb@lll-tis-b.ARPA {akgua,allegra,cbosgd,decwrl,dual,ihnp4,sun}!idi!styx!mcb