STEIN@UCONNVM.BITNET (02/11/88)
Has anyone heard of a version of Tex (the typesetting system designed by Knuth) for the Apple II series? ARPA: stein%uconnvm.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu Alan H. Stein BITNET: STEIN@UCONNVM University of Connecticut UUCP: ...ihnp4!psuvax1!UCONNVM.BITNET!STEIN at Waterbury CompuServe: 71545,1500 Genie: ah.stein Department of Mathematics
dougm@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Doug Mcintyre) (10/17/89)
philip@pro-generic.cts.com (Philip McDunnough) writes: >Network Comment: to #6170 by rang%speedy.wisc.edu@BRL.MIL > >Furthermore you cannot,to the best of my knowledge,find a GS version of TeX >even though this is in the public domain,would suit the GS(it is not WYSYWIG) >and would enable GS users to compose (long) technical documents. The Amiga and >the Atari both have implementations of TeX which can be obtained via ftp.It is >a matter of having a good C compiler I suppose.Ther is also a commercial >version of TeX on the Amiga which is used in various universities.This may be >the best implementation of TeX on any computer(except the NeXT-same person >ported it there). > I'm working on such a beast.. I do have parts of the system runing.. Unfortunatly I do not have the memory to link such a hog.. If anybody has say 3M and a development system and would be willing to help me with this, write to me.. I only(:-) have a filled up GSRam.. Even with Apple's new Linker I can not do it.. So the only solution is to move up in memory.. Unfortunatly that would also set me back about $500.. I have the dvi printer working, and testing that with a TeX system setup on my favourite Unix system I get to have beutiful typeset documents.. I have tried to do some simple Math on a desktop system (Econ department requires* homework to be typed...) and it totally sucks.. Looks like somebody just came along and stuck it down anywhere.. So write to me if you are willing to help me with this.. UUCP: {rosevax, crash}!orbit!pnet51!dougm Compuserve: 70611,2215 ARPA: crash!orbit!pnet51!dougm@nosc.mil ALPE: DougMac INET: dougm@pnet51.cts.com GENIE: D.MCINTYRE1
SELLSWORTH@HMCVAX.CLAREMONT.EDU ("Scott, part time fuzzy") (10/18/89)
A few messages ago (~40) someone mentioned that they wanted to see an implementation of TeX on the GS. I second the motion. Last I looked, TeX was a montrous, but not unreasonable, pile of Pascal code. I would bet that we have the processor horsepower, and certainly the memory. Anyone with a copy of TeX want to look at the source for us? As I recall, Knuth made it very easy to implement on any machine that ran standard Pascal. (Anyone want to do try to arrange a net.project?) Scott Ellsworth ps. H. Grant Delany: Did the post of an installer script imply a post of the rest of Sys 5.0 -> 5.02, or was that just meant to suggest that we should go out and get it. :)
jearls@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU ( Stupid ) (10/20/89)
SELLSWORTH@HMCVAX.CLAREMONT.EDU ("Scott, part time fuzzy") says:
>
> A few messages ago (~40) someone mentioned that they wanted to see an
>implementation of TeX on the GS. I second the motion. Last I looked, TeX was
>a montrous, but not unreasonable, pile of Pascal code. I would bet that we
>have the processor horsepower, and certainly the memory. Anyone with a copy of
>TeX want to look at the source for us? As I recall, Knuth made it very easy to
>implement on any machine that ran standard Pascal.
>
> (Anyone want to do try to arrange a net.project?)
>
I have seen and worked with the source for TeX on a VAX/VMS system. The
source is distributed in a format called WeB, which includes TeX, funky
declarations, and Pascal source all in one file. The WeB files for TeX,
not including LaTeX or Metafont, are more than three megabytes long. I
know I wouldn't want to try to compile something like that on the //gs...
>
> Scott Ellsworth
>
> ps. H. Grant Delany: Did the post of an installer script imply a post of the
>rest of Sys 5.0 -> 5.02, or was that just meant to suggest that we should go
>out and get it. :)
- John
P.S. I do own a GS and I love it; the only reason I would ever give it up
is if someone decided to donate an Amiga 2000/2500/3000 (if it ever
comes out) to my cause...
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In article <392CA75D7DFF80091D@HMCVAX.BITNET> SELLSWORTH@HMCVAX.CLAREMONT.EDU ("Scott, part time fuzzy") writes: >Last I looked, TeX was a montrous, but not unreasonable, pile of Pascal code. Actually, it's WEB, which needs to be preprocessed before being fed to the compiler. There is also a corresponding C translation available, and that's the one usually used on UNIX systems. >I would bet that we have the processor horsepower, and certainly the memory. Don't be so sure about that. >As I recall, Knuth made it very easy to implement on any machine that ran >standard Pascal. Ease of implementation (actually, porting) lies in the eye of the beholder. TEX itself is by no means the only thing you'll need. You also need device postprocessor support for the Apple IIGS display (which is lousy) and for whatever hardcopy printers you want to support. In turn, this requires storage for Metafont descriptions (or font bitmaps, if you take that approach). I personally don't think it would be worth the trouble.