myb100@csc.anu.oz (06/03/90)
In article <4265@uwm.edu>, duncan@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Shan D Duncan) writes: > [lotsa stuff deleted..] > > As long as I am posting... does anybody have pictex running on the amiga? > [lots more stuff deleted..] > _Thank_you_ > > -Shan I just finished installing AmigaTeX the other day on my 2000 (std+2M) and it's great (more congrats to Tom!). The thought struck me.. 'PicTeX...would it work ?' But somewhere in the manual (I just tried to find it again -no luck) it says that you can't use LaTeX and PicTeX together, due to memory limitations. Never one to believe everything I read, I copied the pictex.tex and other includes from our mainframe to try this out. This was 10 minutes ago, and now I read your request ! :-) I just now tried it on a sample page TeX+PicTeX and had no problems at all. I then tried the same page through LaTeX (It was originally LaTeX, I just took the L' specific stuff out) and it worked too - no problems a'tall a'tall.. Note that this was a fairly simple X-Y plot, so I haven't tried the memory grinding stuff yet.. So, what were your problems ? I'm not sure about the status of PicTeX.....is it PD or what ? I couldn't see anything in the documentation about this. I won't be using it on my Amiga as all my plots come from the mainframe in PostScript, and thats where I print them. Also it takes up 140k on my HD that might be put to better use. But then again.....Does somebody know ? Thanks for any info -- =============================================================================== Markus Buchhorn /// | This space Mt Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories, Canberra /// | PMB Weston Ck. P.O. A.C.T. 2611, Australia \\\/// | intentionally markus@mso.anu.oz.au -or- nssdca::psi%mssso::markus \XX/ | left blank ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Phone donations: AUS-6-249-0280 Flames: alt.dev.null Disclaimer: standard ===============================================================================