11TSTARK@GALLUA.BITNET (Timothy Stark) (10/22/88)
Hello,
I found Common TeX around anonymous FTP and downloaded it. I uncompressed
and unarced package. What a surprise! It is entire source code! Yes, it
is 718K long. What is big difference between Common TeX and Amiga TeX?
I heard that AmigaTeX commerical product probihit (spelled?) anyone from
ports Common TeX to Amiga? I am right?
Does AmigaTeX contain source code or not? Sorry, I don't have AmigaTeX
or a demo. (Author may send me a demo.)
-- Tim Stark
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(Timothy Stark) writes: > I found Common TeX around anonymous FTP and downloaded it. I uncompressed > and unarced package. What a surprise! It is entire source code! Yes, it > is 718K long. What is big difference between Common TeX and Amiga TeX? Yes, Common TeX is full source for a version of TeX, hand translated from the Pascal by Pat Monardo. It has been superceded by the WEB2C version of TeX, based on my original TeX to Pascal translator with improvements by Tim Morgan. The WEB2C stuff is included on the standard Unix TeX distribution out of the University of Washington, and is the recommended way to run TeX on Unix or C boxes. > I heard that AmigaTeX commerical product probihit (spelled?) anyone from > ports Common TeX to Amiga? I am right? This is absolutely not true; anyone who wants to can port either Common TeX or WEB2C TeX to the Amiga. This is also true of Nelson Beebe's public domain DVI drivers, WEB2C Metafont, and whatever other tools you can find. > Does AmigaTeX contain source code or not? Sorry, I don't have AmigaTeX > or a demo. (Author may send me a demo.) 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. -tom
phil@titan.rice.edu (William LeFebvre) (10/24/88)
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>
vkr@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu (Vidhyanath K. Rao) (10/24/88)
In article <4610@polya.Stanford.EDU> rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki) refers to `WEB2C' several times, catching my eye. Is this a program that
converts WEB to C? If so can it be made run on an Amiga? [Imagine, a manual
that can be TeXed to accompany programs, even for PD stuff!]