[comp.sys.atari.st] LaTeX on ST

andrew@.cs.utk.edu (Andrew Krzywdzinski) (10/25/90)

I would like to install LaTeX on my ST. I was hoping it would be an easy
task, so I tried uploading TeX arcs from terminator.cc.umich.edu.
I made sure I had all the files required, and ran INITEX.
And that's where I would always get stuck: INITEX munches along trying
to build LPLAIN, processes all the input files (such as lplain.tex,
lfonts.tex, hyphen.tex, etc.) and at the end gives me the '*' prompt, asking
for a command or \end. I don't know what to do at that point! I tried
everything, but I never succeeded in creating LPLAIN.

The documentation provided with those arcs is very brief, at best, and
I am (obviously) not familiar with the installation procedure for LaTeX.

Can somebody please enlighten me as to what I am doing wrong ?
Are there some well-documented LaTeX arcs available via ftp somewhere ?
I could probably deal with C source files, instead of binaries, since
I have the LaserC compiler. More detailed instructions would help
greatly, too.

I would really appreciate any help with this. Thanks in advance --

Andrew Krzywdzinski   (andrew@cs.utk.edu)
1732 Laurel Ave.
Knoxville, TN 37916