david@doe.utoronto.ca (David Megginson) (10/01/90)
A second question: how do you use TeXinfo files on the ST? Do you need Gnu emacs? For that matter, how do you use them on Unix? Thanks. David Megginson -- //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// / David Megginson david@doe.utoronto.ca / / Centre for Medieval Studies meggin@vm.epas.utoronto.ca / ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
stabl@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de (Robert Stabl) (10/03/90)
>>>>> In article <1990Sep30.215608.9914@doe.utoronto.ca>, david@doe.utoronto.ca (David Megginson) writes: David> A second question: how do you use TeXinfo files on the ST? Do David> you need Gnu emacs? For that matter, how do you use them on David> Unix? To use TeXinfo you need either TeX (with macro file texinfo.tex) or emacs (info mode). Both is available on the ST. Robert. -- >>>>>>>>>> Robert Stabl <<<>>> stabl@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de <<<<<<<<<<
tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy) (10/03/90)
In <1990Sep30.215608.9914@doe.utoronto.ca> david@doe.utoronto.ca (David Megginson) writes: >A second question: how do you use TeXinfo files on the ST? Do >you need Gnu emacs? For that matter, how do you use them on >Unix? Assuming that TeXinfo refers to texinfo.tex , this is a TeX header file used in most GNU documentation in TeX. At the top of such a document there will be a line \input texinfo at which point TeX will look for the file texinfo.tex . It's a kind of substitute for LaTeX, but in my opinion not a very good one. It would be much better -- and simpler -- if GNU used LaTeX for their documentation. I don't think texinfo is used outside GNU. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie
ridderbusch.pad@nixdorf.com (Frank Ridderbusch, PXD-S4) (10/06/90)
In article <1990Sep30.215608.9914@doe.utoronto.ca> david@doe.utoronto.ca (David Megginson) writes:
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A second question: how do you use TeXinfo files on the ST? Do
you need Gnu emacs? For that matter, how do you use them on
Unix?
Thanks.
David Megginson
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As some postings already mentioned, GNU EMACS is available for the
Atari, which can than be used to format and view TeXinfo files. To
produce a printed manual, you need TeX.
If you are satisfied with on screen displaying, there exits two programs by
Brian Fox, the author of BASH, called "info.c" and "makeinfo.c".
"info.c" allows you view a TeXinfo file on screen and "makeinfo.c" is
used to format the TeXinfo file into an info file.
Both program compile without any problems on the ST using GCC 1.37.1.
"info.c" requires some commenting of signal() stuff and a termcap
entry. In "makeinfo.c" there is a constant hardwired to 4000, which
causes the program to run out of memory on my ST. I changed it to 1000
and everything worked fine, that is, I could format a 98K TeXinfo
file.
Hope, that help.
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