OR160@DBNUOR1.BITNET (Udo Heinrich) (07/27/89)
Hello!
I want to tell you something about a new Sharware Programm for the
Atari ST. It's called TeX and might be known by everybody. TeX was developed
by E. Knuth in over 10 years hard work. It was written in WEB, a kind of
mega pascal language which is not computer-orientated.
So it was possible to transfirm TeX to "every" kind of computer, also
on the Atari ST.
But what is TeX. I thing some of you know Signum!2 from
Application Systems Heidelberg. TeX is Signum!2 times Signum!2. TeX is a
program that brings your words in the right form, makes for you a
table of contents automatically and footnotes are no more a problem.
But the best of all is the possibility of TeX to make your equation look
like in a book. For example:
You type in: $(x+y)=x~2+2xy+y~2$ and the result is ...
(Sorry, but the monitor can't show you.)
TeX is like a programming language. You have if-cases and so on.
So you want to know something about TeX? Here is a little literature-list:
-for german users: Helmut Kopka; LaTeX, eine Einfuehrung; Addison-
Wesley Publishing Company; Bonn 2. Auflage 1989
(very good, easy to understand, to get results)
-for everyone: D. E. Knuth; The TeXbook; Addison-Wesley P. C.; 1984
(the original, to know everything about TeX)
L. Lamport; A Document Preparation System; A.-W. P. C.
(written by the author of LaTeX, good but I prefare
H. Kopka)
TeX knows all features you need to write a nice letter, your works and
everything else. Another helpful thing ist that you can write your
TeX-text on an editor by your choice. TeX-inputfiles are always
ASCII-Files. So you can copy some files from your VMS- or SUN-machine
and work with it at home (but the up-side-down way is quite more
interesting, because of the possibility to use the laser-printer
of your university and so on).
But what's the new on this 5th version of TeX on Atari ST computers?
Really easy to understand, when I tell you that it is translated into
Turbo-C and compiled. This version is much more faster than the other
and not so expensive because it is shareware.
The price for this TeX-version incl. a shell, a screen- and a print-
previewer, fonts, a short-instruction and several style-files (you need
them to write a book, article, report, letter, descriptions,...), LaTeX
and the 'german-language-file',... is 20 Deutsche Marks for a unregistrated
version and 60 Deutsche Mark for a registrated version. The registrated version
incl. one backup and a note for every following backups and
online-telephone-help for your problems. The package incl. 3 disks
packed by ARC (ARC is incl.; makes something about 6 Deutsche Marks for
one disk).
And where can you get that really good stuff??
Stefan Lindner
Iltisstrasse 3
8510 Fuerth
West Germany
(if you don't live in West German call Mr. Lindner first, because of
the price!)
If you order a version please note, that the price above is the price
for orders in West Germany, other lands have different prices because
of the post costs.
If you order a version please write a note that you got the information
from like this:
"Informations about this TeX version by Udo Heinrich, #00091!"
If you want some more informations send OONNEE SSMMAALL note to me.
Hope the information was useful
Udo Heinrichpwp@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (07/27/89)
Has anyone developed a program for viewing dvi files on a color monitor yet? I know that the black and write monitor is better for this, but I have a color monitor.
mikew@wheeler.wrcr.unr.edu (Mike Whitbeck) (07/28/89)
In article <36500067@iuvax> pwp@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu writes: * *Has anyone developed a program for viewing dvi files on a color monitor yet? *I know that the black and write monitor is better for this, but I have a color *monitor. ditto! Has anyone tried the monochrome ppreviewers with any of the commercial or pd monochrome emulators? ___________________________________________________________ |Mike Whitbeck | | | | mikew@wheeler.wrc.unr.edu | | | | | | mikew@wheeler.UUCP | |__________________________|______________________________| Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than a whole one...... E.B. White