harlick@plains.UUCP (Ryan) (02/26/90)
Hello all. I have recieved a implementation of Common TeX for the amiga. I have two problems. 1. I need more fonts! I have MetaFont for my machine, but do not know how to use it to make fonts. Please help! 2. It comes with the program virtex and plain.fmt, how can I get it to understand latex? I realize that I need lplain.fmt but didn't know that it needed to be compiled on my machine. Could I just load in the latex.tex as a macro for tex? I understand that this would take a large amount of memory, but I do have 3 meg available. I guess that I have one more question. Do the tfm fonts have to be made on my machine also? I have some from the St version and I don't think that they work correctly. Anyway I need alot of help because I am new to TeX. Thank you very much for all replies. Yours Truly, Ryan Harlicker harlick@plains.nodak.edu
gor@cs.strath.ac.uk (Gordon Russell) (01/09/91)
Hi there...
Is there anyone out there who can help me set up a full version of
TeX (or rather LaTeX) for my AMIGA computer. I have the following
archives...
PasTeX-extras.zoo
PasTeX.lzh
PasTeX1_1.lzh
commontex.lzh
mf2_0.lzh
mf2_7.lzh
tex3_mf2_amiga.zoo
tex3_amiga_small.zoo
texutils_amiga.zoo
I also have a set of *.mf and *.tfm files (taken from my local sun server).
Unfortunately I have been struggling to get anything working correctly. My
problems are mostly summerised as follows...
(1) VIRTEX works sometimes with &PLAIN, but not reliably. In addition I
need information on how to get a LATEX (LPLAIN I beleve) document
processed. What files do I need and how do I compile them.
(2) Does anyone know how to set up the enviromental variables for searching
more than one directory. I have tried seperating the directories
with an exclamation mark and a comma, but to no affect. I am using
workbench 1.3 SETENV with SHELL 4.01A.
(3) Does anyone use a previewer? I am using SHOWDVI, but no matter what I
set FLIBDIR,PKDIR,and DVICONFIG to the program never finds the fonts
required, and instead puts up a reqestor for volume TEX:, which is
not one of the disks to which I have assigned the env variables
(nor actually have defigned).
All help would be appreciated. I have some documentation on the files, but
they are all in German (not one of my languages). I have little spare
money (I am a poor research student on a tiny grant) so if I require
additional software break it to me gently. Note that I do have FTP access to
other sites. Sorry if this is a repetitive question.
Thanx in advance (email welcome)
Gordon Russell
gor@uk.ac.strath.cskaarts@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Kenneth John Aarts) (05/08/91)
I have just recieved my AmigaTeX update today, but unfortunately the latex disk was blank. I am trying to construct a latex.fmt, but I am having some trouble. I am using initex on the lplain.tex file. Everything appears to go ok up to the point where it says, 'Input any local modifications here.' I can't seem to get past this point. If I just press return, I get another prompt telling me to type '\end', but when I do this it just reports errors about the \end command and goes in circles. Can someone please help me? Thanks, Ken I would really hate to have to wait ANOTHER month for a reply to the letter I sent Tomas Rokicki.