dhosek@euler.claremont.edu (Don Hosek) (03/30/91)
In article <1991Mar27.150626.375@husc3.harvard.edu>, millgram@husc8.harvard.edu (Elijah Millgram) writes: > I'm moving from the Atari world to the PC world, and I'm > wondering how much of my current environment I can take with me. > Is a full TeX/LaTeX/BibTeX available for PCs? Commercial? > Public domain? What kind of hardware do I need to run LaTeX > comfortably? Yes. See [anonymous.tex.site-info]tex-for-ibmpc.txt on ymir.claremont.edu for details. Make sure you have a hard disk, at least a 286 (TeX can be run on an 8088, but I don't know why you'd want to) and at least 640K of memory, but more is better with the most popular versions. > Is there a PC version of gnu emacs? Other reasonably rich emacses? There are all sorts of Emacses. I use MicroEmacs which has a nice 43-line mode for my ega-display. (I like to see as much real estate on the screen as possible). -dh -- Don Hosek | To retrieve files from ymir via the mailserver, dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu | send a message to mailserv@ymir.claremont.edu Quixote Digital Typography | with a line saying send [DIRECTORY]FILENAME 714-625-0147 | where DIRECTORY is the FTP directory (sans ---------------------------+ "anonymous") and FILENAME is the filename, e.g. "send [tex]00readme.txt". There is a list of files in each directory under the name 00files.txt. Binary files are not available by this technique.
gumbyltd@ronzoni.berkeley.edu (Dmitry Gokhman) (03/31/91)
In article <1991Mar27.150626.375@husc3.harvard.edu>, millgram@husc8.harvard.edu (Elijah Millgram) writes: > Is a full TeX/LaTeX/BibTeX available for PCs? Commercial? > Public domain? What kind of hardware do I need to run LaTeX > comfortably? PCTeX is commercial. SBTeX by Wayne Sullivan is on anonymous ftp from vax.eedsp.gatech.edu (130.207.226.2) in ./pub/TeX (I am a satisfied customer of this one). EmTeX by Eberhard Mattes is on ymir.claremont.edu (134.173.4.23) in [.tex.ibm_pc.emtex] As far as emacs is concerned, I would strongly recommend using Brief instead: similar ideas, but much better organized, particularly mnemonic keystrokes and a macro language resembling C. It has file extension support etc. Another advantage is that it is contextual. One trivial feature that I find nice is that when it needs to open a window it doesn't mess with your buffers (splitting etc.) but overlays one. It is alas not free. ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// - Mr. Gumby * \oo7 Dmitry Gokhman -> gumbyltd@math.berkeley.edu says: `/v/-* University of Cauliflower MY BRAIN HURTS J L Broccoli CA 94720 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
martin@saturn.uucp (Martin J. Schedlbauer) (04/02/91)
In article <1991Mar27.150626.375@husc3.harvard.edu> millgram@husc8.harvard.edu (Elijah Millgram) writes: > > >Is a full TeX/LaTeX/BibTeX available for PCs? Commercial? >Public domain? What kind of hardware do I need to run LaTeX >comfortably? Get emTeX, a TeX/LaTeX 3.0. It has a beautiful VGA previewer with resolution of 800x600 and even 1024x768. It does anti-aliasing, so at 800x600 you can display a full page and still make out what is says. Printer drivers are available for most dot-matrix, LaserJet, DeskJet. It's free and it comes from Germany, but most docs have been translated to English. > >Is there a PC version of gnu emacs? Other reasonably rich emacses? Get Freemacs. It's very close to GNU and has modes for TeX, bibTeX, C, etc. ...Martin -- ============================================================================== Martin J. Schedlbauer | martin@saturn.UUCP | ...!ulowell!saturn!martin 8 Gilman Road | mschedlb@ulowell.edu | ...!uunet!wang!saturn!martin Billerica, MA 01862 USA | CIS: 76675, 3364 | Voice/Fax: (508) 670-2169