cs326ag@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Loren J. Rittle) (04/24/91)
I while back someone asked about available applications that run under AmigaUNIX: [from the latest AmigaTeX News, which I just received...] Amiga Unix TeX available! Radical Eye Software has also been hard at work on a port of TeX to Amiga Unix! This software is now avail- able at $300; it can be supplied on either floppy disks or a streaming tape. The distribution includes TeX, BibTeX, LaTeX, SliTeX, iniTeX, METAFONT, a very nice pre- viewer for X, printer drivers for PostScript and HP Laser- Jet printers, full support of virtual fonts, and a myriad of other utilities. Many of the best features of AmigaTeX are also in this implementation, including interprocess communication between TeX and the previewer for on- the-fly display of pages and automatic font generation. Best of all is the comprehensive Radical Eye support and update policy. Future releases will include drivers for a whole se- ries of dot-matrix printers, more comprehensive graphics support, and a more full-featured previewer. [eot] As a customer of AmigaTeX for the AmigaOS for over two years, I can safely state that if Amiga Unix TeX is at all like AmigaTeX, then it is a steal at $300. Also of note: AmigaTeX just had a face lift that raises it above the level of current PD versions! Quick overview: ``The main treat is full PostScript support of both fonts and graphics on any supported printer [or the screen previewer]!'' AmigaTeX now supports TeX 3.0 and METAFONT 2.0 stantards. The actual versions are TeX 3.1 and METAFONT 2.7. All printer drivers (shipped by Radical Eye Software) now support virtual fonts. Loren J. Rittle -- ``The Amiga continues to amaze me--if I had not been told that this video was created using the Amiga and Toaster, I would not have believed it. Even Allen said, `I think I know how he did most of the effects.' '' - Jim Lange Loren J. Rittle l-rittle@uiuc.edu
rhealey@digibd.com (Rob Healey) (04/28/91)
In article <1991Apr24.132313.13844@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> cs326ag@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Loren J. Rittle) writes: >I while back someone asked about available applications >that run under AmigaUNIX: >[from the latest AmigaTeX News, which I just received...] > >Amiga Unix TeX available! > Ummm, TeX 3.x will compile on damn near any UNIX box with a pulse and the disk space to hold everything. I'll be putting up TeX 3.0 on my 3000UXD, kas.helios.mn.org, after I make sure my little escapade with making /home a ufs file system works... So far it appears to be working but the 1.1 release notes say ufs shouldn't be working, anyways, back to our main feature... Anyways, the stock UNIX TeX distribution from labrea.stanford.edu combined with xdvi, xtex or other X dvi previewer should just work. If you can get along without having you're hand held, I'd say save the bucks for a TIGA card and to it yourself. -Rob -- Rob Healey rhealey@digibd.com Digi International (DigiBoard) Eden Prairie, MN (612) 943-9020
melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) (04/28/91)
In article <1991Apr24.132313.13844@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> cs326ag@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Loren J. Rittle) writes:
I while back someone asked about available applications
that run under AmigaUNIX:
[from the latest AmigaTeX News, which I just received...]
Amiga Unix TeX available!
Radical Eye Software has also been hard at work on
a port of TeX to Amiga Unix! This software is now avail-
able at $300; it can be supplied on either floppy disks or a
I don't really want to start a flame war is this group, but isn't this
the same version of TeX that you get free with the NeXT?
followup to comp.sys.amiga.advocacy.
-Mikejac@gandalf.llnl.gov (James A. Crotinger) (04/29/91)
rhealey@digibd.com (Rob Healey) writes: > Anyways, the stock UNIX TeX distribution from labrea.stanford.edu > combined with xdvi, xtex or other X dvi previewer should just work. > If you can get along without having you're hand held, I'd say save > the bucks for a TIGA card and to it yourself. True. I use a somewhat older version on my Sparc and have generally been happy with it. But Tom Rokicki has a habit of putting some pretty nice enhancements into his products (like the Amiga version's ability to print postscript images on non postscript printers and display them in the previewer). Also, I believe that his AmigaOS version has been considerably tuned for speed. I strongly suspect that these enhancements will make it into the AmigaUNIX version if there is demand. > -Rob Jim -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- James A. Crotinger Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab // The above views jac@moonshine.llnl.gov P.O. Box 808; L-630 \\ // are mine and are not (415) 422-0259 Livermore CA 94550 \\/ necessarily those of LLNL