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From: phr@mit-hermes.AI.MIT.EDU (Paul Rubin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: ST TeX
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Date: Fri, 9-Jan-87 02:18:17 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan  9 02:18:17 1987
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In article <8701072316.AA28620@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> FXDDR@ALASKA.BITNET writes:
>Maybe this should go to TeXHAX.  Anyway, in Vol 7 No 3 of TUGboat, they
>mention two versions of TeX for the ST, both from Germany.  I was wondering
>if anyone has tried either of these, or knows anything about them other
>than what was said in TUGboat.  If anyone knows of other versions floating
>around I'd be glad to hear about them.

Pat Monardo at Berkeley has recently translated TeX from Web into C.
This is a complete *hand* translation (can anyone say "masochist"?)
and the result uses good C programming style.  He announced it on
comp.text a few days ago.  It is available for free FTP and has
GNU-like copying permission terms.  It ought to be straightforward to
run it on the ST.  There are already suitable printer drivers in the
normal Unix TeX distribution, and a DVI previewer that's comes with
the X window system, all of which could be ported.  Anyone interested?
I'd get started, but I still don't have an ST.