Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!um-math!hyc From: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Wait a Sec... (was Re: Atari fair at Duesseldorf (West Germany)) Message-ID: <412@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu> Date: 20 Sep 88 05:38:33 GMT References: <597@stag.UUCP> Sender: usenet@math.lsa.umich.edu Reply-To: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) Organization: University of Michigan Math Dept., Ann Arbor Lines: 41 UUCP-Path: {mailrus,umix}!um-math!hyc In article <597@stag.UUCP> to_stdnet@stag.UUCP writes: >From: thelake!steve@stag.UUCP (Steve Yelvington) > > dyer@math.lsa.umich.edu (Jon Brode) writes... > >> Also, I have TeX for the ST. Someone just ported it >> and sent it to our intermediate archive. FTP to clio.math.lsa.umich.edu >> (35.195.16.4) and sign on as id ftp with any password. [If you were > >This is very interesting. I suppose it'll show up at ssyx and lakesys >for us UUCP peons. :-) Which leads me to ask -- what are the system >requirements for this program? What printers does it support? TeX does not support any printers. It generates a special output format that is device independent, known as the TeX DVI format. You generate hardcopy from a dvi file by processing that file with a program written specifically for whatever printer you need to use. There are DVI processors for Postscript, HP Laserjets, Xerox printers, phototypesetters, you name it. Even for direct previewing on the ST display. (DVIST, posted to the binaries group several months ago.) The TeX files we have archived are the source and executables for the main TeX program(s) only, as well as a small selection of fonts. A full TeX distribution would come with a large number of macro packages for special formatting tasks, a larger number of fonts, the Metafont program for designing, customizing, and converting fonts, and a small selection of DVIxxxx programs for generating hardcopy. TeX is distributed freely from a number of sites, but the only ones I keep track of are ftp sites. (score.stanford.edu and june.cs.washington.edu being most notable.) From looking thru the README, it appears this ST version was created with MegaMax C, based on the original Web sources for TeX, run thru the Web-To-C translator... From what I recall of this translator, it produces a much more efficient and powerful TeX than just the straight Web to Pascal process. -- / /_ , ,_. Howard Chu / /(_/(__ University of Michigan / Computing Center College of LS&A ' Unix Project Information Systems