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- From: jtv@xs4all.nl (Jeroen T. Vermeulen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: LaTeX
- Date: Sun, 7 Apr 96 20:05:50
- Organization: Leiden University, Mathematics & Computer Science, The Netherlands
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- In article <4k3g09$7ps_001@watstar.uwaterloo.ca> NNBAILLY@SCIENCE2.uwaterloo.ca (N. N. Bailly) writes:
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- > >I'm looking for an Amiga version of LaTeX 2e. (\LaTeX 2\varepsilon)
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- \footnote{ "LaTeX2e" can be written in LaTeXe2 as "\LaTeXe". }
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- > It's also possible (without too much trouble, I think) to get the
- > original source, and compile it yourself (likely with GNU C).
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- LaTeX does NOT need to be compiled (except with TeX itself, which is more like
- stripping comments from it). There is NO LaTeX executable or other
- machine-dependent file. The command "latex" is simply a commonly used alias for
- calling TeX with the necessary command-line option to instruct it to use the
- LaTeX macro package.
-
- And finally, TeX is not a C program. Knuth is a great character, but with one
- tragic flaw: He used to program in Pascal. TeX and METAFONT are written in
- Web, a mixture of Pascal source and TeX documentation (similar to our own
- Amiga autodoc documentation). I think a lot of ugly kludges could have been
- avoided in TeX (it has no dynamic memory allocation!) if it had been written in
- a more realistic language from the start.
-
- IMHO Niklaus Wirth will burn in hell for inventing Pascal.
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