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(JKL) 16 Sep 89
Well, the family of programs to support LaTeX on our beloved ST's
continues to grow!! I have had a working LaTeX system up for about a
year, but needed a .dvi driver for my HP DeskJet and also wanted to
get a version of BibTeX working on my ST.
The .dvi driver for the HP Deskjet became a reality (and should be
available on the terminator archive) with the help of John R. Dunning
(of JRD fame). He took some code I came across that processes the .dvi
file for the deskjet in strips (for machines with less than 2.5 Meg)
and compiled it on his Mega-4 using the excellent GCC compiler. As I am
limited to my lowly 1040ST, I can't run GCC, but I did recently buy the
ANSI-C compatible PROSPERO-C compiler. This got me started with this
port of BibTeX to the Atari-ST!
I got the C source-code for an MS-DOS implementation of BibTeX v0.99 from
the arpa-net at titan.rice.edu. It was a collection of very nice C code
written for the MS-Dos Turbo-C compiler by a chap in the UK by the name
of ** Neil Kempson ** He did a hand translation of the WEB code of
BibTeX (not an easy job I'm sure) and produced some truely excellent code,
well documented and easy to follow. Anyway, after tweaking a some of the
code to get it to compile for under the Prospero-C compiler, it seems to
work fine!! (BTW, Niel's documentation says it takes up to 2.5Meg to
compile his code using Turbo C v2.0 on an MS-DOS machine, while I was able
to do it with only 1Meg on the Atari!!)
Anyway, this is not fully tested, I have only used it to do my MS Thesis
work with. I have only about 30 entries in my .bib file, so I really
don't know what it will do with a really large bibliography!!
If you don't know how to use BibTeX, look at Appendix B of "The LaTeX
user's guide" by Leslie Lamport. This book is a must if you are using
LaTeX anyway, so if you are reading this file, I will assume you have the
LaTeX Guide :-)
This program expects to find two environment variables, so it will need to
be run using a shell like Gulam that supports them. I run it using
Neodesk V2.0 with the environment set up from within NeoDesk.
TEXINPUTS={path to your .BST bibliograph style files}
TEXBIB={path to your .bib files}
See the included BTXDOC.TEX file for all the details of the original
MS-DOS version, almost all of the information should still be applicable
for the ST version.
Credits:
Neil Kempson - for his excellent MS-DOS C code
Donald Knuth - the creator of TeX
Leslie Lamport - for making TeX manageable thru LaTeX
If (or should I say when?) you find any bugs, please let me know about
them. Until Jan 90, I can be reached at:
jlong@blackbird.afit-af.mil
Or mail you questions to :
Jeff Long
3073 Jade Court
Beavercreek, OH 45385
I hope this program will help to solidify the Atari-ST as a viable system
for running LaTeX on!
Jeffrey K. Long (JKL)