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- From: jc@crosfield.co.uk (jerry cullingford)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Amiga TeX
- Message-ID: <14963@suns6.crosfield.co.uk>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 11:51:51 GMT
- References: <1992Jul28.194120.14270@ennews.eas.asu.edu> <1992Jul29.085614.18153@sniap.mchp.sni.de>
- Organization: Crosfield Electronics, Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom.
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- In article <1992Jul29.085614.18153@sniap.mchp.sni.de> Wolf-Eckart.Schmidt@sniap.mchp.sni.de writes:
- >TeX itself needs not more than 5 MB on your HD, depending on the macro packages
- >you are using (TeX, LaTeX, BibTeX, ...). This macro packages expand the capa-
- >bilities of TeX. Then you need several MB for fonts (previewer fonts, printer
- >fonts in several resolutions).
- >So TeX needs 30 MB (plusminus) of diskspace, but if you have a computer with at
- >least more than 1MB and a large HD, TeX is a good program for the Creation of
- >high quality documents, especially with mathematical and chemical symbols.
-
- OTOH :-) since most of the space is taken up by lots of fonts at lots of
- resolutions, most good implementations provide a font cacheing mechanism,
- so you don't have too keep all the fonts/resolutions on your working disk(s),
- but only the ones you actually use. Usually this is 10% or less of the total.
-
- You should be able to use TeX on a floppy based system without too much
- disk swapping - say one or two disks for TeX, the previewer, and printer
- driver (most people only use plain TeX, or the LaTeX macros), and a few
- disks for the fonts in use.
-
- The AmigaTeX demo fits everything on one disk (no printer driver, and probably
- not too many fonts) so it can be done..
-
- A Hard disk makes life a lot easier though :-)
-
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