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- From: cabp09@ccsun.strath.ac.uk ("David McNicol")
- Subject: Re: Technical wordprocessors for ST
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.114255.11054@ccsun.strath.ac.uk>
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- Organization: University of Strathclyde
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 11:42:55 GMT
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- madmal@spd.eee.strathclyde.ac.uk (Malachy Devlin - SPD) writes:
-
- > Can anyone recommend a good technical word processor for the ST. ie. one that
- > would allow me to enter (large messy) equations (easily)? and also have the
- > ability to generate table of contents, tables etc or am I asking to much?
- > (I suppose I would be looking for something like word for windows 2 for the PC)
- > ( apoloyises for mentioning PC in this group :-) )
-
- Well ... right here in sunny Strathclyde we have TeX - the document processing
- package.
-
- It's not like 'Word For Windows' but more like a document compiler.
-
- You write a document in ASCII then compile, and hey presto, a postscript file
- appears (well ... you need to use a utility called dvi2ps !!) which can be
- dumped on any laser printer on the SUN network at Strathclyde.
-
- I'd advise you to use LaTeX (a sort of macro package for TeX) ... with this,
- I produce all of my handin's and lab reports !!
-
- ITS FAB !!
-
- Oh, and if your wondering what this has to do with the ST, I have an
- implimentation of TeX running on my old 1040ST with no probs (mind you,
- it does need 2 1/2 megs of HD space to store fonts/binaries ... etc)
-
- Dave.
-
- (PS: perhaps this should be in comp.text.tex - my apogologies !!)
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