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- \c May 17, 1987\\
- \vb
- \l Dear Amiga Owner,\\
- \vb
- Thank you for your interest in Amiga\TeX.
- On this disk you will find a demonstration version of the Amiga\TeX\
- package. I have included a small version of Amiga\TeX, the previewer,
- a few fonts, and a couple of sample \TeX\ files. It will run on a
- 512K system with two drives. To run \TeX, from the CLI, type
-
- {\tt tex:tex {\bf filename}}
-
- If you are running on a 512K Amiga, you must not be running any other
- programs, or even have a RAM disk installed. To run the previewer, type
-
- {\tt tex:preview {\bf filename}}
-
- The demo files are in {\tt tex:inputs}. Included is the full source
- for the Amiga\TeX\ manual, as {\tt amigatex.tex}.
- Amiga\TeX\ runs exactly
- the same as \TeX\ on mainframes, so refer to {\it The \TeX book}
- by Don Knuth for details. The previewer is completely menu and
- gadget driven, so just play with it to determine how it works.
- There are also some keyboard commands; try `F', `P', the arrow
- keys, and `Q'. (Note that when you give preview a file name, you
- give it the file name without the extension; {\tt story} rather
- than {\tt story.tex}, for instance.)
-
- This is just a demonstration version, so the size of the \TeX\ is
- limited, and you might not be able to run large documents. (The
- standard version of Amiga\TeX\ for a 512K machine can deal with
- larger documents.) In addition,
- only a small number of previewer fonts are supplied, so the previewer
- will draw black rectangles if it cannot find a particular font.
- \TeX\ will
- run on small documents, however, and will allow you to see that it is
- indeed a complete version of \TeX. Even with this small version
- of Amiga\TeX, you can run the entire Amiga\TeX\ manual.
- The full version of Amiga\TeX\ comes
- on eight floppies, and will handle larger documents than most mainframe
- versions of \TeX, if your Amiga has at least 768K of RAM. On a 512K system,
- you should be able to run most of your documents, unless you use a large
- number of macros. On the eight distribution floppies you will find
- \vb
- \ite A new, smaller and faster \TeX, version 2.1\\
- \ite La\TeX\ 2.09\\
- \ite Bib\TeX\\
- \ite Ini\TeX\\
- \ite Full source to the Amiga\TeX\ manual\\
- \ite A font caching scheme to handle the\\
- \ite 1200 previewer font files\\
- \ite A previewer which opens on the workbench screen\\
- \ite Keystroke commands for the previewer\\
- \ite Font conversion utilities {\tt gftopk}, {\tt pxtopk}, and {\tt pktype}\\
-
- You will also find a new, expanded, 80-page manual, with a large set of
- font samples. All of this comes attractively packaged in a three-ring
- binder. To get it, send \$200 to Norman Naugle, $n^2$ Computer
- Consultants, College Station, TX~~77841.
-
- This document was typeset using Amiga\TeX, and printed on a QMS-Kiss laser
- printer from the Amiga. It is supplied as a sample, called {\tt atd.tex},
- which you can run and preview yourself. As Amiga\TeX\ is a full implementation
- of \TeX, we can use all of the fancy mathematics capabilities of \TeX:
- $$A=\pmatrix{a_{11}&a_{12}&\ldots&a_{1n}\cr
- a_{21}&a_{22}&\ldots&a_{2n}\cr
- \vdots&\vdots&\ddots&\vdots\cr
- a_{m1}&a_{m2}&\ldots&a_{mn}\cr}$$
- \noindent
- or some simpler math:
- $$\pi(n)=\sum_{k=2}^n\left\lfloor{\phi(k)\over k-1}\right\rfloor.$$
- \noindent
- Of course, we also have access to the table making capabilities:
- $$\vbox{\tabskip=0pt\offinterlineskip
- \def\tablerule{\noalign{\hrule}}
- \halign to 160pt{\strut#& \vrule#\tabskip=1em plus2em&
- \hfil#& \vrule#& \hfil#\hfil& \vrule#&
- \hfil#& \vrule#\tabskip=0pt\cr\tablerule
- &&\multispan5\hfil AT\&T Common Stock\hfil&\cr\tablerule
- &&\omit\hidewidth Year\hidewidth&&
- \omit\hidewidth Price\hidewidth&&
- \omit\hidewidth Dividend\hidewidth&\cr\tablerule
- &&1971&&41--54&&\$2.60&\cr\tablerule
- && 2&&41--54&&2.70&\cr\tablerule
- && 3&&46--55&&2.87&\cr\tablerule
- && 4&&40--53&&3.24&\cr\tablerule
- && 5&&45--52&&3.40&\cr\tablerule
- && 6&&51--59&&.95\rlap*&\cr\tablerule \noalign{\smallskip}
- &\multispan7* (first quarter only)\hfil\cr}}$$
- \vb
- Thank you for trying out Amiga\TeX.
- \vb
- \c Sincerely,\\
- \vb
- \vb
- \vb
- \vb
- \c Tomas Rokicki\\
- \bye
-