AmigaTeX
| AmigaTeX | |
|---|---|
| Original author | Tomas Rokicki |
| Developer | Radical Eye Software[1] |
| Stable release | 3.1h
/ 1987 |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | AmigaDOS |
| Type | Typesetting |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | |
The computer program AmigaTeX is a port of Knuth's typesetting program TeX[1], which was originally written in WEB. To create AmigaTeX, that source was translated to C by Tomas Rokicki. This manual translation was necessary because of the lack of a suitable Pascal compiler for the Amiga computer. When development of AmigaTeX commenced, WEB depended on Pascal and Web2c was not yet an available alternative.
Features
[edit]AmigaTeX has several features not available in standard TeX:
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 Ockenden, Paul (November 1988). "Typesetting for experts". Amiga Computing. Vol. 1, no. 6. Database Publications Ltd. pp. 33–37.
- ↑ "Controlling AmigaTEX from CygnusEd" (PDF). tug.org. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
- ↑ "TeX Preview by Radical Eye Software, image of complete page". www.webalice.it. Archived from the original on 27 April 2017. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
- ↑ "TeX Preview by Radical Eye Software, image of cropped page". www.webalice.it. Archived from the original on 27 April 2017. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
