From: hessmann@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de (Georg Hessmann)
Subject: Re:      Re: TeX on ab20
Organization: University of Passau, Germany
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 12:44:28 GMT

In article <72D41BE187BF801434@ucs.uwplatt.edu> Lance Tagliapietra <96720919@UCS.UWPLATT.EDU> writes:
>>Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 13:02:25 GMT
>>From: Clare Chu Ayala <clare@NYNEXST.com>
>>Subject: TeX on ab20
>>
>>  Okay, I've downloaded the whole bugger.  There are so many disks and
>>  all in .zom format.  Since I don't have zoom on my Unix system, I can't
>>  take a peek until I begin the laborious process of copying to an ibm
>>  format disk, etc. etc.  What I want to know is, if you need a hard-drive.
>>  Looking at the number of .zom disks, I would guess that this is so.
>
>Yes, you need a hard drive.  According to SID, my TEX: directory eats
>up about 15 Meg.  I have a complete set of previewer fonts for
>ShowDVI, and a complete set of 240 dpi fonts for DVIPrint to use.

If you use the PasTeX drivers (ShowDVI and DVIprint) you don't have
to copy _all_ fonts to HD.
E.g. you don't need to copy the previewer font disks (8 disks) 
to your HD. ShowDVI automatically ask for one disk (see TeX:config/FontVols)
if it doesn't find a font. If the font is on disk, ShowDVI copy it
to TeX:pk. So you need the disk only once and you have only the really
needed fonts on HD.

>You should grab the files from the amiga/tex directory, and the files
>from the incoming/amiga/tex directory.  The set in the incoming
>directory contains all the previewer fonts.
>
>Note, I did not install PasTeX, but I do use several files from that
>distribution (I already had the other TeX distribution installed when
>I got all the PasTeX disks downloaded). There are also docs in that
>distribution (look for englishdoc.lha) which will be helpful getting
>TeX setup. I installed the TeX 3.1 distribution which is with the
>PasTex distribution in the amiga/tex directory on AB20.  I did not
>need to install any of the files from the utilites disk. Don't forget
>to grab the MetaFont2.7.lha file. There is a two-disk MetaFont
>distribution there too. I have not downloaded these yet.

The two disk distribution of Metafont has the advantage of a installation
script and it has also ARexx scripts for automatical font generation,
if a PasTeX driver doesn't find a font (e.g. if you press cancel when
ShowDVI asks for a font disk).

>>  Also, does anyone know what the difference between this TeX and
>>  the AmigaTex that is sold?
>
>I have not seen the commercial AmigaTeX, but I would imagine that this
>distribution comes with an install program, more DVI drivers, more fonts
>already generated (pk files), and the directory structure all created.
>If you have the $$ it might be easier to go that route.  Generating
>240 dpi fonts for my epson printer took a few days on my unaccelerated
>2000HD.

PasTeX comes also with an very nice install script which does all
what you need. You can get also a _full_ set of previewer fonts
(8 disks!) which are good integrated in the PasTeX font caching
system. Only one is missing: you can't get the printer fonts in
the same nice installation like the previewer fonts.

AmigaTeX has it advantage at postscript support and better
picture including possibilities. virtex and initex of AmigaTeX
are a bit faster too.

	Georg.

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