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AmigaTeX

The computer program AmigaTeX is a port of Knuth's typesetting program TeX, 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.

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AmigaTeX
Original authorTomas Rokicki
DeveloperRadical Eye Software1
Stable release
3.1h / 1987 (1987)
Written inC
Operating systemAmigaDOS
TypeTypesetting
LicenseProprietary
Websitewww.radicaleye.com

The computer program AmigaTeX is a port of Knuth's typesetting program TeX1, 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

AmigaTeX has several features not available in standard TeX:

See also

See also

References

References

  1. Ockenden, Paul (November 1988). "Typesetting for experts". Amiga Computing. Vol. 1, no. 6. Database Publications Ltd. pp. 33–37.
  2. "Controlling AmigaTEX from CygnusEd" (PDF). tug.org. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
  3. "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.
  4. "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.
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