From: fabio AT joplin DOT colorado DOT edu (Fabio Somenzi) Subject: Re: TeX implementations? 28 Oct 1996 09:08:58 -0800 Sender: daemon AT cygnus DOT com Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199610281548.IAA20764.cygnus.gnu-win32@joplin.colorado.edu> Original-To: murray AT lamar DOT colostate DOT edu Original-Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com ->Has any work been done on porting an implementation of TeX to the ->gnu-win32 platform? If not, I know that EMTeX is written primarily for ->OS/2, but can be run under DOS and old Win 3.1. Has anyone had good or ->bad luck getting it set up and running under NT/95? I know the DOS ->implementation involves running some funny memory-management tools. I have successfully installed miktex (found in the Vitual Unix page: http://www/itribe.net/virtunix). The only piece missing was bibtex. I got Kempson's version from the CTAN and compiled it with gnu-win32 on my win95 laptop. All works well. The gnu-win32 home page has the details of how I did that. (Where it describes packages ported by other people with the help of the cygnus port.) Other sites of interest are: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost for GSview (postscript preview and printing) http://www.ph.unimelb.edu.au/ipc/textbook/world/dviview.html (dvi preview and printing) One caveat: if you use ntemacs to write your .tex files, and you call latex from within emacs (C-c C-f) you have to remember to explicitly exit the shell emacs starts to run latex. In my case, I have problems shutting down Windows if I forget. In practice, I normally run latex and dvips in a stand-alone bash window. I haven't installed the dvi previewer. I'm happily using GSview so far. The dvi previewer would make for quicker turnaround, but I'm afraid--- from a quick reading of the installation instructions---it would also create a second copy of the fonts. And I'm not previewing often enough to be willing at this point to invest the extra time. Maybe later. ->If the answer to the above question is "no", then would anybody be ->interested if I tried to get it set up and wrote a tiny FAQ about it? ->(In essence, would anybody have a decent place to stash a FAQ if I wrote ->it?) The FAQ may be a good idea. Maybe Cygnus is the right place. Or you can set it up at your site, and have people rely on search engines. Fabio -- Fabio Somenzi | Phone: 303-492-3466 University of Colorado | Fax: 303-492-2758 ECE Dept. | Email: Fabio AT Colorado DOT EDU Boulder CO 80309-0425 | WWW: http://vlsi.colorado.edu/~fabio - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".