AmigaTeX

{{Infobox software

| name = AmigaTeX

| logo = \mathrm{AmigaT\!_{\displaystyle E} \! X}

| caption =

| author = Tomas Rokicki

| developer = Radical Eye Software

| latest release version = 3.1h

| latest release date = {{Start date and age|1987}}

| programming language = C

| genre = Typesetting

| license = Proprietary

| website = {{URL|http://www.radicaleye.com}}

| operating_system = AmigaDOS

}}

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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.

Features

AmigaTeX has several features not available in standard TeX:

  • ARexx port for example with CygnusEd{{cite web|url=https://www.tug.org/TUGboat/tb10-3/tb25glendown-pc.pdf|title=Controlling AmigaTEX from CygnusEd|website=tug.org|access-date=8 June 2023}}
  • Preview{{cite web |url=http://www.webalice.it/fulvio.peruggi/public/Pegasos&MorphOS/Articles/01_PegasosReview/AmigaTeX_Preview1.png |title=Archived copy |website=www.webalice.it |access-date=12 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170427102717/http://www.webalice.it/fulvio.peruggi/public/Pegasos&MorphOS/Articles/01_PegasosReview/AmigaTeX_Preview1.png |archive-date=27 April 2017 |url-status=dead}}{{cite web |url=http://www.webalice.it/fulvio.peruggi/public/Pegasos&MorphOS/Articles/01_PegasosReview/AmigaTeX_Preview2.png |title=Archived copy |website=www.webalice.it |access-date=12 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170427102717/http://www.webalice.it/fulvio.peruggi/public/Pegasos&MorphOS/Articles/01_PegasosReview/AmigaTeX_Preview2.png |archive-date=27 April 2017 |url-status=dead}}
  • Interchange File Format graphics integration

See also

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