Latex on Amiga

[darkcoder]

The better and more updated Latex system (although a bit old now) is amiweb2c. It includes a DVI previwer (not as powerfull as xdvi, unfortunately) taken from Pastex, an older and also good Latex system. The main disadvantage of Pastex is that its   managing of directories makes it difficult to arrange Latex packages in a standard Latex tree. With amiweb it is possible.

Take in mind that installation of any of these packages is not easy and require time and Latex knowledge. I installed both PasTex and Amiweb, and for both I needed a couple of weeks to complete the job (working in the spare time, of course). In particular, Amiweb distribution does not include any Tex macros, which you need to take from a CTAN source and install by yourself. It is a lenghty job, although interesting because you learn a lot more about Tex than you do with click-and-install Latex distributions. Anyway, after some work I got a good Latex system.
I use up-2-date Latex systems at work on both Windoze and Linux system, but up to now, I have been able to port and correclty compile any Latex source from those ugly systems to my nice Amiga Latex system. I successfully compiled on Amiga documents with hundreds of pages, a lot of math and PS figures. Of course compile time with a 68060 or (in the past) with a 68030 is much longer than with  a 21th century CPU.

[darkcoder]

@billyfish

 as well explained by Cymric, the basic (system dependent) TeX engines and basic support tools (for example BibTeX) that I have are those in the Amiweb2c package available on aminet.
Unfortunately, the are not (all) port of the more recent version available (as open source if I remember right), but it is not so important since these programs are very stable for a  precise and IMHO excellent decision of Knuth and other people behind them. What I have recently updated are a big number of TeX macro packages, including Latex and a number of Latex packages. All these macros are system independent, which is very nice for Amiga since you can always be up to date with the most recent Latex development, if you do the effort of installing them. There is a huge number of Latex packages, and even if you limit yourself to the "required" ones, you'll spend a lot of time in doing the job (well, consider that I don't have Amigas with broad band connection, so I had to download everything with a PC and then port to Amy). As far as I remeber, by the way, amiweb2c does not come with Latex macros, so you should have done the job at least once.