LaTeX

[ciVic]

Hi all,

I know, in the past were some threads about LaTeX on Amiga and I have already downloaded Amiweb2c. But I also heard that it is not easy to set it up using the texlive distribution. Isn't there maybe just an archive that contains everything and I only have to unpack it to my disk? I think if someone did the installation it should be as simple as this. Creating an lha archive from the installation folder and download it.

[Ball000]

Hello,

I didn't use AmiWeb2C since ages but it indeed worked pretty well. More than for any other program, the secret to succeed is to carefully read the documentation. And you will most probably need to find a contemporary texlive cd (around 1998 iirc). I would be very surprised indeed if you could use a current one. But it should be possible though to use some more recent packages once all is properly set up.

Edit: about the possibility of using an archive of a previous installation, to be honest I don't think it will work. Unless perhaps if the said archive is from an installation really done on a clean freshly installed system. In particular amiweb2c relies on the proper work of kpathsea which is very touchy about the placement of files and the correctness of assigns. A fresh install seems definitely easier to me.

[ciVic]

I have it running now on MorphOS 3.2 with tex-live 7 from 2002. Looks good, can even compile my current paper with pdflatex. Indeed it was not easy since the docs are partially wrong, the scripts are too old (e.g. sed does not work as expected, missing directories etc.). But I think if I would make an archive of it it should work on most Amigas nearly out of the box. So if someone is interested...