Are there any TeX compilers for NT?
Harold Roussel
for NT. The only one I've found is bctex, a 2-years old file
(actually I need TeX and Latex2e). I've looked on all NT ftp sites
and couldn't find anything better than that. It's quite amazing to
see that while most ISVs develop for NT rather than os/2, in the
freeware/shareware market NT apps are almost non-existent compared to
os/2 apps. If only there was support for 32-bit os/2 text progs I
could use Emtex for os/2. There's still the DOS version though, with
all of its limitations, but I'd prefer by fat a native NT compiler.
Thanks for any information.
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gutierrez
> I'd like to know if anybody is aware of a good, recent, TeX compiler
> for NT. The only one I've found is bctex, a 2-years old file
> (actually I need TeX and Latex2e). I've looked on all NT ftp sites
You can use bctex to create the LaTeX macros. LaTeX is nothing more than
macros built on top of TeX. LaTeX may be found on any of the CTAN
archives. Unfortunately, bctex has sparse documentation and unless you've
installed TeX before, it's not going to be easy. I installed it because
many of the professors required our projects to be documented with LaTeX.
It is no longer on my system, otherwise I would send you my configuration
files.
> and couldn't find anything better than that. It's quite amazing to
> see that while most ISVs develop for NT rather than os/2, in the
> freeware/shareware market NT apps are almost non-existent compared to
> os/2 apps. If only there was support for 32-bit os/2 text progs I
> could use Emtex for os/2. There's still the DOS version though, with
> all of its limitations, but I'd prefer by fat a native NT compiler.
> Thanks for any information.
bctex is much faster than emtex on Windows NT. The author of bctex was
supposed to release an updated version several months back, but it seems
this is not the case. One thing bctex cannot handle is long filenames,
this becomes a problem when installing LaTeX 2e because some of the files
it installs are longer than the 8.3 convention. The author said he did this
for compatibility with DOS.
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mario l gutierrez mgut...@rohan.sdsu.edu