Hi all,

I just managed to make a working (at least so far) port of LaTeX for AOS4.
I would like to ask from ppl who are familiar with latex to test it.
So far I tested these applications: latex/elatex/tex/etex compilers, dvips/dvipdfm.
No dvi viewer yet.

atm the file is being uploaded, the url (this is being posted before the upload complete):
http://ae-www.technion.ac.il/~jack/tmp/os4/
file: tetex-3.0_build_alpha1.tar.gz
size: 166616126 bytes (~159 MB)
md5sum: d5a7a9d2ba64ea6565220404ff3377ac

Edit:
etex file that replaces older broken etex that slipped into the above archive (same url)
file: tetex-3.0_build_alpha1_etex_only.tar.gz


Requirements:
SDK with up-to-date abc-shell.


Please note that this is work in progress: packaging is not finished and installation inistructions might be incomplete.
Begin with README.amiga


Jack

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@jack

Wow! This is great. Exactly what I have been waiting for for a long time. I'm currently using the old 68K version of AmiWeb2C. It works fine, but is somehow slow.

I am downloading the file as I type. Will test and report back ASAP. Maybe this weekend, I get some time to do so.

Thank you very much for your valuable efforts.

Firbodi

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@firbodi

etex file that replaces older broken etex that slipped into the above archive (same url)
file: tetex-3.0_build_alpha1_etex_only.tar.gz


Enjoy

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@jack

Cool!
I'm also using AmiWeb2C 68k now, but it is slow and can't generate PDFs directly - have to go through ps which doesn't give a good result.

Where do I locate and how do I use abc shell?
AmiWeb2C runs in a normal Amiga Shell but that makes it tricky for kpathsea to find its stuff, fonts etc sometimes.

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@Deniil715

http://os4depot.net/index.php?function=showfile&file=development/utility/abc-shell.lha

After installing just type "sh" and press return in a Shell and you will then have a Bourne compatible Shell window.

To get back into the normal Amiga shell type "exit" or press the window close button.

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@jack

In the immortal words of The Cat (Red Dwarf)...

"What is it?"

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http://www.amigans.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=15449#forumpost15449

@Deniil715

Here you'll have "dvipdfm" for direct conversion
The missing piece atm is lack of viewer. I'll try to incorporate "ShowDVI", but it has limited PS support.


Jack

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@all

Fixed version of "setup" file is in the same url named "teTeX_amiga_setup",
I'll modify it online when there'll be need for changes

Edit:
Due to large size of the file, I made online a smaller version with sources of tex packages removed and icluded there the fixed setup and etex file.
Juts run rehash_amiga inside "sh" after installation.

http://ae-www/~jack/tmp/os4/tetex-3.0_build_alpha1_nosrc.tar.gz


Jack

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@jack

Bump

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@thread


More development:
got ShowDvi going (m68k, the one that appeared in pastex and amiweb2c) with teTeX.
The font generation for preview is done by native metafont so it's should be speedy enough.
Will have to iron it out and then I'll release fixed callmf and friends arexx scripts

Things are getting better
Will see if there's a chance to make use of gs in specialhost for picture generation, if not, I'll try to make a script that produces PostScript compatible with post.library in specialhost.

If anyone has some ideas suggestion, they are wellcome. The only thing I'm affraid of now is that changing specialhost is beyond my abilities atm (seems to me that there's some use of assembler in PostScript-related code).
Jack

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@all

The experiment continues:


http://ae-www.technion.ac.il/~jack/tmp/os4/tetex_showdvi.lha

Contains the setup instructions and modified files for m68k ShowDVI. Specialhost wasn't tested yet, so it migh have to be disabled if it is loaded automatically in your existing setup.
Note again: this is "fresh from the oven".
It works for me, should work for you. More tidy installation process will be derived from your experiences.

Jack

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A teaser screenshot for Amiga LaTeX users, maybe that will encourage you to install and feed back the feedbacks.
LaTeX + ShowDVI and shell it's running in and Annotate with partial latex syntax parser :

http://aerodyne.technion.ac.il/~jack/tmp/os4/latex_shot.png


Jack

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@all

A bit more polished instructions available as well as newer ShowDVI files.

http://ae-www.technion.ac.il/~jack/tmp/os4

Now time to test ShowDVI in action with PS gfx...

Still waiting for feedback from latex users...


Jack

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@jack

Installing now. Seemed I had WOS versions of gzip and tar which both crashed badly with ISI. Removed those and now extracting worked fine. I just really hope dvipdfm works now!

I'll let you know when (when, not if, when dealing with LaTeX ) I run into trouble

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@jack

Thanks for the great work.

I have three things to ask.

First, when I first run latex, it asks for home: For now, I assigned it to teTeX drawer. I hope this does not cause any problems.

Second, dvipdfm has problems with files that have eps pictures. I guess that you already know?

Third, dvips has a weird default output "lpr." I have to use the -o option to specify an output file. This is not the case on Linux.

Other than these, everything else seems to be working good. I still have to try ShowDVI.

Thanks,
Firbodi

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@jack

Here is the output of dvipdfm when it tries to include an eps file in the pdf:

NSERC_04.dvi -> NSERC_04.pdf
[1(./change_01.eps < PS > zcat: Unknown command
zcat failed returncode 10
GPL Ghostscript 8.54: **** Could not open temporary file "/T"
**** Unable to open the initial device, quitting.
PIPE failed returncode 10

Conversion via ->zcat -f ./change_01.eps | gs -q -sPAPERSIZE=a0 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.2 -dUseFlateCompres
ion=true -dSAFER -sOutputFile=tmp000000 - -c quit < - failed
)
pdf: image inclusion failed for (change_01.eps).
]

Thanks,
Firbodi

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@firbodi

Ok, great that stuff seems to be working. I stumbled on eps problem yesterday and had no chance to publish the workaround:

http://ae-www.technion.ac.il/~jack/tmp/os4/zcat

copy to the path (tetex:bin/powerpc-unknown-amigaos is ok) , "protect +s"and retry
Missed adding sys:utilities/ghostscript to the path in the setup file, thanks (now added to setup file I guess you already done it yourself)

Please note the newer showdvi files are online. With latest setup the compilers should work inside regular amiga shell. rehash_amiga still relies on launching from sh but it'll change.

Edit: just noticed output you provided. Can you check if there're jpeg compression artifacts in the image that is displayed in pdf?
(just reminded me a problem I once found in gs scripts that by default used lossy compression for images)


Jack

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@jack

The shell (sh) has a different set of paths than the Amiga CLI and doesn't find any teTeX commands. When giving it a "wierd" command line, such as "c:path" I get a requester for every path it searches and see that non of the Amiga paths are searched, only different locations within the SDK:, some of which the Amiga path are not set to.

Where does it get this from? What is the command for setting path in sh? Shouldn't it inherit the paths?

About the dvipdfm problem (which I'm still far from it seems ;)), is zcat really needed, isn't that just if one wants stuff comressed into gzip or something?

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@jack

Great job!

Do you know the AROS bounty "Port TeX to AROS":

http://thenostromo.com/teamaros2/?number=47

Well, perhaps you are not interested, but I thought it was worth asking...