Introduction to AmigaT sub E X

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Amiga T{sub E}X is the Amiga's version of T{sub E}X, Donald Knuth's computer typesetting system, designed to take a text file and produce a printed manuscript. People who have used T{sub E}X on the IBM mainframe know that producing a final copy using the T{sub E}X system involves three independent steps. First, one uses an editor, e.g. XEDIT, to prepare the text file; next, one T{sub E}X's the file in order to produce a device independent (DVI) file; finally, one uses the program IMATEX to send the DVI file to a laser printer. Using T{sub E}X on a personal computer involves the same sequence of steps. In the cast of the Commodore Amiga, the editor is probably TxEd Plus and the T{sub E}X program will be Amiga T{sub E}X. One major difference between the IBM mainframe and the Amiga environment is that one does not have to print a T{sub E}X file in order to read it. One can instead use another program, Preview, to display the formatted file on the screen. In general, the output produced by

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