Latex on PPC

jnguy · 12-13-04, 08:57 PM

I'm looking for something that will allow me to edit/compile latex documents in PPC. I need it for taking math notes, and nots in classes in general, so much better than microsoft word. The only thing I could find was latex for Windows CE. Any suggestions? Cygwin for PPC would be so awesome...

davidp · 12-14-04, 07:46 AM

Pervert...

Sorry, couldn't resist ! But no, don't know of anything like this...

**Frenchy** · 12-14-04, 08:12 AM

We used it at work as well and I did some research to find the same and couldn't come up with anything.

12-14-04, 09:01 AM

Originally Posted by jnguy

I'm looking for something that will allow me to edit/compile latex documents in PPC. I need it for taking math notes, and nots in classes in general, so much better than microsoft word. The only thing I could find was latex for Windows CE. Any suggestions? Cygwin for PPC would be so awesome...

This (TexEd) does work on PPC. Don't forget... the PPC OS is based on WinCE. Windows Mobile is just the shell...

http://www.rainer-keuchel.de/wince/texce.html

jnguy · 12-17-04, 12:16 AM

Looks like a pain to set up. I'm going to try it out either this or next week. I'll report an update.

jnguy · 01-16-05, 04:07 PM

Ugh, I've been playing with this with no luck under Xscale and 2003. If anyone has any advice, it would be appreciated. Can't use that microsoft word crap :)

01-16-05, 05:43 PM

Originally Posted by jnguy

Ugh, I've been playing with this with no luck under Xscale and 2003. If anyone has any advice, it would be appreciated. Can't use that microsoft word crap :)

I'm going to help you set it up like I have it, installed to \Built-in Storage

Step 1: Create a folder on your computer called unix-root

Step 2: Download http://www.rainer-keuchel.de/wince/t...-wce300.tar.gz and unzip

Step 3: Copy the entire texmf directory into your unix-root directory

Step 4: Download http://www.rainer-keuchel.de/wince/texmf-common.tar.gz and unzip

Step 5: Copy the home and texmf directories into unix-root, saying yes to the warning about merging existing directories (in windows that is)

Step 6: Give up because this is too many steps

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Ok, do this instead:

Download this file: http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~jmisurda/ppc/unix-root.zip

unzip it all to \built-in storage It won't work anywhere else.

Download these:

http://www.rainer-keuchel.de/wince/c...atforms.tar.gz

http://www.rainer-keuchel.de/wince/c...atforms.tar.gz

and copy the appropriate dll versions (in the wince-arm-pocket-wce300 folder) to \Windows

Now, get a registry editor. PHM RegEdit works excellently.

Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

Create a new key called Environment

Create a new String Value called HOME set its Value data to "\Built-in Storage\unix-root\home" (without the quotes)

Create a new String Value called PATH set its Value data to "\Built-in Storage\unix-root\texmf:\Built-in Storage\unix-root\texmf\bin" (without the quotes)

Create a new String Value called TEXMFCNF set its Value data to "\Built-in Storage\unix-root\texmf\cfg" (without the quotes)

Create a new String Value called COLS set its Value data to "80" (without the quotes)

Create a new String Value called ROWS set its Value data to "20" (without the quotes)

Create a new String Value called CONSOLEFONTSIZE set its Value data to "6" (without the quotes)

To run, start up texed and go into tex->tex options menu and make sure tex program says latex.exe

Make a file, save it, then do Tex->run TeX and hopefully it compiles. Then do Tex->Run WinDVI and hopefully it'll show up nicely for you (I've hi-res-aware hacked windvi to show more if you're on an x50v)

If this doesn't work, tell me exactly what goes wrong and where and I'll try to help more.

Jon

Theophilus · 01-16-05, 05:55 PM

Originally Posted by jnguy

...latex...

Try one of those...

jnguy · 01-17-05, 03:34 PM

Hey JonMisurda,

Thank you so much. I'm going to try these steps right now. I'll let you know how it goes. And yes, Latex... mm.

jnguy · 01-17-05, 04:09 PM

Got it! Thanks Jon. Its people like you that keep this community alive! A quick note to anyone who tries to do this, when naming your file, don't use spaces.

jnguy · 01-17-05, 04:13 PM

Another question... Where do I put sty files?

OH MAN, so exciting.

01-17-05, 07:02 PM

Originally Posted by jnguy

Another question... Where do I put sty files?

OH MAN, so exciting.

article.cls and article.sty are in the \unix-root\texmf\tex\latex\base\ directory.

You could try adding other documentclass types there. If that doesn't work, try lookign and seeing where they are on a PC's install under its own texmf directory.

Glad you got it to work.

Jon

shoman24v · 01-17-05, 07:05 PM

No glove no love. :)

jnguy · 01-17-05, 07:17 PM

Works like a charm. You're the best.

jaih · 04-18-05, 08:43 PM

thx very much - I have already LATEX on my IPAQ - all works well, but I have problem - I love PLAIN TEX more than LATEX, and I dont know, how should I set it up. In BIN directory is not tex.exe... :-(, can you please help me?