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In article <3643@ames.arpa>, woo@pioneer.arpa (Alex Woo) writes:
> I have been using various versions of TeX and LaTeX for several
> years and like the fact that it is device independent so that
> files created on one machine can be viewed or printed somewhere
> else.  Unfortunately I have been very disappointed with TeXtures.
> Here are some specific complaints:
> 
> 1.  It is incomplete since it does not include "initex" or "virtex"
> and therefore cannot easily use large macro packages.  Since TeXtures
> does not include LaTeX, I mistakenly tried to \input lplain.  This
> takes a long time and TeXtures coughs on the embedded form feeds.

"initex" is built into TeXtures, so the \dump command for creating
fast-loading macro files works in TeXtures itself (look under "\dump"
in the manual, the manual with the release version 1.0).

> 
> 2.  TeXtures seems to be able 6 months behind the OS.  Currently, it 
> is impossible to print under system 5.0 or multifinder.  

True, alas.  Addison-Wesley is saying February, although apparently
there is a fixed version in existence.

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James King
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