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In article <122162@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> sowa@amdew.llnl.gov writes:
>In article <1992Apr10.061938.11118@utstat.uucp>, philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough) writes:
>>I indicated using Postscript fonts with NeXT TeX is not as easy as
>>using them with Textures. 
>
>It's as easy as snarfing Rokicki's upgrades to dvips and texview from
>labrea.stanford.edu and installing them. They even use the New Font
>Selection Scheme. I don't know beans about Textures, but I do know that
>I like free upgrades by ftp. I hope the newer versions are incorporated
>into NS 3.0.

Of course free upgrades via ftp are nice. What if you don't have ftp
access? Moreover in order to use fonts on a Mac it is a straiforward
procedure. Using them with NeXT TeX doesn't seem to be. Nor does printing
if you aren't using a NeXT laser printer at 400 dots/in. There are just
a lot of little things which make the Next harder to use. That doesn't make
it worse. It's simply harder for most people. And it's "most people" who
will determine the future. As I indicated before, I believe Next is making
a mistake in going after Sun and it's even worse with this "mission
critical" thing. Next should be going after the high end micro users. There
are so many more of them and more could be accomplished for the whole
community. I suspect Next will regret the day it decided to give up on
being unique, possibly giving up on the ND( which allienated many people
including myself), the OD, etc...If I want mips, mlops,etc...I don't go
to Next. One goes to HP, IBM, DEC,etc...

While we are on the TeX issue, why not try Textures. It has continuous
previewing( see what you get when you enter your code). This is something
not available on the NeXT. It's almost a WYSIWYG TeX. It's great.

Philip McDunnough
University of Toronto
philip@utstat.toronto.edu