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vadim@bolvan.ph.utexas.edu (Vadim S. Kaplunovsky) writes:
> andrewd@tamsun.tamu.edu (Andrew T Duchowski) writes:
> > TeXmenu looks interesting.  Does it come or can it switch itself
> > to English?
> 
> TeXmenu is crap, regardless of language.

a) it does switch to english.  There are a few minor translation errors,
   but nothing that's significant.
b) it is not crap.  It was quite useful to me for some papers I had to
   write, and I'm no TeX expert.

> If you want a GOOD NeXT interface to TeX, get TeXWorks by Dmitri Linde.
>			ANNOUNCING
>		InstantTeX 1.0   by Dmitri Linde

Uh, is the name TeXWorks or InstantTeX?

In any case, TeXWorks (InstantTeX?) might be nicer, but I very much disagree  
with the comment that TeXmenu is crap.

            [most of InstantTeX advertisement skipped over]

>     Until the release of NeXTStep3.0, InstantTeX 1.0 will be available
>     at a special introductory price of $150 per copy. Demo version of
>     InstantTeX is available from the NeXT public archive:
>     nova.cc.purdue.edu.

The current version of TeXmenu is also considerably cheaper than the price  
quoted above, which may be of interest to people like me.  I don't use TeX  
enough to justify spending $150 on improvements to the TeX that is already  
distributed with the NeXT.

For all I know, InstantTeX (TeXWorks?) would be worth the quoted price for  
someone who uses TeX a lot, or in situations that I don't use TeX for.  I  
just don't think it's reasonable to say that TeXmenu is crap.  Harald (the  
author) requested a donation of $10, although he also put the current  
version in the public domain so paying him *anything* is not a requirement.   
I sent him $20 (if I remember right), and it was certainly worth that much  
to me.  He may change his pricing policy for future versions, but the  
current version (which is 2.2) is certainly quite nice for the price.

As an aside, I do think it's interesting to see all this activity in  
supporting TeX on the NeXT.  With all these developments it looks like the  
NeXT will be *the* excellent platform for doing TeX documents.

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