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In article <78622@ut-emx.uucp> vadim@bolvan.ph.utexas.edu (Vadim S.  
Kaplunovsky) writes:
> In article <1992Aug28.024801.28694@tamsun.tamu.edu> 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.
> 
> If you want a GOOD NeXT interface to TeX, get TeXWorks by Dmitri Linde.

Geez ! Let me start off by saying I've used both and prefer TeXWorks (a.k.a.  
InstantTeX) and have purchased it. 

However.....

When TeXmenu came out, it was the ONLY GUI interface to TeX available on the  
NeXT that I knew of. The only alternative was some Edit macros (which worked  
pretty well, actually.) TeXmenu was FREE, and someone obviously put a lot of  
work into it. To label it as "crap" is, to me, inaccurate, and certainly
an undeserved slap in the face to someone who provided something to the  
community. Perhaps you need the experience of spending some late nights  
developing some software that you're going to give to people and then having  
someone belittle your work by rudely proclaiming to the world that it is  
"crap." If you don't like it, just state your reasons, suggest improvements,  
and have a little respect for another person's efforts. People who are trying  
to provide software to the NeXT community should be encouraged, not  
discouraged, and thoughtless reactions are only discouraging. No one was trying
to SELL you TeXmenu or making inflated claims for it.



BTW, to get TeXMenu to display in English, I found that resetting my language
choice in Preferences (the app) had to be done in addition to chosing it in  
TeXMenu.

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