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Article #291Re: Open letter to NextDevelopers (and InstantTeX demo warning)
From: Charles Fletcher
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 18:54
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 18:54
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I agree with Sherwood's (and Jess') complaint of the "two-minute demo". Here's another current data point. Flame on-- InstantTeX also supports the two-minute demo movement. (Who thought this up anyway--I can't even load TeX and type \relax in two minutes!-) I am (was?) really interested in this product since I work a lot with TeX, but how much TeXing can you do in two minutes. Look at its Preference panel--it should take awhile just to figure all the options there (from what little I got to see, it did look interesting.) Now for the good part--I clicked on help and InstantTeX passes its help(.dvi) file to TeXView (NOTE: It installs its own Beta version(2.1) of TeXview!!!) which in my rush I decided to print out. DO NOT DO THIS!!!! Since I didn't notice that the "Custom Resolution" switch was ON (The InstantTeX version of TeXview came this way, I checked) my NeXT began generating fonts at 1270 dpi (also using up about 10 M of needed space in the process.) Fixes--(1) Make sure the CR switch is off, OR (2) Don't use the TeXview supplied by InstantTeX OR (3) Forget about the InstantTeX demo so you won't waste the ENTIRE F****** afternoon for a two minute demo!!!!!!! Flame off (but temper still up). Charlie -- ********************************************************************* * NeXTMail to: * ...to confer, converse, and * * charlie@technosci.com * otherwise hobnob with my * * * brother wizards. *
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!socrates!fletcher From: fletcher@socrates.umd.edu (Charles Fletcher) Subject: Re: Open letter to NextDevelopers (and InstantTeX demo warning) Message-ID: <1992Jul21.185459.11141@socrates.umd.edu> Summary: Flame on: InstantTeX demo warning Keywords: Demos, InstantTeX Organization: University of Maryland University College References: <1992Jul21.144606.29752@athena.mit.edu> <1992Jul21.161255.27640@macc.wisc.edu> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 18:54:59 GMT Lines: 38