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Re: Open letter to NextDevelopers (and InstantTeX demo warning)

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From: Charles Fletcher
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



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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
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