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Article #366InstantTeX Pricing Changes
From: Dmitri Linde
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 06:25
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 06:25
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact:Dmitri Linde 744 Mayfield Avenue Stanford, CA 94305 dmitri@StarConn.com InstantTeX Development and Pricing Changes Those who followed the development of InstantTeX may have noticed that this program has considerably grown and acquired new features such us the possibility to easily insert pictures into the text. You may just drag the picture from Adobe Illustrator, Draw, Mathematica and many other programs directly into your TeX file, and it immediately appears in the TeXview. Now InstantTeX also includes TeXPalette, which is similar to loTeX and EquationBuilder, but has many additional features. It is very important that TeXPalette, unlike EquationBuilder and loTeX, works as an integral part of InstantTeX; there is no need to write your equations separately and then insert them into your file. TeXPalette considerably simplifies writing complicated equations, especially when it is used in the InstantTeX mode. We expect that on the way to the InstantTeX2.0, which will work with the system 3.0, our program will become even better. We are welcoming any suggestions which you may have. We a very serious about it. Note that both TeXPalette and the possibility to drag figures into the text were developed as a response to your suggestions. We cannot satisfy everyone, but we will try to do our best. For example, we added to TeXPalette many buttons corresponding to commonly used commands and macros for LaTeX, Phystex and Harvmac. Today we have added support for large documents spanning multiple source files, as suggested by several users. We have also added support for AmsTeX. You may tell us which TeX formats you typically use and which macros are especially important for you, and we will try to include them into the future releases of InstantTeX. We believe that many people can benefit from using this program. InstantTeX makes NeXT the best computer for TeX, at a price which is about 3% of the price of the computer itself. However, in order to introduce it to scientific community as soon as possible, we offer now a special discount for InstantTeX1.0. Its standard price is $150 for commercial, government, and private end-users. (Please compare with $695 for Textures, which does not have many useful features of InstantTeX.) However, many users do not need to have a hardcopy of the the manual and the program disk, since both the program (without the license) and the manual can be obtained by ftp from nova.cc.purdue.edu. We believe that electronic distribution makes a lot of sense. We are constantly upgrading the program, and upgrades are distributed electronically in any case. We offer electronic-only version of InstantTeX1.0 for $125. Academic institutions, including faculty, staff, and labs may now purchase InstantTeX1.0 at the academic discount price of $120 ($95 for electronic-only version). Registered students may purchase an electronic-only version of InstantTeX1.0 at the heavily discounted price of $45. There are also quantity discounts for network licenses. Upon release of InstantTeX2.0, we will make a free upgrade of InstantTeX1.0 to InstantTeX2.0 for all registered users. Demo version of InstantTeX is available from the NeXT public archive: nova.cc.purdue.edu as /pub/next/submissions/InstantTeX.tar or as pub/next/2.0-release/demos/InstantTeX.tar. To get the order form, please send a message to dmitri@StarConn.com.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!gateway From: dmitri@physics.stanford.edu (Dmitri Linde) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software Subject: InstantTeX Pricing Changes Date: 10 Aug 1992 01:25:41 -0500 Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway Lines: 73 Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu Message-ID: <9208100718.AA03267@physics> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu