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Article #11234Re: What's the difference?
From: John Price
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1990 23:58
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1990 23:58
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In article <3993@mit-caf.MIT.EDU>, npreyer@mit-caf.MIT.EDU (Norris Preyer) writes:
>As an experiment, I recently formatted my nascent thesis with both
>TeXtures (version 1.2) and OzTeX (version 1.2) on my mac. I had made
>new versions of latex.fmt from the 7 Dec. 1989 release of LaTeX, and
>both read the same .sty files. To my surprise, the memory used by the
>two programs was not the same:
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>Anyone know what could cause this difference? btw, the new ability
>of TeXtures to read external PICT files is _very_ nice.
Actually, I would be surprised if they were the same. Also, that
would suggest that one of them copied the code of the other. They should
be different because they are different programs. They are both
implementations of TeX, and (presumably) they both satisfy DEK's TRIP test
(or is it TRAP - I don't claim to be a wizard), but beyond that, how they
produce .DVI files is entirely up to the programmer.
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