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Re: Stupid questions about Tex for the Mac (sorry)

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From: Tim Larkin
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1993 14:06
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In article <113330@bu.edu> Michelle Manes, manes@acs2.bu.edu writes:
>1.  Is there a preferred TeX for the Mac?   We all have Mac IIs of one
form
>or another.  (I've read the FAQ, so I know about OzTex.  Is that the
best,
>or just the only free one?  We wouldn't mind purchasing software if
>it was better than the freeware.)

I prefer DirectTex, $100 shareware, much cheaper than Textures, and does 
more, by which I mean that it includes TeX, MetaFont, WEB and CWEB. It is 
available at ftp.uni-stuttgart.de.

Tim Larkin
Federal Nutrition Laboratory
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Ithaca, New York
tsl1@cornell.edu
607-255-7008
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