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Article #11619Re: Stupid questions about Tex for the Mac (sorry)
From: Robert Becker
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1993 16:16
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1993 16:16
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In article <1p9k5fINN6sf@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu> Tim Larkin <tsl1@cornell.edu> writes: >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. It should be noted that Textures doesn't need MetaFont as all its fonts are done in Postscript(TM). Also, Textures is available in a student version for $200 (no TeXbook and no Lamport), has a lightning mode, and according to the company now has an installer. Granted, I don't use Textures so perhaps I'm missing some of its bad points. It's available through Blue Sky Research at -- --------------- Robert Becker, Secretary, 2-332 Dept. of Mathematics, MIT Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 (617)253-1797 robertb@math.mit.edu
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f9e16,ff43829ed7459bbf X-Google-Attributes: gidf9e16,public X-Google-Thread: 143ee4,ff43829ed7459bbf X-Google-Attributes: gid143ee4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1993-03-30 08:31:15 PST Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,bit.listserv.tex-l Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!enterpoop.mit.edu!galois!wiener!robertb From: robertb@wiener.mit.edu (Robert Becker) Subject: Re: Stupid questions about Tex for the Mac (sorry) Message-ID: <1993Mar30.161609.3167@galois.mit.edu> Sender: news@galois.mit.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: wiener Organization: MIT Department of Mathematics, Cambridge, MA References: <113330@bu.edu> <1p9k5fINN6sf@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 93 16:16:09 GMT Lines: 24