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From: Fernando Gouvea
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 17:05
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 17:05
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In article <1992Aug31.233934.1@cbrown.claremont.edu> dhosek@cbrown.claremont.edu writes: >In article <1992Aug31.172419.15257@husc3.harvard.edu>, gouvea@zariski.harvard.edu (Fernando Gouvea) writes: >> By the way: for Mac users who have access to the MPW shell, this >> implementation of TeX is hard to beat! > >Well, I haven't seen DirectTeX in person, but Textures is not too >shabby. The most recent release has had a great deal of the inner >loop optimised in 68000 assembly resulting in speed increases of >200% or more. On a Quadra they're claiming TeXbook processing at >rates of about 40 pages per SECOND. That's slick. I have my >doubts about the utility of "Flash mode", but some people like >it. Yes, but no metafont, no integrated BibTeX and Makeindex, no (semi-)automatic font generation, and proprietary formats for everything... -- ============================================================================ Fernando Q. Gouvea fqgouvea@colby.edu Dept. of Math/CS (207)-872-3278 Colby College Mudd 407
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