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In article <1992Sep1.130513.15275@husc3.harvard.edu> gouvea@zariski.harvard.edu (Fernando Gouvea) writes:

   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... 

Well, yes, but...  it doesn't need automatic font generation or MetaFont ---
since it uses the CM fonts on Adobe Type 1 format.

Berthold K.P. Horn
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA