Technical Wordprocessor for Mac?

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2 total messages Started by Ken Mandelberg Thu, 03 Jan 1985 23:40

#261

Author: Ken Mandelberg
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 1985 23:40

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A while back I posted an inquiry about a technical
wordprocessor for the Mac. Many people were kind enough
to reply that Macwrite could be used for technical wp
by using the built in subscript feature, and adding
appropriate fonts. I even got a copy of the Princeton
Fonts, and it does indeed work reasonably.

However, this approach has its problems. Only one level
of subscript is possible in general (2 in some special
cases). Building oversize symbols on separate lines is
not really very convenent. 

Does anyone know of efforts to produce a word processor 
which supports technical wp more generally?

As a related question, has anyone done a DITROFF filter for
previewing TROFF output on the Mac?

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Ken Mandelberg
Emory University
Dept of Math and CS
Atlanta, Ga 30322

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Re: Technical Wordprocessor for Mac?

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Author: edmoy
Date: Sun, 06 Jan 1985 00:11

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As for previewing troff output, I've done using the already existing
postprocessor `tc' (which produces output for previewing on a Tektronix
4014) and used VersaTerm on my Mac.
	troff -t (options, etc) | tc
The results are pretty crude as the small character size on the Mac is
proportionally too big and so characters overlap to a degree that it is
pretty unreadable.  I also have Tekalike, but haven't tried it yet.

Edward Moy
Computing Services
University of California
Berkeley, CA  94720

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