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From: c60a-1bd@e260-1g.berkeley.edu (Jeff Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: mathematical editor
Keywords: math, editor, wishful-thinking
Message-ID: <1989Oct4.202615.8881@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 4 Oct 89 20:26:15 GMT
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In article <414@s5.Morgan.COM> amull@Morgan.COM (Andrew P. Mullhaupt) writes:
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>Lotus Manuscript is a full-featured word processor, (it competes
>with Word and WordPerfect) for the IBM PC. It has the ability to
>automatically format mathematical expressions with correct size
>parenthesis, integral signs, etc. (just like TEX). It is integrated
>in a very easy to use word processor which has printer drivers for
>nearly every printer on the planet, especially the Desk-Jet (unlike
>TEX, which rips you off for 200 bucks a pop.).
>
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>Later,
>Andrew Mullhaupt
>
>Disclaimer: The opinions expressed above are not necessarily those 
>of my employer.

Just so no one gets any misconceptions.  There are quite a few free 
drivers available at SCIENCE.UTAH.EDU as well as from various other 
places.  Some people may be charging $200 dollars for TeX printer 
drivers but if the price seems too high get a PD version somewhere else.
It is in fact possible to put together a complete free version of TeX 
(including latex, bibtex, fonts, previewer, etc.) for a PC with minimal 
effort (see for example pd:<msdos.tex> at wsmr-simtel20.army.mil).  
I have microtex from arbortext but use a PD previewer and dvi2ps converter.  

-- 
Jeff Davis, JCDavis@LBL.GOV