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From: ghe@nucthy.physics.orst.edu (Guangliang He)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: TeX on the Mac
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Date: 19 Nov 89 20:33:53 GMT
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In article <17141@netnews.upenn.edu> ferris@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (Richard T. Ferris) writes:
> I was wondering whether TeX on the Mac has any fundamental
> advantages over TeX on the PC?  Are there any special features
> which make the editing process easier (i.e. more WYSIWYG)?
> Or is it just that the font selection is greater?  I have been
> using a PC program called SBTEX for a while now and it works
> fine for my LaTeX stuff but I sometimes get a little sick about
> not being able to see it on screen as I'm working on it and 
> having to deal with the rather limited selection of fonts.
> Thanks for the info.
> 
> RF
> Richard T. Ferris
> ferris@eniac.seas.upenn.edu
> University of Pennsylvania

I never used TeX on IBM PC so I don't much about that. I have played with
TeX on a UNIX(tm) machine and TeXtures(tm) on the Mac. The big advandage of
TeXtures is that you can paste graphics directly into your TeX document.
Although you can do this on a UNIX machine with some other program such as
psfig... but TeXtures is much easy to use.
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