Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!nikhefk!keeshu
From: keeshu@nikhefk.UUCP (Kees Huyser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Survey: need TEX output from a Mac WP?
Keywords: TeX Wordprocessing Macintosh
Message-ID: <636@nikhefk.UUCP>
Date: 21 Mar 90 18:10:42 GMT
Reply-To: keeshu@nikhefk.UUCP (Kees Huyser)
Organization: the National Institute for Nuclear Physics; Netherlands
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Several friends of mine and I recently were talking about TEX and 
various word processors on the Mac.  The idea came up of "hey, why 
can't any of the Mac WP's produce TEX?"  This discussion went 
further, and finally we came to the conclusion "yeah, why not?!?"

So an idea was born.  However, to get the Big Boss to say OK, go do 
this, we need to show some interest.  Hence this mini-survey.  If you 
could e-mail replies to these questions with any other comments or 
suggestions we would be grateful.

No promises here--this is just an idea for a project, and if we can 
generate enough interest we may be able to swing it.  So,

1) Which Mac WP would you choose to have such output from?  Why?

2) Produce raw TEX or LaTEX?  

3) Equations--should there be some mechanism to imbed them?  Edit 
them as text?  We're not jumping at the idea of building a TEX 
previewer right off the bat, but how important would that be?

4) Most importantly, how many people do you know that would use it?  
The more response we can show, the better the chances.

Thank you for any and all responses.  I'll post a followup when we 
know anything further.

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