Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!sot-ecs!spqr From: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: neophyte BIG question Message-ID: Date: 26 Jul 90 08:45:04 GMT References: <90205.152619ERSHC@CUNYVM.BITNET> Sender: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk Organization: Southampton University Computer Science Lines: 18 In-reply-to: ERSHC@CUNYVM's message of 24 Jul 90 19:26:19 GMT In article <90205.152619ERSHC@CUNYVM.BITNET> ERSHC@CUNYVM writes: I'm installing emtex on my old-and-slow XT clone, and am running out of space, so would like to know whether I need (want?) bigTeX, bigLaTeX, etc. What does big do? Does a neophyte who wants to write a few papers etc need it? bigTeX has a much larger supply of internal memory for macros, fonts etc; pluses: - you can load macros packages like PiCTeX - you can have more floats hanging around - and so on minuses: - much slower, it pages to disk a lot. if you are using an XT and are remotely normal, you will die of boredom if you use bigtex -- Sebastian Rahtz S.Rahtz@uk.ac.soton.ecs (JANET) Computer Science S.Rahtz@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Bitnet) Southampton S09 5NH, UK S.Rahtz@sot-ecs.uucp (uucp)