Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jarthur!sif.claremont.edu From: dhosek@sif.claremont.edu (Hosek, Donald A.) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: MS-DOS TeX'ing: dosTeX vs sbTeX - summary so far Message-ID: <8221@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> Date: 28 Aug 90 17:28:39 GMT References: Sender: news@jarthur.Claremont.EDU Reply-To: dhosek@sif.claremont.edu Organization: Harvey Mudd College Lines: 38 In article <7080001@acf4.NYU.EDU>, fanchiot@acf4.NYU.EDU (Sergio H. Fanchiotti) writes... > One small point about TeX implementations: If there is a co- > -processor installed, does any implementation make use of it > or it is not needed in TeX's manipulations ? AmigaTeX can use a coprocessor and it does speed things up. None of the MS-DOS implementations have coprocessor capability (I could be wrong, though). It might be less useful in the 80x86 architecture than it is in the 680x0 architecture. >Ps: Although I use Sbtex, the Emtex package IS very complete and has >an excelent set of dvi drivers for previewing and printing. Also I >suspect that the em in front are the initials of the author ( yes I know >that it doesn't take much to realze that). The emTeX drivers have one great weakness: they use PXL files (or at least the last release I looked at did). Arguments against PXL files: they're big (PK files average around 17% the size of PXL files. Maybe some of you have gobs of disk space to blow on this sort of thing, but most micro people I know don't), they only support 128 characters in a font (a big problem for the new generations of fonts being created with ISO 8859 coding). -dh And em is for Eberhard Mattes. SB also is the initials of the two authors (Wayne Sullivan and someone whose name no one can ever remember). --- Don Hosek TeX, LaTeX, and Metafont support, consulting dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu installation and production work. dhosek@ymir.bitnet Free Estimates. uunet!jarthur!ymir Phone: 714-625-0147 finger dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu for more info