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From: doner@henri.ucsb.edu (John Doner)
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Subject: Re: "MacTex" or "Textures" anyone? Was: Looking for Mac version of TeX
Keywords: Tex, LaTeX, Mac
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Date: 4 Dec 90 23:02:54 GMT
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In article <1990Dec4.204921.352@bernina.ethz.ch> czychi@bernina.UUCP (Gary Czychi) writes:
>
>I am not sure, but I think that either 'MacTex' from Personal Tex Inc. and
>'Textures' from Kellerman-Smith are two other 'Tex' programs for the Mac.
>
>Does anyone know something about these products? Newspaper articles, usenet
>articles, other product infos? 

I have both.  Textures is a mature product, very stable, well
supported.  Has a very good preview feature.  At $395 list (or is it
$495?) it is way too expensive.  However, many University bookstores
have it for $125.  MacTex was also pretty good, but a bit slower.  It
automatically made more use of Postscript fonts, e.g., substituting
Times-Roman for Computer Modern (although you could get Computer
Modern for it for a small charge).  The built-in help was a definite
plus, and the editor offered { and $ balancing.  The price was even
more out of line, $795 with no University discount.  I say 'was'
because I haven't heard from the company in several years and I don't
think they're in business any more.

I have Textures 1.2.  They have recently come out with a 2.0 version,
which should be a substantial improvement.  Among other things, it
allows up to 10000 control sequences instead of 3000.

John E. Doner	       | "The beginner...should not be discouraged if...he
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