Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac.misc:6448 comp.text.tex:4223 comp.sys.mac.apps:2848 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!know!news.cs.indiana.edu!msi.umn.edu!umeecs!zip.eecs.umich.edu!hucka From: hucka@eecs.umich.edu (Michael Hucka) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.text.tex,comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: "MacTex" or "Textures" anyone? Was: Looking for Mac version of TeX Message-ID: Date: 6 Dec 90 01:47:33 GMT References: <1990Nov30.122255.18006@ousrvr.oulu.fi> <15@sierra.STANFORD.EDU> <161@screamer.csee.usf.edu> <1990Dec4.204921.352@bernina.ethz.ch> <7649@hub.ucsb.edu> Sender: news@zip.eecs.umich.edu Reply-To: hucka@caen.engin.umich.edu Organization: University of Michigan Lines: 29 In-Reply-To: doner@henri.ucsb.edu's message of 4 Dec 90 23:02:54 GMT As Bobby Bodenheimer's recent article (of 2 Dec.) on Frequently Asked Questions about TeX also points out, "OzTeX" (now version 1.3) is an excellent, free implementation of TeX 3.0 for the Macintosh. I have been running it on a Mac IIcx at home and have been very happy with it. OzTeX 1.3 provides TeX, LaTeX, a dvi previewer, BibTeX, MakeIndex, and the ability to print to PostScript printers as well as ImageWriters and Quickdraw printers like HPs. Further, full sources are available, as well as MetaFont and other utilities; you can ftp them from midway.uchicago.edu. OzTeX was written by Andrew Trevorrow. It works very much like a real tex, producing the familiar .dvi and .ps files. Compared to TeXtures (in my opinion): TeXtures seems somewhat faster and has a somewhat better previewer, and of course, their proprietary (and non-portable) mechanism for including Mac figures in documents. OzTeX does support \special commands for including PostScript files, which makes it just about equivalent to TeXtures for including pictures (for me, anyway) since, on a Mac, you can always produce a PostScript file instead of printing a diagram. Besides, I have found the results more portable to other machines -- e.g., I can copy all the files to a Unix machine, run TeX 3.0 and, modulo small tweaks to the \special commands, have things come out as expected. Mike Disclaimer: these are my own opinions. -- Mike Hucka | Internet: hucka@caen.engin.umich.edu University of Michigan AI Lab | 1101 Beal Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48109