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From: lampard@janus.trl.oz (Greg Lampard)
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
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Date: 13 Dec 90 10:37:46 GMT
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In article <HUCKA.90Dec5204733@kite.eecs.umich.edu>, hucka@eecs.umich.edu (Michael Hucka) writes:
> 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 certainly agree with this.  I've only had two problems with it; the first 
is that it ran out of memory on one of my files, but I got around that
problem fairly easily (BTW Is it possible to increase the stack sizes??).
The second problem is more serious, and concerns the inclusion of figures.

> 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.  

I haven't found things to be quite as simple as this.  I have had no
success including PostScript generated my MacDraw II and Canvas into my
LaTeX documents using the \special command.  The LaTeX part prints OK, but 
the space where the picture should be comes out empty.  Maybe I'm doing
something dumb, but including figures in OzTeX is not as straight-forward 
as it might be, IMHO.

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