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From: dcw@lcs.mit.edu (David C. Whitney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re:  TeX Printer
Message-ID: <1991Jan31.132735.7745@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 31 Jan 91 13:27:35 GMT
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In article <428@generic.UUCP> taob@pnet91.cts.com (Brian Tao) writes:
>> (For those who don't know what TeX is, it is a wonderful FREE text
>> formatting package written by Donald Knuth, that can produce very
>> high-quality typesetting.
>
>    TeX is *FREE*?!?!?

Not only is it free, but you can get source code to it over the net.
It's on midway.uchicago.edu written in Modula for the Mac (TeX 3.0
even!). I haven't given it a real look, but someone down the hall
compiled it up just fine.

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