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From: phs172m@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au (Stephen Harker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re:  TeX Printer
Message-ID: <1991Feb1.133159.86253@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>
Date: 1 Feb 91 02:31:59 GMT
References: <428@generic.UUCP>
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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*?!?!?  Wow, I thought something like that would cost up near
> $1000 for a UNIX machine... I just saw a brief TeX session on a Sun connected
> to a LaserWriter IINTX at McGill University.  TeX printed out a monthly
> appointment calendar, personalized however you see fit.
> 
	It depends on the implementation, most are free but there are also
commercial versions.  Often the commercial versions are not as good!!  We run
TeX under VMS on our vaxes here, and also have free versions for the Mac and
MS-DOS machines that I know of.  Free versions exist for many other machines,
but not for the GS as yet.  

	Albert Chin is working on porting TeX to the GS, but has had to go
through C source and ORCA/C as ORCA/Pascal cannot deal with arrays greater than
256K.  Many people seem to be looking forward to a TeX implementation, it is
the only way to do most Maths and Physical science documents.

-- 
Stephen Harker				phs172m@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au
Monash University