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From: espen@math.uio.no (Espen J. Vestre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: LATEX for Mac
Message-ID: <1991Mar1.101828.13063@ulrik.uio.no>
Date: 1 Mar 91 10:18:28 GMT
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Organization: Department of Mathematics, Univ. of Oslo
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References:<1991Feb26.212454.26091@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <8447@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>

In article <8447@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> jhgillespie@ucdavis.edu writes:
> Blue Sky Research, Portland Oregon, (800)222-9571, sells an excellent 
TeX for
> the Mac called Textures.  They have several support products including 
LaTeX
> and postscript fonts.  I've been using Textures for about two years and 
can
> _strongly_ recommend it.  They also offer excellent phone support.

I haven't tried any newer version of Textures than 1.2, but I guess you 
have used that version, too, if you have used it for two years.  In my 
opinion, it is a much too unstable program, it's a shame that an expensive 
program like Textures is much less reliable than the free OzTeX.  
Actually, I know several people who don't use Multifinder because they 
think it makes their machine crash, but there's no doubt that TeXtures is 
the guilty one!!
 
My experience is that Textures (at least up to v.1.2) also gives bad LaTeX 
output.  OzTeX prints with better resolution.

After this flame, I'd like to repeat that I have only tried TeXtures v. 
0.99 and up to 1.2, and all this may have been corrected with TeXtures v. 
1.3.

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Espen J. Vestre                 
Department of Mathematics
University of Oslo
P.o. Box 1053 Blindern
N-0316 OSLO 3
NORWAY                            espen@math.uio.no
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