Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!helios!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!seismo!ukma!vlsi!ulkyvx.bitnet!lmlars01 From: lmlars01@ulkyvx.bitnet Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.wanted Subject: Re: Oztex questions... Message-ID: <1991Feb17.152318.728@ulkyvx.bitnet> Date: 17 Feb 91 15:23:18 GMT References: <821@mephisto.edu> Organization: University of Louisville Lines: 33 > OzTeX includes preview capability, and LaTeX. All in all, I feel as > happy with the program as I would hope to feel with commercial > software. (On this note, is there anyone who uses, say, TeXtures who > feels that it is better in some way? I've not used a commercial TeX.) I've not used the version of OzTeX which incorporates TeX 3.0, so things may have changed, but I do prefer Textures to OzTeX because of the editor. OzTeX lets you use any text editor of your choice, which is nice except that it then can't drop you right into the offending line of text when an error occurs. The editor in Textures is integrated so that there's no Multifindering between compiler, editor and previewer. You go exactly where you want. Another advantage to Textures is that it will print to anything. I use it with a GCC PLP and I know people who use it with Deskwriters. I have even used it on an Imagewriter, but wouldn't recommend it because of the quality. The Postscript fonts for use with Textures work fine with Adobe Type manager and consequently take up a lot less space than the myriad bitmaps necessary for OzTeX. On the other hand, there's something a little flaky about the Textures type 1 fonts. They print fine, but at certain sizes ATM refuses to show the equal or minus signs on the screen in the preview. They are also rejected by Freedom of Press Light. I have talked to people at Blue Sky Research and the FoP people and they're "talking with each other" now. I've used TeX on a lot of different systems and Textures is about as "user friendly" as TeX can get. =============================================================================== Lee Larson BITNET: LMLARS01@ULKYVX Department of Mathemagics Telephone: 502/588-6826 University of Louisville GEnie: L.LARSON Louisville, Kentucky CIS: 70406,1151