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From: Gerben.Wierda@bbs.acs.unc.edu (Gerben Wierda)
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Subject: Radical Eye TeX 'gargantuan'? What a joke!
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Date: 4 Apr 91 07:44:05 GMT
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Hi! the readme from Radical Eye states that their teX on my 1.0a system
is 'gargantuan'. What a joke. I tried to make a dutch TeX/LaTeX version
and the hyphenation could not be handled!

Even my Atari does better!  English hyphenation uses 6000 out of the
available 8000, but dutch, german and other languages need up to 120000.
Other sizes are not so gargantuan either. What were they used to: a PC?

Also, the Makefont script removes the .tfm file. Nice when you add fonts
outside the standard set!

So, does anybody know where I can find the sources of TeX 3 that can be
used for the NeXT?

Gerben

PS. This was my first (minor) disappointment with something related to
my NeXT. I still *love* the machine + software! But making so small a
TeX on so big a machine is really stupid.

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