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From: bathurst@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Bruce Bathurst)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: PCTex/MicroTex
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Date: 18 Apr 91 05:02:41 GMT
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Recently I bought a copy of pcTeX 3.0, and I'm quite happy with
it.  I don't suggest you buy it through a discount house, though.
PcTeX requires a screen previewer and a device driver for your
printer, and discount houses seem to sell only the generic TeX
program, leaving you to buy the monitor- and printer-specific
programs from Personal TeX.  I "saved" money by buying all three
programs together from Personal TeX.

PcTeX 3.0 for the PC, screen viewer, and driver for the Laser Jet
II and III sell together for $499.  I comes with LaTeX, BiBTeX,
SliTeX, letter.sty, some others, and the AmS Macros, which I use.
Lamport's LaTeX manual and a nice user's manual by Spivak are
included.  PcTeX Inc. is small, and I found their Sales Director quite
human. (I got a small discount for being a povery-stricken scholar.)

They recommend Epsilon for an editor and MicroSpell for a
spelling checker, and sell these along with other TeX-related
items in their little catalog. Personal TeX, Inc., 12 Madrona
Avenue, Mill Valley, CA 94941. (415) 388-8853.

Bruce

Department of Geological and Geophysical Sciences
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544
bathurst@phoenix.princeton.edu bathurst@pucc.bitnet !princeton!phoenix!bathurst
Department of Geological and Geophysical Sciences
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544
bathurst@phoenix.princeton.edu bathurst@pucc.bitnet !princeton!phoenix!bathurst