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From: rxcjm@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (John Mazzocchi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Textures vs OzTeX
Message-ID: <1991Apr23.005051.21232@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 23 Apr 91 00:50:51 GMT
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kap1@carol.math.binghamton.edu (Dietrich Kappe) writes:

>o	OzTeX, although slower, is in my opinion slicker, i.e. the more
>	polished (sp?) product.

>Basically, I don't see any reason to *buy* a TeX product when such a good
>PD product is available. Note: OzTeX is not amateurish by any stretch of the imagination.  I've never gotten a system bomb from using it, something I can't
>claim for Textures.

Apparently the author of OzTeX (I think his name is Andrew Trevorrow) is on
first name terms with Knuth (the creator of TeX, amongst other things) and
considered to be quite a programmer.
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