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From: price@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu (John Price)
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Subject: Re: LaTeX for the Macintosh?
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Date: 2 May 91 16:23:15 GMT
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In article <1991May2.150018.26383@agate.berkeley.edu>, steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield;232HMB;3-6292;;MF62) writes:
>In article <00947F6A.174D9B40@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu> price@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu (John Price) writes:
>#>In article <1991May1.214402.10320@unlinfo.unl.edu>, mosemann@sardion.unl.edu (Russell Mosemann) writes:
>#>>   Is there a LaTeX for the Macintosh?  

>#>	Personally, I use OzTeX.

>If you've used TeX on UNIX, by the way, OzTeX isn't completely
>intuitive. Instead of opening your file from the File menu,
>as one would expect from a Mac program, you open it from
>the TeX menu. 

	I don't think this is a flaw.  For instance, Textures is similar - 
to typeset the file, the command is in the "Typeset" menu or something 
similar.  The File menu will open the file for the editor in Textures, not 
the typesetter.  OzTeX doesn't have a built-in editor - other than that, 
the two programs are similar in this regard.

>If you have a LaTeX file, in the same menu,
>you have to set the program to LaTeX or it will complain
>about bad TeX commands. 

	And if you try to process a LaTeX file with TeX, you'll get the 
same message.  I don't see the problem.

>Note that there is
>an option to substitute Times Roman for the TeX font,
>which may speed up printing.

	I don't think this is a good idea, because the Times font kerns 
differently than the CM fonts.  If you don't have the requirement that a 
file processed on the Mac look the same as if it were processed on a 
mainframe (VAX, Unix box, or what have you), then this is fine.  If you 
need this property, however, only use the CM fonts.

>I couldn't find a manual and had to figure the above out
>by trial and error and one phone call for support.

	There is a manual with the distribution.  It's in either the file 
TeX-docs or LaTeX-docs (can't remember which right now...)

	What say we move this discussion to comp.text.tex?

           John Price * * * * price@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu
           Where there is no solution, there is no problem.