Xref: utzoo comp.text:8507 comp.text.tex:7939 comp.text.desktop:1657 comp.sys.mac.misc:12980 comp.sys.mac.apps:6693 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!cs.uoregon.edu!ogicse!pdxgate!parsely!percy!nosun!techbook!mahbodb From: mahbodb@techbook.com (Babak Mahbod) Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.text.tex,comp.text.desktop,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.wannted,comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Looking for Mac users interested in TeXtures, a TeX for Mac. Message-ID: <1991Jun7.201609.28468@techbook.com> Date: 7 Jun 91 20:16:09 GMT Reply-To: mahbodb@techbook.com (Babak Mahbod) Distribution: usa Organization: TECHbooks - Beaverton, Oregon - Public Access Unix Lines: 67 Blue Sky Research offers discounts for purchases of TeXtures, the imple- mentation of TeX for Macintosh. A single copy costs $495; 2-4 copies reduces the price to $400 each, 5-9 copies to $325 each, and 10+ reduces the price to $275 each. Prices includes a copy of Donald Knuth's TeXbook and a User Manual. I am interested in forming a group of ten or more people who are interested in buying TeXtures. Once the group is formed we shall all purchase TeX- tures at a reduced price of $275. If interested, for now, please send your full name, e-mail address, and a day time telephone number to Babak at mahbodb@techbook.comm. Once the queue of 10 is full you will be contacted via e-mail. I will repost this notice every month and a half. Hopefully, we will be able to form a group in couple of months. If the group can not be formed in three to four months individuals will be contacted via e-mail. I rather have 10 or more people, otherwise, the effort does not justify the end. If still interested, what follows is a summary of features of TeXtures: 1. TeXtures provides a built-in editor for documents of any size. 2. Includes a WYSIWYG preview window that displays the finished typeset documents along with graphics in proper relations to the text. 3. Pop-up magnifier in the preview window that allows up to 8X magnification. 4. You may place Tiff, PostScript, Pict, or Paint images in your document. 5. Includes version 3.0 of TeX, and passes Knuth's "torture" Trip test. 6. Includes 75 Computer Modern Fonts along with font metrics. 7. Uses all PostScript fonts. 8. One may read and write DVI files. 9. Supports all TeX macro packages, e.g. SLiTEX, LaTeX, and AmSTeX. 10. InitTeX integrated into the package, and thus allowing users to create their own macro packages. 11. Prints to any PostScript device, ImageWiter, StyleWriter, Laser- Writer SC, and DeskWriter. 12. Can be used with any Maciontosh with 2MB RAM and a hard disk. 13. Also avialable at additional at an additional charge are Computer Modern PostScript fonts, and MetaFont. For any additional information call or write Blue Sky Research at Blue Sky Research 534 Southwest Third Avenue Portland, Oregon 97204 (800) 622-8398 (503) 222-9571 FAX: (503) 222-1643 -- mahbodb@techbook.COM ...!{tektronix!nosun,uunet}techbook!mahbodb Public Access UNIX at (503) 644-8135 (1200/2400) Voice: +1 503 646-8257 Public Access User --- Not affiliated with TECHbooks