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From: socha@drivax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: where can I get TexTures
Message-ID: <1769@drivax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 4-Jun-87 14:00:14 EDT
Article-I.D.: drivax.1769
Posted: Thu Jun  4 14:00:14 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 9-Jun-87 00:59:56 EDT
References: <558@euraiv1.UUCP> <900@oakhill.UUCP>
Reply-To: socha@drivax.UUCP (Henri J. Socha (x6251))
Organization: Digital Research, Monterey
Lines: 58
Keywords: TeX,TeXtures
Summary: ComputerWare

In article <900@oakhill.UUCP> russ@oakhill.UUCP (Russell Schwausch) writes:
>In article <558@euraiv1.UUCP> aiv@euraiv1.UUCP (The One In Control) writes:

>>a guest teacher at our university showed me a progam called TeXtures for
>>the Mac a few weeks ago. It looked rather good; if you have to do TeX,
>>So:  If you know where to get it, what it costs or have any experience
>>with this program, please please send me a message. 

>>Eelco van Asperen.

>Please POST the response to this request on the net.  I am interested
>and I have had several people ask me what I know about it which is very
>little.  I have seen it on a MAC II but would like to check it out on a
>Mac+.

>Russell Schwausch, Motorola Inc., 
				    BubbaLand, Tx. (A suburb of New Berlin :-)

ComputerWare  
350 Cambridge Ave.		(Mail order - not store address)
Palo Alto, CA  94306

(800) 323-1133  CA
(800) 235-1155  US (Canada too maybe?)
(415) 323-7696  International
(910) 240-8377  Telex, Answerback: "Computerware"
Open (telephone)  M-F 9:00-5:00 (Pacific time)

As of 5/7/87 (from a list of over 4 pages of products)

TEXtures, 		Addison Wesley		List:$495, Sale:$442.
Preliminary Version 0.9

MacTex,			FTL Systems		List:$750, Sale:$595.


Note: all above information is off of their sales blurb.

I have seen reviews of these products in some rag but do not remember the
particulars except that though both are Knuth's TEX based, they are
different in some respects.
Most noteably, they include different macro (my term) libraries.
For example one includes  LATEX and the other does not (don't know which).

I would suggest finding out about both products before buying one or the other.
The only thing I do remember when I played with one  (TEXtures I think?)
was that the compile speed (TEX to output) was not that fast.  
Note, neither is a WYSIWYG product. But they are very powerful definitely more
so than any other Mac or PC word processor I know of (incl. Lotus Manuscript).


Note: I think TEXtures was done in Silicon Valley for Addison Wessley
      and FTL Systems is in Toronto (416) 487-2142  (from 555-1212 information).

Hope this helps all of you TEXies out there :-)
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UUCP:...!amdahl!drivax!socha                                      WAT Iron'75
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