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From: mrh@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU (Marc Hannah)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: where can I get TexTures
Message-ID: <1729@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: Thu, 4-Jun-87 20:27:11 EDT
Article-I.D.: Shasta.1729
Posted: Thu Jun  4 20:27:11 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 9-Jun-87 01:48:19 EDT
References: <558@euraiv1.UUCP> <900@oakhill.UUCP>
Organization: Stanford University
Lines: 32
Keywords: TeX,TeXtures
Summary: looks like 1.0 is almost here

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. I want to run it on
> >Mac Plus, SE and, if possible, Mac II.
> >Eelco van Asperen.
> Please POST the response to this request on the net.  I am interested
> Russell Schwausch, Motorola Inc., OakHill, Tx. (A suburb of Austin)

     I guess I thought this was old news but: TeXtures is quite a nice
TeX package which was written by Kellerman and Smith and is being sold
by Addison Wesley. It has been on sale in a sort of beta form for over
a year but seems very close to being released. I don't know what the official
date is but I recently received 0.99beta from K&S directly. The current
'release' is 0.95. 
   This package consists of a fast editor integrated with a TeX processor
and previewer. It is standard TeX as far as I can tell and it is easy to
bring macros, etc from other TeXs into it. You can save FMT format files
directly and use them instead of loading your Macros repeatedly. One of
the nicest parts of this package is the ability to merge Macintosh 
pictures into your documents using simple macros and preview WITH the
picture. Printing is (to me) surprisingly fast and the .99 version seems
very sturdy in my testing. 
   I've been using this on the Mac II and can say it is MUCH nicer in that
configuration, processing is almost tolerable and the preview is easier
on the larger screen. I think that an enormous amount of attention to detail
has been paid to this product. I believe it is safe to say that K&S c
spent the bulk of their time on the user interface (it shows) and has left
the optimization of TeX for speed to versions greater than 1.0.
David Gelphman daveg%slacvm.bitnet@forsythe.stanford.edu