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From: gustav@swanee.OZ (Gustav)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Plain Vanilla TeX for Macintosh ?
Message-ID: <348@swanee.OZ>
Date: Tue, 4-Aug-87 10:23:49 EDT
Article-I.D.: swanee.348
Posted: Tue Aug  4 10:23:49 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 7-Aug-87 06:43:49 EDT
References: <1037@runx.ips.oz>
Organization: El. & El. Eng., Uni. of Western Australia
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Summary: Plain LaTeX for TeXtures?

In article <1037@runx.ips.oz>, sce@runx.ips.oz (Simon Evans) writes:
> 
> Does anyone know if there exist any plain vanilla TeX implementations
> on the Macintosh, either as an application or even as a MPW tool?
> By plain vanilla, I mean CHEAP (and therefore presumably barebones -
> $500 for TeXtures is a lot if there is a plain implementation that
> together with dvi2ps does roughly the same job except for preview)

Actually, having a decent previewer and proper drivers for both
Imagewriter and Laserwriter, plus having the whole lot properly
installed is exactly what you pay those $500 for. Yet, to be able to
run it (i.e. TeXtures) from MPW would be an advantage. Naturally, 
it would be even better if there was a shareware version of TeX (for
Mac) which would not cost $500. I've seen something to that extent in
our local Computer Centre, and it was just called TeX. 

Now about LaTeX: Addison Wesley advertised that LaTeX and AMSTeX would
be available together with TeXtures 1.0 in the beginning of 1987. Yet,
it is already the second half of 1987 and down here in Australia, they
still don't know anything about these products. Is there any hope to
see them still this year? Does anybody know Addison Wesley's e-mail
address?

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