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From: spencer@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Stephen Spencer)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,comp.text
Subject: Re: TeX tools; Request for source information.
Message-ID: <9185@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 30 Mar 88 14:04:20 GMT
References: <327@imsys.UUCP> <8189@sol.ARPA>
Organization: Ohio State Computer & Info Science
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Keywords: TeX, CTeX, PicTeX, LaTeX, sources
Summary: the manual for PicTeX is in the ftp distribution

In article <8189@sol.ARPA>, ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap) writes:
> 
> PicTeX is a macro package that sits on top of TeX. It is avaliable from
> Michael Wichura of U. Chicago. You can ftp it from
> june.cs.washington.edu also. But you need the manual to use PicTeX,
> which Wichura is distributing for $15, last I heard. Apparently it will
> be published as a book eventually.  I have not used PicTeX, but hear
> that it can easily eat up a lot of TeX's memory.
> 

  The PicTeX distribution (which I got from another site here at OSU)
is compressed and shar'ed, and ran about 600K.  When uncompressed and
split into its component files, one file made up about 70% of the 
space in the directory -- it was the PicTeX manual, in .dvi form, ready
to be run through a dvi2{whatever} filter and printed.  At 85 pages it
is not a small manual but then again it shouldn't.  

  I've tried some of the PicTeX stuff out here over the last four or five
days and haven't found any problems with it yet.  If there is a space 
problem I will soon run into it as I will be making the figures for my
thesis with it.  Thanks, Michael for PicTeX: You have saved many people
many hours of work with YOUR ingenous work.