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From: billo@cmx.npac.syr.edu (Bill O)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Interleaf on the Mac (Was Re: Dissertation on a MAC vs UNIX)
Message-ID: <346@cmx.npac.syr.edu>
Date: 13 Apr 88 04:12:00 GMT
References: <2328@uvacs.CS.VIRGINIA.EDU> <407@swanee.OZ> <10321@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: billo@cmx.npac.syr.edu (Bill O)
Organization: Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse NY
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Summary: text processing isn't the only way to go

In article <10321@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> zwicky@pterodactyl.cis.ohio-state.edu (Elizabeth D. Zwicky) writes:
>In article <407@swanee.OZ> gustav@swanee.OZ (Gustav) writes:
>>in article <2328@uvacs.CS.VIRGINIA.EDU>, hsd@uvacs.CS.VIRGINIA.EDU (Harry S. Delugach) says:
>
>>> Is there any Mac software that matches the functionality of *troff
>>> and family? Does anyone out there regularly use embedded citations
>>> which are gathered at the end of a document? How about footnotes? 
>>> Does it work for a large document (approx 200 double-spaced pages)?
>
>>No, there isn't any that would match the power and versatility of
>>troff. You can try Textures, or combine it even with LaTeX (if Addison
>>Wesley produced any yet), but you cannot use it to produce any big
>>documents. 
>
>False. I use MacTeX by FTL, which happily (albeit slowly) crunches
>my entire Facilities Guide of nearly 300 pages, pictures, cross-references,
>footnotes, table of contents, fancy fonts and all. For convenience
>I often do the actual processing on a Sun 3/180, which cuts processing
>time by a factor of at least 10, but I have done it on the Mac, which is
>a plain ol' Mac+. The print quality is absolutely identical to that
>from our UNIX boxes. The previewer is perfectly good, although all
>   .  .  .
>Elizabeth Zwicky	

Of course, if you have a Mac-II with at least 5MB of memory (and if
money were no object), you could use Interleaf.  This product probably
has everything you could want for dissertation writing: "auto-number
streams" for embedded citations, footnotes, table-of-contents
generation, a semi-automated indexing facility, an eqn-compatable
equation editor, and fully integrated text and graphics with extensive
drawing tools. I am lucky enough to be doing my dissertation with 
Interleaf, which is ideal for the mix of equations and graphics that
I have.  

Currently I am using a Sun 3/110, but we (NPAC) will soon be getting
it for some of our Macs.  Has anyone reading this group had any 
experience with Interleaf on the Mac.  I am especially interested
in hearing about performance (i.e. speed), and the effect of screen
size on its usablility.  

If you have any relavent information, mail it to me.  If response
is sufficient, I'll post a summary.  Thanks in advance.

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