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From: josip@eneevax.UUCP (Josip Loncaric)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: FullWrite (Was: Dissertation on a MAC vs UNIX)
Message-ID: <1408@eneevax.UUCP>
Date: 16 Apr 88 14:26:49 GMT
References: <2328@uvacs.CS.VIRGINIA.EDU> <1290@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> <11823@santra.UUCP>
Reply-To: josip@eneevax.umd.edu.UUCP (Josip Loncaric)
Organization: Elec. Eng. Dept., U of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
Lines: 24
Keywords: TeX, typesetting, thesis
Summary: Try TeXtures

In article <11823@santra.UUCP> jmunkki@santra.UUCP (Juri Munkki) writes:
>In article <1290@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> phd@SPEECH1.CS.CMU.EDU (Paul Dietz) writes:
>>I'm surviving with it so far, but it's not exactly my "dream word
>>processor". Judging by the frequency of these querries, when, oh when
>>is somebody going to make a cheap, decent, technical word processor?????
>
>I currently recommend the combination of FullWrite, Expressionist and
>QuicKeys to people who have time to wait for FullWrite to become available.
>To others, I sell MS-Word with expressionist (and quickeys). I've used Word

A note for thesis writers who use a lot of mathematical formulas:  TeX is hard
to beat.  Addison-Wesley sells it for Mac as "Textures" - a fairly nice
version which extends TeX by allowing you to insert pictures (from clipboard).
It comes with lots of bitmapped fonts, which require about 4Mb to store,
although you can fit the minimal version on a single 800Kb disk.

The Textures version 1.0 does not include LaTeX formatting macros, but A-W says
they will sell it separately soon.  If you already know TeX or LaTeX, I
would recommend considering Textures.  MacUser recently reviewed it (and a
competing product called MacTeX, which costs more, does more, and is less
friendly).

Josip Loncaric / U. of Maryland
josip@ra.umd.edu