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From: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.text
Subject: Re: Dissertation on a MAC vs UNIX
Summary: Yup. Mac has more capacity than my Vax.
Message-ID: <2640@geac.UUCP>
Date: 23 Apr 88 18:12:31 GMT
Article-I.D.: geac.2640
Posted: Sat Apr 23 14:12:31 1988
References: <2328@uvacs.CS.VIRGINIA.EDU> <407@swanee.OZ> <10321@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
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In article <407@swanee.OZ> gustav@swanee.OZ (Gustav) writes:
|  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)?
|  What are the pros and cons of either?
[ elided nasty reply about Mac software]

In article <10321@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> zwicky@pterodactyl.cis.ohio-state.edu (Elizabeth D. Zwicky) writes:
| 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. 
| The previewer is perfectly good, although all
| the pictures show up as black splotches, and I hate previewing on the
| small screen.

 Good news, the current version displays the pictures you paste in
on top of the (grey) splotches. And the editor has improved, and
they added a MacWrite and MS Word input-translator, and it even runs
faster. About 4 times, according to my stopwatch. (I live in
Toronto, so I went down and benchmarked the critter last year).

  I finally got disgusted with the version(s) on the Vax and put
down a down-payment on MacTeX for our + at work. I expect the Unix
ports to improve, but they've got a long way to go to catch up with
some of the other TeXs.
-- 
 David Collier-Brown.                 {mnetor yunexus utgpu}!geac!daveb
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