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From: thisted@galton.uchicago.edu (Ronald A. Thisted)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Tex on Macs ??
Summary: TeXtures info wrong in original posting
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Date: 13 Jan 89 21:00:07 GMT
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Organization: Dept of Statistics, Univ of Chicago
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In article <15068@andante.UUCP> prem@andante.UUCP (Swami Devanbu) writes:
>I very much would like to have a TeX on my Mac II. I'd like to have:
>
>a) LaTEX readily available.
>b) Preview included, including grafix from EPSF files.
>c) Postscript Fonts (instead of Computer Modern) usable as default.
>d) full compatibility  with Vax TeX guranteed 
>   (I want to be able bring files from home to work, 
>   back and forth).
>e) Equation typesetting supported.

 [other stuff omitted]

>Speaking of fonts, it appears that TeXtures ships with only
>Computer Modern, and only 10 and 12 points at that. So for
>large point sizes, they "recommend" that you use postscript
>fonts, which as far as I can tell, they do not support.

All LaserWriter fonts are supported completely.  I am looking at
a page with heading in 24-point Bookman, main body in 12-point Bookman,
and an indented piece in 10-point Avant Garde.  [Don't flame the
typography; it was just a test!]  The code is easy in TeXtures:

\font\A=Bookman at24pt
\font\B=Bookman at12pt
\font\C=AvantGarde
\A
\centerline{This is a test of 24-point Bookman.}
\bigskip
\B This tests 12-point Bookman in \TeX.
\par
\advance\leftskip by25mm
\C This little piece is in Avant Garde type; can \TeX tures do it?
\par
\rm You bet!
\bye

>So does this mean you have to break into raw postscript
>for any kind of heading/subheading larger that 12 points,
>and for footnotes etc smaller that 10 points ? Double gah.

Clearly not.

As a personal testimonial, I use TeXtures 1.01e [now distributed by Blue
Sky Research (1-800-622-8398) and not Addison-Wesley], and I use it a
lot on both my Mac II with 5Mb and 140Mb Rodime, and on my 1Meg Mac+
with a slooooow HD20 at home.  It works quite well, supports preloaded
formats (I use TABLE and PiCTeX as well as plain TeX, myself), and the
previewer is superb, especially on the Mac II.  It is fully compatible
with TeX on Unix machines; I regularly prepare work on the Mac and then
at a later date just do a file transfer to our departmental Suns.

Ron Thisted
Department of Statistics/The University of Chicago
thisted@galton.uchicago.edu