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From: cwitty@csli.Stanford.EDU (Carl Witty)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: PS/2 or Mac for TeX?
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Date: 15 Jan 89 08:33:19 GMT
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In-reply-to: debra@alice.UUCP (Paul De Bra)

In article <8755@alice.UUCP>, debra@alice (Paul De Bra) writes:
>In article <113600001@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> gsg0384@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>>
>>Hi,
...
>>In other words, can I see the text being processed or just-processed
>>while I am typing on a Mac?  I can't do that on PS/2.
>
>That would be nice. However, none of the current implementations do this.
>In fact, none of the implementations do anything exciting compared to the
>implementations for messy dog.
>If you want something that comes close you should consider ArborTex, which
>runs on Suns, but maybe also on other hardware by now (?)

The best TeX environment I've seen is by Tom Rokicki, of Radical Eye
Software, for the Amiga.  I've seen him demonstrate it, and it is
truly amazing.  He's got it set it up so that a simple key sequence in
his editor runs TeX on the file and displays the output with a dvi
previewer.  The previewer shows each page as TeX finishes processing
it.  Since the Amiga is multitasking, he can continue editing while
TeX is running.

He also sells Metafont, and you can set it up so that whenever your
file uses a font that you don't have the .pk file for, it calls
Metafont and generates that font.  Very slick.

Tom can be contacted at rokicki@score.Stanford.EDU.

Carl Witty
cwitty@csli.Stanford.EDU

Disclaimer:  I have no relationship with Tom Rokicki or Radical Eye
Software.
-- 
Carl Witty
cwitty@csli.stanford.edu