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From: steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Public domain TeX previewer for the macs?
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Date: 13 Apr 89 16:12:08 GMT
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In article <2143@pur-phy> sho@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (Sho Kuwamoto) writes:
#>Is there a public domain TeX previewer for the mac?  I can make the
#>.dvi files on the deparment vax, but there's no good way to look at
#>them without printing them out.  Ideally, this previewer would use
#>the system fonts, forsaking readability for hard disk space.  (Maybe 
#>it would need the math symbols font, but...)
#>
#>I kind of doubt that such a thing exists, since I've not heard of one,
#>but I'd be grateful for any information (either yea or nay)
#>
#>-Sho

Interesting you should ask about this as I've been looking into
that very question in the last week. According to an EECS
graduate student who works with TeX (and VorTeX, a research
TeX previewer), you need to be running a UNIX system with
X windows to preview TeX. So you'd need AUX to do it on
your Mac. If you are running AUX and want to follow up,
Email me at steve@violet.berkeley.edu and I'll try to
get you more information.

He also told me about TeX on the Mac, which he thought was
called MacTeX. I phoned a Mac store and 800 Software and
neither could direct me to it. Apparently, MacUser ran a
story on TeX on the Mac some time ago. If anyone out there
knows how to track down such programs, I'd appreciate the
information.

Steve Goldfield