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From: sagen@nucthy.physics.orst.edu (Milt Sagen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Public domain TeX previewer for the macs?
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Date: 14 Apr 89 01:46:47 GMT
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In article <23031@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield) writes:
>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,

You should tell the EECS graduate student this bull...manure.  Even on a UNIX
system it is not necessary to have X windows in order to preview TeX.

>
>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.

MacTeX I don't know about, other than the company which produces it is in
Canada, but Blue Sky Research, the developers of TeXtures can be reached at
800/622-8398 or 503/222-9571.


Milt Sagen                    Internet: sagen@nucthy.physics.orst.edu
Department of Physics
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR  97331          Tele: (503) 754-4631