Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu!bammi From: bammi@dsrgsun.ces.CWRU.Edu (Jwahar R. Bammi) Subject: Re: Questions about TeX Message-ID: In-reply-to: mikew@wheeler.wrcr.unr.edu's message of 8 Feb 90 23:11:15 GMT Sender: news@usenet.ins.cwru.edu Organization: Case Western Reserve University References: <38.25cdb349@lne.kth.se> <3554@tahoe.unr.edu> Date: Sat, 10 Feb 90 21:58:29 GMT In article <3554@tahoe.unr.edu> mikew@wheeler.wrcr.unr.edu (Mike Whitbeck) writes: ....... > IMHO TeX + postscript beats almost all the of the so-called > DTP's available commercially... and it's (almost)FREE! i agree completely. my biggest complaint with all the wysiwyg type programs is "what you see is ALL you get" (ie. no extensibility, very limited customization possibilities, and too much clickity-clacking with the mouse to do anything useful.). incidently, a slightly improved version of CTeX is now available on dsrgsun.ces.cwru.edu in pub/StTeX. by popular request i have put 1M, 2M, and 4M binaries there (please dont mix their .fmt files. the 4M binary will consume all of your 4Megs, so you may consider the 2M binary instead). for a brief period there was a buggy version there. if you have one of these, (\today will give you a crazy date. (thanks ed P)) please grab a fresh binary (and delete time.c and time.h from the CTeX source directory). the new binaries will undump more reliably. -- -- bang: {any internet host}!dsrgsun.ces.CWRU.edu!bammi jwahar r. bammi domain: bammi@dsrgsun.ces.CWRU.edu GEnie: J.Bammi