Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: rodgers@maxwell.mmwb.ucsf.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: dvi/TeX/Postscript previewers etc; Publisher vs FrameMaker Message-ID: <8811221811.AA06120@clausius.mmwb.ucsf.edu> Date: 3 Dec 88 23:42:53 GMT Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas Lines: 20 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: Tue, 22 Nov 88 10:11:32 PST X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 36, message 5 of 12 In article <2190@kalliope.rice.edu> Sun-Spots@Rice.edu writes: >X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 20, message 10 of 12 > >... no one mentioned a product that we >purchased and so far ar rather pleased with, called Publisher and made by >a little outfit by the name of ArborText. "The Publisher" has been in use under a campus-wide license at UC Berkeley for over a year now, but the reaction there is mixed. One of the MAJOR drawbacks at present is that the TeX files produced by The Publisher are NOT portable to other machines which have TeX; they can only be manipulated within The Publisher environment, which negates one of the great potential selling points of such a system--the use of a highly portable formatting language. ArborText claims that this will eventually be dealt with... R. P. C. Rodgers, Statistical Mechanics of Biomolecules, Dept. of Pharm. Chem., University of California, San Francisco CA 94118 (415)476-8910 (ARPA: rodgers@cca.ucsf.edu, BITNET: rodgers@ucsfcca, UUCP: ...ucbvax.berkeley.edu!cca.ucsf.edu!rodgers)