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From: rodgers@maxwell.mmwb.ucsf.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: dvi/TeX/Postscript previewers etc;  Publisher vs FrameMaker
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Date: 3 Dec 88 23:42:53 GMT
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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,
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