Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!usc!venera.isi.edu!raveling From: raveling@isi.edu (Paul Raveling) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: Looking for LaTeX... Message-ID: <9894@venera.isi.edu> Date: 27 Sep 89 00:57:58 GMT References: <3861@helios.ee.lbl.gov> <1186@kuling.UUCP> Sender: news@venera.isi.edu Reply-To: raveling@isi.edu (Paul Raveling) Organization: USC Information Sciences Institute Lines: 33 In article <3861@helios.ee.lbl.gov>, milburn@me10.lbl.gov (John Milburn) writes: > In article <1186@kuling.UUCP> irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide') writes: > > >There are a few ftp sites being set up but you may alternatively send > > Bo's TeX package is available for anonymous distribution from > me10.lbl.gov (128.3.128.110). Standard disclaimers apply. Thanks folks, I've picked up the most recent copy. Besides Bo Thide' and John Milburn, thanks are due to Scott Hammond, who physically carried a tape of an earlier version into my office. Thanks also to Michael Glad Mike Caldwell, who offered advice and help if the more reachable FTP sources hadn't materialized. At the first tentative check of LaTeX, it looks good. On a 28-page document that has some demanding features such as graphs and math, speed is about a tie between my 370 and our VAX 8650. I can preview most of it with an old version of XDVI that's tolerant of missing fonts, but will have to track down problems (probably all missing fonts) with other previewers and print programs. Tomorrow I'll look at merging in fonts from our VAX directories. But we're making progress... if we discover anything that may be of help to others I'll report back on it. ---------------- Paul Raveling Raveling@isi.edu