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From: grunwald@uiucdcsm.cs.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: sources of TeX software and Re:
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Date: 11 Dec 87 07:26:00 GMT
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Re: TeX

You can pick up Common TeX V2.1 via anonymous ftp to ucbarpa.berkeley.edu
or cs.rochester.edu. I use this version of TeX & am very pleased by it. We
run it on Suns, PC/RT's, Encore Multimax, Vaxen & 3b2's.

It was done by Pat Monardo at UCBerkeley. It's written in C. You need the
TeX & LaTeX macros from somewhere. You can send $100 for the UNIX distribution
to the Univ. of washinton for that stuff.

Re: VoRTeX
This is an attempt at an integrated TeX environment comprised of GNUEMACS
TeX-modes, dvisun ( a previewer ) and a few other tools. This is the
impression I gathered from reading a file in the txbtx.tar file from
ucbarpa.berkeley.edu (the TeX & BibTeX mode for GNUemacs)

Re: BibTeX
This is the bibliography processor. It's recently been translated into C
by Tomas Rokicki at Stanford. I grabbed a copy from sushi.stanford.edu.
It works great.

There's also a program called 'tib' available which is a ``bibtex for TeX''

re: Previewers
You can pick up previewers for SunView or X11 windows from a.cs.uiuc.edu
in the anonymous-ftp file "pub/iptex.tar". There's also a print driver
for imagens & versatecs.


So, it's possible to get this stuff for cheap, but it does take FTP access.