Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!iuvax!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uiucdcsm!grunwald From: grunwald@uiucdcsm.cs.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: sources of TeX software and Re: Message-ID: <8800008@uiucdcsm> Date: 11 Dec 87 07:26:00 GMT References: <686@moogvax.UUCP> Lines: 31 Nf-ID: #R:moogvax.UUCP:686:uiucdcsm:8800008:000:1206 Nf-From: uiucdcsm.cs.uiuc.edu!grunwald Dec 11 01:26:00 1987 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.