Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!uw-june!uw-entropy!king From: king@entropy.ms.washington.edu (Jim King) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: TeXtures and MacTeX Message-ID: <684@entropy.ms.washington.edu> Date: 14 Dec 87 10:08:25 GMT References: <3643@ames.arpa> Organization: UW MathStat, Seattle Lines: 48 Keywords: disappointed with TeXtures. Summary: TeXtures has INITEX built in In article <3643@ames.arpa>, woo@pioneer.arpa (Alex Woo) writes: > I have been using various versions of TeX and LaTeX for several > years and like the fact that it is device independent so that > files created on one machine can be viewed or printed somewhere > else. Unfortunately I have been very disappointed with TeXtures. > Here are some specific complaints: > > 1. It is incomplete since it does not include "initex" or "virtex" > and therefore cannot easily use large macro packages. Since TeXtures > does not include LaTeX, I mistakenly tried to \input lplain. This > takes a long time and TeXtures coughs on the embedded form feeds. "initex" is built into TeXtures, so the \dump command for creating fast-loading macro files works in TeXtures itself (look under "\dump" in the manual, the manual with the release version 1.0). > > 2. TeXtures seems to be able 6 months behind the OS. Currently, it > is impossible to print under system 5.0 or multifinder. True, alas. Addison-Wesley is saying February, although apparently there is a fixed version in existence. ----(rest of message deleted) > > ====================================================================== > Alex Woo, MS 227-2 | wu@ames-aero.arpa > NASA Ames Research Center | woo@ames-nas.arpa > Moffett Field, CA 94035 | {seismo,topaz,lll-crg,ucbvax}! > Phone: (415) 694-6010 | ames!pioneer!woo > ====================================================================== > {hplabs,hao,ihnp4,decwrl,allegra,tektronix,menlo70}!ames!pioneer!woo > ====================================================================== > The author is solely responsible for this message. Jim King uucpnet address: uw-beaver!uw-entropy!king Internet (arpanet) address: king@entropy.ms.washington.edu Bitnet address: king%entropy.ms.washington.edu@beaver.cs.washington.edu James King Dept of Math Univ of Washington Seattle, WA 98195