lane@umt.UUCP (Dick Lane) (06/12/86)
How well do the various microcomputer versions of TEX work with graphics ?
I am about to buy some system to write a mathematics text (actually, two
solutions manuals for a calculus text). I would like pages with plots to be
previewable and printable; cutting and pasting while working in a screen window
seems much nicer than using "\special" if that forces me to print things to see
how they fit. I have heard a rumor that FTL's MacTEX can do this;
Addison-Wesley's (Kellerman & Smith's) MicroTEX will have a similar capability
in September. Do either of the MS-DOS flavors of TEX allow this? What about
the versions customized to Sun or Apollo workstations?
Dick
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UUCP : ... ! ucdavis ! umt ! lanethisted@gargoyle.UUCP (Ronald Thisted) (06/15/86)
In conjunction with a forthcoming book on statistical computing that I am writing for Chapman and Hall (Elements of Statistical Computing, vol 1, Sept 1986) I have produced some TeX hacks to include graphics directly in the text (which I am typesetting myself using TeX). If there is substantial interest as evidenced by mail inquiries, I shall clean them up and post them to the net. Ron Thisted Dept of Statistics The University of Chicago ...ihnp4!gargoyle!galton!thisted OR thisted%galton@UChicago.csnet