rick@sara70.UUCP (Rick Jansen) (03/26/85)
[It's more fun to compute...]
TEX, devised by the wellknown D.E. Knuth, is the "state of the art"
program for typesetting of text, especially mathematic texts larded
with formula's. At SARA, the Amsterdam Combined Universities Computing
Centre, TEX output is produced offline using a fototypesetter. The
process of running TEX and getting your output is a process often taking
a few days. Secondly output from a fototypesetter is quite expensive,
so this is not the way to "debug" your TEX input.
PREVIEW TEX has now been realised for Macintosh. The program, with which
you can preview a DVI-file, a DVI-file actually created with TEX
and a MacWrite document containing more info are downloaded to
net.sources.mac. The DVI-file is part of the periodical "Supercomputer",
which is published by SARA and created with TEX. You should regard the
downloaded program as a demo, as it is quite unlikely that you can use
it at your site. Several things, like the fonts Preview TEX uses, are still
"hard-wired" for the SARA situation and probably still incompatible
with other sites.
If you are interested, download the stuff from net.sources.mac and let
me know what you think of it.
Rick Jansen
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