sce@runx.ips.oz (Simon Evans) (08/02/87)
Does anyone know if there exist any plain vanilla TeX implementations on the Macintosh, either as an application or even as a MPW tool? By plain vanilla, I mean CHEAP (and therefore presumably barebones - $500 for TeXtures is a lot if there is a plain implementation that together with dvi2ps does roughly the same job except for preview) Simon Evans [JAM Software, and Pure Maths u/grad at Uni. Sydney] "seismo!munnari!runx.ips.oz!sce" or "munnari!runx.ips.oz!sce@SEISMO"
gustav@swanee.OZ (Gustav) (08/04/87)
In article <1037@runx.ips.oz>, sce@runx.ips.oz (Simon Evans) writes: > > Does anyone know if there exist any plain vanilla TeX implementations > on the Macintosh, either as an application or even as a MPW tool? > By plain vanilla, I mean CHEAP (and therefore presumably barebones - > $500 for TeXtures is a lot if there is a plain implementation that > together with dvi2ps does roughly the same job except for preview) Actually, having a decent previewer and proper drivers for both Imagewriter and Laserwriter, plus having the whole lot properly installed is exactly what you pay those $500 for. Yet, to be able to run it (i.e. TeXtures) from MPW would be an advantage. Naturally, it would be even better if there was a shareware version of TeX (for Mac) which would not cost $500. I've seen something to that extent in our local Computer Centre, and it was just called TeX. Now about LaTeX: Addison Wesley advertised that LaTeX and AMSTeX would be available together with TeXtures 1.0 in the beginning of 1987. Yet, it is already the second half of 1987 and down here in Australia, they still don't know anything about these products. Is there any hope to see them still this year? Does anybody know Addison Wesley's e-mail address? ARPA : gustav%swanee.oz@seismo.css.gov UUCP : ...!{seismo,mcvax,ucb-vision,uks}!munnari!swanee.oz!gustav
hugo@gnome.cs.cmu.edu (Peter Su) (08/05/87)
Doing this should not be too hard.
I picked up a C version of TeX called Common TeX and am modifying it to
compile with LCS. If I'm lucky, the code doesn't make too many
assumptions about how big ints are, and it should run OK.
One could do the same thing with MPW C. The trouble is, I don't think
the MPW shell leaves enough room in memory to run TeX with only 1Meg.
TeX needs about 500K or so to be comfortable, LaTeX needs even more.
The only modifications you need to do in C is to allocate all of TeX's
huge global arrays in the heap. That's easy in C, impossible in Pascal.
I've been looking at the book TeX: The Program. With all due respect to
Knuth, TeX is not a shining example of good software engineering. Oh
well, mostly he was working around problems in Pascal, so I gues sit
can't be helped. Sigh.
Pete
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- Donald Knuthhugo@gnome.cs.cmu.edu (Peter Su) (08/05/87)
Um, in my post, I of course meant that I'm working in LSC...LightSpeedC
that is...heh heh.
Pete
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- Donald Knuthgae@osupyr.UUCP (Gerald Edgar) (08/08/87)
The "ctex" that is circulating for Unix can be made to work under MPW without much trouble. Unfortunately, you really need 2 MB of RAM for this version to be of much use.