paulson@dvinci.USask.CA (Ken V. Paulson) (02/09/89)
Hello; I'm writing my PhD thesis and I'm currently doing everything but typesetting (we have to use TeX(ture), the typesetting system) on a Mac. I like to get down to using one machine but the purchasing prise for TeX (approx. $600) is unfortunatly too expensive. I have however, heard about a public domain version floating around somewhere. Is that right and if, does anybody know where I can get hold of it. Any answer appreciated, and please reply to me personally (since I'm not a reliable news reader). Thanks. -rolf "Frustrations are inversly proportional to the size of the problem."
knapp@cs.utexas.edu (Edgar Knapp) (02/11/89)
In article <1724@dvinci.USask.CA> paulson@dvinci.USask.CA (Ken V. Paulson) writes: >Hello; >I'm writing my PhD thesis and I'm currently doing everything but >typesetting (we have to use TeX(ture), the typesetting system) on >a Mac. I like to get down to using one machine but the purchasing prise >for TeX (approx. $600) is unfortunatly too expensive. > >I have however, heard about a public domain version floating around >somewhere. Is that right and if, does anybody know where I can >get hold of it. [...] First of all, where did you get the price? TeXtures is about $250.- mail order. Some campuses have site licences. Here at the University of Texas one can buy the full package (including LaTeX) for $150.- Also, there is to my knowledge no such thing as a public domain/shareware version of TeX for the Mac. Edgar Knapp (knapp@cs.utexas.edu)