dds@imsys.UUCP (Dennis Sherod) (03/30/88)
Could someone please indicate the *authoritative* source for
TeX, CTeX, PicTeX, LaTeX, and other relavent products?
I recently posted a query for text tool processing methods
and would like to get a copy of the above for evaluation.
For those of you that have kindly asked me to summarize the
results of this study, please stand by, the jury is still out.
I expect another 2 to 3 week of investigative work.
The usual thanks in advance,
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Software Products & Services Division TELCON: +1 714 835 3583
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UNOFFICIAL correspondence -- No Claims made, explicit or implied.ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap) (03/30/88)
For Unix at least, here are the answers: TeX and LaTeX are available from U. of Washington. Here is the blurb from the last TUGBOAT I have: ===== How to order: To order a full distribution of TeX, send $100.00 (foreign sites $110.00, to cover the extra postage) payable to the University of Washington to: Pierre A. MacKay Northwest Computer Support Group, DW-10 University of Washington Seattle, Washington 98195 The normal distribution is a tar tape, blocked 20, 1600 bpi. If you need 1/4 in streamer cartridges for the SUN, be sure to tell us. Although we have had problems previously with cartridge tapes, we can usually hope to get them out quite fast now. ===== The TeX sources on the Unix tape require BSD Pascal. Apparently the tape now includes a TeXtoC translator that allows WEB to be translated to C and reports have come in of TeX working on SysV machines like the 3B series. You can ftp tex-to-c from june.cs.washington.edu. METAFONT is also on this tape. You should definitely get a tape if you are serious about installing Unix TeX because there is a lot of essential stuff on it, such as the macros and the fonts. And it is too big to ftp. Our 2-year old distribution is some 35Mb. There is another TeX in C called Common-TeX. There is some dispute over whether it passed the trip test (and therefore can be called TeX). Last I heard, it was available by ftp from ucbvax.berkeley.edu. PicTeX is a macro package that sits on top of TeX. It is avaliable from Michael Wichura of U. Chicago. You can ftp it from june.cs.washington.edu also. But you need the manual to use PicTeX, which Wichura is distributing for $15, last I heard. Apparently it will be published as a book eventually. I have not used PicTeX, but hear that it can easily eat up a lot of TeX's memory. Finally, there is a mailing list for TeX hackers and users called TeXHax. If you are on the Internet, send a message to texhax-request@score.stanford.edu to join. Bitnet users should do this: %%% subscribe, simply send a one line mail message to LISTSERV@TAMVM1 %%% that reads: %%% SUBSCRIBE TEX-L <your "real time" name> Ken
spencer@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Stephen Spencer) (03/30/88)
In article <8189@sol.ARPA>, ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap) writes: > > PicTeX is a macro package that sits on top of TeX. It is avaliable from > Michael Wichura of U. Chicago. You can ftp it from > june.cs.washington.edu also. But you need the manual to use PicTeX, > which Wichura is distributing for $15, last I heard. Apparently it will > be published as a book eventually. I have not used PicTeX, but hear > that it can easily eat up a lot of TeX's memory. > The PicTeX distribution (which I got from another site here at OSU) is compressed and shar'ed, and ran about 600K. When uncompressed and split into its component files, one file made up about 70% of the space in the directory -- it was the PicTeX manual, in .dvi form, ready to be run through a dvi2{whatever} filter and printed. At 85 pages it is not a small manual but then again it shouldn't. I've tried some of the PicTeX stuff out here over the last four or five days and haven't found any problems with it yet. If there is a space problem I will soon run into it as I will be making the figures for my thesis with it. Thanks, Michael for PicTeX: You have saved many people many hours of work with YOUR ingenous work.