gsg0384@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (01/12/89)
Hi,
I am new to TeX. We have PS/2-50 and MacII in the lab. We already
have PCTeX (site-licensed) and the previewer.
Which company's TeX for Mac is the best?
How much better is working on a Mac than on a PS/2 ? Is that so much better
that I should tell my boss to buy the software for Mac?
In other words, can I see the text being processed or just-processed
while I am typing on a Mac? I can't do that on PS/2.
Thanks for info.
Hugh gsg0384@uxa.cso.uiuc.edudebra@alice.UUCP (Paul De Bra) (01/15/89)
In article <113600001@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> gsg0384@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes: > >Hi, > >I am new to TeX. We have PS/2-50 and MacII in the lab. We already >have PCTeX (site-licensed) and the previewer. > >Which company's TeX for Mac is the best? There is TexTures and MacTex, and both have there advantages and disadvan- tages. You may want to look them over. >How much better is working on a Mac than on a PS/2 ? Is that so much better >that I should tell my boss to buy the software for Mac? The only reason for getting the software for Mac is that you can use Tex on the PS/2 and the Mac at the same time. >In other words, can I see the text being processed or just-processed >while I am typing on a Mac? I can't do that on PS/2. That would be nice. However, none of the current implementations do this. In fact, none of the implementations do anything exciting compared to the implementations for messy dog. If you want something that comes close you should consider ArborTex, which runs on Suns, but maybe also on other hardware by now (?) Paul. -- ------------------------------------------------------ |debra@research.att.com | uunet!research!debra | ------------------------------------------------------
cwitty@csli.Stanford.EDU (Carl Witty) (01/15/89)
In article <8755@alice.UUCP>, debra@alice (Paul De Bra) writes: >In article <113600001@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> gsg0384@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes: >> >>Hi, ... >>In other words, can I see the text being processed or just-processed >>while I am typing on a Mac? I can't do that on PS/2. > >That would be nice. However, none of the current implementations do this. >In fact, none of the implementations do anything exciting compared to the >implementations for messy dog. >If you want something that comes close you should consider ArborTex, which >runs on Suns, but maybe also on other hardware by now (?) The best TeX environment I've seen is by Tom Rokicki, of Radical Eye Software, for the Amiga. I've seen him demonstrate it, and it is truly amazing. He's got it set it up so that a simple key sequence in his editor runs TeX on the file and displays the output with a dvi previewer. The previewer shows each page as TeX finishes processing it. Since the Amiga is multitasking, he can continue editing while TeX is running. He also sells Metafont, and you can set it up so that whenever your file uses a font that you don't have the .pk file for, it calls Metafont and generates that font. Very slick. Tom can be contacted at rokicki@score.Stanford.EDU. Carl Witty cwitty@csli.Stanford.EDU Disclaimer: I have no relationship with Tom Rokicki or Radical Eye Software. -- Carl Witty cwitty@csli.stanford.edu
cje@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Cthulhu's Jersey Epopt) (01/18/89)
In article <8755@alice.UUCP> debra@alice.UUCP (Paul De Bra) writes: > >In other words, can I see the text being processed or just-processed > >while I am typing on a Mac? I can't do that on PS/2. > > That would be nice. However, none of the current implementations do this. Beg pardon? I interpreted the original query to be "Can I preview my TeX output on the screen instead of printing it?", which is certainly possible in both Mac and IBM implementations. If the original querant actually meant "Can I type something and have it be typeset automatically on the screen? I don't want to see the code involved", then you're right, but I don't know of any TeX implementation that can do this. -- Yog-Sothoth Neblod Zin, Chris Jarocha-Ernst UUCP: {ames, cbosgd, harvard, moss, seismo}!rutgers!elbereth.rutgers.edu!cje ARPA: JAROCHAERNST@CANCER.RUTGERS.EDU
UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) (01/18/89)
In article <Jan.17.15.37.15.1989.25329@elbereth.rutgers.edu>, cje@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Cthulhu's Jersey Epopt) says: > >In article <8755@alice.UUCP> debra@alice.UUCP (Paul De Bra) writes: >If the original querant actually meant "Can I type something and have it >be typeset automatically on the screen? I don't want to see the code >involved", then you're right, but I don't know of any TeX implementation that >can do this. >-- Amiga TeX can do a close approximation of this, if you have 1.5MB or more. You can multi-task your editor, TeX, and the Previewer. And output from TeX can be sent to the Previewer as it comes out of TeX. There are some bells-and-whistles that make it feasible to look at the same few paragraphs over and over again til you get them right, and so on. It is fairly close to a wysiwyg TeX envirnment. lee
mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu (01/18/89)
> >In other words, can I see the text being processed or just-processed > >while I am typing on a Mac? I can't do that on PS/2. > > That would be nice. However, none of the current implementations do this. "Being processed" is impossible on either a PC or MAC, without rewriting TeX itself. (It should be possible on a high class Unix workstation.) But "Just processed" is certainly possible on a 386 PC. I do it often. Use Microsoft Windows 386. Put your favorite text editor in one window, TeX itself in another, and my screen previewer dvivga in a third. Works fine. You can, if you wish, print your previous try in a fourth window. All at once.