grunwald@uiucdcsm.cs.uiuc.edu (12/11/87)
Re: TeX You can pick up Common TeX V2.1 via anonymous ftp to ucbarpa.berkeley.edu or cs.rochester.edu. I use this version of TeX & am very pleased by it. We run it on Suns, PC/RT's, Encore Multimax, Vaxen & 3b2's. It was done by Pat Monardo at UCBerkeley. It's written in C. You need the TeX & LaTeX macros from somewhere. You can send $100 for the UNIX distribution to the Univ. of washinton for that stuff. Re: VoRTeX This is an attempt at an integrated TeX environment comprised of GNUEMACS TeX-modes, dvisun ( a previewer ) and a few other tools. This is the impression I gathered from reading a file in the txbtx.tar file from ucbarpa.berkeley.edu (the TeX & BibTeX mode for GNUemacs) Re: BibTeX This is the bibliography processor. It's recently been translated into C by Tomas Rokicki at Stanford. I grabbed a copy from sushi.stanford.edu. It works great. There's also a program called 'tib' available which is a ``bibtex for TeX'' re: Previewers You can pick up previewers for SunView or X11 windows from a.cs.uiuc.edu in the anonymous-ftp file "pub/iptex.tar". There's also a print driver for imagens & versatecs. So, it's possible to get this stuff for cheap, but it does take FTP access.