sdo@linus.UUCP (Sean David O'Neil) (12/06/86)
I recently showed my father-in-law some TeX output which I had
produced for a paper, and he was extremely impressed (he's a
medical academic type who knows next to nothing about computers).
In fact, he was so impressed that he'd like to get himself a system
on which he can type his own articles and books before sending
them off to the publisher, and he's asked me to help him figure out
what he needs.
I was thinking of a Mac, mainly because I've seen some really
impressive software called TeXtures(?) that Addison-Wesley is peddling
right now. The mouse controlled previewing is really nice (it can move
around a little magnified window on the document) and one can include
graphics from MacDraw or MacPaint in the TeX file. My father-in-law
claim he's not interested in graphics, and he probably requires very
little in the way of special symbols for his papers, but I think it'd
be nice for him to have those capabilities anyway.
So here's the real question: where can I find some sort of laser
printer that will give fairly good looking output without too high a
price? Speed is not a consideration here as we're talking about a
single user at home. What sort of system would people recommend if
we wished to spend no more than about $5000.
Any and all suggestions will be welcome.
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Sean O'Neil
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