) (11/18/89)
OzTeX, from OZstralia, is a public-domain version of TeX/LaTeX/SliTeX for the
Macintosh. the full set of files occupy ten disks. it includes a fairly
complete set of TeX PK font-files, style files, etc.
it has a dviviewer built-in, but no editor (you'd need something else which
saves plain text files for that). it can also use the Laserwriter's built-in
Postscript fonts, and includes TFM files for them (as well as TFM files for
the TeX fonts).
persumably you could arrange to use other fonts on the laserwriter, if you
could arrange to have them downloaded separately, and create the corresponding
TFM file.
it need 1MB to run. it was written in Modula-2 by Andrew Trevorrow, a port
from the Pascal version.
i've used it on several things, and it seems to work just fine. it still has
no real ability with pictures, any more than LaTeX does, which is obnoxious,
but...there's another program (not part of oztex) which will convert a paint
or pict object on the clipboard into TeX "rule" commands. it seems pretty good
but not quite perfect--i've looked at its results without actually trying to
use them yet. it'd be nice if one could easily incorporate raw postscript into
a \begin{picture} block.
anyway, that's it. it runs pleasantly fast on a mac IIx.
possibly the easiest way to get it is via
/pub/sources/oztex on tank.uchicago.edu
if you can do anonymous ftp (i can't, and had to have someone mail me disk with the stuff, which I can do for you if need be--except that I don't have the
absolutely complete set of PK files--i've been recreating some of them with
metafont on my vax here.)
-- clint