furnstah@umd5.umd.edu (Richard Furnstahl) (07/20/89)
I missed the discussion on patches to TeX and the dvi driver the first time around. Could someone please send me this info or point me to where I can find it? Thanks Dick Furnstahl furnstah@umd5.umd.edu Dept. of Physics, University of Maryland
bates@wingra.stat.wisc.edu (Douglas Bates) (02/02/90)
I would just echo Rick Morrison's comments about TeX on a NeXT. We have 6 NeXT's on our local network - 4 of them for use by our office staff. LaTeX is our preferred text processing method (we do a lot of technical text) but we didn't think it reasonable to have our office staff using LaTeX without being able to preview it on screen. Our choices seemed to be TeX on a Mac (which we tried) or training the office staff to use a Unix workstation. TeX systems for a Mac were not as flexible as the Unix distribution of TeX. Also we wanted compatibility with the TeX and LaTeX that we run on our other workstations. The NeXT was the perfect solution - no need for office staff to learn "vi" or raw Unix commands but still the ability to exchange mail with and mount file systems from our other Unix systems. The TeX previewer is very impressive. Like Rick, I have never seen another previewer for TeX that could also show included PostScript figures and still give good representations of the characters. Running TeX on one of our DECstation 3100's is faster than on a NeXT but I don't find the speed of the NeXT to be a severe impediment. Even when I am writing technical material all day, I spend more time walking down the hall to get coffee than I do waiting for TeX to run.
lmann@jjmhome.UUCP (Laurie Mann) (07/26/90)
Let me plug TeX on the NeXT. I've used a slow TeX without a previewer for over 6 1/2 years. I like TeX, but it is rather tough going at times. This year, our department decided to move from TeX to Frame on the NeXT. As I've been learning Frame and cleaning up older TeX projects, I taken a real liking to TeX on the NeXT. It's fast and the previewer is good! Yet another NeXT convert. *** Laurie Mann ** harvard!m2c!jjmhome!lmann ** lmann%jjmhome@m2c.m2c.org *** *** Laurie_Mann@es.stratus.com *** uunet!lectroid!es!Laurie_Mann *** *** Work like hell *** Tell everyone everything you know *** *** Close a deal with a handshake *** Have fun *** *** Harold (Doc) Edgerton 1903-1990 ***
bernie@src.umd.edu (Bernard Adrian Frankpitt) (03/22/91)
I am trying to fire up TeX on a NeXT machine, old version, and I am not having a lot of success. The TeX programs seem unable to find the font files despite my best efforts at setting the various enviroment variables refered to in the online manual documentation. The fonts have been installed in the directories /usr/lib/tex/fonts/ftm and /usr/lib/tex/fonts/pk. Any help (preferably Emailed) would be greatly appreciated Bernie Frankpitt bernie@ra.src.umd.edu