lees@cps.msu.edu (John Lees) (04/28/91)
Opinions, please: What is the best TeX to use on an MS-DOS PC to test and preview material that is to be uploaded to a UNIX system for printing on a laser printer? (The PC is an 8mhz 80286/80287, 1mb available EMS, 40mb disk, Hercules monochrome graphics system.) Rough draft printout on a 9-pin dot matrix printer (Star NX-1001, Epson LX-850 compatible) may be useful occasionally. ---------- John Lees, CPS, Lyman Briggs School, Michigan State University 48825-1107 lees@cps.msu.edu, lees@msuegr.bitnet, uunet!frith!lees, CIS: 74106,1324
ajayshah@alhena.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) (04/28/91)
In article <1991Apr27.185455.15185@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> lees@cps.msu.edu (John Lees) writes: >What is the best TeX to use on an MS-DOS PC to test and preview >material that is to be uploaded to a UNIX system for printing on >a laser printer? (The PC is an 8mhz 80286/80287, 1mb available EMS, >40mb disk, Hercules monochrome graphics system.) > >Rough draft printout on a 9-pin dot matrix printer (Star NX-1001, >Epson LX-850 compatible) may be useful occasionally. Without a doubt: EmTeX. It's fast, it's debugged, and it's free! The full set of EmTeX files are found in terminator.cc.umich.edu in msdos/tex/emtex. A minimal ready-to-use TeX+LaTeX+preview file system may be found in pub/emtex-fax on arisia.parc.xerox.com It's optimised to use as little disk space as possible. -- _______________________________________________________________________________ Ajay Shah, (213)734-3930, ajayshah@usc.edu The more things change, the more they stay insane. _______________________________________________________________________________
dfr@usna.NAVY.MIL (Prof. David F. Rogers) (04/28/91)
In article <1991Apr27.185455.15185@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> lees@cps.msu.edu (John Lees) writes:
!Opinions, please:
!
!What is the best TeX to use on an MS-DOS PC to test and preview
!material that is to be uploaded to a UNIX system for printing on
!a laser printer? (The PC is an 8mhz 80286/80287, 1mb available EMS,
!40mb disk, Hercules monochrome graphics system.)
I have been using Preview from Arbortext on just such a system for
3-4 years and like it very much.xiaofei@acsu.buffalo.edu (Xiaofei Wang) (04/28/91)
/* ajayshah@alhena.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) wrote */:
* Without a doubt: EmTeX. It's fast, it's debugged, and it's free!
^^^^
Don Hosek mentioned several times on the net that emTeX ain't as fast
as his commercial TeX ...
I don't know if this has to do that emTeX has no tex386.exe yet ...
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xiaofei@acsu.buffalo.edu / rutgers!ub!xiaofei / v118raqa@ubvms.bitnetdan@systech.bjorn.COM (Dan Gill) (04/28/91)
In article <32368@usc>, ajayshah@alhena.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes: > > Without a doubt: EmTeX. It's fast, it's debugged, and it's free! > The full set of EmTeX files are found in terminator.cc.umich.edu > in msdos/tex/emtex. > > A minimal ready-to-use TeX+LaTeX+preview file system may be found in > > pub/emtex-fax I have no access to ftp. Is this available on a system with uucp or perhaps a mailer? Thanks dan -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "On second thought, let us not go to Camelot. It is a silly place" Dan Gill [uunet ucsd.edu]!systech!dan -------------------------------------------------------------------------------