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- From: fletcher@socrates.umd.edu (Charles Fletcher)
- Subject: Re: Open letter to NextDevelopers (and InstantTeX demo warning)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.185459.11141@socrates.umd.edu>
- Summary: Flame on: InstantTeX demo warning
- Keywords: Demos, InstantTeX
- Organization: University of Maryland University College
- References: <1992Jul21.144606.29752@athena.mit.edu> <1992Jul21.161255.27640@macc.wisc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 18:54:59 GMT
- Lines: 38
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- I agree with Sherwood's (and Jess') complaint of the "two-minute demo". Here's
- another current data point.
-
- Flame on--
-
- InstantTeX also supports the two-minute demo movement. (Who thought this up
- anyway--I can't even load TeX and type \relax in two minutes!-) I am (was?)
- really interested in this product since I work a lot with TeX, but how much
- TeXing can you do in two minutes. Look at its Preference panel--it should
- take awhile just to figure all the options there (from what little I got to
- see, it did look interesting.)
-
- Now for the good part--I clicked on help and InstantTeX passes its help(.dvi)
- file to TeXView (NOTE: It installs its own Beta version(2.1) of TeXview!!!)
- which in my rush I decided to print out. DO NOT DO THIS!!!! Since I didn't
- notice that the "Custom Resolution" switch was ON (The InstantTeX version
- of TeXview came this way, I checked)
- my NeXT began generating fonts at 1270 dpi (also using up about 10 M of
- needed space in the process.)
-
- Fixes--(1) Make sure the CR switch is off,
-
- OR (2) Don't use the TeXview supplied by InstantTeX
-
- OR (3) Forget about the InstantTeX demo so you won't waste the
- ENTIRE F****** afternoon for a two minute demo!!!!!!!
-
- Flame off (but temper still up).
-
- Charlie
-
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