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- Subject: Re: Experiences with DirectTeX (vs OzTeX)?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.114518.18667@husc3.harvard.edu>
- From: gouvea@zariski.harvard.edu (Fernando Gouvea)
- Date: 18 Dec 92 11:45:17 EST
- References: <1992Dec18.034506.11066@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU>
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- Keywords: Macintosh, DirectTeX, OzTeX, MPW
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- In article <1992Dec18.034506.11066@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU> johnz@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au (John Zic) writes:
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- >What are _your_ reasons for using DirectTeX over OzTeX? I need to be
- >convinced that the pain of swapping over is going to be worthwhile...
- >
- Advantages, as I see it:
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- 1) Automatic font generation using Metafont,
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- 2) Support for virtual fonts,
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- 3) Prints and TeXes in the background.
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- Disadvantages:
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- 1) It's still a bit raw (I have occasional problems),
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- 2) If you're going to have to buy MPW to run DirectTeX, it'll come out to
- be pretty expensive,
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- 3) It's much slower to load, at least on my machine.
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