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- From: dhosek@hmcvax.claremont.edu
- Subject: Re: Which is better, OzTeX or Textures?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.002722.1@hmcvax.claremont.edu>
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 00:27:22 PST
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- In article <1k2an0INNkjj@pith.uoregon.edu>, scavo@cie.uoregon.edu (Tom Scavo) writes:
- > In article <1993Jan26.015518.12345@maths.tcd.ie> tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy) writes:
- >>jeremy@castle.ed.ac.uk (Jeremy Henderson) writes:
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- >>>There is really no doubt that Textures is immensely superior to OzTex. Of
- >>>course, unlike OzTex it costs real money ;-(, but at the "student price"
- >>>it is very good value.
-
- >>Incidentally, have you used both? Very few people have, in my experience.
- >>(I used TeXtures 3 or 4 years ago, and was impressed, but also annoyed
- >>that I could not use fonts from elsewhere. Has that changed?)
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- Was never really a technical issue, just an informational issue:
- Blue Sky for some reason doesn't explain the point (although
- thinking back to various conversations I've had with Barry Smith,
- I think I understand their justification, even if I disagree).
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- > But my question is: Does Textures have the memory constraints
- > that OzTeX suffers from? I have a 150-page solutions manual with
- > at least that many figures that gives OzTeX an awful time! Right
- > now I'm struggling with commutative diagrams---every time I try
- > to typeset them, I get an overflow message. I'd give anything
- > for a BIG OzTeX! For small projects however, it works great.
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- My understanding is that Textures will give you as much TeX
- memory as is physically possible between actual RAM and virtual
- memory off of your hard disk. People at Blue Sky hold whole
- documents in memory and do page imposition with TeX.
-
- -dh
- Don Hosek
- dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu
- Quixote Digital Typography
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