*** Release 3.11d adds a Color panel and a coloured icon to TeXEdit ***
*** Release 3.11c includes a workaround for TeXEdit crashing on Ctrl-t ***
*** Release 3.11b fixes a bug with missing icons in TeXEdit and TeXWorks ***
This is InstantTeX 3.11, the first quad-FAT release of InstantTeX. Starting with this release, InstantTeX is no longer maintained by Dmitri Linde. The new maintainer is Gregor Hoffleit (flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de). Dmitri was so kind to hand me over the sources, since he has no more time to work on it.
The list of changes compared with version 3.1 is fairly short, it's just a maintenance release with no really new features:
- First quad-FAT (NeXT, Intel, HP-PA and SPARC) release.
- Replaced XText with a more recent version.
Emacs keybindings should finally work on all platforms!
- Changed recipient's email address for suggestions.
- Added Preface to the documentation.
* Known bugs
- Starting from page 2, this documentation is strongly out of date.
- Feynman.app's documents aren't portable across platforms
(tested with HP-PA and Intel).
- Therefore, Feynman.app's help doesn't work on Intel machines.
* The future
I don't know how many time I will spend on InstantTeX in the future. At least, I'd like to make this a stable release on all existing four NEXTSTEP architectures.
But don't hesitate to send me bug reports for this version or suggestions and wishes for future releases. I'll try to evaluate them, and maybe put out enhanced releases of InstantTeX.
Heidelberg, March 1, 1996.
* Installation Instructions
To install InstantTeX you should login as root and double click
on the InstantTeX.pkg file. Then click on the Install button in
Installer. You should then place TeXWorks, TeXEdit from /LocalApps
to the dock (a row of icons on the right of the screen).
InstantTeX 3.11 and above no longer use the customized version
of TeXview.
P.S. Make sure to look over the manual. (Use the Help menu in TeXEdit or
TeXWorks, and the manual will open in TeXview.)
Here is the original README file...
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InstantTeX is distributed for free.
* Why InstantTeX?
There are many programs which can be used for
writing simple text. Some of these programs are capable
of writing papers with complicated equations. However,
only one of these programs, TeX, works at all existing
computers. TeX files can be easily sent by e-mail to
people who use different computer systems. This is a
decisive advantage of TeX, which makes it a unique
computer language for international scientific
collaboration. At present, many journals accept papers
submitted electronically as TeX files. Even before
these papers are published or appear as preprints, they
can be obtained electronically as TeX files stored in
such databases as hepth@xxx.lanl.gov,
hepph@xxx.lanl.gov, etc. There is no doubt that with a
future development of electronic communications the
importance of TeX will only grow.
Arguably, the best computer for electronic
communications is NeXT. NeXT has all necessary features
to become a very good computer for TeX as well. However,
TeX is a very complicated program, and until now TeX on
NeXT was not very user friendly. The standard way to use
TeX on NeXT was to write the text in Edit and to use Terminal
to TeX it. To TeX the file, it was necessary to type a unix
command in Terminal. To locate the line with an error, it
was necessary to open the line panel in Edit and type the
line number there. This was rather inconvenient. It was
extremely difficult to insert pictures into the text. And
it was necessary to memorize hundreds of TeX symbols and
commands. There exist some nice public domain programs
for TeX on NeXT, such as TeX menu by Harald Schlangmann,
and TeXit, by Paul Griffin. However, neither of these
programs is as user friendly as, for example, Textures
for Macintosh. There is also a very good program
loTeX, by Derek Beatty. It can be useful for writing
complicated equations in TeX, but it does not provide a
complete environment for writing TeX documents.
That is why we are very pleased to present InstantTeX, a
user friendly interface to TeX for the NeXT computers. We
believe that InstantTeX makes NeXT the best computer for
writing papers in TeX and for sending, receiving and
TeXing multiple files written in different TeX formats.
Main features of InstantTeX
With InstantTeX you can TeX your file in any format you
wish, directly from Edit, just by pressing a key. The
format of your TeX files can be determined
automatically.
If TeX notices an error in your file, you can press a key
and InstantTeX will go to the line which contains the
error. This considerably simplifies editing your text.
The main advantage of InstantTeX is that it has an
Instant mode, which allows you to TeX your file
automatically as you are writing it and preview the
results in TeXview almost instantaneously. A few
seconds after you type a key, the new output appears in
TeXview . This is very useful for writing equations,
macros, adjusting the spaces and sizes in your file, and
almost everything else that you can do with TeX. In this
respect InstantTeX is very similar to Lightning
Textures for Macintosh computer. Our program works well
even on multiple-page documents, due to the speed of the
NeXT computers. Moreover, Instant mode now can be used
even with multiple-file documents. One can also select only a
portion of text to be TeXed in InstantTeX mode.
Another advantage of InstantTeX is the existence of
TeXPalette, which contains buttons corresponding to
Greek letters, operators, relations, and other TeX
symbols. Now you should not memorize how to write an
integral or a matrix, just click the button, and you will
see the result. This means that there is no need to write your
equations separately and insert them later into your
document; you do everything on the fly. In addition to
PlainTeX symbols and commands, TeXPalette contains
separate palettes with buttons corresponding to
commonly used commands from LaTeX, Phystex, Harvmac and
AmsTeX. Do you like typing \begin{equation}
\label{...} ... \end{equation} each time when you write
a new equation in LaTeX? Do you like typing (\ref{...})
each time you refer to any equation in the text? No such
suffering anymore for those who use NeXT! (We are unaware
of any similar product for other computers.)
InstantTeX has a panel containing buttons `Edit File',
`Go On', `Ignore All Errors', `Help With Error', `Quit
TeX', `Use Another File', `TeX Again', `Preview'. It is
very convenient for TeXing and editing files.
You can insert pictures into your TeX files, just by
dragging them into the TeX file window. You can easily
import pictures from many other applications, such as
Adobe Illustrator, Draw and Mathematica. You can also
send the files with pictures to people who do not have
NeXTs.
Now InstantTeX can spell check your TeX files just as
easy as any other files. Do you know why more than a half of
