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- From: fletcher@socrates.umd.edu (Charles Fletcher)
- Subject: Re: diagram! and EquationBuilder
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.121212.12915@socrates.umd.edu>
- Organization: University of Maryland University College
- References: <6AUG199208561034@mpx2.lampf.lanl.gov> <1992Aug6.210916.3177@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 12:12:12 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug6.210916.3177@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> tlm@nextasy.physics.mcmaster.ca (Tom Marchioro) writes:
- [Stuff deleted about Diagram and EqB]
- >
- >EquationBuilder is great for this (I just bought my own copy as well)
- >but it does cost $ and in all fairness it's worth pointing out that
- >you can do this *for free* using NeXT-TeX and its new "make into EPS
- >file" option (included in dvips5485 or higher) or as a service with
- >Derek Beatty's TeXice, available on the archives. The only thing
- >you can't do as well is to resize if there are any math symbols because
- >TeX makes bitmaps of them and the resizing gives you the "jaggies".
-
- I haven't played with the TeX EPS feature yet, but I do have
- EqB and put some equations into Diagram and resized them to
- "very large" (as a test) and printed them out. As Sarg (of
- "No Time for Sargarets") would say-"Smmooooooootttthhhh!"
-
- Charlie
-
- >
- >Just a few months ago the NeXT's inability to accomplish tasks like this
- >was a real weak point, but now,wiht EqB, TeXice, loTeX and the upcoming
- >versoin of NeXT-TeX it's one of NeXT's real strengths.
- >
- >Tom
- >
- >PS: Helpful hint to those trying to learn TeX, or who find it someone
- >arcane, check out loTeX off the archives.Lots of helpful features.
-
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