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- From: vadim@bolvan.ph.utexas.edu (Vadim S. Kaplunovsky)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: TeXmenu -- English?
- Message-ID: <78622@ut-emx.uucp>
- Date: 29 Aug 92 01:34:07 GMT
- References: <1992Aug28.024801.28694@tamsun.tamu.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug28.024801.28694@tamsun.tamu.edu> andrewd@tamsun.tamu.edu
- (Andrew T Duchowski) writes:
- > TeXmenu looks interesting. Does it come or can it switch itself
- > to English?
-
- TeXmenu is crap, regardless of language.
-
- If you want a GOOD NeXT interface to TeX, get TeXWorks by Dmitri Linde.
-
-
- ANNOUNCING
-
- InstantTeX 1.0
- by Dmitri Linde
-
- A User Friendly Interface to TeX
- For the NeXT Computer
-
-
- Some time ago, the only user friendly interface to TeX existed for
- Macintosh and Amiga computers, but now we are pleased to present
- InstantTeX, a user friendly interface to TeX for the NeXT computers.
-
- The standard way to use TeX on NeXT is to write the text in Edit and
- to use Terminal to TeX it. Each time you want to TeX the file, you
- have to type a unix command in Terminal. To locate the line with an
- error, you have to open the line panel in Edit and type the line
- number there. This is rather inconvenient.
-
- 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 instantly previews your
- files as you are writing them. 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.
-
- InstantTeX has a convenient panel containing buttons `Edit File',
- `Go On', `Ignore All Errors', `Help With Error', `Quit TeX', `Use
- Another File', `TeX Again', `Preview'.
-
- You may send TeX files to people who do not have NeXTs. The files
- you are going to send will be automatically truncated to 80 or 70
- characters a line, and will not contain errors that Mail makes when
- it truncates TeX files.
-
- If TeX cannot find a file, you can open a standard NeXT open panel
- and select the right file.
-
- There is an online reference card which helps you write Greek
- letters, operators, relations, and other TeX symbols.
-
- There are more than 20 various options to suit your preferences.
-
- InstantTeX version 1.0 is expected to ship in late July, 1992, and
- will work with NeXT computers running NeXTSTEP 2.0. Users who
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- NeXTSTEP 3.0, including TeXview 3.0.
-
- Until the release of NeXTStep3.0, InstantTeX 1.0 will be available
- at a special introductory price of $150 per copy. Demo version of
- InstantTeX is available from the NeXT public archive:
- nova.cc.purdue.edu.
-
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