Tex For The Mac

Date: Tue, 8 Mar 1994 18:44:03 -0500 From: Scott Kaplan <sfkaplan@cs.amherst.edu> I received email from a Chunsheng Ban <cban@math.ohio-state.edu>, who passed on some additional information about the state of TeX/LaTeX on the Mac. For anyone concerned, I figured it would be worth the time to update this file by including the rather useful paragraph below. The rest of the file, beyond this paragraph, contains the same group of replies I got when I asked the net people about TeX implementations on the Mac. Scott Kaplan Amherst College sfkaplan@cs.amherst.edu %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% From: Chunsheng Ban <cban@math.ohio-state.edu> The current version of OzTeX is 1.6. It has been a shareware since version 1.5. You can print DVI files on a QuickDraw printer without using a separate utility. It has a new format NFSS LaTeX which replaces the Times-LaTeX format. You can use many PostScript fonts in addition to Times (NFSS=New Font Selection Scheme). It adds virtual font capability to OzTeX. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% From: pjakobse@estsa2.estec.esa.nl I can highly recommend the freeware OzTeX package found on midway.uchicago.edu. OzTeX is a no-nonsense, but robust (at least under System 7.1) Mac implementation of TeX 3.14 that'll let you preview the .dvi files and print PostScript to printers or files. If you don't have a PostScript printer, there's also an application called DVI72-MAC that will let you print to at least some QuickDraw printers (it works like a charm with my StyleWriter at home producing an output that rivals that of the (DEC and Apple) laserprinters at work - hard to believe, I know.). And yes, it also supports lobotomized TeX (a.k.a. LaTeX), INITeX and hence any other format you may care to dream up yourself. I use the OxTeX package (along with the no-nonsense freeware text editor BBedit) all the time on my PowerBook and LC at home as a portable alternative to my main (VMS VAXstation) TeX implementation. I have yet to encounter any compatibility problems in transferring .tex .dvi and .ps files back and forth between VMS TeX and OzTeX. The same combination oughta work just fine with Sun/Unix Tex as well. Peter Jakobsen European Space Agency pjakobse@estsa2.estec.esa.nl %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% From: "Dr Alun J. Carr" <AJCARR@ollamh.ucd.ie> First, if you're a novice, stick to LaTeX. Read Lamport's book. {\em Don't} under any circumstances read Knuth's `The TeXbook' until you need the information that is in it. As for software, what you want is OzTeX. This is available by anonymous FTP from midway.uchicago.edu. It is freeware, written by Andrew Trevorrow. OzTeX comes with a full set of 300 dpi Pk-format Computer Modern fonts for TeX and LaTeX, but not the AMS fonts. Also included is LaTeX 2.09. OzTeX has a DVI (the compiled output from TeX) file previewer built in, so you can see what your document l…