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Re: Printing under OS X


From: leo
Subject: Re: Printing under OS X
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 11:03:39 +1100

hi tim

"Tim McNamara" <timmcn@bitstream.net> wrote in message
news:m2u12oswsx.fsf@Stella-Blue.local...
> Garglemonster <garglemonster@my-deja.com> writes:
>
> Ah, well, rapidly becoming more trouble than its worth!  With limited
> hard drive space, the excessive mechanics of a full install of all the
> various libraries and binaries, sorting out all the dependencies,
> etc., is too much of a PITA.  It's at times like these that the rather
> Byzantine architecture of the Unix filesystem becomes annoying.
>
> Pity, really, as it looks to me like LaTeX ought to be renderable
> along the same lines as HTML and not require 100+ megabytes of stuff
> to do even the simplest task.
>
> > and besides, you will want to print out your stuff for editing.
>
> A fountain pen is so much simpler.

you are looking for tex on the mac and you think its a PITA? i fully
understand:
_installing tex i never liked, but _using_ tex was always fun...

i've just started looking into tex on the mac(*) and i found
http://www.rna.nl/tex.html.
that might be interesting for you...

cheers, leo

(*) years ago at uni i was kind of a latex geek... but then came work, word
and
windows.... but now i'm privatly on the mac side of live and evenually i'll
be back
on the tex track!




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