From: "leo" <halloleo@noospaam.myrealbox.com>
Subject: Re: Printing under OS X
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 11:03:39 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bun405$vjm$1@otis.netspace.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m2u12oswsx.fsf@Stella-Blue.local
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!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-22 0:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-20 6:34 Printing under OS X Tim McNamara
2004-01-20 14:54 ` Tim McNamara
2004-01-20 14:59 ` Joakim Hove
2004-01-20 19:06 ` Tim McNamara
2004-01-21 5:51 ` Hubert Chan
2004-01-21 12:58 ` Louisa Land
2004-01-21 14:59 ` Tim McNamara
2004-01-21 18:04 ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-01-21 18:40 ` Tim McNamara
2004-01-21 20:00 ` Garglemonster
2004-01-21 23:31 ` Tim McNamara
2004-01-22 0:03 ` leo [this message]
2004-01-22 7:08 ` Garglemonster
2004-01-22 12:36 ` Colin Marquardt
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