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From: crawford@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (James E Crawford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: SGML on the Mac
Date: 15 Nov 92 17:18:44 GMT
Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

I am looking for a program which will read SGML (Standardized General
Markup Language) files and allow me to use them on the Macintosh. I 
would suppose that something might be available as an "add-on" for
Word 5.0, although I haven't seen anything. Any help would be appreciated!

Jim Crawford
Johns Hopkins University
From: bruck@mathj.usc.edu (Ronald Bruck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Word processor that does math formulas
Date: 16 Nov 1992 10:24:46 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: mathj.usc.edu

In article <simon-161192100443@archmac-162.arch.su.edu.au> simon@archsci.arch.su.edu.au (Simon Hayman) writes:
>>If you are talking of actual mathematics,
>> and want to communicate your work to others,
>> you will be very unwise to use anything other than TeX/LaTeX ,
>> as 99% of mathematicians use these.
>
>But why?
>Unless you want to transfer the data as a file any WP program with maths
>capability (inherent or attached via something like expressionist) is fine
>if paper output is all that is needed. And a damn sight easier to use!!

Hmm, yes, easier to use.  But presumably, if you are communicating one
mathematical result to others, you will want to communicate MANY mathematical
results to others (else why read this newsgroup?).  And although TeX has a
steep learning curve, packages like AMSTeX and LATeX aren't really that hard
to use.

The point is that TeX output LOOKS right; it looks like what we read in
journals, books, and nowadays, most preprints.  No other equation editor
that I have ever seen produces output nearly that good.  Now one may argue
that people are overly concerned these days with appearance, that they
should be more concerned with content.  Certainly the content is the only
thing that counts, but since it is so **easy** to use TeX, once you get
used to it, there's not really any extra effort in making it look good.

Besides math papers, all of my problem sets and tests in upper-division and
graduate courses are set in TeX.  So many of our faculty use TeX now that
we got rid of our technical typist, and our secretaries have acquired facility
to type the manuscripts for those few who don't.

I'll tell you what I'd like to be able to do:  I'd like to mix TeX output
with graphics and other text in programs like PageMaker.  If anybody knows
how to do this now, I'd be interested in hearing.  (For example, can this
be done in FrameMaker?)  Blue Sky Research, which created Textures for the
Macintosh, has announced that they're preparing a high-end publishing program
(I hope not so high-end it's not affordable) which incorporates TeX.  The
latest version of Textures (1.5) is blazingly fast; it really is practical,
on my souped-up Mac II, to leave the "preview" feature on, and to see the
typeset output appear on-screen in real-time.  I usually turn this feature
off because it's distracting, and I don't make many TeX errors, but it's
available.  (I suspect it's slow for more than a single page of output.)

--Ron Bruck
bruck@mtha.usc.edu preferred
From: Simon Palmer <simon.palmer@anu.edu.au>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Urgent Need a Quick time, Sound & Video Editor
Date: 16 Nov 1992 10:24:36 GMT
Organization: The Australian National University
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: 130.56.7.6
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X-XXDate: Mon, 16 Nov 92 21:24:36 GMT

Need a Public domain Quick time movie editor, I need it to edit sound
also well as video..... If anyone can help I would much appreciate it 

Ta Simon Palmer
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: jdunning@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (John Alan Dunning)
Subject: Re: What software for a graphic artist?!?
Originator: news@nimaster
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 04:00:04 GMT

The program I find most indispensible is Adobe Illustrator.  If you're
doing any sort of PostScript line art, as opposed to bit-mapped graphics
this is the program to have.  Aldus FreeHand is similar, and has a few more
bells and whistles, but I think Illustrator is much more elegant.
It's handling of type is also superior.

John
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: jfelder@lerc.nasa.gov (James L. Felder)
Subject: Re: MacInTax 92 Woes
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: Sverdrup Technology, Inc.
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 14:17:16 GMT

In article <SMITTIE.92Nov16121552@tui.csulb.edu>, smittie@beach.csulb.edu
(Smittie) wrote:
> 
> >Is it me or does MacInTaX seem as though it has declined in quality
> >since ChipSoft acquired it?  The manual says that it won't run under
> >virtual memory.  It can't be that hard to make it work with virtual
> >memory turned on.^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> When you're a DOS programmer porting to Mac it can be.
> 
> smittie

Smittie is onto the source of the deterioration I believe.  My father is a
die-hard DOS fan, but I forgive him since he is my Father.  He has been
using TurboTax which, I believe, is the DOS product that ChipSoft makes. 
He was showing me this "wonderful" program that he found to do his taxes. 
I thought the interface was very clunky (for a Mac program, great for a DOG
I mean DOS program), and the "interview" feature was only really needed for
the total uninformed.  When I got my copy of MacInTaxes last year is was
like a terrible dream staight out of Aliens.  There was TurboTax peering
out of the guts of my truely wonderful MacInTax.

This year it will be Tax Cut for me.  I have Manage Your Money from MECA,
who has managed to keep the Mac version from just apeing the DOS version,
so I have hope that they will do the same for Tax Cut.  Besides MYM will
export to Tax Cut, hopefully cutting down on manual transfer time.

James L. Felder            (216)891-4019         -My opinions are MINE-
Sverdrup Technology, Inc.  jfelder@lerc.nasa.gov  I think that should
NASA Lewis Research Center Cleveland 44135        cover all bases, 
                                                  don't you.

"Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge -
    other people gargle"
From: iscjcw@uccvma.ucop.edu (Jerry Wilcox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: I NEED ALTERNATIVES! Re: MacInTax 92 Woes
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Date: 17 Nov 1992 16:47:26 GMT
Organization: University of California, Office of the President
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: ajax.ucop.edu

In article <87333@bcsaic.boeing.com>, vanover@bcsaic.boeing.com (Jann
VanOver) wrote:
> <stuff deleted> 
> I've used MacInTax for 4 or 5 years now, and I think that's as far as
> I'll go.
> 
> What are the alternatives?  Any recommendations?
> 

I got a mail-order offer for TaxCut from MECA (the Managing Your Money
folks) and decided to take them up on it. I just got the "headstart"
version over the weekend, haven't gotten it installed yet, but did scan
through the manual. If the software lives up to the manual, I'll be happy.

This is a Mac version of a DOS product, but it looks like they've done as
good a job on the port as they did with MYM. From a quick perusal of the
manual, it doesn't look like a DOS application on a Mac screen, unlike what
ChipSoft did to (formerly very nice) MacInTax.

Warning - MECA has only ported a few state versions (including California,
thankfully) to the Mac thus far. That may be a problem for users in some
states.
-----------
Jerry Wilcox - iscjcw@uccvma.ucop.edu
All opinions expressed are MINE -- I'd have a different job if the
University wanted me to speak for it.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: TLH@ECLX.PSU.EDU (Thomas L Hoffmann)
Subject: PROBLEM:WORD5.0 document merge??
Organization: Penn State Engineering Computer Lab
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 16:50:46 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24

Hi,

this time I'm really in trouble with something, tried hard to solve the 
problem but no success. Maybe you can help.

My goal is to generate a merged ducument (my thesis) from a number of 
separate ducuments (the chapters). The size of the chapters varies from
about 30K to more than a MByte (has tiff files in it). Now, if I try to
work my way through the procedure of copying one document's content and 
"paste link" it into the main file (the one where I want to have all du-
cuments to merge) it works fine for the small documents (with format, 
styles and everything) but instead of importing the big ones it places
a link-bracket with nothing in it in the file (this thing is really nasty,
because you can't select it and unlink). If I close all documents and save
and then open the main file again it asks me whether I want the links to 
be active. Pressing yes gives me a message that "memory is low, close some
windows." However, I set Word to 3MB and the finder Memory to 500K, that
should be plenty. So Word opens the file listing all the shorter files as
expected but again the nasty brackets for the large files. The strange thing
is that this feature is made to deal with large files, but it can't handle
them.

Calling Microsoft the told me that I have a problem with my HEAP and that
I need a heapfixer (of course they don't know where to get it) to work
around the problem. They assured me that this is not a problem of Word
but why does that then happen only with Word. Word must use the heap in
a way which is not in agreement with the Mac system software, though it 
is a problem of Word? As I said before, I adjusted the memory that the 
finder is using by restarting with system 6 and allocating 500 K to the 
finder. 

I would really like to generate a joint ducument in which I can see everthing
together pagenumbers, EndNote references etc without having to plug in 
everthing in one monster file with 4-5Mbyte. Any ideas?

Thanks a lot.
Tom

tlh@kirkof.psu.edu

Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.apps:17246 comp.sys.mac.misc:19219
From: mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Shareware/ PD Hitlist
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 11:38:14 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.

osg@aeglos.hanse.de (Oliver Giessler) writes:
>  4. Grafics/ Layout

I use Lightning Paint as my paint package.  I don't have colour, and for a
B&W Mac Lightning Paint compares very well with commercial offerings.  It's a
useful adjunct to Hypercard for editing background art, and is particularly
good at allowing a "raw bits" approach.  Being a programmer, I tend to think
"Hmm, what I want to do is mask this with this, then transparent blit the
result over here and invert..."  Lightning Paint allows me to do those kinds
of things much more easily than any other paint package I've found.

I thought about commercial offerings like SuperPaint but decided against
them.  Basically, I edit everything except paint objects in ClarisWorks, so I
didn't need all the extra goodies in the big paint packages.  The other
advantage of Lightning Paint is that it's cheap; the price was so low I sent
more money than the author was requesting, as it wasn't worth my while to get
US$ in tiny amounts...

GIF Converter seems good, but it's expensive.  More expensive than Lightning
Paint, and all I use it for is converting from GIF to PICT and back.  I'll
probably toss it.

>  8. Utilities
>  8.1 Compression

I'm still trying to decide.  Something about Compact Pro annoys me, but I
can't quite work out what it is.  I thought maybe Stuffit Lite would be what
I was looking for, but Sit Lite fails dismally to display the dates on my
files.  (A list of date entries reading "1992-..." is *not* helpful.)  Also,
I'm not going to fork out money for Sit Lite unless I get the full version
*with encryption*.

I'm now wondering whether I should go for Autodoubler and Diskdoubler.  Now
that Salient have been bought by Fifth Generation, they seem to have decided
that they don't want to rip off UK users quite so badly.

>  8.2 Virus

Gatekeeper.  I don't like the "all in one" approach of Disinfectant; I like
to know exactly what I'm putting in my System folder and where it's going. 
Yes, I know *why* Disinfectant is "all in one", but I still don't like it
myself.

>  8.4 System extension

I thought Scroll2 would be exactly what I wanted, but it doesn't work with
ClarisWorks.  Damn.

SuperClock is a must.  The battery display feature is particularly neat on a
Powerbook.

>  8.5 Printing

I'm still looking for something that'll let me print to HP Laserjet *files*.


mathew
-- 
Macintosh System 7.1 -- just say no.  If I'd wanted to pay $50 for OS upgrades
I'd have bought an IBM.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: kenh@world.std.com (Ken Hancock)
Subject: Re: Ars Magna
Organization: Isle Systems - Waltham, MA
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 17:25:24 GMT

In article <13NOV199222483453@utkvx2.utk.edu> ljones@utkvx2.utk.edu (Me? Graduated? Nope. Not yet.) writes:
>
>     I requested Ars Magna hours ago, and Ephraim Vishniac <ephraim@Think.COM>
>was kind enough to mail it to me. I have converted it with BinHex and will 
>upload it to sumex-aim tonight. It will probably be available
>for FTP by early next week.
>     Incidentally, the interface is lousy and it screws up your screen,
>but this is a hell of a piece of software if you love anagrams. I'm 
>sending in my shareware fee of $10 to encourage furure versions.
>
>Leslie

Seeing as there's a lot of interest in this sort of thing, I'll volunteer
to create a Mac-friendly version if someone can send me halfway-decent
C source code for the algorithm part.  Get it to me by next week, and I'll
do it over Thanksgiving.

Ken


-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
From: aroest@fwi.uva.nl (Axello de Roestello)
Subject: Wanted: scientific graphing program
Keywords: scientific
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 16:17:16 GMT

Hi net, 

I am interested in a scientific data processing and analysis program. 

What I need to do is process a lot of two-dimensional arrays of 512 x-y 
points, plotting 1/y as function of sq(sin(x)) which should yield a
straight line and that kinda thing. The program will have to take care of 
error bars and how the errors develop as the analysis proceeds if you
get my meaning. Without the last requirement Excel could do it. 

I've taken a look at Kaleidagraph 2.02 from Abelbeck Software, but I was 
wondering if there is anything else available before I go shopping. 

Please respond by e-mail; I do read news only not very often. 

Thanks, 

Sander
temme@phys.uva.nl

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.wanted
From: soubyran@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Soubyran Richard)
Subject: Monitors and Hard-Drives...
Organization: Universite de Montreal
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:37:24 GMT


Hello Macers!

Let's get straight to it!

My boss has a Mac SE/30. He is about to start to write a book. He
wants to buy a gray scale monitor and a video card for it. We have
the choice of a Radius TPD, an Ikegami 19" and a FPD Axxess. For
the Radius, I have a card (Radius TPD SE/30) that I would let him
use. What he would like to know is:

	1. Can he hook up another brand of monitor to the card?
	2. What are the specs (briefly) of the Radius and Ikegami?
	3. Should he go to another brand of card/monitor?
	4. Is there any way to contact Radius via Internet?


Now for myself... is it possible to install a Seagate 1280N (SCSI
hard drive) in a Macintosh? If so... could anyone tell if I need a
special driver and what are the settings for the jumpers? Can I
contact Seagate via Internet? If not... do they have a tech support
line? Do they have an 800 number?

I thank you all in advance,

Richard Soubyran
Universite de Montreal

soubyran@alize.ere.umontreal.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: RapidTrak/TimesTwo
From: wgentry@netlink.cts.com (William Gentry)
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 21:38:10 PST
Organization: NetLink Online Communications, San Diego CA

Has anyone had the opportunity to try Insignia Solutions' RapidTrak or 
Golden Triangle's TimesTwo? I'm curious if the two will work together to 
compress and accelerate a hard drive (giving roughly standard performance 
and more space). This assumes that TimesTwo slows the drive down some. 
Any observations about the products would be welcomed. Thanks.

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From: msung@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Michael L Sung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Latest ATM?
Date: 19 Nov 92 14:42:40 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In article <1992Nov18.205159.7582@cerritos.edu> jacobs@cerritos.edu writes:
>
>
>What is the latest up-to-the-minute version of ATM? Does it ship with sys7.1
>like I was hearing about? If not is there a deal on it somewhere?

The latest version is 3.0.  This version is used for Adobe's
multiplemaster font technology.

msung@eniac.seas.upenn.edu
From: mem10@po.CWRU.Edu (Milton E. Moskowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: a Date with Word 5
Date: 15 Nov 1992 18:17:18 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: mem10@po.CWRU.Edu (Milton E. Moskowitz)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, kayser@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov (Susan E. Kayser NSSDC/STX 301)513-1673) says:

>When I choose Date from the Insert menu in Word 5.0a, I get only the year,
>i.e., "1992".  According to the command description of Date, in Commands..., I
>should be getting month, day, and year.  (The Glossary has lots of date
>formats; the one called Date there is indeed just the year; the other formats,
>such as Date Long, are not in the Command list.) 

I found the easiest way to do this is to add the "Date Long Now" (I think)
to the Work menu.  You do this by selecting COMMANDS... from the TOOLS
menu.  You scroll down and then select GLOSSARY ENTRY from the listing. 
Then, on the right side, you'll get a secondary listing of all the Glossary
entries.  Select the date you'd like from that list, then tell it which
menu you want to add it to (lower left area of the screen), then click add.
 Voila!  You'll have a Work menu if you told it to add to the work menu. 
Everything will be peachy from there.  Good luck!
-- 
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"We close our eyes and the World has turned around again.  
 We close our eyes and dream and another Year has come and gone." -Boingo
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From: ghh@aretha.jax.org (Grady Holloway)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: masterstroke
Date: 16 Nov 92 21:00:20 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: The Jackson Laboratory

Looking for copy of Masterstroke which superceded Touch'nGo, but has not
been distributed by Cortland for approx. three years. (Does this macro ring
a bell with anyone?) Appreciate any replies.
From: labdk@emory.edu (Davo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: changing the defaults on printers
Date: 17 Nov 92 19:58:48 GMT
Organization: Emory University, Atlanta, GA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3


Hi there...  I am trying to figure out how to make it that when a
user selects the laserwriter (for example) from the chooser, the
printer effects (located in page setup) will be unchecked.  This is
mainly for MS Word.  

I know that there is a set default box but when I check it
everything is okay until someone selects another printer (say the
desk writer).  When they reselect laserwirter, the printer effects
are once again checked...  Is there anyway to stop that?

Also, does anyone know of a very small init (sys 6 please) that can
make it that the default printer is the deskwriter even if the
previous printer selected was the laser?

Thanks in advanced

-- 

	
	David Kim
From: chaas@coe.drexel.edu (Chuck Haas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Organizer Program - Request for Information
Date: 23 Nov 92 13:54:43 GMT
Organization: Drexel University
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A7364D83E00118D7@n1-24-215-coe-abbotts.coe.drexel.edu>
X-Xxdate: Mon, 23 Nov 92 00:57:39 GMT
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12

I am currently a "bilingual" computer user (MAC and DOS).  I maintain my
calendar/datebook/address book on a DOS machine using PACKRAT.  I would
like to find a package on the MAC that gives me the capability of PACKRAT
on DOS, specifically including the following:

- ease of import/export via delimited files and other common formats 
- appointment book
- address/phone book
- to do list, with capability for inserting items due at a later date
- telephone log, with tickler for calls pending and to be returned


From my preliminary examination, it seems that no SINGLE program on the
Mac has all of these features.  I would appreciate any pointers to such a
SINGLE program, or perhaps to a suite of programs with sufficiently
seamless integration.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Distribution: world
From: rpk@uu0570.foggybottom.com (Richard P. Kelley)
Organization: Foggy Bottom / Washington, D.C.
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:08:55 EST
Subject: Re: C.P.U. on PB 100 causes problems

C.P.U. also causes problems with DateBook and TouchBase.  After hours
software say that they are working on this, but they don't have a
solution
yet.

-Rich
Foggy Bottom - your FirstClass Mac connection in Washington, DC
From: errera@ese.ese.ogi.edu (Claude Errera)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Quirk in Canvas w/scanned images?
Date: 19 Nov 92 21:23:32 GMT
Article-I.D.: ogicse.46151
Distribution: world
Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute - Department of Env. Science and Eng.

This is being posted for a friend without net access, 
so I apologize in advance for any unknowns.

His problem is pretty simple: images scanned into Canvas
with a ScanMan handheld scanner look fine on the screen,
but print with white lines through them. This doesn't
happen all the time, but is more frequent with objects
that have large amounts of solid area.  

A consistent way to avoid the problem is to import the
image into ClarisWorks, and print it from there. (He
hasn't tried any other programs.)

The problem shows up when printing to both Postscript
(LaserWriter NT) and non-Postscript (DeskWriter) printers.

He's seen this on both a IIsi running 7.0.1 w/TU1.1.1
and an SE with an ImagePro 030 accelerator running 6.0.7.

I don't know what inits he has, but if anybody thinks it's
important, I'd be happy to check.

The version of Canvas is 3.0.4.

I'd prefer email, but posting is fine too.

Thanks!

--
Claude
errera@ese.ogi.edu
From: ferch@ucs.ubc.ca (Les Ferch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Apple File Exchange filter wanted (PLEASE HELP)
Date: 19 Nov 92 06:53:33 GMT
Organization: The University of British Columbia
NNTP-Posting-Host: swiss.ucs.ubc.ca

As stated earlier, generally a TIFF file from a PC can be used by Mac
applications and vice versa. However, I have seen a program called
TIFF-to-TIFF that apparrently converts between Mac and PC TIFF. I don't
see it in the archives now, but it must be around somewhere.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Distribution: world
From: Phil_L._Kim@uu0570.foggybottom.com
Organization: Foggy Bottom / Washington, D.C.
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 02:39:14 EST
Subject: Re: Color desktop picture on IIsi

Desktop Textures 2.0 is a great little program.  You can import your own
textures into the system and switch them around easily.  As an added
plus, it comes with several cool-looking textures.   It is FREE!
Foggy Bottom - your FirstClass Mac connection in Washington, DC