From: vadim@bolvan.ph.utexas.edu (Vadim S. Kaplunovsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: TeXmenu -- English?
Date: 29 Aug 92 01:34:07 GMT

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
    
    
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    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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    version of InstantTeX will take full advantage of new features in
    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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Vadim S. Kaplunovsky               | vadim@bolvan.ph.utexas.edu (internet)
Assistant Professor of Physics,    | VADIM AT UTAPHY (bitnet)
University of Texas at Austin.     | UTSPAN::UTAPHY::VADIM (SPAN/HEPnet Decnet)
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