[OS X TeX] Gratitude

[George Gratzer]

My sentiments exactly. I think Dick is doing a splendid job (fronting  
for Gerben?).

By the way, last year I spent two months in Australia finishing up a  
book with Textures. Wanting to give some presentations, I tried to  
use beamer. It could not make it work.

Later in the year, home again, I switched to TeXShop. Tried beamer  
again, worked like a charm.

I really think we should all congratulate the TeXShop team and root  
for Textures. Two implementations are better than one.

Note from Andrew:

> Given that I'm unlikely to do any more work on OzTeX

So OzTeX is dead.

GG


On Jul 14, 2006, at 8:38 AM, David Oliver wrote:

> To those of you---and there are many, led by Dick Koch and Gerben  
> Wierda---who have given of yourselves to bring forth a fine, open  
> source,  TeX system built around TeXShop and teTeX, for the UNIX  
> based Mac platform,  I offer you my sincere thanks. What you have  
> created is an indispensable tool I use every day.
>
> I wrote my books with Textures, beginning in the late 1980s.  
> Textures was one of the finest and most reliable MAC programs I  
> have ever used and I often cited it to colleagues for its quality.  
> It saddens me that Textures fell into disarray with the advent of  
> OS X. But the UNIX based OS opened the MAC to UNIX based TeX with  
> the above mentioned results.
>
> I find I am able to do all that I had previously done with Textures  
> with near-equal facility including synchronization and flash mode  
> which were critical features I relied on in Textures. A special  
> thanks to those, particularly, Jerome Laurens, who implemented  
> these features.
>
> The complexity of the installation tree and the handling of fonts  
> remain areas for users that are neither trivial or simple; but this  
> is a consequence of both the expansive power of UNIX and continuing  
> advances in fonts and their encoding, difficulties that betray no  
> inferiority to Textures.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> David Oliver
>
>
>
>
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