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<div>OzTeX is (was?) freeware by Andrew Trevorrow, an Australian programmer. He ported the TeX software from Pascal to Modula 2 and compiled it on earlier models of the Mac. I met him at the 10th TUG meeting at Stanford in 1985, where he freely distributed
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<div>He also implemented Metafont and Metapost, and perhaps other TeX-related software. He still has a website, but his software may be too old for any current Mac OS version.</div>
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Introduction OzTeX is a freeware Mac implementation of Donald Knuth's TeX typesetting system. TeX is mainly used in the academic community for the production of theses, papers and books, or wherever high-quality output is desired.</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Ross Moore <ross.moore@mq.edu.au><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, August 7, 2022 3:29 AM<br>
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<b>Cc:</b> Salomon, David <david.salomon@csun.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [OS X TeX] Textures early history</font>
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<div>Are you aware of the software called OzTeX ? Software for TeX on the Mac, under Classic OS. (developed for OS versions even before that name was adopted)</div>
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<div>It was developed by a guy living in Adelaide, South Australia.</div>
<div>Subsequently he moved to Melbourne, Victoria. This was in the 1980s. I can tell you a bit more about it, if you are interested.</div>
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<blockquote type="cite">On 7 Aug 2022, at 7:32 pm, Max Chernoff <mseven@telus.net> wrote:<br>
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> I found a short review of Textures at<br>
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That gives quite a nice overview of the program. Thanks.<br>
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> I also believe that Barry Smith had to give up on the name MacTeX<br>
> because this belonged to a Canadian company, which started such a Mac<br>
> implementation when the mac was brand new, and quickly gave up. This<br>
> was perhaps FTL?<br>
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The FTL ads give a Toronto address, and Smith's implementation was only<br>
named MacTeX for a few months, so this seems consistent with the (very<br>
little) information that I've found. <br>
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Thanks for helping me solve this mystery.<br>
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-- Max<br>
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