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- From: alla0008@student.tc.umn.edu (Graham Allan)
- Subject: Re: TeX with more than 65531 words of memory
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 18:25:12 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan27.162120.12000@maths.tcd.ie> chughes@maths.tcd.ie (Conrad Hughes) writes:
- >alla0008@student.tc.umn.edu (Graham Allan) writes:
- >
- >>TooLs GmbH sells a commercial port of TeX which is more recent than the
- >>armatures one. I don't know what version it is though.
- >If I remember correctly it was 2.93 or summat like that, but they
- >may well have updated it since April 1990.. I'm trying to contact
- >them myself to see if the product still exists, but the email
- >address they gave (tex@tools.uucp) hasn't replied to me. Does
- >anyone know anything about their TeX? In what way does it improve
- >over armatures?
-
- I know Frank Lancaster was working on updating it in summer 1991. I just
- had a search through some ancient mbox files on assorted computers and
- found what information I had at the time. For the sake of simplicity, I'll
- just pass on some of the things he said about it (August 1991)...
-
- > TeX 3.14 has been ported but is not being distributed yet, as we are
- > writing a completely new DVI driver, which isn't going to be finished
- > before the end of the year. It's going to be programmable in it's own
- > (PACSAL based) programming language, and will give the user a great
- > freedom of choice for the layout of DVI pages on a sheet.
-
- I thought I had some other stuff about it but seem to have lost it. The
- email address back then was: fl%tools.uucp@unido.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
- (presumably insert relay of your choice instead of uni-dortmund?). TooLs
- also moved their physical address about a year (maybe longer) ago so, yes,
- getting in touch with them is tricky!
-
- Graham.
-