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- Questions and Answers
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-
- Here are the answers to the most frequently asked questions about OzTeX.
-
- Q. Is OzTeX freeware or shareware?
- A. Depends which version you are talking about. All versions up to and
- including 1.42 are freeware; versions 1.5 and later are shareware.
- There is an individual fee and a group fee; both are one-time-only payments
- that cover you or your group for all future versions of OzTeX.
- The "Shareware Fee" help file has more details.
-
- Q. Can OzTeX run on a Mac Plus or Mac SE?
- A. Yes. Versions 1.6 and later have been compiled to take advantage of the
- 68020 and newer CPUs, but the standard OzTeX distribution also includes
- versions of OzTeX and OzTools compiled for a 68000 CPU.
-
- Q. Will OzTeX ever include BibTeX or MakeIndex?
- A. Probably not; there are already good Mac implementations of these programs.
- See the "Related Software" help file. I prefer to keep the standard OzTeX
- distribution as small as I can and let people add other tools and macro
- packages as they see fit.
-
- Q. Why doesn't OzTeX include SliTeX?
- A. Because it is no longer supported. To create slides, use the new "slides"
- package in LaTeX.
-
- Q. How can I improve readability when previewing DVI files?
- A. There are a number of things you can do:
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- 1. Get or build PK files that better match the resolution of your screen
- (typically 72 dpi). I recommend 144 dpi files because OzTeX's previewer
- cannot zoom in any further than Actual Size when viewing at 72 dpi.
-
- 2. If you have TrueType or ATM versions of Times, Helvetica and Courier,
- then try switching to the "View CM as PS" config file. This is a quick and
- dirty hack, so the kerning will look a bit strange and some characters
- will appear incorrect (eg. you won't see the "ffi" ligature).
-
- 3. The best solution is to get the BaKoMa TrueType fonts from any CTAN site
- in /tex-archive/fonts/cm/ps-type1/bakoma/mac/tt and select the config file
- called "Add BaKoMa Fonts" before previewing. The BaKoMa fonts were created
- by Basil Malyshev and include FREE PostScript and TrueType versions of most
- Computer Modern fonts. The quality of the PostScript fonts is not quite as
- good as the CM/PS fonts from Blue Sky Research, but the price is better!
- Another commercial alternative is the Lucida family of fonts from Y&Y.
- Lucida does not look like Computer Modern (a blessing or a curse depending
- on your religion), but it does include all the math fonts required by TeX.
- OzTeX has configuration files that support both CM/PS and Lucida.
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- Q. How can I rotate a table or arbitrary piece of text?
- A. Read the section called "Rotating TeX material" in the OzTeX User Guide.
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- Q. Are you planning to include afm2tfm in OzTools?
- A. No; Alan Jeffrey's "fontinst" macro package provides the same functionality
- (and more). It is freeware and available from CTAN sites in the directory
- /tex-archive/fonts/utilities/fontinst.
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