[OS X TeX] Latex 2.09

[Bruno Voisin]

> I have been using a PC package called PC_Tex. It allowed me to add 2.09 
> (or any other distribution lis AMS-TeX) then select what I want with a 
> menu, much as TexShop allows Tex or Latex. Now that I am switching over 
> to MacOSX I am hoping that I can add 2.09 as one of the choices to 
> TexShop.
>
> Is there a way to do this with TexShop?
>
> Note that the 2e compatibility mode does not work due to required style 
> files from the publisher. Apparently they rewrote parts of 2.09 to suit 
> them and have not managed yet to carry this stuff over to 2e. So it is 
> not a fault of the 2.09 emulation, rather it is stuff hardwired between 
> their style files and their 2.09 version. In any case I have to use 
> 2.09.

I don't think you can dump and add custom formats to TeXShop (this is 
something I tried to achieve too, also to use a publisher-defined 
format, without success). Maybe it's possible to use teTeX's binaries 
instead, through the command-line interface, but then it requires some 
familiarity - which I don't have - with TeX on such interfaces.

However, still in Mac OS X, OzTeX allows you to use custom formats, as 
do - but then I'm not absolutely sure - CMacTeX and iTeXMac; or, if you 
don't mind firing up Classic, Textures.

Bruno Voisin


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