[OS X TeX] Textures for MacOSX is coming soon !

[Maarten Sneep]

On 3 Jan 2006, at 16:32, Gary L. Gray wrote:

> On Jan 3, 2006, at 6:39 AM, Franck Pastor wrote:
>
>> A beta version of Textures for MacOSX is about to be released  
>> (this month):
>>
>> http://www.bluesky.com/news/news_frames.html
>>
>> At last...
>
> This should be interesting. They state "it requires no installer,  
> and fits easily into your current Textures system". If it doesn't  
> fit easily within my current gwTeX system, then they can forget  
> about me ever trying it.

If it won't work with a teTeX or a TDS compliant tree, I think it  
will be a case of too little, far too late.

> I suspect that this is true for many potential testers.

I think that only a _very_ small percentage of their original  
userbase hasn't gone to a different distribution. One thing is for  
sure: they face an uphill battle, and are well advised to ensure  
their current documents can be (easily) used on other distribution if  
they intend to ever sell a single copy of their application.

I never was one of their customers, but what I've seen and heard on  
this list doesn't encourage me one bit.

Maarten
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