[OS X TeX] To macro or not to macro (Was: Local additions and multiple TeX distributions)

[George Gratzer]

In retrospect... We came a long way. When I started with Textures --  
in beta -- it took two and a half minutes to typeset a page. Today,  
my LaTeX book is 2.8 seconds.

GG

On Mar 9, 2007, at 11:59 AM, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> Le 9 mars 07 à 18:34, Roussanka Loukanova a écrit :
>
>> Back to practical things: what you write about the accents make me  
>> think that you do something else nowadays. What? (May be I am  
>> still ages behind... :(
>
> Again, nothing special: the French keyboard has keys already for  
> the most common accented letters (there are é, è, ç, à, ù keys),  
> and these keys can be used for TeX input thanks to:
>
> - \input option_keys in plain TeX and Textures
>
> - \input 8bitdefs in plain TeX and OzTeX
>
> - \usepackage[applemac]{inputenc} in LaTeX
>
> - directly in XeLaTeX
>
> Still about anecdotes: back during my PhD around 1988, the only  
> available computer was a terminal yielding access to a VAX-750 or  
> 780 mini-computer. The terminal keyboard was US (QWERTY), but in  
> order to use it with the WPS word processor available on the VAX  
> (later renamed All-In-One, an ancestor of WordPerfect I think) I  
> had to configure it as a French keyboard (AZERTY). Meaning that I  
> was typing on the US keyboard, while looking at a printed drawing  
> of the French keyboard layout. That was a bit of fun! (In  
> retrospect only.)
>
> Bruno
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