[OS X TeX] Textures early history

[Salomon, David]

This document mentions
Flash Mode, Follow Focus, and Synchronicity
some of the excellent features of Textures. Barry Smith designed and extended this software to make it user friendly. About the only negative feature of Textures is that it creates the final PDF output with the Mac print manager, which makes it impossible to use some advanced features of PDF such as cross references.

David Salomon
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From: Max Chernoff <mseven at telus.net>
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Cc: Salomon, David <david.salomon at csun.edu>
Subject: Re: Re: [OS X TeX] Textures early history


> I found a short review of Textures at
>
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.atpm.com_4.12_page12.shtml&d=DwIFaQ&c=Oo8bPJf7k7r_cPTz1JF7vEiFxvFRfQtp-j14fFwh71U&r=Ofkmtjb7Tq24ER1q7Faltu-6tpMihifnahduwGYlNWM&m=qOIjTyxWuui-U9Gkwz1J5Ld3uUoR0RUUMAWGiuV4KGmtW_grvP7hKldQsU0YbMzV&s=20pMefCMRFPYSAjn_ZFAxRwc2G8ieS2OEAr8jHhYlH8&e=

That gives quite a nice overview of the program. Thanks.

> I also believe that Barry Smith had to give up on the name MacTeX
> because this belonged to a Canadian company, which started such a Mac
> implementation when the mac was brand new, and quickly gave up. This
> was perhaps FTL?

The FTL ads give a Toronto address, and Smith's implementation was only
named MacTeX for a few months, so this seems consistent with the (very
little) information that I've found.

Thanks for helping me solve this mystery.

-- Max
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