IntroductionOzTeX is a Mac implementation of Donald Knuth's TeX typesetting system. TeX is mainly used in the academic community for the production of theses, papers and books, or wherever high-quality output is desired. It is particularly good at typesetting mathematics.OzTeX includes all the popular formats and macro packages. Plain TeX, LaTeX, AMS-TeX, AMS-LaTeX and REVTeX are all installed and ready to run. OzTeXThe OzTeX application includes TeX, INITEX, a DVI previewer, a DVI-to-PostScript translator (Tom Rokicki's dvips), and drivers for PostScript and QuickDraw printers. It also includes dvidvi, dvicopy, and Angus Duggan's PostScript utilities (psbook, psnup, psselect and pstops).OzTeX's previewer has many features that make it easy to proofread DVI files:
OzTeX is easy to extend and customize. A Default configuration file is read when OzTeX starts up; it contains a host of parameters for setting up search paths, telling TeX how much memory to allocate for various arrays, specifying which TFMs are for PostScript fonts, etc. All your personal changes can be made in a Local config file that is loaded immediately after the Default file. The Config menu also makes it easy to load other config files at any time. OzMFOzMF is a Mac implementation of Knuth's Metafont program for creating bitmap fonts. It also contains a number of other useful tools for font hackers: MakeTeXPK, GFtoPK, GFtoDVI, GFtype, PKtype, TFtoPL, PLtoTF, VFtoVP, VPtoVF and AFM2TFM. Each tool can process all input files in a selected folder. OzTeX can call MakeTeXPK to make missing PK fonts on demand.OzMPOzMP is a Mac implementation of John Hobby's MetaPost program for producing PostScript pictures using a Metafont-like language.OzTtHOzTtH is a Mac implementation of TtH, a TeX to HTML translator by Ian Hutchinson. Note that TtH is only free for non-commercial use. For commercial enquiries please visit the TtH site.DocumentationOzTeX comes with a 72-page user guide, including a comprehensive index. The LaTeX source file is provided. Here's the table of contents:
Shareware feeOzTeX is distributed as shareware, which means you are welcome to try it out before paying the shareware fee. The fee is $30 for an individual or $300 for a group (or site). This fee is a one-time-only payment that covers you, or all members of your group, for all future versions. Examples of a group include a user group, company, school or university. To see if your school or university has registered, check out the list of OzTeX groups.You can pay by check, cash or credit card at the secure Kagi Online Order site, or you can use the Register app supplied with OzTeX. I only provide email support to people who have paid the individual shareware fee. Send all queries, comments and suggestions to andrew@trevorrow.com. Mailing listAll OzTeX users, registered or not, are welcome to join the oztex mailing list. Details on how to subscribe are here:http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/oztex My thanks to TUG for hosting the list. Note that it is for discussing topics and problems related to OzTeX. If you have a more general question, like how to do such-and-such in LaTeX, please post it to the comp.text.tex newsgroup. Before sending a question to the list, please see if the OzTeX FAQ has the answer. System requirementsOzTeX and the other Oz* apps are Carbon apps that run natively on OS X. They also run on OS 8.6 and 9.x if CarbonLib 1.3 or later is installed.If you want to run OzTeX on a Mac system earlier than 8.6 then the best option is to use OzTeX 4.1 which is included on the OzTeX CD. If your Mac can't read a CD then contact me and I'll see what I can do. Download the latest versionTo get the latest version of OzTeX (5.2), click on the nearest FTP site:
After unpacking the .sit file, make sure you read the instructions in the supplied Read-Me file. The download file is about 13MB. If you have a slow or costly net connection you might want to consider ordering the OzTeX CD; it is packed full with extra fonts, macros and TeX-related software.
|