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Software suggestion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Naomi B. Schmidt)
Fri Dec 22 10:17:59 1995
To: release-team@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 10:17:52 EST
From: "Naomi B. Schmidt" <nschmidt@MIT.EDU>
[1945] daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kwong Hiu Yung) Athena Software Suggestions 12/22/95 08:25 (35 lines)
Subject: software update
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 08:25:35 -0500
To: suggest@MIT.EDU
From: khyung@MIT.EDU (Kwong Hiu Yung)
Reply-To: khyung@MIT.EDU (Kwong Hiu Yung)
Hello,
The basic bread-and-butter of athena should be updated in the next
7.8 release of athena.
1) emacs18 should be replaced with xemacs19
2) latex should be replaced with latex2e
When I first found out about xemacs19 and latex2e, I felt very
much cheated that athena had been so delinquent in updating to
these new and improved systems.
1) I find that xemacs19 is by far the prettiest emacs I have ever
seen, quite a change from emacs18 and even from emacs19. I am
certain that other athena users would be happier to see that vast
color and font arrays that comes with xemacs19, not to mention all
the graphics!
2) Since last year, latex2e has arrived and offers new
possibilities in document processing. I am well aware that
currently there is the /mit/newtex locker, but no one else would
know about it unless it is publicly announced.
Currently both xemacs19 /mit/xemacs and latex2e /mit/newtex are
available, but both lockers still need to be setup. I find that
xemacs19 especially has many inherent difficults in its x-display
routines and translation tables. Please attend to these setup
issues as soon as you can. Thanks.
Kwong Yung
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