Older Blue Sky Technical NewsFor the latest versions of MakeIndex, BibTeX, and other such software, check out Gary Gray's excellent TeX/LaTeX software for the Macintosh page.
We've heard many pleas from students lately to make our upgrade to Textures 1.8 more affordable. We listened, and so on March 15th we are starting a new price plan for student upgrades.
We're getting toward a solution for our QDGX problems. Stay tuned for details. Addendum: Apple has dropped support for much of GX as they move toward Rhapsody, and have licensed Display PostScript from Adobe. Cool! The fix should still be in Textures 1.8.2, still waiting...
ATM 4.0 fixes the Acrobat PDF problem! It also does anti-aliasing much faster than Textures does, and even in the magnifying glass. The easy way to get 4.0 is to get the free Acrobat Reader software from Adobe which will automatically update your current ATM to version 4.0.
There's a new Textures updater, from version 1.8 to version 1.8.1. This fixes a couple minor bugs, and changes the behavior of Make Format slightly so that it now puts an alias of the source file (minus the filename extension) into TeX Formats.
We're getting mirrored on CTAN! Which means we're also everywhere else that CTAN is. Thank you, Robin Fairbairns!
We have a new phone number: A direct line to technical support. 800-982-6124. If you call this and get the answering service and it's between 9AM and 4:30PM PST, send mail to help reminding them to turn the phone on.
If you don't have version 1.7.7 of Textures, but you do have 1.7, you should update to the last version of Textures 1.7. (check your "Get Info" box for the version number. It's available from the updates area. Of course, it might make more sense to go ahead and upgrade now to Textures 1.8.
Responding to some complaints about EdMetrics and the Computer Modern Fonts encodings, we've created a new version of EdMetrics which allows you to add a custom encoding instead of using the default or built-in encodings (none, AdobeStandard, or MacintoshStandard). No help is available yet. In the meantime, there's a sample custom encoding pulled from Computer Modern Roman. (you can get the encoding from a PostScript file which includes the font, but then it must be massaged into the proper form. An example of a "raw" encoding is also there, called "cmex.enc")
We're still working on a Quark XTension which will allow Quark XPress users to typeset math and tables. If you're interested, please write to mathsetter@bluesky.com and someone should see your mail. Warren made some nice web pages to show off MathSetter.
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