UK TeX FAQ -- question 56

### Commercial TeX implementations

There are many commercial implementations of TeX. The first appeared not long after TeX itself appeared.

What follows is probably an incomplete list. Naturally, no warranty or fitness for purpose is implied by the inclusion of any vendor in this list. The source of the information is given to provide some clues to its currency.

In general, a commercial implementation will come 'complete', that is, with suitable previewers and printer drivers. They normally also have extensive documentation (i.e., not just the TeXbook!) and some sort of support service. In some cases this is a toll free number (probably applicable only within the USA and or Canada), but others also have email, and normal telephone and fax support.

PC; TrueTeX
  Runs on all versions of Windows.

  > Richard J. Kinch
  > TrueTeX Software
  > 6994 Pebble Beach Court
  > Lake Worth FL 33467
  > USA
  > Tel: +1 561-966-8400
  > Email: kinch@truetex.com
  > Web: http://www.truetex.com/

  Source: Mail from Richard Kinch, October 2001.
PC; Y&Y TeX
  "Bitmap free TeX for Windows."

  > Y&Y, Inc.
  > 106 Indian Hill, MA 01741
  > USA
  > Tel: 800-742-4059 (within North America)
  > Tel: +1 978-371-3286
  > Fax: +1 978-371-2004
  > Email: sales-help@YandY.com and } tech-help@YandY.com
  > Web: http://www.YandY.com/

  Source: Mail from Y&Y, July 2001
pcTeX
  Long-established: pcTeX32 is a Windows implementation.

  > Personal TeX Inc
  > 12 Madrona Street
  > Mill Valley, CA 94941
  > USA
  > Tel: 800-808-7906 (within the USA)
  > Fax: +1 415-388-8865
  > Email: texsales@pctex.com and texsupp@pctex.com
  > Web: http://www.pctex.com/

  Source: Mail from Personal TeX Inc, September 1997
PC; VTeX
  DVI, PDF and HTML backends, Visual Tools and Type 1 fonts

  > MicroPress Inc
  > 68-30 Harrow Street
  > Forest Hills, NY 11375
  > USA
  > Tel: +1 718-575-1816
  > Fax: +1 718-575-8038
  > Email: support@micropress-inc.com
  > Web: http://www.micropress-inc.com/

  Source: Mail from MicroPress, Inc., July 1999
PC; Scientific Word
  Scientific Word and Scientific Workplace offer a mechanism for near-WYSIWYG input of LaTeX documents; they ship with TrueTeX from Kinch (see above). Queries within the UK and Ireland should be addressed to Scientific Word Ltd., others should be addressed directly to the publisher, MacKichan Software Inc.

  > Dr Christopher Mabb
  > Scientific Word Ltd.
  > 49 Queen Street
  > Peterhead
  > Aberdeenshire, AB42 1TU
  > UK
  > Tel: 0845 766 0340 (within the UK)
  > Tel: +44 1779 490500
  > Fax: 01779 490600 (within the UK)
  > Email: christopher@sciword.demon.co.uk
  > Web: http://www.sciword.demon.co.uk

  > MacKichan Software Inc.
  > 600 Ericksen Ave. NE, Suite 300
  > Bainbridge Island WA 98110
  > USA
  > Tel: +1 206 780 2799
  > Fax: +1 206 780 2857
  > Email: info@mackichan.com
  > Web: http://www.mackichan.com

  Source: Mail from Christopher Mabb, May 1999
Macintosh; Textures
  "A TeX system 'for the rest of us' "; also gives away a Metafont implementation and some font manipulation tools.

  > Blue Sky Research
  > 534 SW Third Avenue
  > Portland, OR 97204
  > USA
  > Tel: 800-622-8398 (within the USA)
  > Tel: +1 503-222-9571
  > Fax: +1 503-222-1643
  > Email: sales@bluesky.com
  > Web: http://www.bluesky.com/

  Source: TUGboat 15(1) (1994)
AmigaTeX
  A full implementation for the Commodore Amiga, including full, on-screen and printing support for all PostScript graphics and fonts, IFF raster graphics, automatic font generation, and all of the standard macros and utilities.

  > Radical Eye Software
  > PO Box 2081
  > Stanford, CA 94309
  > USA

  Source: Mail from Tom Rokicki, November 1994