This is a document to show platform interoperability of LaTeX with
EPSF pictures.

The document contains text and graphics and can be typeset equally
well on the Mac and any UNIX platform.

On C90 and XMP:
- make sure the LaTeX fonts are active Menu:<Apple>:Suitcase open
  font suitcase for LaTeX.
- all figures are found in the paper.fig folder including some of the
  original Canavas3.5 and DeltaGraph files to produce them.
- don't forget to turn fonts off (close suitcase) after using LaTeX.

On your own Mac:
- make sure you get OUR version of "epsf.sty" and "epsf.tex" and
  some of the common style files like times.sty and acm.sty styles.
  
On any unix/OSF platform:
- path is in /afs/cs/user/iwdoc
- just use latex and dvips
- use ghostscript or dxvdoc -f ps as a viewer.

Benchmarks:
Typesetting, previewing on Mac IIci C90:                83s
Typesetting, previewing on Mac QUADRA700:                ?s
Typesetting, previewing on Mac POWERPC:                  ?s
Typesetting, previewing on HEBE (Alpha):  4.88u 0.40s 0:06s


Tom

CAVEAT: The master tex file, the figure files (eps and the orginal
charts) have two forks, the resource and data fork. UNIX only needs
the data fork loaded with the text and the postscript. The server
stores the resource fork in an invisible directory named .resource. So
dont move single files around in unix unless you are sure you move
both forks and the finderinfo around as well. (e.g. you move the whole
figure folder with mv or cp -r). If you plan heavy editing on both
platforms (UNIX amd Mac) you have to be careful not to corrupt the
resource fork of the master mac textures file. It worked best for me
to store all the content into "paper-content.tex" and leave the
paper.tex untouched as a kind of a shell. Since paper-content.tex is
never directly "typeset" it does not need a resource fork and you
can't corrupt it.

Tom