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- This is a port of Common TeX 3.3 for OS/2 using EMX-0.8f.
-
- See the file COPYING for rights, responsibilities, and limitations.
-
- One of the best TeX implementations around is EmTeX. However, it has
- one "feature" that doesn't utilize the full capabilities of OS/2,
- especially when HPFS is used: long file names are not accepted. This
- port of Common TeX does not have this restriction.
-
- Features and Limitations
- ------------------------
-
- Some limitations of Common Tex:
-
- o Parts from EmTeX like the tfm and tex input files are
- needed. The DVI programs from EmTeX will also be need if
- you want to see actual output.
-
-
- Here are some basic features of Common TeX:
-
- o Supports long file names on HPFS partitions.
- o Will not give "TeX out of memory" errors until you run out
- of virtual memory.
- o Preloads formats, which (marginally) speeds up loading.
- o Doesn't need TeX format files.
- o Runs about twice as fast as btexp.
-
- Installation
- ------------
- Be sure to put the dll directory of this archive in your LIBPATH!!!
- You can install the executables anywhere. Then set the environment
- variables TEXFONTS and TEXINPUTS. If you have EmTeX, make TEXINPUTS
- the same as TEXINPUT and TEXFONTS the same as TEXTFM. However, you
- must include the drive letter and replace all backslashes with forward
- slashes. For example, if you have
-
- set EMTEXDRV=f
- set TEXINPUT=.;\emtex\texinput
- set TEXTFM=.;\emtex\tfm;\emtex\fonts\tfm
-
- then do
-
- set TEXINPUTS=.;f:/emtex/texinput
- set TEXFONTS=.;f:/emtex/tfm;f:/emtex/fonts/tfm
-
- Usage
- -----
-
- If you want to run LaTeX, use
-
- latex texfile
-
- You do not need to specify "^&lplain". Typically, the equivalent
- EmTeX command would be "btexp ^&lplain texfile".
-
- For TeX plain format, use "tex". This is equivalent to "btexp
- ^&plain" in EmTeX.
-
- To create (or update) your own formats, give the following commands:
-
- initex mystyle \dump
- emxbind -x initex.exe a.out
- emxbind -ccore /emx/bin/emxl.exe mytex.exe
- del core
- del a.out
-
- Your format is "mystyle" and the resulting command is "mytex.exe"
- which will have "mystyle" preloaded. Of course, to do this you need
- emxbind to do this.
-
- Recommendations
- ---------------
-
- Get a copy of EmTeX first. Follow the instructions that come with
- EmTeX and make it work first. Then install Common TeX.
-
-