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- This is the announce of the teTeX-0.4, a TeX distribution for UNIX
- compatible systems.
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-
- teTeX's primary site is:
- ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/comp/tex/teTeX
-
- Direct mirrors are:
- ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX
- ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX
- ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/tex/teTeX
-
- The first two sites are CTAN (Comprehensive TeX Archive Network) sites. Try
- finger ctan@ftp.dante.de
- to find a mirror site near to you.
-
- The third site is a well known Linux site which is regularly dumped
- onto CD-ROMs. So, you might get teTeX on a Linux CD that way (although
- teTeX origins from Linux, it can be used on other UNIX systems as well).
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- Getting the distribution + installation
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-
- To install teTeX follow the instructions in
- distrib/INSTALL.src: if you want to compile the binaries yourself
- distrib/INSTALL.bin: if you want to use precompiled binaries.
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- Updating a teTeX-0.3.3 or 0.3.4 release
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-
- Update for these two previous releases are provided. See
- update-0.3.3-to-0.4/README
- resp.
- update-0.3.4-to-0.4/README
- for instructions.
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- News in release 0.4:
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- - METAPOST (thanks, Ulrik!)
- - fonts added/updated: sauter fonts 2.4, bbold, bbm, stmary, cyrillic
- encoding (OT2) support for LaTeX
- - added/updated hyphenation patterns: danish, czech
- - added/updated "companion" packages: a4dutch, a4wide, a5, a5comb, bar,
- changebar, citesort, curves, curvesls, draftcopy, eclbip, ecltree,
- endnotes, fnpara, footnpag, hangcaption, letterspace, multibox,
- multind, multirow, portland, psboxit, pstricks, revtex, tabls,
- threeparttable, trees, vpage
- - added/updated other macro packages: geometry, psfrag, pslatex, revtex,
- xypic
- - new Kpathsea feature: brace expansion
- - some bug fixes (e.g. psfrag script, babel docs)
- - documentation added/updated:
- "The TeX and LaTeX Catalogue", uktug-faq, de-tex-faq, latex209-html
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- I do not know teTeX yet...
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- For those who do not know what teTeX is: teTeX is a complete TeX
- distribution for UNIX compatible systems. My main aims when putting
- things together have been:
-
- - create something simple to install, use and maintain
- - include as much useful documentation as possible
- - test as much as possible and try to avoid bugs
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- Here - in short - the main features of teTeX, as listed in the file
- FEATURES:
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- Main features of the teTeX distribution:
-
- - file organisation TDS (TeX Directory Structure) Standard compliant
- - very easy to install and customize (install.sh and texconfig utility)
- - LaTeX2e (June 1996) together with lots of
- extra LaTeX packages (most packages mentioned in the LaTeX Companion)
- - a lot of documentation: more than 130 dvi/ps-files, teTeX manual, FAQs
- - support for read-only inputs tree (i.e. possibility to use alternate
- destination for newly created fonts)
- - ready for a multi platform setup
- - fast file searching. web2c patched to work with kpathsea-2.6. The
- search paths are chosen to give high performance.
- - run-time configuration files for dvi-drivers and tex+friends.
- - a nice set of fonts to play with: PostScript fonts, ams, pandora, cm,
- dc, oldgerman and more. All easily accessible by LaTeX.
- - METAPOST included
- - the whole distribution can be installed anywhere in the
- filesystem (e.g. /usr/TeX or /usr/local/tex). You do not
- need to set any environment variable as long as you keep
- the original structure of the package.
- - mailing list for discussion: tetex@informatik.uni-hannover.de
- - mailing list for announcemants: tetex-announce@informatik.uni-hannover.de
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- Included packages:
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- Programs:
- web2c: tex, mf, bibtex, gftopk, mp, ...
- dvi drivers: xdvi, dvips, dvilj, dvilj2p, dvilj4, dvilj4l
- texinfo: makeinfo, texindex, ...
- scripts: dvi2fax, dvihp, ps2frag (perl), fontimport, fontexport,
- texconfig, allneeded, allcm, alldc, ...
- others: makeindex, kpsetool, gsftopk, ps2pk, afm2tfm, ...
-
- Macro packages (La)TeX:
- Vmargin a4dutch a4wide a5 a5comb algorithm amsfonts amslatex anysize
- apalike arrow babel bar bbm bbold beton bibgerm blkarray boxedminipage
- btxmac calc caption changebar cite citesort comment curves curvesls
- custom-bib dinbrief doublespace draftcopy dvips eclbip ecltree eepic
- endfloat endnotes eplain euler example fancyhdr fancyheadings float
- floatflt fnpara foiltex footnpag fullpage g-brief geometry german
- gletter graphics greekctr hangcaption here hyphen idxmac index initials
- isolatin1 koma-script labels landscape lastpage latin1jk latin3jk
- letterspace localloc ltxtable mathbbol mathrsfs mflogo mfnfss minitoc
- moreverb mproof multibox multind multirow mylatex natbib nopageno
- ntgclass null ot2cyr parskip path picinpar pictex plain portland program
- psboxit psfig psfrag pslatex psnfss pstricks relsize revtex rotating
- rotfloat scrload seminar setspace shadow shapepar showtags stmaryrd
- subfigure supertabular sz tabls testfont texdraw texinfo texnames
- textcomp textfit textmerg threeparttable tools trees typehtml ulem
- umlaute url version vmargin vpage wasyfont wasysym wrapfig xepsf xypic
-
- Supported fonts:
- avantgar bbm bbold bookman charter cm cmextra concrete courier cyrillic
- euler gothic helvetic latex mathppl mathptm mflogo misc ncntrsbk
- palatino pandora rsfs stmary symbol symbols times utopia wasy xypic
- zapfchan zapfding
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- Supported platforms:
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-
- Binaries are available for:
- alpha-linux DEC Alpha/Linux
- alpha-osf3.2 DEC Alpha/Digital Unix 3.2
- alpha-osf4.0 DEC Alpha/Digital Unix 4.0
- c1-bsd Convex C-110
- c2-bsd Convex C-210
- hppa-nextstep3 HPPA/NEXTSTEP 3
- hppa1.1-hpux10 HPPA/HP-UX 10.xx
- hppa1.1-hpux9 HPPA/HP-UX 9.xx
- i386-freebsd2.1.5 Intel x86/FreeBSD 2.1.5
- i386-linux Intel x86/Linux (ELF)
- i386-linuxaout Intel x86/Linux (a.out)
- i386-nextstep3 Intel x86/NEXTSTEP 3
- i386-solaris2.5 Intel x86/Solaris2.5
- m68k-hpux9 HP 400/HP-UX 9.xx
- m68k-nextstep3 Motorola 68k/NEXTSTEP 3
- mab-nextstep3 NEXTSTEP (NeXT,Intel,HP-PA,SPARC)
- mips-irix5.3 SGI Irix 5.3
- mips-irix6.2 SGI Irix 6.2
- mips-ultrix4.3 Mips/Ultrix 4.3
- rs6000-aix4.1.4 IBM RS6000 AIX 4.1.4
- rs6000-aix4.2.0 IBM RS6000 AIX 4.2.0
- sparc-nextstep3 SUN Sparc/NEXTSTEP 3
- sparc-solaris2.4 SUN Sparc/Solaris 2.4
- sparc-solaris2.5 SUN Sparc/Solaris 2.5
- sparc-sunos4.1.3 SUN Sparc/SunOS 4.1.3
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-
- Binaries for some other platforms are planned to be added in the future.
-
- The sources may compile on other UNIX compatible platforms, too. You
- need GNU make and gcc. I am not sure if lex does work on all systems, but
- at least flex did alway work.
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- Documentation
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-
- There is the teTeX manual (TETEXDOC.dvi) a teTeX FAQ (FAQ-teTeX) and
- lots of documentation for the included programs and macros.
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- mailing list:
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-
- There are two mailing-lists for teTeX:
-
- Get help from the list server with:
- echo help | mail majordomo@informatik.uni-hannover.de
-
- To subscribe the teTeX discussion list, do:
- echo subscribe tetex | mail majordomo@informatik.uni-hannover.de
-
- To subscribe the teTeX announce list, do:
- echo subscribe tetex-announce | mail majordomo@informatik.uni-hannover.de
-
- Get an archive of the list:
- echo get tetex archive | mail majordomo@informatik.uni-hannover.de
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- Copyright License: GNU GPL Version 2 (or later)
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-
- Please send feedback to the autor:
-
- Thomas Esser
- Email: te@informatik.uni-hannover.de
-
- 23.08.1996
-