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- This file explains the things that you need to do to bring up
- small tex on your system. Hopefully, if you have this file, you
- will have all the files needed to bring up tex.
-
- First, you may have three .hex files. These should be math1.hex,
- opt12.hex and math2.hex. If you don't have these as hex files,
- make sure you have the file math1.fon and math2.fon. If you do
- have the hex you need to create the appropriate fon files.
- Math1.hex becomes math1.fon and math2.hex becomes math2.fon, of
- course.
-
- Having gotten through the preceding paragraph, you should have
- the following files:
-
- tex.c C source
- math1.fon first tex font file
- math2.fon second tex fon file
- opt12.fon optima-like font file
- basic.tex basic macro pacage source file
- sbasic.tex stripped version of same
- scribe.tex scribe-like macro package
- sscribe.tex stripped version of same
- install.gde this file
- texuman.tex tex users manual
- macro.tex generic macro package manaul
- mbasic.tex manual for basic macro package
- mscribe.tex manual for scribe macro package
- hackers.tex manual for people who want to
- hack on tex
-
- In addition, you will need the following font files from the
- Fancy Font package: romn12, romn8p, romn8b, romnb12, romni12,
- scrp12, and sans12. Of course, you will also need pfont.com.
-
- The first step is to compile the tex sources. If you already
- have a tex.com, you can skip this step. To compile it, use the
- BDS C compiler, version 1.5 or later. Version 1.4x may work, but
- I haven't tried it. You should also use the L2 linker, as tex
- does lots of subroutine calls, and this will make a considerable
- difference in size and speed (and I'm not sure that tex will link
- under clink).
-
- Now, you are ready to start moving files. Put all the font files
- on one disk. On the same disk, put pfont.com and tex.com. I
- recommend that this disk be drive A: if you have a hard disk. On
- the same disk you need to put the macro package tex files:
- basic.tex, sbasic.tex, scribe.tex and sscribe.tex. If, for some
- reason you can't put them in drive A:, change line 5 in
- texuman.tex from `\input a:basic' to `\input x:basic' where x is
- the drive these files will be on. Along the same lines, the files
- texuman.tex, mbasic.tex and mscribe.tex need to go on drive B:.
- If this isn't possible, change the `\input b:m#1' in line two to
- `\input x:m#1' with x once again being the appropriate drive.
-
- Now, you can try it out. Go to the drive with tex.com on it, and
- utter the command `tex b:texuman.tex' (of course, use whatever
- drive you put the texuman.tex file on for the b:). tex should
- then print the following things:
-
- tex version 1a - December 1982
- For use with pfont version 1
- Copyright (c) 1982, Mike Meyer
-
- tex: Initializing ... done
- tex: Processing file a:basic.tex
- tex: Loading font file romn12.fon ... done
- tex: Loading font file romn8p.fon ... done
- tex: Loading font file romn8b.fon ... done
- tex: Loading font file romnb12.fon ... done
- tex: Loading font file romni12.fon ... done
- tex: Loading font file scrp12.fon ... done
- tex: Loading font file sans12.fon ... done
- tex: Loading font file math1.fon ... done
- tex: Loading font file math2.fon ... done
- tex: Finished with file a:basic.tex
- tex: Loading font file ff12.fon ... done
- tex: Processing file b:mBasic.tex
- tex: Finished with file b:mBasic.tex
- tex: Run complete
- Pfont: Print with Fonts (Version 1.7)
- Copyright (c) 1982 SoftCraft
- FO Fonts>
-
- The last three lines come from pfont, of course.
-
- If you got this far, then everything is working. Hit return a
- couple of times to get pfont started printing. Once it has
- started, make sure that the first page looks like a title page.
- If it does, then just let the pfont print. You might check it
- occasionally to make sure that it is still printing English.
- Other than that, you can go have dinner: the manual will finish
- printing in about four hours.
-
- After you have a copy of the main tex users manual, you may
- decide that you want a to use a macro package other than the one
- documented in the manual as you printed it. To avoid having to
- print the entire manual again, use the macro.tex file. To use
- this file, modify the macros command near the top as you would
- for the users manual, then print a copy of that.
- ne
- tex: Processing