Dream 45/Amiga_Dream_45.iso/Amiga/Magazine/Dossier-LaTeX/AmiWeb2C.readme

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Short:    A new TeX/Metafont/BibTeX/MetaPost system.
Author:   Andreas Scherer et.al.
Uploader: <[e-mail]>
Type:     text/tex
Files:    AmiWeb2C.lha, AmiWeb2C.readme


How to begin the description of this package...

What you get with `AmiWeb2C.lha' is a stripped excerpt of the complete and
completely new `TeX' system, ported to the Amiga over the last two months.
Due to its total size of more than 30 megabytes of installed material,
I decided to exclude everything that is publicly available either in the
AmiNet or more likely in the CTAN, so in addition to this archive you will
have to fetch several other packages before you can start for real.  Though
this certainly is a major inconvenience, I just can't include everything
I've collected and installed over the last four years.  My active ftp
access is far too slow for such a pile of material.

So why should you want to fetch `AmiWeb2C.lha' at all?  Because it contains
the latest in TeXnical development, first of all the programs TeX 3.14159,
MetaFont 2.718, BibTeX 0.99c, and MetaPost 0.63.  All these programs and
their associated utilities were ported directly from the Web2C-6.1 system
and make use of Karl Berry's `KPathSea' library for recursive path search
just as the UNIX-TeX distribution.  In addition to this, a new `TeX
Directory Structure' is introduced in this archive, following the proposal
by the international `TeX Users Group'.  The elements coming with this
archive are automatically installed at the appropriate places by extracting
the contents with the command

   > lha x -a AmiWeb2C.lha TeXMF:

Slightly more than 3 megabytes will be extracted to the root directory
`TeXMF:', either `assign'ed or a partition of your harddisk.  Everything
else has to be added in the directory structure below this top level.

The bulk of `AmiWeb2C.lha' consists of the binaries for all programs
created out of the original Web2C sources.  Again, due to the final size
of the `bin/web2c61' subdirectory (around 2.2 megabytes), I decided to
include only one version of the binaries.  Your Amiga will have to provide
a 68020 processor to make use of most of these programs.  If you really
want to use this `TeX' system on 68000 Amigas, contact me at one of the
addresses at the end of this text.

The UNIX syntax for directories makes it necessary that you have a tool
like Martin Scott's `UnixDirsII' installed.  You can find it in the AmiNet
in the directory `/util/shell'.

The minor rest consists of all sources I've written for the Amiga port
and of the configuration files necessary for a working installation.  An
extensive overview of the `TeX' system currently installed on my machine
can be found in the file `doc/web2c61/TeXMF.contents'.  You should read
this file to get some ideas where to install the other bits and pieces.
Or, if you have a working `TeX' system available, you can print the file
`doc/tds/tds.dvi' for a detailed description of the new `TeX Directory
Structure' used in this distribution.  All programs in this distribution
assume that there exists a top-level directory `TeXMF:' containing the
directory structure of this archive.  This may either be an `assign'ed
name or the name of a harddisk partition.


Let me begin with a list of InterNet locations, where the basic elements
necessary for a working setup can be found.  What `AmiNet' is, should be
fairly clear, but `CTAN' may need some extra words.  The `Comprehensive
TeX Archive Network' consists of three major hosts at `ftp.dante.de'
(Germany), `ftp.shsu.edu' (USA), and `ftp.tex.ac.uk' (UK), containing
everything for TeX and its friends.

TeX developers who want to start all from scratch should consult the file
`/source/web2c-6.1/README.AMIGA' about where to find the necessary stuff
and about how to install the complete `TeX' system with SAS/C++ 6.55.

The original sources for TeX and MetaFont can be found at Professor Knuth's
home server at `labrea.stanford.edu' or at one of the CTAN servers or a
mirror thereof at `CTAN:/tex-archive/systems/knuth'.  Most likely, you will
have to fetch `plain.tex', `plain.mf', and the `Computer Modern Fonts' as
a starter.  To create the complete set of `TFM' files for this standard
font collection, install the MF sources according to `TeXMF.contents' and
execute the script `MakeTeXFont.cm'.

The LaTeX system can be found at `CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex' and has
to be installed according to the description in /doc/web2c61/amiweb2c.txt'.
Additional macros lie at `CTAN:/tex-archive/macros', additional fonts at
`CTAN:/tex-archive/fonts'.

Oren Patashnik's BibTeX system with the standard collection of style files
can be found at `CTAN:/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex'.

Pehong Chen's MakeIndex system lies at `CTAN:/tex-archive/indexing'.

John Hobby's MetaPost system lies at `CTAN:/tex-archive/graphics/metapost'.
It comes with a full documentation of this new system.


This distribution does not come with any DVI drivers for previewing and
printing your documents.  But as you can see from the `pastex' directory,
it is very convenient to use Georg He{ss}mann's ShowDVI and DVIprint
programs.  Look at the file `TeXMF.contents' file for details.  Also
other DVI drivers can easily be added to the `AmiWeb2C' installation.


Please report any problems you encounter with any part of this distribution
to me at one of the addresses below.  Bug reports about any of the programs
should contain the information available with `version <program> full'.


Happy TeXing, MetaFont, BibTeXing, and MetaPosting!!!


April 22, 1995.

Andreas Scherer
Roland-Stra{\ss}e 16
52070 Aachen, Germany
<[e-mail]>