=========================================================================== This is the announce of the teTeX-0.4, a TeX distribution for UNIX compatible systems. =========================================================================== 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://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/pub/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). =========================================================================== Getting the distribution + installation =========================================================================== 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. =========================================================================== Updating a teTeX-0.3.3 or 0.3.4 release =========================================================================== 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. =========================================================================== News in release 0.4: =========================================================================== - 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, tabls, threeparttable, trees, vpage - added/updated other macro packages: geometry, psfrag, pslatex, 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 =========================================================================== I do not know teTeX yet... =========================================================================== 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 =========================================================================== Here - in short - the main features of teTeX, as listed in the file FEATURES: =========================================================================== 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 =========================================================================== Included packages: =========================================================================== 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 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 =========================================================================== Supported platforms: =========================================================================== 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-bsdi2.1 Intel x86/BSDI 2.1 i386-freebsd2.1.5 Intel x86/FreeBSD 2.1.5 i386-linux Intel x86/Linux (ELF) i386-linuxaout Intel x86/Linux (a.out) i386-netbsd1.2 Intel x86/NetBSD 1.2 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 powerpc-aix3.2.5 PowerPC/AIX 3.2.5 powerpc-aix4.1.4 PowerPC/AIX 4.1.1 rs6000-aix3.2.5 IBM RS6000 AIX 3.2.5 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 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. =========================================================================== Documentation =========================================================================== There is the teTeX manual (TETEXDOC.dvi) a teTeX FAQ (FAQ-teTeX) and lots of documentation for the included programs and macros. =========================================================================== mailing list: =========================================================================== 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 =========================================================================== Copyright License: GNU GPL Version 2 (or later) =========================================================================== Please send feedback to the autor: Thomas Esser Email: te@informatik.uni-hannover.de 03.11.1996