You only need to read this section if you are in charge of installing
geom at your site. Installation is very simple if your
supports NFSS and your TEX-to-PostScript driver is Tom Rokicki's
dvips [#!Rokicki!#].
To check whether you have +NFSS, see the
beginning of Overall Organization. To install +NFSS,
get it by ftp from e-math.ams.com (it is currently in
ams/amslatex.tar.Z), and follow the installation
instructions in the file amslatex/fontsel/nfssinst.tex.
If your driver is not
dvips, you have two choices: either install dvips, which
is almost certainly a good idea (get it by ftp from
labrea.stanford.edu, in the directory pub); or make a
copy of the file dvips.chg in this distribution, and modify it
so it writes the \special commands required by your driver. If
you adapt dvips.chg for your driver, give the new file a
different name, and replace with this name all occurrences of
dvips.chg in the rest of this section. Also, please send me a
copy of the file, so I can include it in future distributions.
As I was saying before I got sidetracked, installation is simple.
If you're on a UNIX system, edit the Makefile to make sure the
pathnames are correct for your site, and run make install. If you're
not on a UNIX system, here are the step-by-step instructions:
Place the files listed in the previous section (all the distribution
files that end in .sty, .chg or .doc) in the
system-wide directory for TEX input files. Create a symbolic link
driver.chg in this directory, pointing to dvips.chg.
(If your system does not support symbolic links, copy dvips.chg
to driver.chg.)
Copy the file mathlabels.orig to mathlabels and edit its
first line to be the correct pathname of the perl executable on your
system. (If you don't have perl at all, you don't know what
you're missing—get it as soon as possible.) Decide on a directory
where you want to install the auxiliary scripts mathlabels and
geomfix (which are used by mathfig), and put copies of
them there. Copy the file mathfig.orig to mathfig and
edit the lines at the top to specify the location of the
mathlabels and geomfix scripts, then copy
mathlabels to a system-wide directory for executables.
Finally, copy math.pro and illustrator.pro into the
directory where your TEX-to-PostScript driver looks for prolog files.
(This assumes your driver supports the inclusion of prolog files;
switch to dvips if it doesn't.)