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- PasTeX 1.4
-
- --- final 1 ---
-
- 28.05.95
-
- ©Georg Heßmann
-
-
-
- This is the first free distributable /final/ version of PasTeX 1.4.
-
- PasTeX 1.4 is copyrighted by Georg Heßmann and is distributed
- under the term of the GNU general public license.
- (see TeX:source/COPYING)
-
-
-
-
- FINAL: It's not the final version I've hoped, it does still miss much.
- Especially the documentation. But I havn't much time for PasTeX
- in the last half a year, so I've decided it would be better I
- release it as it is and don't wait some more years.
-
-
-
- But you have the force!
- -----------------------
-
- * This version includes the full source of every PasTeX program! *
- * So, if you miss some importand features of if you have found a bug, *
- * you can fix it for yourself. For copyright and installation notes *
- * see the README and COPYING file in TeX:source. *
-
-
-
- CD-ROM Version:
- ---------------
-
- This CD-ROM version consists, like the versions before, not only of PasTeX
- programs. To made a as complete as possible TeX installation, which is
- easy to use (out of the box), I've also included programs/tools which I
- don't have ported or programed. E.g. the Metafont port from Andreas Scherer.
- These programs have there own copyright notes and they are of course not
- altered by the PasTeX copyright.
-
- The PasTeX programs are:
- ShowDVI V1.40, DVIprint V1.40, SpecialHost V1.19, flib V1.10 and lsfont V1.0.
- Ported from me (and Bernd Raichle) for PasTeX are: initex and virtex V3.1415.
-
-
-
- Documentation:
- --------------
-
- There is no new documentation for PasTeX 1.4. The documentation is still
- for PasTeX 1.3. One exception: There is an up to date documentation for
- SpecialHost. The SpecialHost documentation is found in the
- TeX:src/SpecialHost/Docs directory. It's mostly in german, but as an sample
- it should also help non german speakers.
-
- Because of the lack of documentation, use these hints to find out (some of)
- the features of the drivers:
-
- o Call "ShowDVI help" and press RETURN.
- So you get a list of all possible command line switches.
- (You can save ever used switches in the ENV:SHOWDVI variable)
-
- o Start ShowDVI and do a 'save config' (AMIGA-W).
- Now have a look into the file TeX:config/ShowDVI.config.
- There are some nice config features like 'maximal-dvibuff-size'.
-
- o Call "DVIprint help" and press RETURN
- So you get a list of all possible command line switches.
- (You can save ever used switches in the ENV:DVIPRINT variable)
-
- o Look into the files TeX:config/#?.fnt and use 'SnoopDos' to
- see, how the drivers do the font searching.
-
- o One additional hint for SpecialHost: If you have some free bytes on
- your hard disk, than use the "image on disk" transfer method. This
- saves (especially with Postscript(R) pictures) much time.
-
-
-
- Further Development:
- --------------------
-
- PasTeX is dead? No! I hope not!
- It's true, that I have found more hobbies, than only the Amiga and so I
- don't have much time for my poor Amiga. But I still love the Amiga and
- think it's a great system.
-
- But because I don't have much time for further development, I hope there
- will be some nice programers, who want improve my PasTeX version.
- So I release the complete source.
-
- But 1000 and one new PasTeX version would confuse the TeX users. So it
- would be good, if there will be a managing system, so that the improvements
- will be centered into one version.
-
- Maybe a mailing list would be such a managing system? Or a alt.* newsgroup?
-
- If there are questions about the source, I will try to answer them, but
- I've not so much time, so I can't guarantee, that I will respond to
- every question.
-
-
-
-
- Changes:
- --------
-
- Most visible change from older PasTeX versions is the new directory structure
- for fonts, macros and the pool file. Fonts now under TeX:fonts/ (fontmetric
- files .../tfm, pk-files .../pk/<mode-name>), and macros now under TeX:inputs
- instead of TeX:macros. The pool-file is no longer under TeX:, now it has it's
- own directory TeX:pool.
-
-
-
- Copyright:
- ----------
-
- The PasTeX programs are copyrighted by Georg Heßmann. The distribution
- is permitted under the term of the GNU gerneral public license.
-
-
-
- HWGPOST:
- --------
-
- Thanks to a special permission from the author Heinz Wrobel, this CD-ROM
- distribution includes HWGPOST, an improved post.library that is used by
- SpecialHost to give PostScript compatibility to ShowDVI and DVIprint.
- The following files were taken from the HWGPOST beta 6 distribution:
- - doc/HWGPOST/History
- - doc/HWGPOST/README.FIRST
- - libs/post.library
- - ps/init.ps
- - ps/HWGPOSTResources (the Bakoma-Fonts have been added here)
- For a complete and unchanged distribution of HWGPOST beta 6, please get
- text/print/HWGPOSTbeta6.lha from Aminet. To see what is included in the
- full distribution, have a look at doc/HWGPOST/README.FIRST.
-
-
-
- Acknowledgements:
- -----------------
-
- Some peoples I have to say "Thank you!" (without any special oder):
-
- Bernd Raichle for the initex/virtex C source.
- Olaf 'Olsen' Barthel for the new SpecialHost.
- Andreas Scherer for the MetaFont port.
- Joerg Cyril Hoehle for the help with DVIprint.
- Giuseppe Ghibò for EVpath and for many improvements in SpecialHost.
- Fred Fish for the distribution of PasTeX.
- ...and many many others.
-
-
-
- Happy TeX'ing,
- Georg Heßmann (hessmann@informatik.uni-hamburg.de)
- 28. May 1995
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