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- LaTeX installation instructions for emTeX
-
- 11 June 1995
-
-
- SUMMARY
- =======
-
- This file contains instructions on how to install LaTeX for emTeX on
- DOS; users of emTeX on OS/2 will need to make the standard small
- changes, such as `.cmd' instead of `.bat'.
-
- Before reading this file, you should read install.txt, which will
- explain how the LaTeX installation works.
-
- This file describes:
-
- * How to save any old version of LaTeX.
-
- * How to unpack the LaTeX distribution.
-
- * How to create the LaTeX format.
-
- * How to install the LaTeX files.
-
- These instructions assume that you are using the standard directory set
- up supplied by the emTeX distribution. We hope that, if your system's
- set up differs from this then you will be sufficiently familiar with
- your system to make the necessary amendments to these instructions.
-
-
- SAVING ANY OLD VERSION OF LATEX
- ===============================
-
- If you have a copy of LaTeX 2.09, you may wish to save it before
- installing the new LaTeX.
-
- You should make a subdirectory called latex209 in the emtex directory.
- Then copy any files called *.sty from the TeX inputs directory
- (normally emtex\texinput) into this latex209 subdirectory. You should
- also rename the LaTeX format file which you use for LaTeX 2.09,
- usually lplain.fmt, to latex209.fmt.
-
- You should then create a batch file latex209.bat, which temporarily
- resets the TEXINPUT environment variable to a path which includes the
- latex209 subdirectory before the TeX inputs directory, and then calls
- TeX with the file latex209.fmt as the format file. Check that this
- batch file works before proceeding.
-
-
- UNPACKING THE DISTRIBUTION
- ==========================
-
- To unpack the LaTeX distribution, you should change to the directory
- reserved for the installation and run iniTeX on the file unpack.ins.
- To run iniTeX you use the option /i so this is typically done by
- typing:
-
- tex /i unpack.ins
-
-
- CREATING THE LATEX FORMAT
- =========================
-
- To create the LaTeX format, you should run iniTeX on the file
- latex.ltx. This will create a file latex.fmt.
-
- You should copy this to the directory where TeX looks for its format
- files, normally the texfmts or btexfmts subdirectory of emtex. Make
- sure that you put it in the correct directory: the one that is used by
- the version of the TeX program you are using.
-
-
- PUTTING THE FILES WHERE LATEX CAN READ THEM
- ===========================================
-
- You should move the following files to the TeX inputs directory
- (usually emtex\texinput):
-
- latexbug.tex testpage.tex docstrip.tex
- *.cls *.clo *.sty *.fd *.def *.cfg
-
- If you use the MakeIndex program (called makeindx.exe) then you should
- move the *.ist files into the MakeIndex inputs directory (normally
- emtex\makeindx).
-
-
- CHANGING THE BATCH FILE
- =======================
-
- You should edit the file latex.bat (if you do not have one then you
- may wish to create it) so that it calls TeX with the file latex.fmt
- as the format file.
-
-
- CHECKING THAT THE INSTALLATION WORKED
- =====================================
-
- You should now run LaTeX on ltxcheck.tex. This should produce a
- number of `OK' messages. If it produces any warnings, please consult
- the `Problems' section of the file install.txt.
-
-
- MEMORY PROBLEMS
- ===============
-
- If you have an old version of emTeX, or you are using a PC with a CPU
- less powerful than an 80386, then you will need to increase that part
- of the memory known as `string characters' or as `pool size'.
-
- This should be set to its maximum value by using the option:
-
- /mp:65500
-
- either on the command line or via the EMTEXOPT environment variable.
-
- You will probably be able to compensate for this increased
- requirement by reducing the `font info' memory using the
- option `/mf:'.
-
- When using several packages or when processing complex documents,
- especially if they contain lots of cross-references, citations, etc.,
- you may run out of the memory known as `multiletter control sequences'
- or as `hash table'. Unfortunately, the only cure for this is to get a
- newer version of emTeX.
-
- --- Copyright 1995 the LaTeX3 project ---
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