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"README.UNIX" - Setting up "mfpic" under Unix -- 07:16 Thu 26 Nov 1992.
For mfpic version 0.2 (TFM patch) of Tue 13 Oct 92.
By Thomas Leathrum (moth@dartmoth.edu),
with editing of text by Geoffrey Tobin (ecsgrt@luxor.latrobe.edu.au).
The unix setup files are three:
1. setups.tex - how to set up and process TeX files containing mfpic
commands,
with shortcuts provided by C-shell (csh) scripts;
previewing via xdvi in X Windows,
printing via dvips for PostScript printers.
2. Makefile - which provides other shortcuts, using make instead of
C-shell; and
3. README.UNIX, this file, which describes what setups.tex and
Makefile do.
Unix users should move the "Makefile" and/or the csh scripts from
"setups.tex" to the directory where they keep the sources to mfpic
("mfpic.tex", "graphbase.mf", "pictures.tex", etc.).
Instead, the sources might be moved to standard places for TeX
and MF files.
As a third alternative, modify the Makefile and csh scripts to find
your favorite place to keep the mfpic files.
Thomas Leathrum wrote "setups.tex".
Geoffrey Tobin wrote the Makefile.
In general, the biggest problem any user of mfpic is likely to have
getting the installation set up to handle mfpic will come from
convincing TeX and its output drivers to find the Metafont output
files, which will wind up in your current directory. More often that
not, on UNIX at least, this can be accomplished by appending ".:" to
the beginning of a few environment variables.
This will not solve all problems, though -- for example, print
spooling with a DVI filter option with "lpr -d" absolutely cannot be
convinced to look in the current directory for a font. So you have to
convert the DVI to some other format before printing, and convince the
conversion program to find the font.
The C-shell scripts in the file setups.tex assume a UNIX installation
running X Windows, so that in particular you can use xdvi, dvips, and
a few other UNIX programs.
The Makefile works with slightly different assumptions, but is still
UNIX-specific.
The procedures these describe will probably be similar on many other
sorts of machines, but I'm not likely to know the specifics.
Once you are over the hurdle of setting up, though, I hope you enjoy
mfpic. Let me know what you think, if you can find any bugs, etc.
Regards,
Tom Leathrum
moth@dartmouth.edu
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