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From: "K. Berry" <kb@cs.umb.edu>
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To: bob@gnu.ai.mit.edu, tex-k@cs.umb.edu
Subject: Re: m68k-sony-newsos build
By `usual places', I meant the places Karl suggests. I think his
layout is excellent.
(In the credit where credit is due dept., Pierre MacKay and Elizabeth
Tachikawa had as much to do with the current directory structure as me.)
Unfortunately the working group for a common TeX directory structure
was only able to reach consensus on
fonts/tfm/adobe/times/ptmr.tfm
instead of the current
fonts/adobe/times/tfm/ptmr.tfm
Bob, as you might guess, I've expended considerable effort making web2c
work in the same way as GNU makefiles -- configure/make/make install,
etc. I know web2c isn't quite complete. I agree this is a problem.
The main problem is that (1) web2c.tar.gz does not include the basic
fonts and macros; and (2) the web2c documentation doesn't talk about
lib.tar.gz. lib.tar.gz didn't exist when I released web2c 6.1.
I still don't think web2c.tar.gz should include lib.tar.gz, because
almost nothing in lib.tar.gz is maintained by me, and it's therefore
updated at irregular intervals wrt lib.tar.gz.
People have suggested another package, say unixtex.tar.gz, which
contains both web2c.tar.gz and lib.tar.gz and drivers and whatever else,
as Matt Swift suggests. I think that's a fine idea, but I've reached my
limit on what I can maintain. I've got to get the next release of web2c
done, not endlessly churn about building on top of 6.1. Tom Esser, by
all accounts, did a fine job with tetex for Linux, which is precisely this.
Clearly the documentation in web2c needs bringing up-to-date for the
developments of the past year. I hardly think I should make another
release just for that, though. I've been sending unixtex.ftp to people
who seem to need it. That's really the best place to start
now. Admittedly there's no way you could have known this. Sorry.
web2c should also check whether plain.tex and so on actually exist, and
point you to lib.tar.gz or unixtex.ftp or whatever if they're not
found. Again, this is something that will be in the next release, or so
I plan.
I presumed that `friends' meant everything I needed to install a
working Tex, so I could generate a .dvi file.
That's a good point. I should probably change that to `companion programs'.