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TeX Shell is a graphical interface to TeX, a typesetting program. This
documentation assumes that you know something about TeX already. TeX is
available (as I write this) via anonymous FTP from "clio.math.lsa.umich.edu"
and no doubt other sites.
When running TeX on a 1 meg machine, there isn't enough free memory to
run shells such as Gulam. So, I wrote TeX Shell. TeX Shell displays a
menu and lets you choose to run TeX or LaTeX, and uses the file selector
to choose the input file. TeX Shell then Pexec()s TeX with an appropriate
command line. It can also Pexec DVIST, the screen preview program.
As you can see, most of the menu items are disabled. Eventually I would
like to add several features: an editable environment, and a direct chain
(a la Simon Poole's DLII) to a graphical version of the DVI program available
elsewhere. Also, if you could chain to your editor from TeXShell, then
you would not have to go back to the desktop at all while
editing/texing/previewing.
Since you have no way of setting environmental variables (yet), you
MUST install TeX with all the default paths. It must be on the same
disk as TeX Shell, in the directory \TEX, be named TEX.TTP, and be
with PLAIN.FMT and LPLAIN.FMT, the Plain TeX and LaTeX format files.
The font metric files (.TFM) should reside in \TEX\TFM, and style
files should reside in \TEX\INPUTS. DVIST should be located in
\TEX\DVIST.TTP (pick one of DVISTND or DVISTDL), and fonts should be
in the default \FONTS\... directories.
Should an error occur during the Pexec, such as file not found or
whatnot, weird things will happen. I have not managed to get an
intelligible error message out of Pexec yet, so you'll have to guess.
I have included another file, TEXHINTS, in this archive to help you
set up TEX and DVIST to work together.
If you have any suggestions for this program, or find any bugs (heaven
forbid!), please feel free to contact me.
Greg Lindahl internet: gl8f@virginia.edu
1700 Cherry Avenue bitnet: gl8f@virginia.bitnet
Charlottesville VA 22903
(804) 979-3814