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- From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy)
- Subject: Big LaTeX/TeX for the Mac
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.031634.20137@maths.tcd.ie>
- Summary: A bigLaTeX for the Mac
- Keywords: LaTeX Mac Large
- Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 03:16:34 GMT
- Lines: 72
-
- A bigLaTeX for the Mac is available
- from ftp.maths.tcd.ie in pub/Mac/TeX .
- This is a "vanilla" port of Unix-TeX,
- with no sophisticated features.
- However, the sizes of large arrays
- are read in at run-time
- from the file "TeX Preferences"
- in the Preference folder.
-
- This is bigLaTeX.readme
-
- ============================================
-
- BigLaTeX
- ========
-
- This version of bigLaTeX allows the sizes of large arrays
- to be determined at run time,
- by reading from the file "TeX Preferences"
- in the Preference folder (in the System folder in v7).
-
- A sample Preference file is given as TeX.Preferences ,
- from which it will be seen that
- the following array sizes may be set:
- memtop, memmax, maxstrings, poolsize, bufsize,
- fontmax, fontmemsize, savesize, stacksize,
- dvibufsize, triesize, trieopsize.
-
- In addition the whereabouts of the various parts of TeX,
- TEXINPUTS, etc, may be set in the same file TeX Preferences.
- (The format will be clear from the sample Preference file.)
-
-
- Notes:
-
- (1) iniTeX (or biginiTeX) must be run
- with memmax = memtop.
- LaTeX (or bigLaTeX) may have memmax > memtop.
-
- (2) If any of the sizes except memmax is changed,
- iniTeX (or biginiTeX) must be re-run,
- and a new format file created.
-
- (3) If the sizes of arrays are increased,
- the amount of space allocated to the program
- may have to be increased
- (by going to the Get Info item in the File index).
-
- (4) The application bigLaTeX may be re-named bigTeX.
- It will look for a format file
- with the same base-name as itself
- (ie LaTeX will look for LaTeX.fmt).
-
- (5) tex.pool is packed with biginiTeX .
- TeX Preferences is packed with bigLaTeX .
-
- (6) The programs are based closely
- (as closely as possible)
- on the official Unix TeX distribution.
- The change files will shortly be placed in the directory
- pub/Mac/TeX/src-5.851c (or its subdirectories).
-
- Timothy Murphy <tim@maths.tcd.ie> 27 January 1993
-
-
-
- ============================================
- --
- Timothy Murphy
- e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie
- tel: +353-1-2842366
- s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
-