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- From: hafner@ALMADEN.IBM.COM ("James L. Hafner")
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- Subject: [comp.text.tex] FoilTeX now available!
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- Date: 2 Sep 1992 04:34:18 GMT
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- Archive-name: auto/comp.text.tex/FoilTeX-now-available
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- What is FoilTeX?
- FoilTeX is a LaTeX-like system for typesetting foils, slides,
- transparencies, etc. It differs quit a bit from SliTeX, both
- in usability and in presentation. It supports very large fonts
- and all of LaTeX's font changing commands (using Old Font Selection
- Scheme). There are lots of built-ins for helping user's structure
- their foils and it supports (automatically) just about everything
- in standard LaTeX. For more information, please consult the
- documentation (foildoc.tex) which is part of the package.
- FoilTeX supports and is completely compatible with the new
- color scheme included in recent releases of Rokicki's dvips driver.
- (In fact, it was the FoilTeX effort that lead to the development
- of that color scheme.) Consequently, FoilTeX can be easily used
- to get one-pass multicolor foils (if used with the right driver
- and printer, of course).
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- Where is FoilTeX?
- The first official non-IBM version of FoilTeX has just been
- installed on some of the TeX archives. It can be found in
- LOCAL:[ANONYMOUS.TEX.INPUTS.FOILTEX] at ymir.claremont.edu
- soft/tex/foiltex at ftp.uni-stuttgart.de
- DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.FOILTEX] at TeX.ac.uk
- and hopefully other archives as well.
- In all but the Aston archives you will find both a collection
- of plain (ascii) files as well as a compressed tar file of the
- entire package.
-
-
- Who developed FoilTeX?
- FoilTeX was originally developed by here at IBM's
- Almaden Research Center a couple of years ago. It has found wide use
- and acceptance inside IBM and the version out on the TeX archives is
- an updated and improved version. The archived version is also the
- first release of the package outside of IBM.
- The package was first publicly announced at the TUG'92 meeting
- in Portland, OR.
-
-
- Any comments, questions or suggestions are welcome either on this
- forum or by contacting me directly.
-
- Jim Hafner
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