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- From: gisli@hamilton.eecs.umich.edu (Gisli Ottarsson)
- Subject: Solved: personal TeX formats and the -v option
- Message-ID: <1992Aug23.185533.21037@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
- Sender: news@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Mr. News)
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- Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor, MI
- References: <1992Aug23.162251.15277@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
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- Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 18:55:33 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug23.162251.15277@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
- gisli@engin.umich.edu (Gisli Ottarsson) writes:
- >
- >
- > Hi!
- >
- > How does one go about installing a private TeX format on a NeXT?
- > The standard way, i.e.,
- >
- > alias mytex "virtex \&myfmt"
- >
- > does not work since it does not accept the -v or -V TeXview options.
- >
- > Thanks
- >
- > Gisli
-
- Let me answer my own question. The document /usr/tex/ntman.dvi says
- it all. To create a command 'mytex' using a the format myfmt.fmt do
- this:
-
- o copy myfmt.fmt into a directory specified in the TEXFORMATS
- variable (e.g. ~/tex/formats)
-
- o ln ~tex/formats/myfmt.fmt ~/tex/formats/mytex.fmt
-
- o ln /usr/bin/virtex ~/Unix/bin/mytex
-
- make the mytex command executable and make sure ~/Unix/bin is in your
- path.
-
- This works for me.
-
- So long
-
- Gisli
-
- PS: If you are using TeX on the NeXT and haven't read
- /usr/tex/ntman.dvi do yourself a favor and read it now.
- A lot of interesting stuff, thanks Mr. Rokicki!
-
-