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So, This is Your First Time to Install TeX on an Atari ST!
(Instructions for installing and configuring TeX)
Table of contents:
Atari ST TeX experiences from the USENET . . . . . . . 1
Configuring the Plain ST TeX software
for the First Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
The Font Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Using "dvieps" for EPSON 9-pin output . . . . . . . . 10
Using "dviatari" for Screen Output . . . . . . . . . . 10
Using "showdvi" for Screen Output . . . . . . . . . . 10
Using "dviprint" for EPSON 9-pin
or 24-pin Printers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Getting 24-pin Fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
CS-TeX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Extra Help and Disclaimer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Atari ST TeX experiences from the USENET
========================================
TeX (pronounced "teck", where the "X" is the greek character chi)
is a book and document formatting system that gives the user the absolute
best text formatting possible.
Normally TeX is found on mainframe or mini-computers in corporations
and educational organizations. These versions of TeX are usually quite
large and robust. The printing looks great, but you have to leave home
and visit your local computer center to view a good copy of a TeX'ed
document.
Fortunately, for those users that enjoy working on a personal
computers, TeX is available on virtually every popular micro-computer
available in the 1990's. According to Bart Childs, former president of
the worldwide TeX Users' Group (TUG), the Commodore Amiga and the Atari
ST have some of the best versions of TeX available for any computer.
This article is designed to give you a current set of instructions and
comments regarding the most popular versions of TeX for the Atari ST.
The two popular flavors of TeX (as of November 1991) are:
- regular TeX (the one that must be pieced together by
the ST user)
- CS-TeX (a set of diskettes containing a complete TeX document
creation environment which fully installs
itself. Written by German Atari wizard
Christoff Strunk. )
Each version has some advantages, but neither provide all of the
advantages.
Regular TeX has the advantage of running well on computers
with a small amount of memory (1 Megabyte). It interfaces well with
several tools for printing and viewing TeX files. Its disadvantage is
So, This is Your First Time to Install TeX on Your Atari ST! Page 2
that it requires a lengthy manual installation. A manual installation
will make the installer an expert on TeX installations, though.
CS-TeX provides a full environment for creating a TeX document from
start to finish. CS-TeX provides:
- an editor,
- TeX,
- TeX format builder,
- two TeX file screen pre-viewers,
- Metafont,
- an Index builder,
- a bibliography tool,
- graphic file interfaces
- and a simple graphical user interface
The graphical user interface is optimized for people who don't like to
use a mouse, and the graphic file interfaces allow Pictures and graphs
created by other programs to be used in TeX documents.
Configuring the Plain ST TeX software for the first time
========================================================
Configuring the ST TeX software actually involves several
ordered steps.
1) Obtaining the TeX software
2) Creating a customized directory system
3) Un-archiving the TeX software
4) Setting up environment variables
5) Creating the TeX "format" files.
STEP DETAILS
============
>> 1. Obtaining the TeX software
This step has a fairly broad scope, but one source for the
Plain TeX system is the Atari Archive ftp site at the
University of Michigan in the United States. Its ftp
name and internet number are:
atari.archive.umich.edu 141.211.164.8
For the configuration instruction discussed in this document,
you should obtain the following files:
So, This is Your First Time to Install TeX on Your Atari ST! Page 3
Directory: /atari/tex/tex31
size date name
======= ============ ============
376570 Dec 31 1990 inputs.lzh
26451 Aug 14 18:57 poofiles.zoo
520881 Aug 14 18:50 texbin.zoo
342243 Dec 14 1990 tfmfonts.lzh
Directory: /atari/tex/dvi
size date name
======= ============ ============
58562 May 18 1990 dviatari.zoo (S)
239494 Apr 12 1989 dvieps.arc (P)
151658 Aug 6 12:07 shdvi10b.zoo (S,P)
Directory: /atari/tex/fonts
size date name
======= ============ ============
365612 Sep 6 1989 dvifnts1.zoo
471608 Sep 6 1989 dvifnts2.zoo
1910 Sep 6 1989 dvifntsz.hlp
208619 Sep 22 1989 showdvifonts.zoo
Most of these files are required, but some of them provide
duplicate function. The files in the "/atari/tex/dvi"
directory provide printing and pre-viewing functions. If
you have the space, get them all.
- The "dviatari.zoo" archive contains "dviatari", a screen
pre-viewer that uses the "dvifnts*.*" archives in the
"/atari/tex/fonts" directory.
- The "dvieps.arc" archive contains "dvieps" a program and
source code to print TeX's dvi-files to a 9-pin EPSON
compatible printer. "dvieps" also uses the "dvifnt*.*"
archives' font files.
- The "shdvi10b.zoo" file contains "showdvi", a pre-viewer,
and "dviprint", a dvi-file printing program. "dviprint"
will output to several types of printers including:
Epson 9-pin, Epson 24-pin, Atari SLM, and HP Laser-Jet
printers. Both programs can use the "dvifnts*.*" font
files. In addition, the programs can use "flib", font
library, files, that are in the "showdvifonts.zoo" archive.
You need at least one (S) "Screen pre-viewer" and one (S) "Dvi
file printer" archive. For either of the sets of pre-view and
print programs, you will need the "dvifnt*.*" files. If you
want to use the "flib" font library ability of the "shdvi10b.zoo"
programs, then you should get the "showdvifonts.zoo" file also.
So, This is Your First Time to Install TeX on Your Atari ST! Page 4
>> 2. Creating a customized directory system
This part requires you to think the hardest. The following
directory names are a compromise of the directory names
used by usenet users who contributed to this article.
i. Select a base directory for your files. I will use
"D:\tex" for the base directory. Edit this file (the
one that your are currently reading) with a text editor
and use the global search and replace function to change
"D:\tex" to the directory you want to use.
ii. Create