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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.
-
- 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.
-
- 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.
-
- 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
-