24 General information 3rd edition of the 4allTEX CD-ROM Bijlage K
General information 3rd edition of the 4allTEX CD-ROM
May 1th, 1995
Below you will ®nd the most important items concerning 9. 4allTEX contains a huge set of .STY .MF .PK .TFM .BST the 3rd edition of the 4allTEX CD-ROM. .etc ®les. 10. 4TEX includes METAFONT with automatic font genera- 1 Availability tion. 11. 4TEX fully supports PostScript fonts. E.g. with auto- The ®rst 4allT X CD-ROM was introduced on June 9th 1994 E matic font generation using PS2PK! and with the utility at the 13th local NTG (Dutch T X Users Group) meeting in E MAKEFONT you can convert any PostScript font for use the Netherlands. Within 3 months all 600 copies were sold within T X. (all over the world) and the NTG decided to make a second E 12. With T X you can view and print directly in e.g. Times. edition that was introduced on September 15th. On this 4 E 13. T X contains dbase utilities,supports MAKEINDEX,etc. second edition NTG puts an extra 130 Mb in addition to 4 E 14. T X uses default the integrated QEDIT 3.0 editor (you the ®rst release. In march 1995 the NTG sold the last copy 4 E can change that in the T X con®guration ®le: use of the second edition (i.e. 850 copies of the second release 4 E your favourite editor!). With the QEDIT editor you can were sold). Therefore the NTG planned a third edition::: even do block compilation: mark a small part of your At the end of May the NTG should be able to distribute the (large) document, and only that part will be compiled third edition and of course there are even more Megabytes and viewed. on the third than on the second release. The NTG discov- 15. 4allTEX contains a huge set of documentation, includ- ered that all the nice stuff would not ®t onto one CD-ROM, ing TEX/LATEX/METAFONT documentation and tutorials so it became a double CD-ROM. This means more than one both for novices and gurus, including: Gigabyte of TEX related stuff. all MAPS issues (both Dutch and English articles; starting in 1988; about 2000 pages with high den- 2 Contents sity informationarranged in a large set of PostScript 4TEX is based on the famous, fast, and well-known emTEX ®les), distribution. Besides that, the 4allTEX (yes for all!) CD- all TEXHAX issues (1986-1995),
ROM contains all related software as available as of April all TEX-NL issues (1989-1995),
1995. all TEX-MAG issues,
So: all UKTEX issues (1988-1995),
A 1. It contains the latest 4TEX version (3.27; network drive A lot of tutorials in TEX/L TEX source (also .DVI, independent). 4TEX gives the user a user friendly inter- .PDF,and.PS ®les available),
face with a large set of utilities. The `TEXbook' and the `METAFONTbook' in TEX 2. 4TEX contains software in direct executable form. source format,
3. 4TEX supports more than 60 formats including huge FAQ about TEX, PostScript, etc,
and big versions, TEX, LATEX, Cyrillic, Polish, Greek, WEB/literate program related contributions. A TEXinfo, LOLLIPOP,LTEX2" (of®cial december 1994 All this documentation is available in PostScript as well release, patch level 3) etc. as in PDF format. Using Ghostscript or the PDF reader 4. 4TEX support many printer drivers (including colour (both on the CD-rom) you can print the documentation deskjets, linotronics, matrix printers, 300/600 dpi laser- on any printer. printers, laserjets, fax etc). 16. 4allTEX contains SPECIALs: chess (including chinese), 5. 4TEX supports graphics: both for previewing and print- bridge, music, crossword, go, and more; including all ing. All functionality of e.g. BM2FONT, GHOSTSCRIPT fonts. 3.12, HP2XX,TEXCAD, QFIG are included, ready to use! 17. 4allTEX contains Arabic, French, Cyrillic and Polish 6. 4TEX includes AMSPELL: a spell-checker for languages packages. English (UK), English (USA), Dutch, German, French, 18. With 4TEX, it is very easy to generate completely new Spanish and Italian. formats. 7. 4TEX contains conversion utilities: WP to LATEX/TEX, 19. 4allTEX contains a lot of .DVI, and PostScript utilities. MS-WORD/CHIWRITER/PC-WRITE/TROFF to LATEX, 20. 4allTEX contains GNUPLOT. DETEX, UNTEX,etc. 21. 4allTEX contains extensive bibliographies on TEX- 8. 4allTEX contains a huge set of fonts: why waste your related topics. time generating fonts (fax, 300dpi, 600dpi, etc)? 22. It contains a 4TEX `1.44 Mbyte 3.5" disc distribution All fonts are available in .pk format and are not stored version'. into fontlibraries, i.e. they can be used also for non-DOS You can install only `one disc' (a basic emTEX instal- systems! lation), or a number of discs, or all discs.
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23. Because TEX is extremely useful for the generation of 6 How to order the 4allTEX CD-ROM HTML, PDF and other multimedia documents you will There could be a possibility that TEX Local User Groups ®nd a lot of those programs on the CD-ROM. Also a lot (LUGs) are also (re)selling the 4allTEX CD-ROM. So please of useful Internet programs are supplied. contact your local LUG ®rst! NTG is selling the 4allT X CD-ROM directly to all LUGs The 4allT X CD-ROM contains even more than that!!! E E for bookstore pricing. Hard disk requirement for running T X (processing all 4 E At the moment we are rearranging the way one can order your documents): less than 50kb! the CD-ROM. Just wait until the of®cial announcement or The 4allTEX CD-ROM is the ®rst and (at least in the near contact the NTG of®ce at the end of May. future) the only CD-ROM with a: NTG ready-to-use MS-DOS full T X implementation E P.O. Box 394 including a huge set of documentation (and it also works 1740 AJ Schagen, The Netherlands under LINUX, OS/2 and WINDOWS in a DOS box). e-mail: [email protected] The 4allTEX CD-ROM contains a unique set of TEXand A LTEX software for both MS-DOS and non MS-DOS users! 7 4TEX discussion list support Unbelievable but TRUE! Yes there is already a lot of 4TEX support using the world- wide 4TEX discussion list. 3 Computer system requirements How to subscribe The ready-to-use 4TEX system is available for PC MS-DOS send the one line message: 8086/80286/80386/80486/pentium systems. However, the subscribe 4tex your personal name major part of the software on the 4allTEX CD-ROM is sys- to the listserv manager: tem independent. [email protected] Further you need: How to use
a hard disk/diskette drive of 50kb (yes: 50.000 bytes), send your questions/bugs/remarks/suggestions to:
or more:::, [email protected]
aCD-ROM drive (of course),
no memory requirements, How to retrieve old e-mails
any printer. All discussions will be archived. In order to receive a list of all archived ®les, send the one-line message: INDEX 4TEX 4 How to install to the listserv manager: The 4TEX system on the 4allTEX CD-ROM can be installed [email protected] within 1 minute (!) and the ®rst TEX example can be pre- In order to retrieve one of the monthly archieved e-mail viewed and printed within the next 10±20 seconds. After ®le, send the one-line message (for month 05 in year 94): an installation of the CD-ROM i.e. after running the instal- GET 4TEX LOG9405 lation program inst4tex one can start 4TEXby typing to the listserv manager: > 4tex sample [email protected] With the current installation program it is also possible to The 4TEX authors Wietse Dol ([email protected]) copy (parts) of the emTEX system onto a hard disk (in case and Erik Frambach ([email protected]) you want to speed things up). are monitoring this fast growing 4TEX list! For very special requests/questions use: 5 Price [email protected]
The price of the double CD-ROM including a 110+ pages 4TEX discussion list e-mails can also be found on the manual (when ordering from the NTG of®ce) is: 4allTEX CD-ROM. ** 60 Dutch guilders ** (or the equivalence in dollars). 8The4TEX manual
The price includes shipping (even by air mail for out- The price of the T X manual only (without the 4allT X side Europe!) 4 E E CD-ROM)is:
Add 15 guilders if you pay to NTG with a bank cheque or non-Dutch bank transfer (this is not recommended In Holland/Belgium: f. 20,± (including shipping). Other countries : $ 15 (including shipping). and costs the NTG/you the additional 15 guilders).
9 4allTEX ftp availability On anonymous ftp-site: archive.cs.ruu.nl in directory:
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pub/TEX/MSDOS/4alltex ± printing to a PostScript ®le/printer using partial or on CTAN in directory: fontloading pub/tex/systems/msdos/4alltex ± the usual bug®xes (and introducing new ones) you will ®nd:
the 4allTEX distribution version (an earlier version of 4TEX) in directories of about 1.44 Mbyte. 11 Future improvements
updates of the 4allTEX CD-ROM. Of course 4TEX is continuously under development. In a next release you can expect e.g.:
latest version of other (TEX-related) products,
10 Latest update update DVI drivers,
Just a quick list of the additions in 4TEX version 3.27 com- and more. pared to the earlier release 3.25: If some essential packages and/or ®les are missing on the 4TEX has extended the documentation withHTML ®les, 4allT X CD-ROM, please contact the authors on: PDF ®les etc. E [email protected]
All documentation is available in PostScript format but Some of the above extensions and further improvements also in PDF format. With the PDF reader it is possible will be available as additional installation ®les from the to print the documentation on any printer/system. internet archives and from the Dutch FGBBS bulletin board
A (as complete as possible) version of L TEX2" (patch service of NTG (phone: +31 85 217041). level 3) (e.g. with PSNFSS),
upgrades DVI-drivers from Eberhard Mattes (e.g. it For more information, please contact: is now possible to preview with the VESA resolution Dutch (language oriented) TEX Users Group (NTG) 1024x768), P.O. Box 394
upgrades emTEX 1740 AJ Schagen
updates of the 4TEX batch®les, in order to e.g.: The Netherlands ± include your own PostScript fonts into TEX; e-mail NTG board: [email protected] ± include your own PostScript family into TEX(by using the fontinst package);
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