Bijlage Q NTEX1.2 51 NTEX1.2 Frank Langbein [email protected] (till November 1994), [email protected] September 1994 I just uploaded NTEX1.2onsunsite.unc.edu DVI drivers for X11, postscript, HP Laserjet series, in /pub/Linux/Incomming/ntex. This should Deskjet500 (xdvik, dvipsk and dvi2ljk are the new ver- be copied to the position of NTEX1.1in sions using kpathsea 2.1) /pub/Linux/distributions/ntex (makesuretoget The GNU TEXinfo system 1.2!). NTEXisaTEX distribution for Linux. I tried to Formats: plain TEX, extended plain TEX, AMSTEX, A A remove all the problems reported (especially by Thomas PicTEX, L TEX2" (including. AMSL TEX, BABEL, Esser) for NTEX 1.1. There were a lot of changes and I SLITEX, :::) hope that the system works better now. However, I there Various formats for: Arabic, Devanagari, Greek, He- is still a lot of work left. For a more detailed list of the brew, Hieroglyphs, Tamil, Turkish, Thai, ::: changes see the ®le CHANGES on disk ntex01. The com- Suport of the 35 standard Postscript fonts plete NTEX distribution needs 13 disks. Please note that Free available Postscript fonts: Charter, Courier, UR- the organisation of the disks changed from version 1.1 to WAntiquaT, URQGroteskT, Nimbus, Utopia 1.2. Fonts: Sauter Computer Modern Fonts, DC (Euro- pean fonts), fc (african fonts), astro, bard, blackboard, For those who do not know TeX/NTeX: blackletter, calligra, cherokee, cyrillic, old english, TEX is a softwaresystem that was orginallywritten by Don- pica, cypriote, dingbat, duerer, elvish, engwar, furthark, ald Knuth to typeset texts. LATEXisasetofmacrosforTEX georgian, ghothic, karta, klinz, la script, logic, ocr-a, written to simplify typesetting with TEX.Therearealot ogham, okuda, osmanian, pandora, phonetic symbols, of other macros and style ®les, etc. which were designed rsfs, tengwar, twcal, ugaritic, mathematical symbols, for the same pupose. The NTEX distribution also include ::: MetaFont, a program which allows the user to design fonts. NTEX also includes a lot of these fonts. I tried to include For error reports, suggestions and comments contact me. a lot of macros and fonts into the NTEX distribution which I will try to remove all the problems and improve NTEX. could be installed for your needs. Also the basic con®g- Right now I have to concentrate on my lectures, so it might uration of TEX, etc. can be done with shell scripts and/or take a little longer until I can reply to your mails. I will during installationtime. The purpose of NTEX is to provide have more time after November. Don`t bother mailing me a distribution for TEX and the fronts, macros which could bugs and problems. be easily installed and con®gured. Send submissions for comp.os.linux.announce to: [email protected] Overview of the packages included in NTEX (for details seethe®leINFO): Be sure to include Keywords: and a short description of your software. TEX, MetaFont, BibTEX, x®g and related utilities MakeIndex, GLOTEX, IDXTEX for indexing Dutch TEX Users Group (NTG), P.O. Box 394, 1740 AJ Schagen, The Netherlands Reprint MAPS#13 (94.2); Nov 1994.