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NTeX 1.4
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Wed Jun 7 20:00:53 1995
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 04:37:28 -0500
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@rose.uthscsa.edu>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
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From: Frank Langbein <langbefk@cip10.mathematik.uni-stuttgart.de>
Subject: NTeX 1.4
Reply-to: langbein@mathematik.uni-stuttgart.de
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Keywords: NTeX, TeX, LaTeX, typesetting, word processing
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Hi folks,
I just uploaded NTeX 1.4 on sunsite.unc.edu in /pub/Linux/Incoming/ntex/.
This should be copied to the position of NTeX 1.3 in /pub/Linux/apps/tex/ntex.
NTeX is a very complete TeX distribution for Linux. There were a lot of
changes, which probably introduced some new bugs. The complete NTeX
distribution needs 23 disks. The disks are grouped into disksets. For a
basic installation you only need the 9 disks from the ntex-b series. For
further details, please refer to the file `index' on th ntex-b1 disk.
Please note that the organisation of the disks changed from version 1.3 to
1.4. Please read the file `readme.nt' on the ntex-b1 disk and the file
`install' for information about installation.
The main changes from 1.3 to 1.4 are:
* NTT-JTeX for Japanese typesetting
* TeX--XeT for right to left typesetting
* XLaTeX, XTem and XTeXSh
* MetaPost
* sources could be configured with GNU autoconf's configure
* Updates for most of the programs, formats, new macros and fonts
The URL of the WWW page for NTeX is
http://www.mathematik.uni-stuttgart.de/mathB/lst3/langbein/ntex.html
Bug fixes, new packages, etc. for NTeX 1.4 will be announced here.
For those who do not know TeX/NTeX:
TeX is a software system that was originally written by Donald Knuth to
typeset texts. LaTeX is a set of macros for TeX written to simplify
typesetting with TeX. There are a lot of other macros and style files,
etc. which were designed for the same purpose. The NTeX distribution also
contains Metafont, a program which allows the user to design fonts. NTeX
also includes a lot of these fonts. I tried to include a lot of macros
and fonts into the NTeX distribution which could be installed for your
needs. Also the basic configuration of TeX, etc. can be done with
shell scripts. The purpose of NTeX is to provide a distribution for
TeX, macros which could be easily installed and configured and provides
a large set of fonts, formats and macros.
Overview of the packages included in NTeX
* TeX, MetaFont, BibTeX, xfig and related utilities
* MakeIndex, GLOTeX, IDXTeX for indexing
* DVI drivers for X11, postscript, HP Laserjet series, Deskjet500
(xdvik, dvipsk and dvi2ljk are the new versions using kpathsea 2.1)
* xfig, transfig
* gsftopk, html2latex
* NTT-JTeX for typesetting Japanese texts
* TeX--XeT for typesetting right to left texts
* MetaPosrt
* The GNU TeXinfo system
* Formats and macros: plain TeX, extended plain TeX, AMSTeX, PiCTeX,
LaTeX2e (including. AMSLaTeX, BABEL, SLITeX, ...), LaTeX 2.09,
MTeX, MusicTeX, TreeTeX, XYPic, JTeX, JLaTeX, ArabTeX, PLFTeX,
TeX--XeT, HieroTeX, German, Greek, Hebrew, Cyrillic, Turkish,
Osmanian, Thai, Vietnamese, Tamil, Devanagari, Georgian, minitoc, fp.
* Fonts: the computer modern font, the dc European fonts,
the afriacan fc fonts, pica, ocr-a, pandora, punk, calligra, gothic,
hge, twcal, script, la, va, wasy, rsfs, ulsy, concrete maths, logic,
bbm, blackletter, astro, dingbats, karta, go, phonetic, futhork,
st. mary road symbols, bard, rune, elvish, enwar, tengwar, futhark,
goblin, klingon, ogham, okuda, shavian, syric, ugaritic.
support of the 35 standard Postscript fonts, some free available
postscript fonts (Charter, URWAntiqueT, URQGroteskT, Nimbus, Utopia)
For error reports, suggestions and comments contact me. I will try to remove
all the problems and improve NTeX.
Frank Langbein,
langbein@mathematik.uni-stuttgart.de
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