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NTeX 1.5
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Thu Aug 3 18:17:35 1995
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 13:48:28 +0300
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
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From: Frank Langbein <langbein@mathematik.uni-stuttgart.de>
Subject: NTeX 1.5
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Hi!
I've uploaded NTeX 1.5 at the 1st of August '95 on sunsite.unc.edu in
/pub/Linux/Incoming/ntex-1.5/. This should be copied to the position of
NTeX 1.4 in /pub/Linux/apps/tex/ntex. It should soon be available on all
sunsite mirrors and on the CTAn sites in /tex-archive/systems/unix/linux/ntex.
NTeX is a very complete TeX distribution for Linux. The complete NTeX
distribution needs 25 disks. These disks are grouped into disksets. For a
basic installation you only need the 9 disks from the ntex-b series. For
further details about the organisation of the disks, please refer to the
file `index' on the ntex-b1 disk. Please note that the organisation of the
disks changed from version 1.4 to 1.5. Please read the file `readme.nt' on
the ntex-b1 disk and the file `install' for information about installation.
NTeX 1.5 will be the final realease of NTeX for this year since I have some
other things to do. Expect a totally new NTeX by the beginning of '96.
The following packages changed from 1.4 to 1.5:
ntb-auct, ntb-bibt, ntb-dlj, ntb-dps, ntb-g2p, ntb-h2l, ntb-indx, ntb-jtex,
ntb-mf, ntb-mfnx, ntb-mp, ntb-tex, ntb-texi, ntb-tfig, ntb-tool, ntb-xdvi,
ntb-xet, ntb-xfig, ntb-xltx, ntb-xtem, ntb-xts, ntexinst, ntf-ccyr, ntf-ccyr,
ntf-cm, ntf-fc, ntf-phon, ntf-ps, ntm-amst, ntm-etex, ntm-gree, ntm-l209,
ntm-l2e, ntm-l2eb, ntm-l2ep, ntm-tex, ntm-xy, nts-auct, nts-dljk, nts-dpsk,
nts-gloi, nts-gsfp, nts-h2l, nts-hier, nts-kpse, nts-l2h, nts-misc, nts-mkid,
nts-texi, nts-trfi, nts-w2c1, nts-w2c2, nts-w2c3, nts-xdvi, nts-xfig,
nts-xltx, ntm-xy, ntm-xydo, nts-bibv, ntb-bibv
The main changes between 1.4 and 1.5 are:
* TeX '95: TeX 3.14159, Metafont 2.718, tools, CM fonts
* LaTeX2e 95/06/01, patchlevel 3
* AMSLaTeX 1.2, 95/02/23
* Babel 3.5
* BibView 2.1
* XY-Pic 3.0
* XTem 3.12.1
* XLaTeX 3.3c
* new greek format
* new german style and hyphenations
* TeXInfo 3.4
* tsipa 1.1
* sauter fonts work
* some font errors fixed
* some of bug fixes
Further details could be found in the file changes on disk ntex-b1.
There is also a WWW page for NTeX:
http://www.mathematik.uni-stuttgart.de:/mathB/lst3/langbein/ntex.html
You'll find more information about NTeX, how to get NTeX for Linux and how to
get it for HP UX and AIX.
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
include 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 and/or during installation time. The purpose of NTeX is
to provide a distribution for TeX and the fronts, macros which could be
easily installed and configured.
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, bibview, etc.
* 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,
ArabTeX, 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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Frank Langbein langbein@mathematik.uni-stuttgart.de
http://www.mathematik.uni-stuttgart.de/mathB/lst3/langbein.html
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