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NEW RELEASE: EPMTeX version 3.1 macros
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (hacker@patagonia.bellcore.com)
Sun Oct 1 09:17:18 1995
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 09:38:17 GMT
From: hacker@patagonia.bellcore.com
Reply-To: hacker@patagonia.bellcore.com
Submitted by: Jon Hacker (hacker@patagonia.bellcore.com)
Source: Jon Hacker (hacker@patagonia.bellcore.com)
Date received: 1995 September 27
Date posted: 1995 September 30
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EPMTeX Standard Version 3.1
and
EPMTeX Pro Version 3.1
We are pleased to release the latest version of the integrated TeX
macros for IBM's OS/2 enhanced editor EPM v5.51a and EPM v6.
EPMTeX v3.1 is a sophisticated free macro package that integrates
the TeX typesetting system with the IBM enhanced editor EPM for OS/2.
The EPMTeX macro suite adds a TeX pull down menu to the EPM menu bar,
and includes a PM style notebook program for configuration of the
package.
Menu items in the TeX pull down menu allow the user to TeX (with any
format, e.g. LaTeX), jump to errors in the TeX source, preview
(portrait and landscape), and print (portrait and landscape) the TeX
file currently active in EPM. Custom 'user' modes may also be defined
for special needs unique to the user.
New Features
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Due to popular demand, the standard edition of EPMTeX now comes
precompiled. The version of EPM shipped with OS/2 or Warp is all that
is required to run EPMTeX. It is no longer necessary to obtain the EPM
macro compiler from IBM to add the core EPMTeX features. Consequently,
installation is now greatly simplified.
An easy to use PM style notebook is provided to configure the package
greatly simplifying the initial configuration and day to day use
of the macros.
A Pro version also comes with the package. The Pro version does *not*
come precompiled and is not recommended for novice users. The Pro
version offers additional features over the standard
version such as:
- The format and orientation can be chosen from either the settings
notebook (as per the standard version) or from the EPM TeX menu.
- The EPM TeX menu items get enabled/disabled (greyed out) as
appropriate. For example, if the dvi file does not exist, the
preview and print functions will be greyed out in the menu.
- Access to the macro source code should you wish to dabble in
a little customization of the package.
Availability
~~~~~~~~~~~~
The EPMTeX v3.1 package is available by anonymous ftp, gopher or web
browser from the EPMTeX official site sharkbait.arl.psu.edu. The
package is contained in the file epmtex31.zip.
In addition, we expect it will be available eventually at most major
OS/2 archives.
http://sharkbait.arl.psu.edu/EPMTeX/
gopher://sharkbait.arl.psu.edu/ (in the OS!2 subdirectory)
ftp://sharkbait.arl.psu.edu/ (in the OS!2 subdirectory)
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/os2/ (incoming, to be moved to unix/tex)
Freeware.
