WSULIVAN%IRLEARN@UWAVM.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU (Wayne G. Sullivan) (01/06/90)
Archive-name: sbtex/sb29-announce
Original-posting-by: "Wayne G. Sullivan" <WSULIVAN%IRLEARN@UWAVM.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Original-subject: Upgrade of sbtex for MSDOS
Archive-site: venus.ycc.yale.edu [130.132.1.5]
Archive-directory: UTOOLS:[GUEST]
Archive-files: sb29tex.zip
Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti)
[From TeXHaX Digest V89 #116. --Ed]
An upgrade of sbtex, sb29, is now available by anonymous FTP as sb29tex.zip
from VENUS.YCC.YALE.EDU and as sb29tex.arc in the SIMTEL20 pd1:<msdos.tex>
directory. It is (or should soon be) available from ASTON.
sb29 is TeX 2.991 for MSDOS. I regret that I have not had, nor will have
in the near future, time to include the 2.992 changes: sbtex is a spare time
project.
The features of sb29:
1. Bug fix concerning CTRL-BREAK during terminal I-O.
2. Editing support: sb29 includes Peter Sawatzki's TE editor which facilitates
rapid scrolling between errors in the TeX file which are marked in the LOG
file. Support for the 'E' option by means of batch files.
3. Increased hash-size. sb29 can handle up to 3500 multi-letter control
sequences; sb26 was limited to 3050.
4. User adjustable pool-size and save-size: some of the recent work by
Rainer Schoepf and Frank Mittelbach requires larger values for these
than that specified in TeX.WEB.
5. Multiple paths for TEXINPUTS and FONTTFMS. (sbtex uses FONTTFMS for the
TFM directories rather than TEXFONTS because the Beebe drivers use TEXFONTS
for fonts, which seems reasonable.)
Wayne Sullivan