chris@cs.UMD.EDU (Chris Torek) (12/29/89)
Archive-name: mc-tex/beta.1dec89
Original-posting-by: chris@cs.UMD.EDU (Chris Torek)
Original-subject: 2nd official beta version of MC-TeX available
Archive-site: mimsy.umd.edu [128.8.128.8]
Archive-directory: tex
Archive-files: mctex.beta.1dec89.Z
Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti)
After a long delay, the second official beta release of MC-TeX is out.
All reported bugs have been fixed (I hope...). Here is a summary of
the changes since the original release. (Note that there was a
`version 2' I made up some time ago, then immediately renamed as `1.1'
as a new set of bug reports rolled in. The current version is named
by date.)
- Various minor typographic and factual errors in the documentation
have been fixed. The installation documentation has been revised
and extended, including details on optimising fontdesc files.
- Font description files may refer to user environment variables.
- GF and box fonts work.
- The library contains new \special decoding routines (designed to
work with tpic; the tpic support is not yet in, however).
- Many changes to the PostScript driver:
. new \special handling, compatible with many dvi2ps variants
. minor changes to internal file-finding code, should make configuration
easier
. PostScript fonts now work
. fonts may contain up to 256 characters
. the PostScript output is more compact (using an idea stolen from
Tom Rokicki) and is a little bit easier on printer VM
. should work with 2-up wrappers (this is untested)
- Some TFM and LaTeX style files for using PostScript fonts on the
Apple LaserWriter (and any compatible printers) are now provided.
Since the Adobe metrics are (apparently) not constrained to be the
same on any two different PostScript printers, whether these will
work for others is uncertain.
Texx2 and texsun *still* have not been integrated with the system. (If
anyone wants to do this for me. . . .)
The new distribution is in the same directory as the previous one, but
is now named by its date:
% ftp mimsy.umd.edu
Connected to mimsy.umd.edu.
220 mimsy.umd.edu FTP server ... ready.
Name (mimsy:chris): anonymous
331 Guest login ok, send ident as password.
Password: user@host
230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
ftp> binary
200 Type set to I.
ftp> get tex/mctex.beta.1dec89.Z mctex.beta.1dec89.Z
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening data connection for ... (453131 bytes).
Please limit FTP access to non-working hours if possible. (We are on EST,
hence after 3 PM in California is no longer working hours here....)
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