talvola@janus.berkeley.edu (Erik Talvola) (02/24/90)
I have been running SBTex v2.9 on my IBM PC, and I was wondering where I could get the code to build LaTeX. I have seen various style files for LaTeX, but what do you need to build it when all you have is the barebones TeX? Please e-mail replies unless you think the whole net is interested.... -- +----------------------------+ ! Erik Talvola | "It's just what we need... a colossal negative ! talvola@janus.berkeley.edu | space wedgie of great power coming right at us ! ...!ucbvax!janus!talvola | at warp speed." -- Star Drek
nadkarni@ashok.dec.com (02/24/90)
In article <TALVOLA.90Feb23115655@janus.berkeley.edu>, talvola@janus.berkeley.edu (Erik Talvola) writes... > > I have been running SBTex v2.9 on my IBM PC, and I was wondering >where I could get the code to build LaTeX. I have seen various >style files for LaTeX, but what do you need to build it when all you >have is the barebones TeX? Please e-mail replies unless you think >the whole net is interested.... Not sure about the whole net, but I'm certainly interested, so if someone could just post the info... Thanks /Ashok Nadkarni Digital Equipment Corp.
ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap) (02/24/90)
|> I have been running SBTex v2.9 on my IBM PC, and I was wondering |>where I could get the code to build LaTeX. I have seen various |>style files for LaTeX, but what do you need to build it when all you |>have is the barebones TeX? Please e-mail replies unless you think |>the whole net is interested.... | |Not sure about the whole net, but I'm certainly interested, so if someone |could just post the info... Thanks This is not difficult at all. Here is the general outline. Disclaimer: I don't actually have a PC I can do this on. However I know the process is similar to that for bigger machines, only little details differ, and I know people who have succeeded. + Unload all the TSRs and crud you don't need. You want the maximum memory for this task. + Get these files from any convenient distribution (your mainframe TeX macros will do): lplain.tex, hyphen.tex, lfonts.tex, latex.tex. You will also need tfm files for the fonts in lfonts.tex. Or you can proceed and let initex tell you what is missing. :-) + At the command line, say "initex lplain.tex \dump". Initex will then give you output like this: This is TeX, C Version 2.98 (INITEX) (/usr/lib/tex/macros/lplain.tex Preloading the plain format: codes, registers, parameters, macros, math definitions, hyphenation (/usr/lib/tex/macros/hyphen.tex) (/usr/lib/tex/macros/lfonts.tex) (/usr/lib/tex/macros/latex.tex LaTeX Version 2.09 <8 Feb 1989> counters, hacks, errors, par, spacing, control, files, env. counters, page nos., x-ref, environments, math, center, verbatim, list, itemize, boxes, tabbing, array, picture, theorem, lengths, title, sectioning, contents, index, bibliography, floats, footnotes, initial, output, debugging) Input any local modifications here. ) Beginning to dump on file lplain.fmt (preloaded format=lplain 90.2.23) 2885 strings of total length 35933 21890 memory locations dumped; current usage is 118&21656 1958 multiletter control sequences \font\nullfont=nullfont ... [lots of font names deleted] ... \font\tencircw=circlew10 18989 words of font info for 72 preloaded fonts 14 hyphenation exceptions Hyphenation trie of length 5942 has 181 ops No pages of output. Transcript written on lplain.log. + If no files were missing, you now have lplain.fmt. You can run latex by "virtex &lplain sample.tex". There may be short cut invocations, check your manual. + If you want to run the DVI backend on your PC also, then you need to get the raster files (pk files) for your printer driver. You can work out the files needed from the log created in the dumping stage. Font xxxNN (at P point) corresponds to the file xxxNN at <printer resolution>*(P/NN) pk. If (at P point) is missing, the font is at the natural size NN. E.g. cmsy10 at 12 pt for a 300 dpi printer requires the pk file cmsy10.360pk (or some variation on the pathname due to limitations on filename suffixes on MSDOS systems).
ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap) (02/24/90)
Oh yes I forgot to mention that if you hope to format anything with
your shiny new latex you will need to get the style files that you
use: {article,art*,book,bk*,report,rep*,letter}.sty. And some assorted
ones like titlepage.sty, twocolumn.sty, etc.
And if you do bibliographies you'll need bibtex and the .bst files.
Hmm, is latex a disk manufacturer conspiracy? :-)flur@duke.gatech.edu (Peter W. Flur) (02/25/90)
This will probably end up appearing weekly, but: The latex/tex sources can be found on labrea.stanford.edu in pub/tex/unix. The dvi driver sources can be found on science.utah.edu in aps:<tex.dvi> --- remember its not a unix system, so use tenex AND binary modes to transfer files! Peter
dhosek@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (dhosek) (02/25/90)
If you're running things on your PC, probably the best idea would
be to get the files from Jon Radel. He has more or less every PD PC
TeX-related item you could want (including LaTeX sources, et alia).
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