Category : EmTeX is a TeX/LaTeX document editor
Archive   : LATEX.ZIP
Filename : LATEX.INS

LAST MODIFICATION TO THESE INSTRUCTIONS WAS ON 1 December 1991

Here are instructions for generating LaTeX at a different site. Unless
otherwise specified, all files are obtained from the same source from
which you obtained this file. For clarity, in this document file names
appear in UPPER-CASE letters. However, for systems that distinguish
case in file names, all file names should be lower case.


CONTENTS OF THIS FILE:

O. News
I. What Files You Need
II. Generating an Executable LaTeX File
III. Customizing LaTeX for Your Site
A. Generating the Local Guide
B. SMALL.TEX and LOCAL.GID
C. Other Modifications
IV. SLiTeX
V. BibTeX and MakeIndex
VI. Keeping in Touch
VII. FTPing Files
VIII. What to do with Old Versions of the Manual


0. NEWS
----

The files LATEX.DIF and LFONTS.AMR has been removed from the
distribution. The former was of not much use to many people, and the
latter is no longer needed (nobody uses AMR fonts anymore).


The files TESTA4.TEX and LHYPHEN.TEX have been added to the
distribution. TESTA4.TEX is a version of TESTPAGE.TEX for A4 paper.
LHYPHEN.TEX contains hyphenation related stuff and has to be adapted
for different languages.

The small caps typeface has been added to SLiTeX. Therefore, a new
invisible font called ICMCSC10 is distributed together with LaTeX.

Please note that most of the METAFONT source files have been changed
slightly. It is recommended that you rebuild the font set with
Metafont. In particular, it is no longer possible to compile the line
fonts with the CMBASE preloaded.


I. WHAT FILES YOU NEED
-------------------

The beginning of the file LATEX.BUG lists all the files that you should
have, along with their creation dates. Each file contains its creation
date in a comment somewhere near the beginning of the file. Make sure
you have all these files, and that the dates of the file corresponds to
the dates given in LATEX.BUG.

Note: Do not depend upon the creation date of the file given by the
operating system. This is likely to be later than the one in the file
for two reasons: (1) copying the file can cause the copy to have
as its creation date the date the copy was made, and (2) cosmetic
changes to a file are sometimes made without changing its date.

The files on the standard distribution tape should all have the correct
dates. However, a common source of errors is for an old version of a
file to appear in the system directory in place of the current one.



II. GENERATING AN EXECUTABLE LaTeX FILE
------------------------------------

After obtaining the LaTeX files, you must create an executable LaTeX
file and put it on a system directory so it can be run by your users.
You need the following files .TEX files:

LPLAIN.TEX
LATEX.TEX
LFONTS.TEX

plus standard TeX files called by the PLAIN package, like HYPHEN.TEX.

LaTeX uses the following special fonts in addition to the normal CMR
family:
LASY10 LASY9 ... LASY5 (for special symbols)
LINE10 LINEW10 (for slanted lines)
LCIRCLE10 LCIRCLEW10 (for circles)
Characters may be added to the LASY font family from time to time.

Pixel files for these fonts are available from the standard TeX
sources. Alternatively, they can be generated only with metafont.
To do this, you'll need the .MF files for all of these -- i.e.,
LASY10.MF, ... , LCIRCLEW10.MF -- plus the following .MF files called
by them:
LASY.MF
LINE.MF
LCIRCLE.MF

Note: Because the Imagen MAKIMP program for TOPS-20 doesn't do things
in the approved fashion, the standard LINE10 and LCIRCLE10 fonts don't
work right with it. (Fonts that work right for the Imagen on the
TOPS-20 can be created from the files TLINE10.MF and TCIRCLE10.MF on
the directory at SRI-AI. When using them, you should also
\input the file SRI.TEX when running INITEX to create a new
version of LaTeX. [See below.]) Other device drivers may have similar
problems.

The file LFONTS.TEX contains all the LaTeX code that involves font
loading. This file loads the new CMR fonts.

Some fonts are preloaded, others get loaded when the user
first requests them. The comments at the beginning of LFONTS.TEX
explain how this works. The section of LFONTS.TEX that preloads the
fonts mentions all the fonts that LaTeX currently loads or might load,
the latter having the \font commands commented out. However, the
current LFONTS and .STY files don't need all those files. The best way
to see what fonts are required is to run input files that try to use
all type styles in all sizes. (You probably can't do this with a
single input file because you'll run TeX out of font space.) The file
TRYFONTS.TEX can be used for this purpose. Just run it through LaTeX
and follow directions. You may want to change the exact set of
typestyles provided to the user at the various sizes.

You create LaTeX just as you would an ordinary version of TeX,
except you must load LPLAIN instead of PLAIN. (TeX sometimes
uses PLAIN as a default if nothing else is specified, and you may
have a version of TeX with PLAIN already loaded, which should
not be used.)

You may have to enlarge the limits in the standard distribution
version of TeX to produce an executable LaTeX file. The appropriate
parameters are the ones used to produce the SU-Score version of TeX.

Here is how to create LaTeX on some operating systems.


TOPS-20

The following sequence of commands is used on the TOPS-20 system at
SRI-AI. It shows prompts as well as what you type, with comments at the
right, in parentheses.

@INITEX lplain
*\input sri (Loads local modifications. See below.)
*\dump
@VIRTEX &lplain
*^C
@SAVE latex 0 37777

This will produce a version that can be called by @LATEX .
You'll have to define TEXSPOOL: and other devices just as for TeX.


ULTRIX/UNIX

The following sequence of commands works on Ultrix at SRC, with the
version of TeX produced on the Pastel compiler. Since Ultrix and Unix
are similar, it may work on Unix also. Some path file names will
obviously have to be changed. The system prompt is shown as `%', and
`*' indicates TeX's prompt. Comments are in parentheses at the right.

%initex lplain
*\input src (Loads local modifications. See below.)
*\dump

%virtex \&lplain
* control-\ (This is a single control character.)

%undump latex /usr/local/bin/virtex core

For the pc Pascal compiler, and for TeX compiled with the WEB-to-C
system on Unix machines, the two lines beginning with
`%virtex \&lplain' should be replaced by the following:

% virtex '&lplain' xyxyxy

(This will produce the responses)

This is TeX, Version 3.14 for Berkeley UNIX (no format preloaded)
! I can't find file `xyxyxy.tex'.
<*> &lplain xyxyxy

Please type another input file name: ^\

Notice that the pseudo-file-name "xyxyxy" can be any nonsense character string
you choose, so long as you are sure that no file named xyxyxy.tex is
accessible.
The "^\" character represents the Unix "Quit" character (usually control-\)
which makes a core file (if you are running in a directory in which you have
write privileges). Follow this with undump, as noted above.

Note: The current release of WEB-to-C does no longer use undump.
Follow the instructions in the WEB-to-C documentation.

The TEXINPUTS environment variable tells LaTeX where to find input
files.



Vax-VMS

Andy Hanson at SRI reports that the following sequence of VMS and TeX
commands generates an executable LaTeX file on VMS. Before typing the
`\dump' command, you may want to \input a file with local
modifications.

$ set command virtex
$ initex
**lplain
*\dump
$ virtex
**&lplain
*\stop
*save latex




III. CUSTOMIZING LaTeX FOR YOUR SITE
-------------------------------

The installer of LaTeX cannot just copy the files and generate an
executable versions. There are certain other things that must be done
to make sure that your site conforms to the description in the
LaTeX manual.


A. Generating the Local Guide
--------------------------

The LaTeX manual has been published by Addison-Wesley, and is now
available in book stores. It refers to a Local Guide that describes
how to use LaTeX at the user's site. You are responsible for
generating the Local Guide at your site. First, run the file LOCAL.TEX
through LaTeX. (The file has cross-references, so you must run it
through twice.) This produces a version of the Local Guide for some
site other than your own. You must modify LOCAL.TEX to create the
local guide for your site.


B. SMALL.TEX and LOCAL.GID
-----------------------

The file SMALL.TEX is a short introduction to LaTeX, and is meant to be
read on-line with a text editor. It refers to a file LOCAL.GID that
contains brief instructions for running LaTeX at your site. You must
modify SMALL.TEX so it correctly tells the user where to find
LOCAL.GID. You must modify LOCAL.GID for your site. LOCAL.GID is
mean to be read on-line, so it should fit on a single terminal
screen.


C. Other Modifications
-------------------

You may need to make some local modifications for your site.
These are best done by making a .TEX file with commands that
are \input when you generate LaTeX.

The margin settings on all the document styles are made under the
assumption that a point that TeX thinks is in the upper left-hand
corner of the output page is printed by the device driver at a point
one inch from both the top and left sides of the paper. Many output
devices don't conform to this convention. They may also magnify or
reduce the output in one or more dimensions. If your output device
deviates from the this convention, you should make the appropriate
correction by adding commands to set \hoffset and \voffset to your file
of local modifications. Running LaTeX on the input TESTPAGE.TEX will
generate a test page for checking what your output device really
prints.

You may also have to adjust the settings of \marginparwidth, which
controls the width of marginal notes, in the document style files. The
current values are chosen to get the largest marginal notes that the
Imagen printer will fit on the page. However, your printer may be able
to fit more or less text on a line.

You'll have to modify the macros in LETTER.STY to produce the letter
document style appropriate for your installation. However, if you
significantly change the functionality, give the document style a
different name.

Do not make any changes to the standard document styles other than the
ones described above. The manual describes what happens when you run
SAMPLE.TEX with these document styles, and the user expects the same
thing to happen when run at your site. The creation of new document
styles is encouraged, but they should be given new names. If you
design a new style or style option that is generally useful, it can be
added to the LaTeX distribution. LaTeX input files can be sent
electronically, and provide an excellent way of transmitting documents
electronically. (.DVI files are not as portable because different
sites may have different fonts.) If LaTeX is to be useable for document
exchange, the standard document styles must be standard.



IV. SLiTeX
------

To generate SLiTeX, you need the following .TEX files:
SPLAIN.TEX
SLITEX.TEX
SFONTS.TEX
SPLAIN and SFONTS are the analogs of LPLAIN and LFONTS. You generate
SLiTeX by INITEX'ing SPLAIN instead of LPLAIN. SFONTS describes the
fonts that are needed. There are three nonstandard visible fonts that
are used by SLiTeX: LCMSS8, LCMSSI8 and LCMSSB8. The first two are
almost identical to CMSSQ8 and CMSSQI8, differing only in that the
uppercase `I' has crossbars in the LMSS* fonts. LCMSSB8 is a bold
version of LCMSS8. For every visible font, SLiTeX also uses a
corresponding invisible font---one that has the identical .TFM
information but prints nothing. Its name is obtained by adding an `I'
to the beginning of the corresponding visible font's name. You need
the invisible fonts to make color slides and to implement the
\invisible command.

By now, these slide fonts should be on the standard distribution tape.
If they aren't, you should find some reasonable substitutes and modify
SFONTS.TEX accordingly. If you don't have the invisible fonts, you'll
have to warn your users (in the Local Guide) that they can't make color
slides or use the \invisible command. The names of the fonts called in
SFONTS.TEX might differ from the names of the actual fonts that appear
on the distribution tape. The necessary changes to SFONTS.TEX should
be obvious.


V. BibTeX and MakeIndex
--------------------

The BibTeX program is not part of the LaTeX file set. Problems with
BibTeX should be addressed to Oren Patashnik, whose Internet address
is [email protected].

MakeIndex is a C program written by Peehong Chen at Berekeley.
Instructions for using it with LaTeX are contained in the file
MAKEINDEX.TEX; its use depends upon the MAKEIDX document style that is
part of the LaTeX distribution. However, the MakeIndex program itself
is not part of the LaTeX or TeX distribution, since it is not written
in Web.


VI. KEEPING IN TOUCH
----------------

Known bugs in LaTeX and in the standard document styles are listed in
LATEX.BUG. This file also lists the date all relevant files have been
changed. You should check LATEX.BUG from time to time. I don't expect
LaTeX bugs to be too common, but they will be fixed as they are reported.

Errata and omissions to the manual are described in ADDENDUM.TEX,
which is \input by LOCAL.TEX. Please send any new ones that you
find to me electronically at my Internet address
[email protected]
or my my mailing address
Digital Equipment Corporation
130 Lytton Avenue
Palo Alto, CA 94301

I will, of course, fix all bugs that I am told about. There should be
someone at each site to whom users report bugs; he or she should make
sure that they are bugs before forwarding them to me. (In particular,
Section C.8.1 should be read carefully before reporting bugs in
LaTeX's figure placement algorithm.)



VII. FTPing FILES
------------

If you've gotten this file by FTP over a network, then you know how to
FTP files from here to there. It's not likely that you'll be FTPing
files while they're being updated, but the following algorithm
eliminates this possibility:

1. FTP the LATEX.BUG file first.
2. Check that the creation date of every other file you FTP
is the same as the date given for it at the head of LATEX.BUG.
If the date on LATEX.BUG is earlier, then I'm currently updating
the file. If the date on LATEX.BUG is later, then something
is fouled up and you should send me a message.

Meanwhile, the maintainer of the version being FTP'ed should change the
file LATEX.BUG only after changing all other files. [See
Communications of the ACM, Vol 20, No. 11 (Nov. 1977) pages 806-811
for a proof of correctness for this algorithm.]



VIII. WHAT TO DO WITH OLD VERSIONS OF THE MANUAL
------------------------------------------

Destroy them.