  This is teTeX-0.4, a TeX distribution for UNIX compatible systems.

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  News in release 0.4:
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- METAPOST (thanks, Ulrik!)
- fonts added/updated: sauter fonts 2.4, bbold, bbm, stmary, cyrillic
  encoding (OT2) support for LaTeX
- added/updated hyphenation patterns: danish, czech
- added/updated "companion" packages: a4dutch, a4wide, a5, a5comb, bar,
    changebar, citesort, curves, curvesls, draftcopy, eclbip, ecltree,
    endnotes, fnpara, footnpag, hangcaption, letterspace, multibox,
    multind, multirow, portland, psboxit, pstricks, revtex, tabls,
    threeparttable, trees, vpage
- added/updated other macro packages: geometry, psfrag, pslatex, revtex,
    xypic
- new Kpathsea feature: brace expansion 
- some bug fixes  (e.g. psfrag script, babel docs)
- documentation added/updated:
   "The TeX and LaTeX Catalogue", uktug-faq, de-tex-faq, latex209-html

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  I do not know teTeX yet...
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For those who do not know what teTeX is: teTeX is a complete TeX
distribution for UNIX compatible systems. My main aims when putting
things together have been:

	- create something simple to install, use and maintain
	- include as much useful documentation as possible
	- test as much as possible and try to avoid bugs

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 Here - in short - the main features of teTeX, as listed in the file
 FEATURES:
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Main features of the teTeX distribution:

- file organisation TDS (TeX Directory Structure) Standard compliant
- very easy to install and customize (install.sh and texconfig utility)
- LaTeX2e (June 1996) together with lots of
  extra LaTeX packages (most packages mentioned in the LaTeX Companion)
- a lot of documentation: more than 130 dvi/ps-files, teTeX manual, FAQs
- support for read-only inputs tree (i.e. possibility to use alternate
  destination for newly created fonts)
- ready for a multi platform setup
- fast file searching. web2c patched to work with kpathsea-2.6. The
  search paths are chosen to give high performance.
- run-time configuration files for dvi-drivers and tex+friends.
- a nice set of fonts to play with: PostScript fonts, ams, pandora, cm,
  dc, oldgerman and more. All easily accessible by LaTeX.
- METAPOST included
- the whole distribution can be installed anywhere in the
  filesystem (e.g. /usr/TeX or /usr/local/tex). You do not
  need to set any environment variable as long as you keep
  the original structure of the package.
- mailing list for discussion: tetex@informatik.uni-hannover.de
- mailing list for announcemants: tetex-announce@informatik.uni-hannover.de

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 Included packages:
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Programs:
  web2c:       tex, mf, bibtex, gftopk, mp, ...
  dvi drivers: xdvi, dvips, dvilj, dvilj2p, dvilj4, dvilj4l
  texinfo:     makeinfo, texindex, ...
  scripts:     dvi2fax, dvihp, ps2frag (perl), fontimport, fontexport,
               texconfig, allneeded, allcm, alldc, ...
  others:      makeindex, kpsetool, gsftopk, ps2pk, afm2tfm, ...

Macro packages (La)TeX:
  Vmargin a4dutch a4wide a5 a5comb algorithm amsfonts amslatex anysize
  apalike arrow babel bar bbm bbold beton bibgerm blkarray boxedminipage
  btxmac calc caption changebar cite citesort comment curves curvesls
  custom-bib dinbrief doublespace draftcopy dvips eclbip ecltree eepic
  endfloat endnotes eplain euler example fancyhdr fancyheadings float
  floatflt fnpara foiltex footnpag fullpage g-brief geometry german
  gletter graphics greekctr hangcaption here hyphen idxmac index initials
  isolatin1 koma-script labels landscape lastpage latin1jk latin3jk
  letterspace localloc ltxtable mathbbol mathrsfs mflogo mfnfss minitoc
  moreverb mproof multibox multind multirow mylatex natbib nopageno
  ntgclass null ot2cyr parskip path picinpar pictex plain portland program
  psboxit psfig psfrag pslatex psnfss pstricks relsize revtex rotating
  rotfloat scrload seminar setspace shadow shapepar showtags stmaryrd
  subfigure supertabular sz tabls testfont texdraw texinfo texnames
  textcomp textfit textmerg threeparttable tools trees typehtml ulem
  umlaute url version vmargin vpage wasyfont wasysym wrapfig xepsf xypic

Supported fonts:
  avantgar bbm bbold bookman charter cm cmextra concrete courier cyrillic
  euler gothic helvetic latex mathppl mathptm mflogo misc ncntrsbk
  palatino pandora rsfs stmary symbol symbols times utopia wasy xypic
  zapfchan zapfding

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 Supported platforms:
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Binaries are available for:
  alpha-linux           DEC Alpha/Linux
  alpha-osf3.2          DEC Alpha/Digital Unix 3.2
  alpha-osf4.0          DEC Alpha/Digital Unix 4.0
  c1-bsd                Convex C-110
  c2-bsd                Convex C-210
  hppa-nextstep3        HPPA/NEXTSTEP 3
  hppa1.1-hpux10        HPPA/HP-UX 10.xx
  hppa1.1-hpux9         HPPA/HP-UX 9.xx
  i386-freebsd2.1.5     Intel x86/FreeBSD 2.1.5
  i386-linux            Intel x86/Linux (ELF)
  i386-linuxaout        Intel x86/Linux (a.out)
  i386-nextstep3        Intel x86/NEXTSTEP 3
  i386-solaris2.5       Intel x86/Solaris2.5
  m68k-hpux9            HP 400/HP-UX 9.xx
  m68k-nextstep3        Motorola 68k/NEXTSTEP 3
  mab-nextstep3         NEXTSTEP (NeXT,Intel,HP-PA,SPARC)
  mips-irix5.3          SGI Irix 5.3
  mips-irix6.2          SGI Irix 6.2
  mips-ultrix4.3        Mips/Ultrix 4.3
  rs6000-aix4.1.4       IBM RS6000 AIX 4.1.4
  rs6000-aix4.2.0       IBM RS6000 AIX 4.2.0
  sparc-nextstep3       SUN Sparc/NEXTSTEP 3
  sparc-solaris2.4      SUN Sparc/Solaris 2.4
  sparc-solaris2.5      SUN Sparc/Solaris 2.5
  sparc-sunos4.1.3      SUN Sparc/SunOS 4.1.3


Binaries for some other platforms are planned to be added in the future.

The sources may compile on other UNIX compatible platforms, too. You
need GNU make and gcc. I am not sure if lex does work on all systems, but
at least flex did alway work. 

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 Documentation
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There is the teTeX manual (TETEXDOC.dvi) a teTeX FAQ (FAQ-teTeX) and
lots of documentation for the included programs and macros.

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 mailing list:
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There are two mailing-lists for teTeX:

Get help from the list server with:
  echo help | mail majordomo@informatik.uni-hannover.de

To subscribe the teTeX discussion list, do:
  echo subscribe tetex | mail majordomo@informatik.uni-hannover.de

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  echo subscribe tetex-announce | mail majordomo@informatik.uni-hannover.de

Get an archive of the list:
  echo get tetex archive | mail majordomo@informatik.uni-hannover.de

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 Copyright License: GNU GPL Version 2 (or later)
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Please send feedback to the autor:

	Thomas Esser
	Email: te@informatik.uni-hannover.de

	23.08.1996
