FW: fptex 0.1

[Jody Klymak]

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Jody Klymak                     APL/School of Oceanography,
                                University of Washington
jklymak@apl.washington.edu    (206)-685-9080
http://www.ocean.washington.edu/people/grads/jklymak/Klymak.html


-----Original Message-----
From: Jody Klymak [mailto:jklymak@apl.washington.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 1998 4:56 PM
To: Jody Klymak
Subject: RE: fptex 0.1


Hi again,

Well, let me partially answer my own question.  I decided to not modify
texmf.cnf and instead set an environment variable
TEXMF=d:/users/jklymak/texmf//;c:/TeX/{texmf.local;texmf}//
This allows me to junk the whole distribution and reinstall it without
problems.

The only file I need to edit is
c:/TeX/texmf/dvips/config/config.ps
So I created a directory:
c:/TeX/texmf.local/dvips/config/config.ps
to overide the distribution.  This seems to work great.  It also allows me
to keep the distribution untouched.  If anyone knows of a better way to do
this let me know, but for now I am sticking with this.

The only other step was recreating the fmt files for pdftex as described in
the pdftex manual.

The distribution works great, and was a heck of a lot easier than earlier
versions (where you had to grub around for extra files alot).  Thanks for
the great job Fabrice!

Cheers,  Jody

***************************************************************
Jody Klymak                     APL/School of Oceanography,
                                University of Washington
jklymak@apl.washington.edu    (206)-685-9080
http://www.ocean.washington.edu/people/grads/jklymak/Klymak.html


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-fptex@tug.org [mailto:owner-fptex@tug.org]On Behalf Of Jody
> Klymak
> Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 1998 3:18 PM
> To: Fabrice POPINEAU; fptex@tug.org
> Subject: RE: fptex 0.1
>
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> In the "old" version of fptex the distribution unpacked into
> c:/TeX/share/texmf.  Now it seems to want to unpack into c:/TeX/texmf.  Is
> this the new reccomended behaviour?
>
> Secondly, I am a little ignorant about how to setup the
> distribution vs. my
> local tree.  I have made a folder c:/TeX/texmf.local  In it I placed a
> subfolder web2c and put an edited version of texmf.cnf in there.  Is this
> the reccomended way of keeping local configuration files (and style files)
> from being wiped out by a total re-install?  I'm sure people have thought
> about this, so i thought I would get the best advice.
>
> Thanks,  Jody
>
> ***************************************************************
> Jody Klymak                     APL/School of Oceanography,
>                                 University of Washington
> jklymak@apl.washington.edu    (206)-685-9080
> http://www.ocean.washington.edu/people/grads/jklymak/Klymak.html
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-fptex@tug.org [mailto:owner-fptex@tug.org]On Behalf Of
> > Fabrice POPINEAU
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 1998 6:34 AM
> > To: fptex@tug.org
> > Cc: tetex-pretest@informatik.uni-hannover.de; tex-pretest@tug.org
> > Subject: fptex 0.1
> >
> >
> >
> > This is to announce the very first version of fpTeX, aka teTeX for
> > win32.
> >
> > Many   patches  from  the     latest  teTeX  source   tree have   been
> > included. Some other  bugs corrected. Everything  has been  updated to
> > the  latest versions,  windvi too (hope    this 0.54 is  roughly
> > alright).
> >
> > The files can be found in :
> >
> > ftp://ftp.ese-metz.fr/pub/TeX/win32-beta/fptex-0.1-bin1.zip
> > ftp://ftp.ese-metz.fr/pub/TeX/win32-beta/fptex-0.1-bin2.zip
> > ftp://ftp.ese-metz.fr/pub/TeX/win32-beta/fptex-0.1-bin3.zip
> > ftp://ftp.ese-metz.fr/pub/TeX/win32-beta/fptex-0.1-texmf.zip
> >
> > Same cuts as before : bin1 has the most common binaries, bin2 has
> > e-TeX and Omega and bin3 all the rest. The texmf tree is the latest
> > teTeX-0.9 texmf tree, sometimes modified by the build process.
> >
> > I hope this is the last build without an installer. I will focus now
> > on :
> > - installer
> > - texconfig.exe
> > - windvi printing
> > - documentation :-)
> >
> > Any comments welcome,
> >
> > Fabrice POPINEAU
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