Installation question

[David Ireland]

Dear Christina,

Thanks very much for your help.  Problem solved.  The correction seems
obvious when you point it out!

David

-----Original Message-----
From: Techsupport-owner at yandy.com [mailto:Techsupport-owner at yandy.com]On
Behalf Of Christina Thiele
Sent: 01 August 2003 15:32
To: Techsupport at yandy.com
Subject: Re: Installation question


David Ireland writes:
>
> Dear Christina,
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> >In DVIWindo, pull down the `TeX' menu and see
> >if you've got an entry for `LaTeX'.
>
> No such entry listed.

Aha! I think we've seen a few such instances. Easily repaired --
and you've already done the first half.

> >If you do, then LaTeX's been installed. If not, then you
> >need to re-install (you did do the fonts first, right? ;-)
>
> Fonts were indeed installed first.  Have re-installed everything again.

OK. No need to re-install ... I think you may have a CD that didn't
get all its instructions quite right ;-) so further reinstalling won't
change that ;-) But as I said, you've got the repair half done.

> >look for a file called dviwindo.ini. ... If you can find it
> >but aren't sure what you're looking at ... post it in a message
>
> Here it is (just the [Environment] section - this is all you need I
think?)

Well, as you'll see below, the [Applications] section is the other
half of the repair ... ;-) See below.

> -----------------
> [Environment]
> ...
> TEXINPUTS=C:\YANDY\TEXINPUT;C:\YANDY\TEX\BASE\\
> PLAIN=C:\YANDY\TEXINPUT;C:\YANDY\TEX\BASE\\
> AMSTEX=C:\YANDY\TEXINPUT;C:\YANDY\TEX\BASE\\
> ...

In here (before the BIBINPUT stuff) is where you want the line your
message subsequently cites:

> LATEX=c:\yandy\texinput;c:\yandy\tex\latex\\;c:\yandy\tex\base\\

And leaving aside the upper/lower case variation, you'll see it's got
an additional entry for `yandy\tex\latex' but otherwise is just like
the above 3 lines: TEXINPUTS, PLAIN, and AMSTEX. So you've done the
easy repair to the .ini file. So far, so good.

> BIBINPUT=C:\yandy\bibtex\bib
> BSTINPUT=C:\yandy\bibtex\bst
> CSFINPUT=C:\yandy\bibtex\csf
> BIBTEX_CSFILE=88591lat.csf
> TEXEDIT=C:\yandy\winedt\winedt.exe [Open('%s');SelLine(%d,8)]
> EditorDDE=WinEdt;DDEServer;[Open('%s')%;SelLine(%d,8);SetFocus('')]
> ------------------
>
> On my look through and comparing with the manual it seemed that the
> following line was missing:
>
> LATEX=c:\yandy\texinput;c:\yandy\tex\latex\\;c:\yandy\tex\base\\
>
> so I added it and tried again.  After opening sample2e.tex in WinEdt and
> clicking the LaTeX button, the dvi file appeared to be fine this time.
> However, in DVIWindo the 'TeX' pull-down menu still doesn't give 'LaTeX'
as
> an option.  Does that matter? Is this still a problem?  Or can I go to bed
a
> happy bunny?

An almost-happy bunny ;-)

What you've added to the .ini file is the path for LaTeX to find its
files. If you look in your .ini file, the additional line went into
the [Environments] section. So that sets up the paths. Now you need to
set up some text in your menu.

Go look at the [Applications] section -- again, have your smaller
manual open to pp.21-22, which is about customising the `TeX'
menu. Well, we're not customising, we're making it complete ;-) Here's
part of my [Applications] section:

   [Applications]
   DummyEntry=1
   ...
   DVIPSONE|F12=C:\YANDY22\DVIPSONE\DVIPSONE.BAT -d=LPT1 *
   Separator3=Line
   BibTeX=C:\YANDY22\BIBTEX\BIBTEX.EXE @.aux
   iniTeX|F9=C:\YANDY22\YANDYTEX\INITEX.BAT "Format Source File|plain"
   "Format Menu Name|TeX"
   Separator4=Line
   plain TeX|F5=C:\YANDY22\YANDYTEX\TEX.BAT @.tex
   AMSTeX|F6=C:\YANDY22\YANDYTEX\TEX.BAT +amstex @.tex
   LaTeX 2.09|F7=C:\YANDY\YANDYTEX\TEX.BAT +lplain @.tex
   LaTeX|F8=C:\YANDY\YANDYTEX\TEX.BAT +latex @.tex

Now, see that line just above here? The one with an `F8' in it? That's
the line you want. This part of your .ini file sets up the entries
that will show up when you pull the `TeX' menu down. Look at your own
.ini file and in this section, you'll see many entries with this
string in them: |F*=..., where the ... is the path, and that F is of
course the F-key that you use as a shortcut to do any TeX operation --
I like my keys more than slide-menus ;-) Anyways, this is the part of
your .ini file you also need to edit, so that your `TeX' menu shows a
`LaTeX' entry for you to use. Just make sure you use an F-key not
already assigned to a specific task.

See where this gets you now ;-)

> Thanks again for your help.
>
> David Ireland
>
> ...

Section 6.6 of the Technical Addendum (`Fine Points of DVIWindo's
`TeX' Menu') is all about the text that shows up with you pull down
the TeX menu, so you may want to also have that open when you do
this. Eventually, the info does start to make sense ;-)

Ch.