INSTALLATION NOTES FOR GreekTeX v 3.1 ------------------------------------- K J Dryllerakis Logic Programming Group Imperial College,London kd@doc.ic.ac.uk This document describes how to get GreekTeX up and running on your system. It is devided into two parts: instructions for Unix users and Instructions for DOS emTeX users. I would like to hope that these two categories represent a majority of TeX users and I apologize for not extending specialised instructions to users of other systems. For those of you that do not fall in the two categories do not panic! Read the DOS section and procede with the same steps. Just change the paths and executables to match the ones in your system. Part A: Unix Users -------------------------- What you need: To rebuild the whole GreekTeX package you need to have access to the metafont and initex programs as well as the ability to integrate new fonts and formats to the search path of the local tex distribution. You also need the gftopk utility for transforming mf output to dvi readable form. For automated installation you need a "standard" unix 'make' program, and the 'dc' calculator. If you do not have any of these you will have to do the job by hand. If you do not have the dc calculator you can still build the fonts by altering the script to suit your own needs. You also need to know the resolution of the local printer. Finally you can do with a bit of patience. Procedure: The installation procedure follows the steps: * build and install the fonts in the standard path (both pk and tfm files) * build the greek format files for both greekTeX and grlatex. * place the files in the appropriate directory * do a test run to see how it looks! How to procede for an automated installation: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ STEP DESCRIPTION -> 0 Find a suitable place to unpack the file kdgreek3.1.tar.Z. Let us call the subdirectory kdgreek3.1/ where all the files will be the TOP directory. -> 1 First edit the file unix/newfont. If a similar script exists in your system the just forget it and mode to the step 2. In particular set the default paths and executable names to point to the right direction and make sure the file has the execute attribute set. -> 2 Edit the Makefile at the TOP directory to reflect the paths and setting of your own system. It should be easy and straightforward and not many changes should be needed in a standard distribution. -> 3 Make the fonts: at the shell prompt type make fonts This will try to create the greek fonts for all needed magnification levels and place them at their proper place (all the job is done by the newfont script in the unix directory or the newfont script that you set in the makefile). Do not be alarmed if "stange Pos " occur at some fonts and magnifications. The fonts are still in experimental stage and do have problems. If your version of metafont stops at a '?' prompt just hit return to continue. -> 4 You can now build the formats. give the command make formats this will build both greek.fmt and lgreek.fmt in the build subdirectory. Log files will be in the log subiderctory of build. -> 5 Install everything in its proper place by executing the command: make install This will place everything in the proper place and have you ready to go. -> 6 Try the system out: go to the doc doc subdir and type greektex usage then see what happens. Part B: DOS emTeX users ------------------------------- What you need: In order to use GreekTeX on a PC running DOS and emTeX you will need mf and friends to create the fonts (mfjob for automated procedures) plain tex and latex bearing version 3.0 or later (that is the format file not the executable). How to procede: Unpack the distribution where convenient. If you got GreekTeX as greektex.zip the use [pk]unzip -d greektex at an apropriate directory. You can delete the unix, utils directories and the makefile since they are intended for unix users. -> 1 Copy the file emtex/kdgreek.mfj to the MFJOB path or in the mf directory. cd to the mf directory and give the command mfjob -i kdgreek. If everything goes well you will end up with a new bunch of fonts in the proper directories. -> 2 cd to tex and type tex -i -8 greek \dump This will create the files greek.fmt and greek.log Move greek.fmt to the directory where you normally store the format files (e.g. emtex/btexfmts) and delete the file greek.log after reviewing the messages. -> 3 cd to latex and type tex -i -8 lgreek \dump Repeat the same procedure as in step 2 for copying the lgreek.fmt and removing the lgreek.log file. -> 4 copy the files in the tex, latex directories to the default search path of emtex (e.g. /emtex/inputs) If you will be using a greek ISO character set for modern greek you might also want to copy the files emtex/greek.* to your inputs dir. ->5 Finally move the emtex/*.bat files to the emtex bin directory and you are all set to go. ->6 Test the system by cd to doc and doing greektex usage.tex GOOD LUCK Please send comments and bug reports to kd@doc.ic.ac.uk DISCLAIMER: Although I have put much effort in eliminating bugs, the greekTeX package is still in experimental phase. If you decide to use the package please do not blame me for any problems that may arise from its use. I cannot be held responsible for any problems and I cannot gurantee bug fixes (although I guarantee that in due time I will look over all reports and suggestions). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- K J Dryllerakis Deparment of Computing Logic Programming Group Imperial College, LONDON Janet: kd @uk.ac.ic.doc Tel: +44(71) 589 5111 x5089 Uucp : kd@icdoc.UUCP Internet: kd@doc.ic.ac.uk -------------------------------------------------------------------------------