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diff --git a/language/tibetan/steiner/install.how b/language/tibetan/steiner/install.how new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..f9e55ebabe --- /dev/null +++ b/language/tibetan/steiner/install.how @@ -0,0 +1,124 @@ +IMPORTANT +--------- + +This Package only supplies the Tibetan Transcript Translator. +You must have Sam Sirlin's font(*.mf), font metrics (*.tfm) +and tibdef.tex installed! If you don't have Metafont or work +on an old LaTeX version, follow the special instructions below. + +Please look at the remarks at the top of the c source code. + + +IF YOU HAVE SAM SIRLIN'S PACKAGE ALREADY INSTALLED +-------------------------------------------------- + +The only thing you have to do is to compile the source ttt.c: + + gcc ttt.c -o ttt + +that's it! + +If you want to LaTeX compile the file intro.tib, enter the following +three lines. Maybe you have another viewer than xdvi. + + ttt input.ttd tex.ttd intro.tib intro.tex + latex intro + xdvi intro & + +You still may have to adopt is the paper size: instead of a4paper, +use letterpaper, a5paper, b5paper, executivepaper or legalpaper. + + +WORKING WITHOUT METAFONT +------------------------ + +Jeff Sparkes supplies the *.pk files in the package called 'original'. +Install the *.pk and *.tfm files there and compile ttt.c as above. +Do not use any feature supplied by Sam Sirlin. You may even have +to comment away or remove the + \input{tibdef.tex} +in the files tptex.tex and tplatex.tex + + +WORKING WITH OLD LATEX VERSIONS +------------------------------- + +Change all \documentclass commands to \documentstyle +and adapt the paper size names. + + grep '\documentclass' * + +will help you doing so. + + +INSTALLING THE FONTS +-------------------- + +A good question regulary occurs on where to put the TeX font files. +Here are some suggestions where to put them (taken from my installations). +Since the paths differ quite much among systems and distributions, +I could not write an installation script saving you this setup work +which is quite hard for beginners. + +Instead of copying the font files, you can set font path variables (see +extract from my SET-TEX.BAT file for DOS below. Hopefully, the variable +names are equal under Linux). + +If the directories mentioned do not exist, look for them using +on UNIX and derivated systems: + find / -type f -name "*.mf" -print + +Under DOS, use + cd \ + dir *.mf /s + + +teTeX Font Path for Metafonts (*.mf) on SuSE Linux: +/usr/lib/teTeX/texmf/fonts/source/public/tib + +teTeX Font Path for pk (*.300pk or *.pk) fonts on SuSE Linux: +/var/texfonts/pk/deskjet/*.300pk +emtex under DOS: +\emtex\pixel.lj\300dpi\*.pk + +teTeX Font Path for (*.tfm) files on SuSE Linux: +/var/texfonts/tfm +DOS: +/emtex/tfm + +teTeX inputs (*.tex) and style (*.sty) Path on SuSE Linux: +/usr/lib/teTeX/texmf/tex/generic/tib + + +Font and other path environment variables (at least for emtex under DOS): + +SET TEXINPUT=T:\EMTEX\TEXINPUT;T:\MYTEX +SET TEXFMT=T:\EMTEX\TEXFMTS +SET BTEXFMT=T:\EMTEX\BTEXFMTS +SET TEXTFM=T:\EMTEX\TFM +SET MFINPUT=T:\EMTEX\MFINPUT +SET MFBAS=T:\EMTEX\MFBASES +SET BMFBAS=T:\EMTEX\BMFBASES +SET MFJOB=T:\EMTEX\MFJOB +SET BIBINPUT=T:\EMTEX\BIBINPUT +SET DVIDRVINPUT=T:\MYTEX;T:\EMTEX\DOC +SET DVIDRVFONTS=T:\TEXFONTS + + +Hope this helps. + + +---------------------------- + +Beat.Steiner@gseved.admin.ch +March 1997 + + + + + + + + + + |