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NTS - The New Typesetting System
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Version 1.00-beta
November 2001
Requirements
============
NTS is a Java program compliant to the Java 2 Platform API
Specification. To run NTS you have to install atleast a Java 2
Runtime Environment. If you want to recompile or extend NTS you have
to install a complete Java 2 Development Kit.
For Windows systems Perl is needed if you want to use the ``nts''
wrapper script.
Quick install
=============
To install NTS get the file ``ntsbase-1.0.zip'' located in directory
systems/nts/ from CTAN and unpack this file at the top-level directory
of your TDS-compliant TeX tree. It will unpack files into the
following directories
bin/<architecture>/
texmf/nts/
texmf/doc/nts/
texmf/source/nts/
Depending on your choice where all the other TeX executables are found
you have to move the files in directory ``bin/<architecture>/'' into
the directory where the other TeX executable are located.
Usage
=====
Unix
----
The shell script ``nts'' in ``bin/<architecture>/'' is a wrapper
around the NTS java program call simplifying the use of NTS. Run
``nts --help'' to get a help summary. Without any options the
script tries to load the NTS format file for plain TeX as default. If
you want to load another format file, either use the --fmt=<format>
switch or create a symbolic link named like the requested format.
First create one or all of the needed NTS format files, e.g.
nts --ini plain \\dump % plain
nts --ini cont-en % ConTeXt
nts --ini latex.ltx % LaTeX
Move the created format files into the ``texmf/nts/'' directory, then
recreate the file name database with ``mktexlsr''. Now you can
compile a document by
nts yourdocument % plain
nts --fmt=latex yourdocument % LaTeX
nts --fmt=cont-en yourdocument % ConTeXt
If you create a symbolic link from ``ntslatex'' to the shell script
``nts'' you can format a LaTeX document by
ntslatex yourdocument % LaTeX
Win32
-----
The perl script ``nts'' in ``bin/win32/'' is a wrapper around the NTS
java program call simplifying the use of NTS. Run ``nts --help'' to
get a help summary.
Documentation
=============
Please refer to the files
texmf/doc/nts/README
for more information about NTS.
texmf/doc/nts/ntspl.txt
for the copyright and licensing conditions of
NTS.
texmf/doc/nts/INSTALL
for more detailed installation and usage
information.
texmf/doc/nts/TODO
for our TODO list.
Sources
=======
The Java source code of NTS can be found in
texmf/source/nts/
Have fun!
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