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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/eplain/base/INSTALL b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/eplain/base/INSTALL new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..3a514ae606b --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/eplain/base/INSTALL @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +Installation +************ + +The simplest way to install Eplain is simply to install the file +`eplain.tex' in a directory where TeX will find it. What that +directory is obviously depends on your operating system and TeX +installation. I personally install `eplain.tex' in a directory +`/usr/local/lib/texmf/tex/plain'. + + If you want, you can also create a format (`.fmt') file for Eplain, +which will eliminate the time spent reading the macro source file with +`\input'. You do this by issuing a sequence of Unix commands something +like this: + + prompt$ touch eplain.aux + prompt$ initex + This is TeX, ... + **&plain eplain + (eplain.tex) + *\dump + ... MESSAGES ... + +You must make sure that `eplain.aux' exists _before_ you run `initex'; +otherwise, warning messages about undefined labels will never be issued. + + You then have to install the resulting `eplain.fmt' in some system +directory or set an environment variable to tell TeX how to find it. I +install the format files in `/usr/local/lib/texmf/ini'; the environment +variable for the Web2C port of TeX to Unix is `TEXFORMATS'. + + Some implementations of TeX (including Web2C) use the name by which +TeX is invoked to determine what format to read. For them, you should +make a link to the `virtex' program named `etex', and then install the +format file with the name `etex.fmt'. This lets users invoke TeX as +`etex' and get the format file read automatically, without having to +say `&eplain'. + + For convenience, the file `etex.tex' in the distribution directory +does `\input eplain' and then `\dump', so that if you replace `eplain' +with `etex' in the example above, the format file will end up with the +right name. + + The `install' target in the `Makefile' does all this properly for +Unix systems and Web2C. You may have to change the pathnames. + + Under emtex, `eaj@acpub.duke.edu' says that + + tex386 -i ^&plain eplain \dump + +produces a format file. + |