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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/eplain/base/install.texi b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/eplain/base/install.texi deleted file mode 100644 index 10cc42057ef..00000000000 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/eplain/base/install.texi +++ /dev/null @@ -1,65 +0,0 @@ -@c This is part of the Eplain manual. Public domain. - -@node Installation -@chapter Installation - -@cindex Eplain, installing -@ @cindex installation -The simplest way to install Eplain is simply to install the file -@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 @file{eplain.tex} in -a directory @file{/usr/local/lib/texmf/tex/plain}. - -If you want, you can also create a format (@file{.fmt}) -@pindex .fmt @r{file} -@cindex format file -file for Eplain, which will eliminate the time spent reading the macro -source file with @code{\input}. You do this by issuing a sequence of -Unix commands something like this: - -@example -prompt$ touch eplain.aux -prompt$ initex -This is TeX, ... -**&plain eplain -(eplain.tex) -*\dump -... @var{messages} ... -@end example - -@pindex eplain.aux -@cindex undefined labels, warnings about -@noindent You must make sure that @file{eplain.aux} exists @emph{before} you -run @file{initex}; otherwise, warning messages about undefined labels -will never be issued. - -You then have to install the resulting @file{eplain.fmt} in some system -directory or set an environment variable to tell @TeX{} how to find it. -I install the format files in @file{/usr/local/lib/texmf/ini}; the -environment variable for the Web2C port of @TeX{} to Unix is -@code{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 @file{virtex} program named @file{etex}, and -then install the format file with the name @file{etex.fmt}. This lets -users invoke @TeX{} as @file{etex} and get the format file read -automatically, without having to say @samp{&eplain}. - -For convenience, the file @file{etex.tex} in the distribution directory -does @code{\input eplain} and then @code{\dump}, so that if you replace -@samp{eplain} with @samp{etex} in the example above, the format file -will end up with the right name. - -The @code{install} target in the @file{Makefile} does all this properly -for Unix systems and Web2C. You may have to change the pathnames. - -@cindex emtex, installation under -Under emtex, @samp{eaj@@acpub.duke.edu} says that - -@example -tex386 -i ^&plain eplain \dump -@end example - -@noindent produces a format file. |