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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/texsis/base/README b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/texsis/base/README new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..08751ec580d --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/texsis/base/README @@ -0,0 +1,151 @@ + TeXsis version 2.18 + 6 April 2001 + + + GENERAL INFORMATION + + TeXsis is a Plain TeX macro package for typesetting physics +documents, including papers and preprints, conference proceedings, +books, theses, referee reports, letters, and memos. Texsis macros +provide the following features: + + * Automatic numbering of and symbolic reference to equations, + figures, tables, and references; + + * Simpified control of type sizes, line spacing, footnotes, running + headlines and footlines; + + * Specialized document formats for research papers, preprints and + "e-prints," conference proceedings, theses, books, referee + reports, letters, and memoranda; + + * Table(s) of contents and lists of figures and tables, as well as + list of figure and table captions; + + * Specialized environments for lists, theorems and proofs, centered + or non-justified text, and listing computer code; + + * Specialized macros for easily constructing ruled tables; + + * Simplified means of constructing an index for a book or thesis; + + * Easy to use double column formatting. + +TeXsis was originally designed for use by physicists, but others may +also find it useful. It is completely compatible with Plain TeX. + + You can find out more about TeXsis from the TeXsis Home Page, at +http://www.texsis.org + + + SOURCE CODE + + Source code and documentation for TeXsis can be obtained from +ftp://ftp.texsis.org/texsis and is also mirrored by CTAN, the +Common TeX Archive Network, in CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/texsis/ . +Finger ctan@ftp.tex.ac.uk to find the nearest CTAN server. + + Small improvements and corrections to TeXsis are distributed as +patches in the patch file TXSpatch.tex. If there is such a file in the +texsis directory you should copy it as well. + + + INDEPENDENT MACRO PACKAGES + + Several components of TeXsis can be used independently under Plain +TeX: + + * index: index.tex contains Plain TeX macros for constructing an + index for a document, in conjunction with the MakeIndex program. + + * tables: ruled.tex (with TXSruled.tex) contain Plain TeX macros + for making nice ruled tables. + + * dcol: TXSdcol.tex contains Plain TeX macros for double column + formatting. + +For details on how to use these see the documentation files that +accompany them on the TeXsis ftp site (each has a separate directory). +The comments in the files are also very complete. + + + INSTALLATION + + TeX runs on many different platforms, not just Unix, and TeXsis +will run on any installation of TeX. It is best to perform a system- +wide installation of TeXsis so that everybody may use it, but it is +also possible to install it in a private directory for personal use. +Since TeXsis is a "format" the steps required to install it are the +same as the steps required to install any TeX "format", probably using +the `initex` program. It would be best if you would review the +documentation on how to do this for your own TeX installation. + + Very complete installation instructions for Unix, VMS, and PC-TeX +are given in an appendix to the TeXsis manual. You can print these +without having to have TeXsis installed by running the file +Install.tex through Plain TeX. + + That said, installation on Unix computers is rather simple. Unless +you have an unusual installation of TeX (in which case please read the +output from Install.tex) the steps are: + + 1. Edit the Makefile and change parameters and paths as + appropriate, following the directions given in the comments. + The defaults are set to work with teTeX, a common distribution + of TeX for Unix. You will probably only have to set the paths + to your top-level "texmf" directory and your local "bin" directory. + + 2. (Optional) Copy the file TXSsite.000 to TXSsite.tex and edit + this file to contain appropriate site dependent information, + such as definitions for the name of your \ORGANIZATION, or your + \letterhead, or change \LandscapeSpecial, etc... If you already + have a TXSsite.tex file then copy it to the current directory so + that it will be included when building the format file. + + 3. Give the command `make` to build the format file and the manual. + + 4. Give the command `make install' to install the files in the + appropriate directories. + + + MTEXSIS + + To make it easier for the casual reader of electronic preprints +("e-prints") to print a TeXsis document we have collected the core +TeXsis macros into one source file (called mtexsis.tex), with all the +comments and blank lines removed. A reader who does not have TeXsis +on her/his system can then simply get this file, add + + \input mtexsis + +to the manuscript file, and print the paper with Plain TeX. You can +make your e-print manuscript files automatically load mtexsis.tex, if +it is needed, by adding the following line at the begining of your +manuscript file: + + \ifx\TeXsis\undefined\input mtexsis.tex\fi + +It is suggested that you try running such a manuscript through Plain TeX +with mtexsis.tex first to make sure that it works. + + + MAILING LIST + + If you find TeXsis useful you may want to send a short e-mail +message to texsis@texsis.org to be put on the mailing list for any +notices of updates or changes. We will only use this list to inform +you of updates or changes, and we won't give the list out to anybody +else (we hate spam too). + + + AUTHORS + + Eric Myers <myers@umich.edu> Frank E. Paige <paige@bnl.gov> + Department of Physics and Physics Department + University of Michigan Brookhaven National Laboratory + Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109 USA Upton, New York 11973 USA + + + --- ---- --- + +@(#) $Id: README,v 18.3 2001/04/06 23:12:48 myers Exp $ |