From - Fri Oct 25 14:03:48 2002 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-Path: Received: from ifi.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (ifi [129.69.211.1]) by informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA11776 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 21:48:24 +0200 Received: from alias.acm.org (alias.acm.org [199.222.69.90]) by ifi.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (8.9.3/2.2) with ESMTP id VAA19114 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 21:48:22 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mr3.ash.ops.us.uu.net ([198.5.241.88]) by alias.acm.org (ACM Email Forwarding Service) with ESMTP id COB73880 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 15:49:48 -0400 Received: from aero-optics.com by mr3.ash.ops.us.uu.net with ESMTP (peer crosschecked as: AeroOptics-GW.CUSTOMER.DSL.ALTER.NET [206.114.228.171]) id QQnlzr17811 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 19:48:19 GMT Message-ID: <3DB84F29.3ED9EB87@aero-optics.com> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 12:51:05 -0700 From: "Peter B.C. Barton" X-Sender: "Peter B.C. Barton" (Unverified) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en]C-gatewaynet (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lagallyk@acm.org Subject: Re: ArabTeX on the PC References: <3DB80D10.31734B8@aero-optics.com> <3DB844A2.9040900@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Professor Lagally, Your instructions and help are greatly appreciated. You asked to be notified if your instructions work - YES they do! For future reference (for other lost souls) the MiKTeX database is refreshed by running config.bat found in the C:\texmf\miktex\config directory. Peter Barton Klaus Lagally wrote: > Peter B.C. Barton wrote: > > Professor Lagally, > > > > I am not a "TeXpert" and have a question regarding ArabTeX compatibility > > on the PC. The ArabTeX homepage specifically mentions PCTeX and > > emTeX. I was hoping to employ ArabTeX using MiKTeX. I understand > > that ArabTeX will run on any standard implementation of TeX/LaTeX but I > > am not able to determine if MiKTeX is standard or non-standard. I > > would appreciate any words of advice. > > > > regards, > > > > Peter Barton > > MiKTeX is standard, and works well with ArabTeX. As far as I know MiKTeX > uses the standard TeX Directory Structure; to install ArabTeX do the > following (according to folklore I cannot check): > > - unpack ARABTEX.ZIP into some temporary directory, keeping the > subdirectory structure intact. > > - locate your LOCAL TeXMF tree (probably C:\localtexmf\) and therein create: > > -- a subdirectory \tex\latex\arabtex\ for all files within TEXINPUT > -- a subdirectory \fonts\tfm\arabtex\ for all files within TFM > -- a subdirectory \fonts\source\arabtex\ for all files within MFINPUT > -- a subdirectory \fonts\type1\arabtex\ for all files within PSFONTS > > - move the files to the appropriate places. The file PSFONTS\arabtex.map > is used by DVIPS and should possibly go somewhere else, according to > your local needs. > > - call "texhash" or "texconfig" (or whatever the command is) to refresh > your TeX file name database. > > - move the documentation and whatever else is left over to some > convenient place. > > This is all I know about MiKTeX. Since I do not run Windows I cannot > check everything; please tell me if it works. > > Good luck! > > KL > -- > Prof. Dr. Klaus Lagally | mailto:lagally@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de > Institut fuer Informatik | Tel. +49-711-7816392 | Zeige mir deine Uhr, > Breitwiesenstrasse 20-22 | FAX +49-711-7816370 | und ich sage dir, > 70565 Stuttgart, GERMANY | | wie spaet es ist. >