============================================================ Installation instructions for VTeX/2 7.530 ============================================================ Walter Schmidt 2002-04-02 Contents -------- What is VTeX/2? Prerequisites Installing VTeX/2 over emTeX/TDS Required files Installing VTeX/2 Creating the LaTeX format file Creating the plain TeX format file Documentation Using the EPM TeX Front End with VTeX/2 Support Legal stuff What is VTeX/2 ? ---------------- VTeX/2 is a TeX program for OS/2 Warp to generate PDF or PostScript output immediately from the TeX source file. It comes with a comprehensive LaTeX system, including many additional packages and fonts, as well as the Bibtex and Makeindex programs. A basic plain TeX system is also included. In contrast to traditional TeX systems, no intermediate DVI files are generated, no "dvi driver programs" are required, and there is no need to care for their -- sometimes problematic -- setup. In contrast to pdfTeX, VTeX includes a full PostScript interpreter, this inclusion of EPS images as well as inline PostScript programming, i.e. PSTricks, psfrag etc. are fully supported, The common PostScript and PDF viewers GSView and Acrobat Reader can be used for (pre)viewing and printing. VTeXs output files are immediately suitable for public distribution, e.g., over the WWW, since PostScript and PDF are standardized document formats -- as opposed to the TeX-specific DVI format. Note that PDF files created by VTeX version 7.30 and above do not conflict with Acrobat Reader 5. VTeX/2 can either be installed as a standalone LaTeX system or on top of an existing emTeX/TDS system, version 0.56. Prerequisites ------------- * VTeX/2 requires Warp 3 or better, and at least 16Mb of physical memory. * You _must_ have installed Ghostscript, so as to provide a PostScript and PDF reader; furthermore, the Type1 (PostScript) fonts that are part of the Ghostscript distribution will be used by VTeX, too. * It is highly recommended to provide also Acrobat Reader, because this is the "canonical" PDF reader, and because certain hypertext features of the PDF format are not supported by Ghostscript. * The VTeX/2 is to be installed on a HPFS drive, because it will make use of long file names. The complete TeX system will require about 80MB of disk space. * * The installation program requires the default OS/2 command * shell CMD.EXE, i.e. there is absolutely no guarantee, that * it works with any alternative shell such as 4OS2. * Installing VTeX/2 over emTeX/TDS -------------------------------- VTeX/2 can be installed as a stand-alone TeX system or "on top" of an existing emTeX/TDS, version 0.56. If you install VTeX/2 on the same drive as an existing emTeX/TDS, they will share the same texmf directory tree, thus saving lots of disk space. Make sure that you have installed the latest version 0.56 of emTeX/TDS! If you keep VTeX and emTeX on different drives, they will be completely independent. After installing VTeX 7.530 over emTeX/TDS 0.56, you should re-make the emTeX format files, because VTeX supplies updated hyphenation patterns for French and Italian. Required files -------------- vtexinst.cmd (installation program) vtex2.zip vtex-texmf.zip vtex-fonts.zip vtex-special.zip vtex-fonts2.zip vtex-doc.zip vtex-sem.zip (optional) vtex-gex.zip (optional) Remarks: If you install VTeX/2 over emTeX/TDS v0.56, the file vtex-fonts.zip is not required. When updating from VTeX 7.46 or 7.461, the files vtex-texmf.zip and vtex-fonts.zip are not required. The archive vtex-sem.zip includes the LaTeX packages seminar and prosper; you need not install it, unless you actually want to use these packages. vtex-gex.zip includes the documentation of VTeXs built-in PostScript interpreter; omit this file, if you want. You may still install these two files at any later time. The files are unchanged since release 7.460 (vtex-sem) and 7.320 (vtex-gex). Installing VTeX/2 ----------------- (0) Any existent version of VTeX _prior_ to 7.10 must be deleted manually. (Sorry...) (1) Put the installation program vtexinst.cmd and all required ZIP files (see above) in a temporary directory. The contents of this directory can be removed, once the installation is completed. (2) Go to the above directory; then start the installation program "vtexinst". (Note that vtexinst CANNOT be executed from a different directory!) You will be asked for the drive where VTeX is to be installed or updated. It will be installed in the directories \vtex and \texmf of that drive. You will be asked for the directory, which contains the PostScript Type1 fonts supplied with Ghostscript. If you don't know the exact location, you must -- at least -- know the drive, where you have installed GSView/Ghostscript. Without this information, VTeX cannot be installed. If a previous version of VTeX is found, the following configuration files will be backed up, with the extension ".sav" appendend to the original name: \vtex\bin\vtex.ini \texmf\vtex\config\hyphen.cfg \texmf\vtex\config\plain.cfg \texmf\vtex\config\pdf.fm \texmf\vtex\config\ps.fm According to the existing version of VTeX, the installation program will either restore the existing files, or it will replace them with new ones and issue an appropriate message. These actions are also logged in the file vtexinst.log (transcript of the installation process). (3) VTeX/2 requires the following settings in the system configuration file config.sys of OS/2: PATH must include :\VTEX\BIN LIBPATH must include :\VTEX\DLL (Replace with the letter of the drive, where VTeX/2 is actually installed.) The installaton program can modify config.sys appropriately; however, it will _not_ do so without asking you before, and you may chose to edit config.sys manually. * * Do _not_ forget to reboot OS/2, after any changes to * config.sys have been made! * What to do, if the installation fails ? --------------------------------------- The installation program should tell you about the reason of the error; just read what it writes to the screen. Maybe it is something you can fix, e.g., one of the required files might be missing. If you don't understand the message at all, or if the reason of the failure seems to be outside your responsibility, you may ask me for help: The installation program will generate a transcript file named vtexinst.log. Please, send this file, together with a verbal description of the problem to . Creating the LaTeX format file ------------------------------ Open an OS/2 comand line in an arbitrary directory and execute the following command: makevlatex If there are any error messages, you should check the log file, which is created in the directory \vtex\fmt. Now you should check, whether the installation works: Run the file ltxcheck.tex through LaTeX, thus making sure that the installation works. The file resides in the directory \texmf\source\latex\base. Switch to this directory cd \texmf\source\latex\base and execute the following command: vlatex ltxcheck This will produce a number of messages, each of which should be `OK'. Creating the plain TeX format file ---------------------------------- * * Omit this step, if you don't know what "plain TeX" is! * Open an OS/2 comand line in an arbitrary working directory and execute the following command: makevplain If thee are any error messages, you should check the log file, which is created in the directory \vtex\fmt. Documentation ------------- See the files in the directory texmf\doc\vtex: local.eng Preliminary LaTeX Local Guide (read this first!) plain.eng plain TeX Local Guide (ignore it, if you don't know what "plain TeX" is) vtex.pdf The VTeX/Free manual font-setup.txt Preliminary description of the VTeX font setup gex.pdf GeX Manual forms.pdf How to use PDF forms from TeX animgif.pdf How to include animated GIFs into PDF documents psfonts.eng How to install additional Type1 fonts examples\* Sample documents Notice, that the sample file tryanim.tex and part of the examples in the document animgif.pdf do not work with Acrobat Reader 5, due to the "features" of the latest Acrobat. They do, however, work with Acrobat 4 and (almost) with Acrobat Reader 3 on OS/2, too. Using the EPM TeX Front End with VTeX/2 --------------------------------------- The EPM TeX Front End is a powerful integrated TeX environment, based on the OS/2 editor EPM; see . When using the particular "VTeX" variant of the TeX Front End, you have to make sure that VTeX is executed with correct options; these can be examined and changed through the "Settings" menu of the TeX Front End. The default settings of the TeX Front End, version 3.0 or before, are not appropriate for the current release of VTeX/Free. The recommended options for PDF mode are: -ov -pu0 -ox2 -ob2 -ofpdf -$p(h=29.7cm,w=21cm,f=cf,t=f,g=f,! The recommended options for PostScript mode are: -ov -pu0 -ox2 -ob2 -ofps -$s(h=29.7cm,w=21cm,g=a,! Support ------- The NTG hosts a mailing list that can be used both to ask questions and to report bugs in the software and/or installation. The list is run by Majordomo, so to subscribe send a message to with the following line in the body subscribe ntg-vtex The mailing list itself can be reached as Legal stuff ----------- MicroPress and VTeX are trademarks of MicroPress, Inc. The MicroPress' components of the VTeX/2 distribution are Copyright (C) 1998-2002 by MicroPress Inc. The MicroPress' components of the VTeX/2 distribution are free for personal use, subject to the following restriction: You must obtain a permission from either MicroPress Inc or Walter Schmidt, if you intend to redistribute VTeX/2 on a permanent media (CD), or host it on a Web site other than by mirroring the official distribution. Adobe, Acrobat and PostScript are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated. == finis