Hello. There is first world wide announce of this TeX System for MS Windows. This system has been uploaded to 'system/win32/bakoma' directory of CTAN. BaKoMa TeX 2.0 =============== (December 1998) 1) What is BaKoMa TeX? ---------------------- BaKoMa-TeX is TeX package intended for preparing Electronic Publications. The system works under MS-Windows 3.1/9X/NT (with ATM installed). The system includes complete extendable GUI (Text editor, DVI Viewer, Help system), an updated version of the BaKoMa Fonts Collection, TeX processor with friends (BibTeX, MakeIndex, MetaPost, DVIPS, DVICopy), standard compliant TDS, and installation program. The system supports using scalable fonts (PostScript Type 1 and Type 3 font formats) and importing PostScript graphics into documents. The system supports generation of PDF and printing on any printer supported by a driver under MS Windows. The system efficiently supports multiple TEXMF trees. 2) A Details of Important Features ---------------------------------- * DVI Viewer included into the system is high compatible with well known DVIPS driver by Tomas Rokicki. Compatibility isn't limited by special syntax, because the viewer includes PostScript Level 1 interpreter. It shares several PostScript prologs with DVIPS, so that even PostScrpt hacks work with the Viewer. * The Viewer displays, prints (on non PostScript printers) and converts into PDF imported PostScript pictures and PostScript code embedded into DVI files. * The Viewer supports HyperTeX specials. Farthermore, calculation of hyperanchor rectangles is integrated with PostScript engine. So, that hyper rectangles are calculated according to current PostScript transformation. In other words, hyperlinks inside rotated or scaled boxes and hyperlinks typeseted along some path (for example by PSTricks package) generate correct rectangles. * The Viewer supports of using following font formats: + ATM Compatible PostScript Type 1 fonts; + PostScript Type 3 fonts; + TeX PK fonts (via on-the-fly conversion to PostScript Type 3 bitmapped fonts); + TeX Virtual Fonts; + TrueType fonts (for view and print, but not for PDF generation). * The Viewer imports graphics: + Any graphical formats supported by MS Windows Graphical Import Filters. (Filters for BMP, PCX, MSP, GIF, XBM are included in distribution) (This insertion is supported by \special{em:graph ...}) + PostScript (level 1) (This insertion supported by \special{PSFile=...} and \special{plotfile ...}) + Supports inclusion of MetaPost output. (To handle references into fonts the Viewer automatically uses MetaPost import filter, that is activated for files that has a numerical extension.) * special set of Viewer can be extended by using PostScript language. For example, EM and TPIC specials are defined by such way. * Text Editor supports: syntax highlighting, control bars to insert TeX math symbols, searhcing of TeX errors, project management, processing selected part of document (optionally, to accelerate processing, document prolog can be precompiled), spell checking, etc. * User interface of DVI Viewer and Text Editor can be extended by using PostScript like (PostScript without graphical operators) language. * The system includes universal command line utility (PostLine) that includes PostScript like interpreter extended by operators for manipulations under DVI files. This utility is used to invoke another command line programs and to prepare DVI files (rearrange pages encapsulate color stacks, filter specials, and etc.) * The system includes TeX Name Server (TNS), that caches information about files in TEXMF tree(s). This approach saves RAM, because of large TEXMF trees require a lot of memory, but TNS keeps single copy of such structure. So, TEXMF tree distributed with TeX Live CD requires about 1.5 MB of RAM. This approach, also, accelerates starting the TeX and other programs. TNS efficiently works with several TEXMF trees. To accelerate working with CD-ROM's and NETWORK based TEXMF trees it implements file cache on local disk. * So, searching of files is controlled by TNS. However, the system automatically converts TNS configuration file into TEXMF.CNF file, that configures KPATHSEA programs. In this reason, you can easily integrate into the system any KPATHSEA programs that are missed in the distribution. (There are two locations with compiled KPATHSEA based programs: 1. 'CTAN:systems/win32/web2c' (or TeX Live 3 CD) 2. 'CTAN:systems/msdos/djgpp') * The system includes incremental installation program. In other words, you needn't to install all available components at first installation, beacause you can run SETUP program at any time and add components that are yet not installed. * The system includes tool to install PostScript fonts supported by CTAN:fonts/psfonts. So, that such fonts as Times, Helvetica, Courier, etc. can be easiely added to the system. * The system includes simple tool to convert line-drawing MetaFont fonts into compact PostScript Type 3 fonts, that can be used by the system. 3) Hardware and Software Requirements. -------------------------------------- - An IBM PC 386/486/Pentium or compatible computer; - 4 MB RAM minimum, however 8 MB RAM recomended; - MS-DOS 5.0 or higher, MS Windows 3.1(1), ATM 3.0 or higher or MS Windows 95/98, ATM 3.0 or higher or MS Windows NT (V 4.0), ATM 4.0 - At least 20 MB available hard disk space (50 MB for complete installation); - Any Windows supported monitor and graphics card (At least, resolution 800 x 600 dots recomended); - Printer with PostScript engine or one supported by a MS Windows driver. Good TeXing. Basil K. Malyshev.