Notes for building and installing LaTeX on Berkeley Unix (by Richard Furuta)

The user's manual for LaTeX is:
	"LaTeX: A Document Preparation System" by Leslie Lamport,
	Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, ISBN 0-201-15790
The current version of LaTeX corresponds to that manual, with corrections as
noted in =doc/addendum.tex (relative to this directory).

There should be enough pxl files present to allow you to run most LaTeX
output (without magnification) to 200 dpi, 240 dpi, and 300 dpi devices.
See the file LFontlist.txt in this area which is an extension of
./tex82/Fontlist.txt for some hints about which fonts you should be using
for LaTeX.

If you have comments, feel free to pass them on to me.

The file named =origfiles/latex.ins contains the original installation
instructions from Lamport.  An old version of the manual is in
=doc/tmanual*.  latex.bug and =doc/lerrata.tex contain corrections to this
older form of the manual and information about other changes.
=doc/letter.tex and =slitex/slides.tex are appendices describing,
respectively, the letter document style for LaTeX and a separate version of
LaTeX (called SliTeX) that is used in making slides.  Many of the fonts for
SliTeX are not available.

Directories (all directory names are relative to this area):

	=bibtex	The LaTeX bibliography processor.  You are urged to
		install this as well.
	=doc	LaTeX documentation.
	=macros	*.sty and their related *.doc files.  Also found here are
		*.tex files for useful LaTeX documents (such as lablst.tex
		sample.tex, and others that are mentioned in the user's
		manual and in unixlocal.tex).
	=origfiles The originally distributed version of files that
		have been modified for the Unix TeX distribution.
	=slitex	The SliTeX system, which has not been set up for
		installation here.

In order to install LaTeX, you should do the following:

	(1) put the files currently in =macros into your central
	    macro area, /usr/lib/tex/macros in the standard
	    distribution.  (The *.doc files are not required for
	    running LaTeX but provide documentation for the
	    corresponding *.sty files). You may also want to put
	    latex.tex, lfonts.tex, and lplain.tex into this area.

	(2) create the format file for lplain (which includes latex.tex
	    and lfonts.tex):

		% initex
		** lplain \dump

	    Put the lplain.fmt into the appropriate area
	    (/usr/lib/tex/macros in the distribution, again).

	(3) create a preloaded LaTeX (where ^\ is your quit character---see
	    ./tex82/README for more information):

		% virtex
		** &lplain \read 0 to\blort
		\blort=^\

		% undump latex virtex core

	    The undumped file (latex) goes into your system's search path.

	(4) Modify the local guide, found in =doc/unixlocal.tex, to correspond
	    to your local environment.  In particular, change the name of
	    the contact person and make sure that the instructions on how
	    to print things corresponds to your local environment.  You
	    should make this modified guide available at your site. Note
	    that this file refers to the delatex filter---see below.  Note
	    further that you will need to run unixlocal.tex through LaTeX
	    twice because it has cross-references.

As noted above, I urge you to install BibTeX as well (see the files in
=bibtex).  I would also suggest that you take a look at
./tex82/=contributions/van/s2latex.  This contains a Scribe to LaTeX
translator created by Van Jacobson of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.  He's
very interested in receiving feedback on this program.

./tex82/=contributions/trickey/delatex.lex is a filter that removes LaTeX
constructs from its input, producing a stream of words that can be piped to
spell (1).

./tex82/=contributions/rusty/r2bib contains a refer to bibtex format
conversion program.

Good luck.