Hi,
I am pleased to announce a new teTeX pretest release. Download from
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-src-beta-20020530.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-texmf-beta-20020530.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-texmfsrc-beta-20020530.tar.gz
or use any other CTAN mirror. It might take a few hours until dante and
the other CTAN hosts and mirros pick up the file from my server.
This release is almost the same as TeX Live 7 with the following exceptions:
- teTeX has an additional fix for dvips
- teTeX's pdftex uses a newer version of libxpdf
- we use the most stable omega release 1.15 whereas TeX
Live has a later version (which is known to be unstable)
NEWS
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I think that this beta release will be very stable and that a new stable
release (teTeX-2.0) will happen in the "not so far future". A special
feature is the new updmap which is now installed with the other binaries.
There is no manpage, so
updmap --help
and read the comments in the config file (updmap --edit).
The texmf tree seems to be free of any packages with license problems now!
Changes since last release (src tarball):
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completely rewritten updmap tool!
dvips with -G1 fix (5.90a)
stable omega 1.15
mktexpk always tries metafont before anything else
xpdf lib 1.01
libpng 1.2.2
shell scripts fixed for zsh on MacOS/X
no longer strip the prefix argument when configuring in libs
I have only compiled and run it on Linux (SuSE 7.2) so far. Report any
bugs that you find to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Changes in texmf / texmfsrc tarball:
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packages removed for license reasons:
algorithms booktabs fltpage footbib prettyref
documentation removed for license reasons:
suet corkpaper essential omega-manual guide de-tex-faq
LaTeX-FAQ-francaise
lots of packages updated, e.g. psnfss v9.0
removed several duplicate files
Thomas
