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NO WARRANTY

Because this TeX distribution is licensed for free, I provide absolute no
warranty, to the extent permitted by applicable state law. I provide this TeX
distribution "as is", without warranty of any kind, either expressed or
implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of
merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. The entire risk as to
the quality and performance of the program is with you.

SYMBOLICS SOFTWARE REQUIRED

To use all the stuff on these tapes you need to be running Genera 8.0 and the
Symbolics LGP3, LGP2, or LGP1 printer driver software.

READING THE TAPES

These tapes are Genera 8.0 Distribution tapes, designed to be loaded with the
":Restore Distribution" command, just like regular Genera source tapes.  Some
files that are automatically loaded into the "SYS:SITE;" directory.  Files for
the Pascal-Runtime system loaded into the "SYS:PASCAL;", "SYS:CTS;", and
"SYS:SYNTAX-EDITOR;" directories.  All the rest of the files on these tapes
are automatically loaded into the directory tree rooted at the "SYS:TEX;"
directory.

Here's a list of the systems on the various TeX distribution tapes:

	System			Description
Tape 1:
	COMPILER-TOOLS-PACKAGE	Symbolics Pascal Runtime Support
	COMPILER-TOOLS-RUNTIME	Symbolics Pascal Runtime Support
	PASCAL-PACKAGE		Symbolics Pascal Runtime Support
	SYNTAX-EDITOR-RUNTIME	Symbolics Pascal Runtime Support
	PASCAL-RUNTIME		Symbolics Pascal Runtime Support

	TeX-Doc			Documention describing this TeX distribution.
	TeX-SCT			Definitions needed for SCT
	TeX-DVI			DVI previewer and hardcopy support.
	TeX-Common		Code common to all versions of TeX
	TANGLE			TANGLE
	INITeX			Used for compiling new preloaded TeX formats
	VIRTeX			Used for preloading TeX formats
	TeX			Plain TeX
	LaTeX			LaTeX
	SliTeX			SliTeX
	BibTeX			BibTeX
	YTeX*			A TeX macro package popular at the MIT AI lab
	WEAVE*			WEAVE
	DVITYPE*		DVITYPE
	POOLTYPE*		POOLTYPE
	TFtoPL*			TFtoPL
	PLtoTF*			PLtoTF
	GFfonts-80DPI		Screen resolution fonts for DVI previewer.
	GFfonts-300DPI*		Fonts for LGP2 and other 300DPI (Dots Per Inch) printers
	GFfonts-240DPI*		Fonts for LGP1 and other 240DPI printers

* These systems are optional and don't have to be loaded off the tape if you
  don't think you'll use them.

LOADING THE SYSTEMS

The interesting systems to load are TeX, LaTeX, SliTeX, YTeX, and BIBTeX.
After the tapes have been read, each system can be loaded with a separate
":Load System" command. Subsystems for hardcopying DVI files on your printers
and defining major modes in ZWEI are automatically loaded when you load one of
these top-level systems.

USING A TEX SYSTEM

Once TeX, or any of the other top-level systems mentioned above are loaded,
you can invoke the appropriate program with a command processor command, or a
ZMACS command. For example, after the LaTeX system has been loaded, the :LaTeX
command processor command or the "LaTeX File" ZMACS command will start up a
LaTeX for you. 

DVI FILE MANIPULATION

When any TeX system has been loaded, the TeX-DVI system will also
automatically be loaded. The TeX-DVI system automatically causes the normal
Genera file hardcopy commands to understand .DVI files, so you will be able to
print your DVI files on your LGP2 printer.  

To improve printer throughput when large DVI files are printed, the DVI file
printout is broken into multiple smaller print jobs.  The global default for
this is to make no print job larger than 50 pages.  You can change the global
default by changing tex:*default-npages-per-job*, and defaults for particular
printers on a per display-device-type basis by changing
tex:*npages-per-job-alist*.

TeX-DVI also provides a DVI Previewer, which can be invoked by typing
"Select-\".  It should be pretty obvious how to use.

THE LM-TEX MAILING LIST

There is a mailing list for people interested in this TeX distribution.  The
mailing list is lm-tex@ai.mit.edu.  Please send any comments, bugs, or
suggestions to this mailing list.  They are all welcome.  This is not to say
that they will be acted upon, but they will be read.  If you are interested in
being on this mailing list, send mail to lm-tex-request@ai.mit.edu.

Chris Lindblad
Room 510
MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
545 Technology Square
Cambridge, MA, USA 02139
cjl@ai.mit.edu