[Fwd: Tex and Latex setup]

[Jerome Benoit]

To : "William D. Kirby" <wdkirby at ix dot netcom dot com>
Subject : Re: Tex and Latex setup
>From : Jerome Benoit <JGMBenoit at wanadoo dot fr>
Date : Mon, 09 Apr 2001 14:59:42 +0200
References : < 3ACF61BA.6BB9204C@ix.netcom.com > < 3AD1657A.B6EC8622@wanadoo.fr > < 3AD1A7E2.BB27234B@ix.netcom.com >

"William D. Kirby" wrote:
> 
> The Readme file has little information, but the installation information in
> INSTALL may be more help. It says to build everything two files are
> required. The first is the source code TeTex-src-1.0.tar.gz and the other is
> TeTex-Texmf-1.0.tar.gz with the lib-tree, with fonts, and macros. So I
> assume I need the second file which turns out to be 37MB, and that the
> Cygwin distribution contains only the executables.

Oops I has to mention the cygwin README file

/usr/doc/cygwin/tetex-beta-20001218.README

I am soory for that:
/usr/doc/tetex-XXXX contains only informations about teTeX. 


> 
> Jerome Benoit wrote:
> 
> > Have youn read the Readme file in /usr/doc/tetex-XXXX ?
> >
> > Please let me know,
> > Jerome BENOIT
> >
> > "William D. Kirby" wrote:
> > >
> > > I have little experience with Tex and Latex. I have the latest
> > > distribution of Cygwin (1.1.8) with Tex. I tried to use it with a
> > > program makefile that includes  documentation generation using Tex and
> > > latex. I get an error message that it can't find latex.fmt,
> > > pdflatex.fmt, and etc.
> > >
> > > I tried a number of methods to configure tex, but nothing works. Do I
> > > need additional software, or how do I get these .fmt files?
> > >
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