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The attached is a copy of the DECUS Library Abstract for the new release of 
the DECUS TeX Collection (DECUS TeX Collection, August 1989).  The DECUS TeX 
Collection can be obtained from the DECUS Library (reference number VS0058) or 
from your DECUS LUG (Local User Group).  The library has received the new 
collection and DECUS LUGs can request the collection from their Region Tape 
Copy Coordinator's.

To contact the DECUS Library:

 		The DECUS Program Library
		219 Boston Post Road  BP02
		Marlboro, MA  01752-1850

		Phone: 508 480-3418


Ted Nieland    (513) 427-6355
Control Data Corporation
DECUS TeX Collection Editor
TNIELAND@AAMRL.AF.MIL




                    DECUS  TeX  Collection
                             Abstract

   The DECUS TeX Collection is based on the TeX Files stored at SCORE.-
STANFORD.EDU and are available via ANONYMOUS FTP, plus additional
material collected from sources across the world. Recipients of the DECUS
VAX/VMS TeX distribution need not have the compilers, since executable
versions of most programs are included on the tape.

   The DECUS TeX tape includes all source programs as well as object code.
The distribution contains five directory trees:

 [.000_INSTRUCT]       Contains the instructions for installing the TeX
                       collection

 [.TeX]                Contains  all  the  material  needed  to  get  TeX
                       up  and  running  on  your  system.    The  ma-
                       terial  includes  TeX,  LaTeX,  METAFONT,  AMS-
                       TeX,  TeXsis,  BibTeX,  PICTeX,  DVI  Drivers,
                       RNOTOTeX, a spelling checker that understands
                       TeX/LaTeX, and DVITOVDU.

 [.TeX_FONTS]          All the fonts for TeX. Designed for a LN03.

 [.TeX_SOURCE1]        Contains the source code for everything in saveset
 [.TeX_SOURCE2]        2, plus additional material such as: UNIX Mate-
                       rial, TeX and Screen Previewers for PCs, TeX and
                       Previewer for MACINTOSH, GloTeX, previewers
                       for VAXStations (Both VWS and DECWindows),
                       LSE Templates for TeX/LaTeX and BibTeX, Trip
                       and Trap Tests for TeX and METAFONT, and ad-
                       ditional DVI Driver material including Postscript
                       LaTeX material for VMS.



Recommendations:

   Get The TeXBook by Donald Knuth and LaTeX: A Document Preparation
System by Leslie Lamport as the minimal documentation for the system.
Knuth's five volume set Computers and Typesetting is highly recommended.
The five volume set includes The TeXBook and The METAFONTBook.  The
Joy of TeX is the documentation for AM S-TeX. The PICTeX Manual will
be needed if you wish to use PICTeX.


Other Included Items

   The TeX Collection includes the other TeX related individual submissions
from the DECUS Library. These submissions are:

 V00135   DVI to VDU: A TeX Page Previewer Program
 V00171   LaTeX Templates & Help files for LSE
 V00179   DEPROC: LaTeX for the DECUS Proceedings
 V00294   WEB Pack
 V00301   DVIOUT - DVI Output Driver
 V00399   DVI2PS



Supported devices

   The following output devices are suppoorted by this version of TeX:



   - DEC LN03 (requires a RAM Cartridge) [DVItoLN03 or LNTeX]
   - DEC LN03 Plus (uses bitmaps) [DVIL3P]
   - DEC LA75 [DVIl75]
   - Postscript (LPS40, Apple LaserWriter, LN03S) [DVIALW,DVI2PS,PSPRINT]
   - HP Laserjet [DVIJET]
   - HP Laserjet Plus [DVIJEP]
   - Cannon Engine Laserprinter [DVICAN]
   - EPSON Printer [DVIEPS]
   - Printronix Printer [DVIPRX]
   - Okidata Pacemark 2410 (72 or 144 DPI) [DVIOKI]
   - VT terminals, Regis Terminals, Tektronix Terminals [DVItoVDU]
   - VAXStations running VWS [DVIDIS]
   - DEC Windows [XDVI]
   - Version 3.10 BBN BitGraph terminal [DVIBIT]
   - Golden Dawn Golden Laser 100 printer [DVIGD]
   - Imagen imPRESS-language laser printer family [DVIIMP]
   - Apple Imagewriter 72 or 144 dpi printers [DVIM72 or DVIMAC]
   - MPI Sprinter 72 dpi printer [DVIMPI]
   - Toshiba P-1351 180 dpi printer [DVITOS]
   - Generic Output [DVI2TTY]


Update Information

   The August 1989 DECUS TeX collection has updated the following items:
TeX (now 2.991), LaTeX & SLiTeX (now 2.09 <24 May 1989>), TeXsis, the
LaTeX style collection, DVItoLN03, TeX for MS-DOS, and TeX for UNIX
(includes TeXx 2.8.6 and the new SPIDERWEB).

   The following items are new with this collection: DVI2TTY, OZTeX (TeX
for the Macintosh), XDVI (DECWindows Previewer for VMS), DVIOUT,
WEB Pack, and DVI2PS for VMS.


Collection Information

   This TeX Collection has been done for the DECUS Library and the DE-
CUS Language and Tools SIG (L&T) Public Domain working group.  The
material is by various authors. Suggestions for additions to the collection are
accepted. Please send all suggestions to the Collection Editor.

