RE: more on margin kerning

["Ulrich Dirr" <ud@art-satz.de>]

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On Tuesday, May 10, 2005 4:27 PM Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
> I suspect that mswincontext.zip is based on fpTeX. I have not used MiKTeX
> in ages; can I just use the binary or do I need some associated dll's
(the
> way MiKTeX worked years ago)? Can you (or someone) specify a minimal set
> of files needed to use the MiKTeX version?

I'm sorry I've just changed from fptex to miktex. Therefore I don't know
very much about miktex myself. I was forced to switch because fptex isn't
developed any further by Fabrice. I'd preferred fptex because it was more
tetex like than miktex. Unfortunately I'm not a programmer and don't know
how to compile successfully pdftex on a windows system. But maybe you can
try to run a standalone version of pdftex on
http://pdftex.sarovar.org/djgpp/ (the latest sources of pdfTeX can be found
at http://pdftex.sarovar.org/src). I've attached a how-to by Thanh. When
you run this version it shows you a version number which should not confuse
you -- it's the same as 1.21a actually.

Good luck
Ulrich

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* making djgpp binaries of pdftex running on win2k with miktex:

    - install miktex (the basic version small-miktex-2.4.1705.exe)
      with the default locations for texmf trees (c:/texmf and c:/localtexmf)
    
    - make a directory c:\mytex to contain files needed to get 
      djgpp pdftex run; it must have the following structure:

,--------
|  c:\mytex
|     |-- batch
|     |-- bin
|     `-- texmf
|         |-- fonts
|         |   `-- map
|         |       `-- pdftex
|         `-- web2c
`--------

    - unpack the pdftex djgpp binaries; move the *.exe files to c:\mytex\bin
      and *.pool files to c:\mytex\texmf\web2c

    - get a decent pdftex.map (I used the TeX Collection 2004 DVD) and copy it to
      c:\mytex\texmf\fonts\map\pdftex

    - copy mktexlsr.exe from texlive2004/bin/win32-static -> c:\mytex\bin

    - copy a recent texmf.cnf (e.g. from texlive2004/texmf/web2c) ->
      c:\mytex\texmf\web2c and change the following variables:

,--------
| TEXMFMAIN = c:/texmf
| TEXMFLOCAL = c:/localtexmf
| HOMETEXMF = c:/mytex/texmf
| TEXMF = {$HOMETEXMF,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFMAIN}
`--------

    - create a batch file mytex.bat in c:\mytex\batch containing the following lines:

,--------
| @echo off
| 
| set TEXMFCNF=c:\mytex\texmf\web2c
| set PATH=c:\mytex\bin;%PATH%
| set LFN=y
| 
| cmd
`--------
      [those variables can also be set in autoexec.bat of course, but doing so
       requires a reboot :)]
      
    - make a shortcut to mytex.bat on desktop

    - open mytex.bat, run:

      mktexlsr

      to create the ls-R databases (helps to speed up searching).

    - some quick tests:
    
      pdftex -ini pdftex.ini
      pdftex -ini pdflatex.ini

      pdftex story \bye
      pdftex -fmt=pdflatex sample2e


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