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From: Aleksey Novodvorsky <aen@altlinux.ru>
To: devel@altlinux.ru
Subject: Re: [devel] Q: new tetex
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 21:55:44 +0300
Message-ID: <3C5841B0.6D4401C6@altlinux.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020130170121.GJ20114@sam-solutions.net>

Alexander Bokovoy wrote:

> Доброго времени суток!
>
> Вначале форвард последнего анонса Томаса Эссера:
> =====================================================================================
> 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-20020129.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 one contains some very new and sometimes experimental stuff:
>    * xdvik-22.40g with type1 rendering and source special support
>    * dvips-5.86f which contains some new and not-yet very well tested
>      partial font downloading code (supports downloading one font with
>      more than one encoding)
>
> This version also contains a new too, texdoctk, which is included in the
> source tree from now on, but will not work until I release a new version
> of the texmf tree.
>
> The same stuff as in the latest teTeX-beta:
>    * omega 1.23
>    * unreleased pretest web2c version (7.3.7 pretest) with source special support
>    * fmtutil now handles metafont / metapost formats, too
>    * portability fixes
>    * IPC (for TeX) enabled by default
>    * pdfTeX 1.00a-pretest-20011114-ojmw
>
> I am still bringing the texmf tree up-to-date and a new (beta) release of
> that will follow as soon as this is finnished.
>
> Be careful and do not use it on a production system. I have only compiled
> and run it on Linux (SuSE 7.2) so far.  Report any bugs that you find to
> tetex-pretest@informatik.uni-hannover.de
>
>         Thomas
> ======================================================================================
>
> Теперь пояснения:
>
> 1. Ожидание новой версии teTeX позволит нам реализовать практически
> целиком поддержку Type 1 шрифтов в системе по умолчанию, поскольку,
> во-первых, новый xdvi будет их поддерживать (не надо более генерировать
> теховские растровые шрифты), а во-вторых, новый dvips будет поддерживать
> "выдергивание" отдельных глифов из шрифта. Таким образом, шрифты cm-super
> и Валентина Филиппова станут доступны всему TeXу.
>
> 2. Полноценная поддержка IPC сделает возможным использование on-fly
> просмотровщиков, например, в Emacs, которые перекомпилируют только
> изменившийся фрагмент документа. Это происходит очень быстро и, по-видимому,
> также поддерживается и TeXmacs.
>
> Теперь вопросы:
>
> 1. Сколько у нас времени до релиза?

Две-три недели.

>
>
> 2. Стоит ли овчинка выделки?

Если не в ущерб остальному, которого очень много.

Rgrds, AEN





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