teTeX-3.0

I am pleased to announce release 3.0 of the teTeX distribution. It was
promised for "sometime in 2004" and I have only slightly missed that
goal. Thanks to everone who has helped to get this out!

The teTeX homepage (http://tug.org/teTeX/) now has some files of the
source distribution (e.g. the INSTALL document) and the complete doc tree
of the texmf distribution (http://tug.org/teTeX/tetex-texmfdist/doc/)
online, so you can see in detail what you get before you download /
install.

February 2005, Thomas Esser

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                           teTeX 3.0
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  This is the announce of teTeX-3.0, a TeX distribution for UNIX
  compatible systems.


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  Main features of teTeX-3.0:
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- teTeX is free software (see http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/free-sw.html)
- included programs: web2c 7.5.4, xdvik 22.84.8, dvipsk 5.95a, texinfo
  4.8, pdfetex 1.21a (based on TeX-3.141592 and eTeX-2.2), Omega 1.23.2.3,
  dvipng 1.5, Aleph 3.141592-1.15-2.1-0.0-rc4 (combines a stable omega
  version with features of eTeX), dviljk 2.6p2, ps2pk 1.5, makeindex 2.14,
  texi2dvi-1.76, texconfig, fmtutil, updmap, texdoc, texdoctk v0.6.0a
- TDS (TeX Directory Structure) rev. 1.1 compliant support tree
  with fonts / macros / documentation: 226 MB, >13000 files
- updated texmf tree with many updated updated / added packages. Most
  notably: LaTeX2e <2003/12/01>, ConTeXt version 2005.01.24, Latin Modern
  fonts, beamer, koma-script and memoir package
- easy to install and to customize, even for a multi-platform setup
- ready for producing resolution independent (bitmap free) postscript or
  pdf documents (including thumbnails, hyperlinks and bookmarks)

For release notes, please look at NEWS or texk/tetex/doc/TETEXDOC.pdf
inside the tetex-src tarball. These files are also available online:
  http://tug.org/teTeX/tetex-src/NEWS
  http://tug.org/teTeX/tetex-texmfmain/doc/tetex/TETEXDOC.pdf


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  Legal notice / license
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  teTeX is free software. Individual files and sub-packages are copyright
  by different authors, but I have taken care that everything is free
  software as defined by the free software foundation:
      http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html


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  The files / installation
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  You can get teTeX-3.0 from the following server:
    ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/3.0/distrib/   (UK)

  Other servers will follow shortly:
    ftp://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/3.0/distrib/ (GER)
    ftp://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/3.0/distrib/   (US)

  A full list of mirrors is available here:
    ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/CTAN.sites

  From these servers, you need the following files for teTeX-3.0:

  sources of the programs (required):
    ==> tetex-src-3.0.tar.gz

  support tree with fonts / macros (required):
    ==> tetex-texmf-3.0.tar.gz

  sources for parts of the texmf tarball (optional):
    ==> tetex-texmfsrc-3.0.tar.gz

  The installation instructions are included in the tetex-src.tar.gz
  archive as files INSTALL (complete instructions) and QuickInstall
  (short version) and also available online:
    http://tug.org/teTeX/tetex-src/INSTALL
    http://tug.org/teTeX/tetex-src/QuickInstall


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 MacOS X version
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  I don't maintain this port myself, but you can get it here:
    MacOS X (darwin)           http://www.rna.nl/tex.html


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  Documentation / getting started
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  teTeX contains a lot of documentation about the packages it includes.
  For a start, please look at
    $prefix/share/texmf/doc/tetex/TETEXDOC.{ps,pdf,dvi}
  and
    $prefix/share/texmf-dist/doc/index.html
  prefix means the directory in which you have installed teTeX according to
  INSTALL or QuickInstall.

  Online versions are also available:
    http://tug.org/teTeX/tetex-texmfmain/doc/tetex/TETEXDOC.pdf
    http://tug.org/teTeX/tetex-texmfdist/doc/index.html

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  De-support of repacked and binary distribution
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  Starting with teTeX-2.0, I have stopped to make binary releases or
  sub-packges of the texmf tarball. Lots of other projects and people
  provide teTeX in repacked and compiled form and I am willing to maintain
  links to such resources on teTeX's web page. I think that I will do
  a better service to the TeX community by concentrating on the three
  tarballs (src, texmf, texmfsrc) and shorter release cycles, than by
  providing binaries and repacking the distribution.


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  Mailing lists / web pages:
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  Mailing lists:
    for discussion:    [email protected]
    for announcements: [email protected]

  Related web pages:
    http://tug.org/teTeX/
    http://www.pdftex.org/
    http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes
    http://www.dante.de/
    http://tug.org/
    http://www.pragma-ade.com/

Have fun!