[comp.text.tex] FoilTeX now available!

Article View: comp.archives

Article #551

#551

From: "James L. Hafner"
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1992 04:34

55 lines
2968 bytes

Archive-name: auto/comp.text.tex/FoilTeX-now-available

What is FoilTeX?
   FoilTeX is a LaTeX-like system for typesetting foils, slides,
transparencies, etc.  It differs quit a bit from SliTeX, both
in usability and in presentation.  It supports very large fonts
and all of LaTeX's font changing commands (using Old Font Selection
Scheme).   There are lots of built-ins for helping user's structure
their foils and it supports (automatically) just about everything
in standard LaTeX.  For more information, please consult the
documentation (foildoc.tex) which is part of the package.
   FoilTeX supports and is completely compatible with the new
color scheme included in recent releases of Rokicki's dvips driver.
(In fact, it was the FoilTeX effort that lead to the development
of that color scheme.)  Consequently, FoilTeX can be easily used
to get one-pass multicolor foils (if used with the right driver
and printer, of course).


Where is FoilTeX?
   The first official non-IBM version of FoilTeX has just been
installed on some of the TeX archives.  It can be found in
   LOCAL:[ANONYMOUS.TEX.INPUTS.FOILTEX] at ymir.claremont.edu
   soft/tex/foiltex at ftp.uni-stuttgart.de
   DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.FOILTEX] at TeX.ac.uk
and hopefully other archives as well.
   In all but the Aston archives you will find both a collection
of plain (ascii) files as well as a compressed tar file of the
entire package.


Who developed FoilTeX?
   FoilTeX was originally developed by here at IBM's
Almaden Research Center a couple of years ago.  It has found wide use
and acceptance inside IBM and the version out on the TeX archives is
an updated and improved version.  The archived version is also the
first release of the package outside of IBM.
   The package was first publicly announced at the TUG'92 meeting
in Portland, OR.


Any comments, questions or suggestions are welcome either on this
forum or by contacting me directly.

Jim Hafner
-------------------------------------------------
        IBM Research Division
        Almaden Research Center K53/802
        650 Harry Road
        San Jose, CA  95120-6099
        (408)927-1892
        FAX: (408)997-4662
        Bitnet:  hafner@almaden
        Internet:  hafner@almaden.ibm.com
-------------------------------------------------

Technical Details

Message-ID: <181g8aINNsva@agate.berkeley.edu>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu!agate!agate!usenet

References: <9208271702.AA15960@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu!agate!agate!usenet
From: hafner@ALMADEN.IBM.COM ("James L. Hafner")
Newsgroups: comp.archives
Subject: [comp.text.tex] FoilTeX now available!
Followup-To: comp.text.tex
Date: 2 Sep 1992 04:34:18 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Lines: 56
Approved: adam@soda.berkeley.edu
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <181g8aINNsva@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <9208271702.AA15960@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.berkeley.edu
X-Original-Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
X-Original-Date: 27 Aug 92 17:02:14 GMT

Reply to Parent Message