% README of the french style files distribution for \AllTeX 29/12/95 % Copyright GUTenberg-Bernard Gaulle as in french.doc % CAUTION : ALL FILES HAVE CHANGED since the last distribution. This material was designed to help (La)TeX users to print french documents i.e. according to french typographic habits. [The checksum field that appears in allmost files contains a CRC-16 checksum as the first value, followed by the equivalent of the standard UNIX wc (word count) utility output of lines, words, and characters. This is produced by Robert Solovay's checksum utility.] Before installation ask yourself the question: is my TeX engine installation able to process any 8-bit character (ie a char with decimal code upper than 127)? If not, may be you don't have: either the good fonts (look at the DC for example), or the good TeX V3 motor (look also at MlTeX). The french style directory, as distributed by his author is composed of other directories. The main directory hosts the following files and directories: (The number of bytes of this README may differ) %%>============================================================================ total 1208 lrwxrwxrwx 1 gaulle 6 Aug 18 1993 ALIRE -> README -rw------- 1 gaulle 231392 Apr 11 18:12 ALIRE.dvi -rw-r--r-- 1 gaulle 799203 Apr 11 18:12 ALIRE.ps -rw------- 1 gaulle 27333 Apr 11 18:19 Changements -rw------- 1 gaulle 4050 Apr 11 18:19 Copyright -rw-r--r-- 1 gaulle 17748 Apr 5 16:26 DROIT.tex -rw-r--r-- 1 gaulle 11012 Dec 29 13:25 FAQ -rw------- 1 gaulle 1094 Apr 11 18:19 FTPinfos -rw------- 1 gaulle 1137 Apr 11 18:19 GUTenberg -rw-r--r-- 1 gaulle 7280 Apr 11 13:14 Makefile.unx drwxr-xr-x 2 gaulle 512 Apr 11 18:19 MlTeX -rw-r--r-- 1 gaulle 5713 Apr 5 14:38 README -rw-r--r-- 1 gaulle 1089 Jul 5 1995 REGISTER drwxr-xr-x 4 gaulle 512 Jul 6 1995 contrib drwxr-xr-x 2 gaulle 512 Apr 11 18:19 doc -rw-r--r-- 1 gaulle 2884 Jan 5 17:05 frmsgOK -rw-r--r-- 1 gaulle 2764 Sep 8 1995 frmsgPB -rw------- 1 gaulle 50713 Apr 11 18:19 history drwxr-xr-x 3 gaulle 1024 Apr 11 18:19 initex drwxr-xr-x 2 gaulle 1024 Apr 11 18:19 inputs -rw------- 1 gaulle 3878 Apr 11 18:19 kb2lex.tex -rw-r--r-- 1 gaulle 14904 Apr 11 17:09 kb7to8.c -rw-r--r-- 1 gaulle 11739 Apr 11 17:09 kb8to7.c -rw-r--r-- 1 gaulle 1246 Apr 5 17:36 latexenv drwxr-xr-x 2 gaulle 1024 Apr 11 18:21 tst %%<============================================================================ Quick description of contents: ALIRE : this file. ALIRE.dvi : (in fact: frenchlu.dvi) PRINT IT FIRST, here is the installation procedure to follow --in french. ALIRE.ps : (the same in PostScript) Changements : (in french) list of improvments. Copyright : you must read it to know your rights and your duties. DROIT.tex : a french doc. about Internet rights & duties (regard. software) FAQ : basic Frequently Asked Questions about (All)TeX and french. FTPinfos : warning about binary files (for ftp users). GUTenberg : just a pointer to the french association of users. Makefile.unx : author's Makefile for Unix, to configure. MlTeX dir. : for information about Multi-Lingual TeX. README : this file. REGISTER : some warnings for you if you don't accept to be registered. contrib dir. : you will find other language-styles running friendly with the french style. Look at its README file. doc directory : the source files to produce the documentation. frmsgOK : the message you will send after installation. frmsgPB : the message you may send if any pb is encountered. history : backgroud changes prior the previous distribution initex dir. : look at its README for the INITEX time material (contains a subdirectory for testing purposes) inputs dir. : here are the files used for input to (All)TeX kb2lex.tex : a (La)TeX pgm generating .lex files in order to generate 7-bit <==> 8-bit translators. For people having no lex pgm, the following is provided (lex output): kb7to8.c : a sample C pgm to translate 7-bit to 8-bit accordingly to "my" keyboard.dat (given in directory inputs) kb8to7.c : a sample C pgm to transle 8-bit to 7-bit accordingly to "my" keyboard.dat (given in directory inputs) latexenv : environnement setting example to configure to your own needs. tst directory : useful tests for french.sty validation. (torture tests). YOUR "TO DO" LIST: ================= 1- Print and read ALIRE.dvi or ALIRE.ps (which is in french). This is the users guide and the installation guide. 2- Are you willing to create new formats with the french files? If yes, go to the initex directory and then come back here. 3- Are you willing to use keyboard.dat? for example to generate 7-bit <==> 8-bit translators, so update it in directory inputs, if not already done for initex. 4- kb7to8 and kb8to7 generation: look at kb2lex.tex 5- If you are not using the default keyboard encoding, translate f7abbrev.tex to frabbrev.tex via any pgm like kb7to8. 6- Go to the tst directory for validation. 7- If not already done: copy the inputs directory to your usual directory TEXINPUT (i.e. for everybody). 8- Drop me the registration message frmsgOK. Optionally, look at the contrib directory. I hope you enjoy it, Bernard GAULLE ==============================================================================