From: INJS@ibm.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Juergen Schlegelmilch)
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Subject: [comp.text.tex] TeXShell V2.5 released
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Date:         Tue, 01 Sep 92 11:03:12 MEZ
From:         Juergen Schlegelmilch <INJS@IBM.RZ.TU-CLAUSTHAL.DE>
Subject:      TeXShell V2.5
To:           emTeX-Liste <emtex-user@methan.chemie.fu-berlin.de>
 
Hello emTeX users,
I'm now able to release version 2.5 of TeXShell.
 
  TeXShell is an user interface for all emTeX programs. It
includes multi-file editors, file viewers, context-sensitive
help on itself and (La)TeX (only in german, sorry) and helps
in locating TeX errors and warnings in the documents. All
programs, paths and options for TeX can be modified in dialogs;
and you don't have to adapt paths and environments for each
program manually. It integrates an external editor (if you
don't want to use the build-in one), normal and Big versions,
of TeX, a previewer, two printer drivers, BibTeX, MakeIndex and
other programs as well.
 
TeXShell V2.5 adds some new features to that of version 2.4:
- supports bigTeX explicitly
- context-sensitive help on more than 750 (La)TeX macros
  (no english version, sorry. German texts taken from H. Kopka's
  'LaTeX --- Eine Einf"uhrung', with permission of both author
  and publisher)
- OS/2 support: TeXShell is able to start native OS/2 programs
  from within a DOS box of OS/2 2.0 using a utility written by
  Eberhard Mattes
- No limit to macro packages: you can have up to 32767 packages.
- semi-automatic macro package selection: a comment in your
  TeX document selects the macro package to be used with this
  document
- all texts used in the TeXShell for menus, dialogs or warnings
  can be modified, thus allowing easy translations.
- supports automatic font generation on the fly with the beta-
  versions of emTeX's drivers and MFjob 1.1l
- No Primary file necessary for one-file-documents
- Real multi-document program: uses document in active edit window
  for TeXing, previewing, printing etc. if no Primary file is set.
- improved stability: many bugs corrected, more checks included
- source texts for all help files including help compiler are
  included
 
The new version can be retrieved via anonymous ftp from Stuttgart
(ftp.uni-stuttgart.de, dir /soft/tex/machines/pc/emtex-texshell)
or Clausthal (sun.rz.tu-clausthal.de, dir /pub/tex/emtex/texshell)
as file TS25.ZIP. It has to be unpacked using the -d option of
PKUNZIP; removing an old version (except for the TEXSHELL.CFG)
before installing the new one is recommended. The program TS_UPGRD
has been included to make upgrading easy; however, the current
version has to bugs: it forgets to add a line 'UseBigTeX=0' to
the Formats section and misses the end of file, if any tool is
registered in the original TEXSHELL.CFG. I'll send a corrected
version to Stuttgart as soon as possible. Because of these bugs
I hesitated annoucing the new version, but people look more often
into that dir in Stuttgart as I thought they would. And as computer
scientists used to say: There's always one more bug...
 
Any comments, bug reports (if there are any :-) and suggestions
are welcome. Send them to me:
  J"urgen Schlegelmilch
  INJS@IBM.RZ.TU-CLAUSTHAL.DE