IMPORTANT
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This Package only supplies the Tibetan Transcript Translator.
You must have Sam Sirlin's font(*.mf), font metrics (*.tfm) 
and tibdef.tex installed! If you don't have Metafont or work
on an old LaTeX version, follow the special instructions below.

Please look at the remarks at the top of the c source code.


IF YOU HAVE SAM SIRLIN'S PACKAGE ALREADY INSTALLED
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The only thing you have to do is to compile the source ttt.c:

	gcc ttt.c -o ttt

that's it!

If you want to LaTeX compile the file intro.tib, enter the following
three lines. Maybe you have another viewer than xdvi.

	ttt input.ttd tex.ttd intro.tib intro.tex
	latex intro
	xdvi intro &

You still may have to adopt is the paper size: instead of a4paper, 
use letterpaper, a5paper, b5paper, executivepaper or legalpaper.


WORKING WITHOUT METAFONT
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Jeff Sparkes supplies the *.pk files in the package called 'original'.
Install the *.pk and *.tfm files there and compile ttt.c as above.
Do not use any feature supplied by Sam Sirlin. You may even have
to comment away or remove the
	\input{tibdef.tex}
in the files tptex.tex and tplatex.tex


WORKING WITH OLD LATEX VERSIONS
-------------------------------

Change all \documentclass commands to \documentstyle
and adapt the paper size names.

	grep '\documentclass' *

will help you doing so.


INSTALLING THE FONTS
--------------------

A good question regulary occurs on where to put the TeX font files.
Here are some suggestions where to put them (taken from my installations).
Since the paths differ quite much among systems and distributions,
I could not write an installation script saving you this setup work
which is quite hard for beginners.

Instead of copying the font files, you can set font path variables (see 
extract from my SET-TEX.BAT file for DOS below. Hopefully, the variable 
names are equal under Linux).

If the directories mentioned do not exist, look for them using
on UNIX and derivated systems:
	find / -type f -name "*.mf" -print

Under DOS, use
        cd \
	dir *.mf /s


teTeX Font Path for Metafonts (*.mf) on SuSE Linux:
/usr/lib/teTeX/texmf/fonts/source/public/tib

teTeX Font Path for pk (*.300pk or *.pk) fonts on SuSE Linux:
/var/texfonts/pk/deskjet/*.300pk
emtex under DOS:
\emtex\pixel.lj\300dpi\*.pk

teTeX Font Path for (*.tfm) files on SuSE Linux:
/var/texfonts/tfm
DOS:
/emtex/tfm

teTeX inputs (*.tex) and style (*.sty) Path on SuSE Linux:
/usr/lib/teTeX/texmf/tex/generic/tib


Font and other path environment variables (at least for emtex under DOS):

SET TEXINPUT=T:\EMTEX\TEXINPUT;T:\MYTEX
SET TEXFMT=T:\EMTEX\TEXFMTS
SET BTEXFMT=T:\EMTEX\BTEXFMTS
SET TEXTFM=T:\EMTEX\TFM
SET MFINPUT=T:\EMTEX\MFINPUT
SET MFBAS=T:\EMTEX\MFBASES
SET BMFBAS=T:\EMTEX\BMFBASES
SET MFJOB=T:\EMTEX\MFJOB
SET BIBINPUT=T:\EMTEX\BIBINPUT
SET DVIDRVINPUT=T:\MYTEX;T:\EMTEX\DOC
SET DVIDRVFONTS=T:\TEXFONTS


Hope this helps.


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Beat.Steiner@gseved.admin.ch
March 1997