LaTeX 2e release 8 (December 1997) patchlevel 2, prebuilt for Textures users.

To use this release, install using the simple instructions below, or see
detailed install and build instructions in the file Textures.txt.

Basic instructions for installation:

1. Open your Textures folder. Within this folder, you will find the Textures
application and three required folders named "TeX Fonts", "TeX formats", and
"TeX inputs".

2. Select the Textures application in Finder and do File:Get Info. Set the
"Preferred Size" of Textures to at least 6000K. On my PowerMac with MacOS 7.6,
this is adequate for Textures 1.8.3. Your setup will differ, of course.

3. Put the contents of this archive's "TeX fonts" folder into your "TeX Fonts"
folder, replacing any older files of the same name.

4. Put the contents of this archive's "TeX formats" folder (the format (a.k.a.
preformatted macro package) "LaTeX R8P2" and the folder "unpacked R8P2") into
your "TeX formats" folder.

5. Put the contents of this archive's "TeX inputs" folder (a folder called
"¥LaTeX R8P2") into your "TeX inputs" folder.

6. Now start up Textures. You should see an item in your Typeset menu called
"LaTeX R8P2". This is the new LaTeX2e format, which you will now use to typeset
your LaTeX documents.

Other installation details:

7. This archive provides a folder called "Documentation", containing Textures
documents that represent online documentation for the various LaTeX packages in
this archive. You may open any of them from within Textures. These documents
are not required by Textures to run LaTeX, they're for you to read, if you
choose.

8. In the event that you must rebuild your LateX format, the necessary files
are to be found in the folder "unpacked R8P2", in your "TeX formats" folder;
otherwise these files are not required by Textures to run LaTeX.

Details on how to build a new format are provided in your Textures
documentation. In short, you use Textures to open the file "LaTeX R8P2" in the
"TeX formats" folder and typeset it. You will then need to navigate to the
folder "unpacked R8P2", in your "TeX formats" folder to help Textures find the
file "latex.ltx". When prompted to save the format, save to the file "LaTeX
R8P2" in the "TeX formats" folder (you will affirm that you wish to replace the
file). (If you have followed along this far, you will note that you are saving
over the file that is currently open in Textures, the very file that you have
just typeset; this is exactly what is intended, albeit boggles your mind.)

9. In the "TeX fonts" folder, the Textures metric suitcases "psfonts/adobe
metrics" and "psfonts/bh metrics" provide support for the LaTeX packages that
use Adobe and Bigelow & Holmes fonts, respectively. There are a great many
metrics therein, and this is the reason for making Textures' heap large in Step 2
above. You can reduce demands on heap space by eliminating these files from the
"TeX fonts" folder, say, by hiding them in a subfolder.

10. You may require packages in LaTeX's contrib area; if so, or if you need any
of LaTeX's source files, ftp://ctan.tug.org/tex-archives/macros/latex is the
place to go. Please let me know which such packages you use, and I will try to
include them in a future release of this archive.

Please notify me if you encounter problems with this software:

mailto:ogawa@teleport.com