Upgrading from NTeX 1.2 to 1.2.1 ================================ In order to upgrade from NTeX 1.2 to 1.2.1 you have to download the file ntp-121.tgz. This file contains all the new and changed files for version 1.2.1. Note that the current version of NTeX on the disks 1 to 13 is 1.2. In order to upgrade to 1.2.1 you have to install this patch. The changes will be included on the disks in version 1.3. Before you can install this patch you have to install NTeX 1.2. (See the file INSTALL on disk 1.) In order to execute the patch unpack ntp-121.tgz in some directory, for instance /tmp. I assume that you have copied ntp-121.tgz in /tmp, then type gzip -d /tmp/ntp-121.tgz tar xpf /tmp/ntp-121.tar cd ntex-patch1.2.1 Now you just need to execute the shell script patch1.2.1.sh. If you have changed the directory structure of NTeX, please change TEXLIB and TEXBIN accordingly in patch1.2.1.sh. (You can also copy all the files manually to their positions without patch1.2.1.sh, but note the remark about the permisisons, which are just changed with patch1.2.1.sh.) Now call patch1.2.1.sh This installs all the new and changed files. You are asked if the permissions in /usr/lib/texmf should be checked and set correctly. Type Y if you did not change the permissions or want some special permissions. The changes between 1.2 and 1.2.1 are: Bugs reported by Thomas Esser (te@informatik.uni-hannover.de): 1) ntb-xdvi.cfg now deletes the XDvi config file if it exists in before it creates the symbolic link. After the patch is installed you can call /usr/lib/texmf/tools/ntb-xdvi.cfg to configure xdvi correctly. 2) The new version of MakeTeXPK sets the permissions of created fonts to 0644. 3) There are still some directories in $TEXLIB that have the permisisons 0777. You can change this with the shell script patch1.2.1.sh to 0755 and the tmp directories for the created fonts to 1777. 4) I included my old xdvi version in this patch since the new one still has some errors. You can find the old version in /usr/bin under the name xdvi_old. 5) A style file a4wide.sty will be installed in /usr/lib/texmf/tex/latex/sty for a "larger" a4 format. It was sent in by Ludwig Holzleitner. 6) I added a style file mathsymb.sty for the mathematical symbols C R N ... It provides the commands \C \R \N \Z \Q \K in the maths mode to display the msbm font characters. If you want to have more symbols from this font are change the definitions just have a look at this file in /usr/lib/texmf/tex/latex/sty. Problems with this symbols were reported by Ludwig Holzleitner. Frank Langbein, e94fla@student.tdb.uu.se (till November 1994), langbein@mathematik.uni-stuttgart.de