You can find the fpTeX home on the Web here:
http://www.fptex.org/
The current fpTeX release is available from any CTAN (see also the section 4.4) site in the
directory :
ftp://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/fptex/.
The main ftp site for fptex is ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/fptex/ from where beta versions of fpTeX and additionnal tools are available. This main site is mirrored (partly only!) daily by the CTAN backbones in their systems/win32/fptex directory.
You can reach me at my email address: mailto:Fabrice.Popineau@supelec.fr.
The TeX Users Group is kindly hosting a mailing-list dedicated to fpTeX. This is a very low volume one. It is used for announcements, bugs reports or as well to discuss about improvements or various users problems. To subscribe, send a message to mailto:majordomo@tug.org with subscribe fptex in the body.
The distribution is made of the following binaries packages:
Programs using the kpathsea library | |
TeX 3.14159 | the TeX compiler |
metafont 2.7182 | the font compiler |
MetaPost 0.641 | graphic language along METAFONT style, produce nice postscript figures, |
metafontware | support tools for METAFONT |
TeXware | support tools for TeX |
e-TeX 2.1 | the e-TeX extension to TeX |
Omega 1.11 | a TeX extension towards Unicode (and much more) |
pdfTeX 0.14f | a TeXcompiler that can produce PDF |
mktex* | support programs for generating missing font files, fmtutil for building formats |
BibTeX 0.99C | the bibliography compiler |
BibTeX8 3.71 | the same, but rewritten in C and designed for 8 bits character sets |
ChkTeX | a TeX and LaTeX syntax checker |
CJK Utilities | set of tools to handle Far-East fonts |
dtl | translates DVI files into human readable format and vice-versa |
dvi2tty | previews DVI files on a text mode console |
dvidvi | helps with pagination problems |
dviljk 2.6 | prints on LaserJet printers |
dvipdfm 0.12.8b | converts DVI into PDF format |
dvipdfm 5.86d | converts DVI into Postscript format |
gsftopk 1.19.1 | rasterizes Type 1 fonts into PK fonts |
HBF to GF | font format converter |
Ispell | Spell checker with American, English, German and French dictionaries, to be used in conjunction with Emacs |
lacheck | cheks your LaTeX files without actually compiling them |
ltx2rtf 4.3 | converts LaTeX files to RTF files |
makindexk 2.13 | processes index files |
musixflx | helps writing music |
odvipsk | converts Omega extended DVI files to Postscript |
owindvi 0.67 | previews Omega extended DVI files |
ps2pkm 1.5 | another rasterizer for Type 1 files |
seetexk | various tools to manipulate DVI files |
t1utils 1.20 | tools to assemble and disassemble Type 1 fonts |
ttf2pfb, ttf2pk, ttfdump | a collection of tools to manipulate TTF fonts |
TeX4ht | converts TeX or LaTeX files to HTML |
texinfo | the GNU technical documentation package relying on TeX |
windvi 0.67 | previews DVI files |
Other programs supplied | |
psutils | a collection of tools to manipulate Postscript files |
gzip, bzip2 | compressors with their DLLs |
PNG tools | supplementary tools to handle PNG files |
TIFF tools | supplementary tools to handle TIFF files |
Jpeg to PS | converter from the JPEG format to Postscript |
NetPBM | a collection of tools to handle, transform and convert graphic files of various format |
ImageMagick | anoter collection of tools to handle, transform and convert graphic files of various format |
TeXSetup | the setup program |
EPS to PDF | converter using Ghostscript |
Supplementary packages of interest | |
Ghostscript and Ghostview | Postscript viewer system, comes in GPL’ed version and non-free (latest) version |
NTEmacs 20.7 | The Editor, preconfigured to run with AUC-TeX and Ispell |
XEmacs 21.2b34 | An enhanced Emacs (?) |
Perl 5.6.0 | Complete with Win32 bonus and Tcl/Tk 8.3.1 |
French.sty | Style to typeset in French |
PFE | Generic editor configured for TeX |
WinShell 2.0 | TeX oriented editor |
texshell | TeX oriented editor |
and the following style files packages:
To be complete, you will find in annexe 18 the rough listing of the complete binary distribution.
You need one of the following:
You can grab all these files easily by retrieving successfully wget.exe and getfptex.bat in some temporary directory. Run this .bat file and it will download the needed parts.
When you have one of these two sets of software, run the TeXSetup.exe program and refer to the section 5.
CTAN is the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network, a network of ftp servers where you can get (almost) every thing that is related to TeX. CTAN has three backbones
and several mirrors. You can obtain a list of the current CTAN mirrors as
ftp://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/CTAN.sites
Many of the servers (and at least the backbones in Germany and the UK) support compression on the fly, i.e. you can download the contents of a directory and all its subdirectories as a .zip of tar.gz file. Simply add the suffix .zip of .tar.gz to the URL of the directory to download.
There is also a searchable index for CTAN at
http://ctan.tug.org/cgi-bin/ctan-web-search
and
http://www.dante.de/cgi-bin/ctan-index