re imake tex looking for beta testers in article rl efinnl p fbi news informatik uni dortmund de klute tommy informatik uni dortmund de rainer klute writes as i announced at the x technical conference in january i would like to make imake tex the imake support for using the tex typesetting system publically available currently imake tex is in beta test here at the computer science department of dortmund university and i am looking for some more beta testers preferably with different tex and imake installations judging from the responses so far i have not made clear enough in my article quoted above that imake tex is not for installing tex but for using it with imake tex you will never again have to fiddle around with calling latex and its various utility programs makeindex bibtex simply type make and your document s dvi file will be up to date all you have to do is to write a simple imakefile and let imake generate a suitable makefile for you here is such an imakefile include tex tmpl paperformata simplelatextarget document the generated makefile provides the following commands make depend searching the tex source files for dependencies like input somefile make dvi generate an up to date dvi file make viewdvi display it on your screen make ps generate a postscript version of your document make viewps display it make clean remove unnecessary things make veryclean remove even the dvi file make makefiles generate makefiles in subdirectories if a this seems attractive to you b you are willing to test imake tex and send me a short test report c you are willing to cope with a rudimentary english documentation however the german version is completed and included then you are invited as a beta tester i am looking forward to your e mail dipl inform rainer klute i r b immer richtig beraten univ dortmund irb postfach tel d w dortmund fax new address after june th univ dortmund d dortmund
