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Below you find 3 TeXlips related zip-files are available for download. All the relevant clips, batch files, icons, and text files are found in TeXlips.zip, while TeXlips_chm.zip contains the compiled HTML help file, and TeXlips_IconLibrary.zip an icon library file that TeXlips uses if you decide to associate TeX related files with NoteTab in Windows Explorer (yes, there are clips to take care of this if you have version 4.8 or later of NoteTab). To view the compiled HTML file you need to have Internet Explorer 4.0 or later installed. If you run Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows ME (heaven forbid), or Windows 98 that should take care of everything. If you use some older Windows operating system (95 or NT4) you have have to download the HTML Help ActiveX control from the Microsoft website, unless you use Internet Explorer 5.0x or later (it should include the control). You can download the whole HTML Help Workshop if you want (version 1.3 is about 4.0MB), but I think it should suffice to just download the Hhupd.exe file (about 705KB). Naturally, you need a zip-program to unzip the compressed files below (e.g. WinZip).

TeXlips 2.0 - Beta 10

There's also a beta version available of the next release, TeXlips 2.0. Apart from support for MiKTeX 2.1 and the upcoming MiKTeX 2.2, bug fixes, and some interface changes, this version supports:

  • Creation of all support files for using PostScript text and math fonts with LaTeX (via fontinst), including font description, map, config, and style files for OT1, T1, and LY1 font encodings and various other style options. In addition, you can select special fonts for fraktur, script, blackboard bold, sans serif, typewriter, math italics, math symbols, math extensions, and uppercase greek (for OT1) if these are missing, i.e. if you only have a new PostScript text font family you want to use with LaTeX. For this operation, the clip function behaves in a similar manner as the mathinst package, but it doesn't rely on perl and it automatically selects the necessary scaling factors for the special fonts. The best support is given to the commercial MathTime and Lucida Bright math fonts from Y&Y. Please note that the special fonts must already be installed as PostScript fonts in your TeX system, and that some special fonts may match your text fonts well (i.e. have approximately the same CapHeight to XHeight ratio as the text fonts) while others may not. For example, MathTime (CapHeight=657, XHeight=440 for math italics fonts, i.e. a ratio of 1.49) matches Adobe Garamond (CapHeight=663, XHeight=408 for roman italics fonts, i.e. a ratio of 1.64) fairly well, while Lucida Bright (CapHeight=723, XHeight=530 for math italics fonts, i.e. a ratio of 1.36) does not. Currently, I have successfully created the LaTeX support files for Adobe Garamond, Monotype Baskerville, Micropress BA math fonts, and Hoefler Text with this function.
  • fpTeX version 0.4 (Web2C) and later
  • teTeX version 1.0 and Xdvi(k) via Cygwin
  • Texinfo and MakeRTF, for converting Texinfo documents
  • TkMan and PolyglotMan (for viewing and manipulating manual pages and Texinfo source)
  • TkInfo (for viewing info files)
  • The Xpdf portable document format viewer and pdf tools
  • Certain features of Visual TeX
  • Lots of Cygwin tools (like make, bash, man, info, groff, tar, gzip, bzip2, configure, patch, and so on)
  • AFPL Ghostscript
  • StarNet's X-Win32 X Window server and font utilities
  • The Cygwin compatible XFree86 X Window server
  • The Win32-X11 X Window server
  • MicroImages MI/X X Window server
  • DDD, the Data Display Debugger for debugging e.g. C, java, perl, or python code
  • More perl stuff (e.g PPM and PerlTk Debugger, html2latex, texi2html, pod2html, pod2latex, pod2man, pod2pdf, pod2xml, tex2mail, tkpod, GAUSS to MatLab (gtoml))
  • LyX, the free LaTeX WYSIWYG front end
  • epstool and gsprint, which are bundled with GSview, for adding previews to eps files and printing ps and pdf files, respectively
  • JSpell (spell check - only works under Win9x/ME)
  • 4Spell (spell check)
  • The 32-bit Windows version of ISpell as well as the Cygwin compiled version. These executables can also be run in the background using TeXlips' own GUI towards ISpell.
  • LaCheck
    • (LaTeX syntax checker)
  • LaTeX2HTML (for converting LaTeX code into HTML)
  • Visual C/Studio's Nmake utility (for e.g. installing perl packages)
  • Equation Magic, equation editor
  • TeXaide, equation viewer
  • Lots of font utilities (afm2tfm, ttf2tfm, t1utils, CrossFont, FontLister, TypeTool, ATM, Y&Y's font manipulation tools, etc.)
  • Lots of image utilities (epstopdf, GLE, gnuplot, jpeg2ps, Mayura Draw, Paint Shop Pro, IrfanView, MetaGraf, jPicEdt, GIMP, Xfig, Jfig, ImageMagick, etc.)
  • TkBibTeX, for managing BibTeX datafiles
  • JavaBib, for managing BibTeX datafiles
  • BibDB, for managing BibTeX datafiles
  • ltx2rtf, for converting LaTeX into rich text format files
  • leq, for converting LaTeX into Word documents
  • word2tex, for converting Word documents into LaTeX
  • word2x, for converting Word documents into e.g. LaTeX
  • rtf2LaTeX2e, for converting rich text format files into LaTeX
  • txt2man, for converting text files into UN*X Manual pages
  • txt2pdf, for converting text files into portable document format
  • txt2tex, for converting text files into LaTeX
  • Porting tips for Cygwin and Make/GCC of various GNU-type tools

In addition, TeXlips now supports the statistics and mathematics software (i) GAUSS, (ii) MatLab, (iii) Octave, (iv) RATS, and (v) Maple. You can download TeXlips 2.0 (beta 10) from:

At this stage there's no new documentation. As always, you should treat beta software with caution. Support for additional utilities will be added. On the todo list are:

  • Installation of LaTeX packages
  • GNU debugger
  • GNU Compiler Collection (gcc, g++, g77)
  • More Cygwin utilities (tcsh, sh, gawk, autoconf, automake, strip, diff, etc)
  • More perl utilities (pod2text, txt2html, html2man, html2ps, html2pod, pod2texinfo, etc)
  • More X Window utilities
  • Visual Studio C/C++ compiler (cl)
  • GNU a2ps and enscript
  • GNU Ghostscript under Cygwin, i.e. using gs.exe instead of gswin32c.exe
  • HTMLDoc for converting HTML files to PostScript and/or Portable Document Format
  • HeVeA for converting TeX/LaTeX files to HTML
  • TeX4ht for converting TeX/LaTeX files to HTML
  • Ttf2pt1 for converting TrueType fonts to PostScript Type 1 fonts
  • Hp2xx for converting hpgl image files to e.g. encapsulated PostScript files
  • K Desktop Environment for Cygwin as an option when running XFree86 (and perhaps Win32-X11)
  • TeX2Word when it has been released
  • BibTool for manipulating BibTeX files
  • More ImageMagick utilities
  • The command line version of Maple
  • More Visual TeX stuff
  • DVI utilities (mainly Web2c/fpTeX/teTeX applications)
  • Additional ISpell functionality (findaffix, tryaffix, munchlist, ijoin, icombine)
  • Help tools (helpdeco)
The final release of TeXlips 2.0 will have also have a better installation program.


Last Updated: February 17, 2004
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