Announcing: TWG-TDS Draft Standard 0.98

[Norman Walsh]

The TUG Technical Working Group on a TeX Directory Structure is
pleased to announce that a draft of the proposed TeX Directory
Structure standard is available for public review.  You can get it by
FTP from:

  <CTAN host>:/tex-archive/tds/draft-standard/

(The `/tex-archive' may vary; see the end of this message for a list of
possible hosts.)

The draft standard is available in LaTeX, PostScript, TeXinfo, HTML,
and SGML formats.

Comments and suggestions are welcome.  Please communicate them by email to

    twg-tds at shsu.edu

or by paper mail to

    Norman Walsh
    O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
    90 Sherman Street
    Cambridge, MA 02140  USA

The primary purpose of this document is to describe a standard TeX
Directory Structure (TDS) for macros, fonts, and other such
implementation-independent TeX files.  As a matter of practicality, it
also suggests ways to incorporate the rest of the TeX files into a
single structure.  In the not-so-long run a consistent directory
structure will make it much easier to install and maintain TeX.  We
hope that administrators and developers of both free and commercial
implementations of TeX will adopt this standard.  It has been designed
to work on all modern systems.  In particular, this Technical Working
Group (TWG) believes it is usable under Unix, MS-DOS, OS/2, MacOS, and
VMS.

We hope to publish another draft, or make the final release (depending
on the volume of comments and concerns) shortly after TUG 95.

-- the TUG TWG on a TeX Directory Structure

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