% README of the french style files distribution for \AllTeX 
%                           Copyright GUTenberg-Bernard Gaulle as in french.doc
%
CAUTION : ALL FILES HAVE CHANGED since the last distribution.

This material was designed to help (La)TeX users to print french documents
i.e. according to french typographic habits.

[The checksum field that appears in allmost files contains a CRC-16 checksum as
the first value, followed by the equivalent of the standard UNIX wc (word
count) utility output of lines, words, and characters.  This is produced by 
Robert Solovay's checksum utility.]

Before installation ask yourself the question: is my TeX motor
installation able to process any 8-bit character (ie a char with
decimal code upper than 127)? If not, may be you don't have:
   either the good fonts (look at the DC for example),
   or the good TeX V3 motor (look also at MlTeX).

The french style directory, as distributed by his author is composed of 
other directories. The main directory hosts the following files and
directories:                    (The number of bytes of this README may differ)
%%>============================================================================
total 800
lrwxrwxrwx  1 gaulle          6 Aug 18  1993 ALIRE -> README
-rw-------  1 gaulle     224592 Mar 13 09:47 ALIRE.dvi
-rw-r--r--  1 gaulle     403752 Mar 13 09:48 ALIRE.ps
-rw-------  1 gaulle      18450 Mar 13 10:35 Changements
-rw-------  1 gaulle       3978 Mar 13 10:35 Copyright
-rw-------  1 gaulle       1079 Mar 13 10:35 FTPinfos
-rw-------  1 gaulle       1138 Mar 13 10:35 GUTenberg
-rw-r--r--  1 gaulle       6044 Feb 27 16:47 Makefile.unx
drwxr-xr-x  2 gaulle        512 Mar 13 10:35 MlTeX
-rw-------  1 gaulle       5605 Mar 13 09:58 README
-rw-r--r--  1 gaulle      16664 Jun  7  1994 cmr10.871pk
-rw-r--r--  1 gaulle      15560 Jun  7  1994 cmr17.504pk
drwxr-xr-x  4 gaulle        512 Apr 28  1994 contrib
drwxr-xr-x  2 gaulle        512 Mar 13 10:35 doc
-rw-r--r--  1 gaulle       1922 Sep  5  1994 enmsgOK
-rw-r--r--  1 gaulle       2017 Sep  5  1994 enmsgPB
-rw-r--r--  1 gaulle       2187 May 31  1994 frmsgOK
-rw-r--r--  1 gaulle       2189 May 31  1994 frmsgPB
-rw-------  1 gaulle      38186 Mar 13 10:35 history
drwxr-xr-x  3 gaulle       1024 Mar 13 10:36 initex
drwxr-xr-x  2 gaulle       1024 Mar 13 10:36 inputs
-rw-------  1 gaulle       3878 Mar 13 10:35 kb2lex.tex
-rw-r--r--  1 gaulle      14904 Mar 13 08:56 kb7to8.c
-rw-r--r--  1 gaulle      11739 Mar 13 08:57 kb8to7.c
-rw-r--r--  1 gaulle       1208 Dec 15 14:41 latexenv
drwxr-xr-x  2 gaulle        512 Mar 13 10:37 tst
%%<============================================================================
Quick description of contents:

ALIRE         : this file.
ALIRE.dvi     : (in fact: frenchlu.dvi) PRINT IT FIRST, here is the 
                installation procedure to follow --in french. 
ALIRE.ps      : (the same in PostScript)
Changements   : (in french) list of improvments.
Copyright     : you must read it to know your rights and your duties.
FTPinfos      : warning about binary files (for ftp users).
GUTenberg     : just a pointer to the french association of users.
Makefile.unx  : author's Makefile for Unix, to configure.
MlTeX   directory: for information about Multi-Lingual TeX.
README        : this file.
contrib directory : you will find other language-styles running friendly
                    with the french style. Look at its README file.
doc     directory : the source files to produce the documentation.
enmsgOK or frmsgOK: the message you will send after installation.
enmsgPB or frmsgPB: the message you may send if any pb is encountered.
history           : backgroud changes prior the previous distribution
initex  directory : look at its README for the INITEX time material
                   (contains a subdirectory for testing purposes)
inputs  directory : here are the files used for input to (All)TeX
kb2lex.tex        : a (La)TeX pgm generating .lex files in order to
                    generate 7-bit <==> 8-bit translators. For people
                    having no lex pgm, the following is provided (lex output):
kb7to8.c          : a sample C pgm to  translate 7-bit to 8-bit accordingly
                    to "my" keyboard.dat (given in directory inputs)
kb8to7.c          : a sample C pgm to  transle 8-bit to 7-bit accordingly
                    to "my" keyboard.dat (given in directory inputs)
mltex.env         : author's environnement to configure to your own needs.
tst     directory : useful tests for french.sty validation. (torture tests).

YOUR "TO DO" LIST:
=================

1- Print and read ALIRE.dvi or ALIRE.ps (which is in french). This is the users
   guide and the installation guide.
2- Are you willing to create new formats with the french files? If yes, go
   to the initex directory and then come back here.
3- Are you willing to use keyboard.dat? for example to generate 
   7-bit <==> 8-bit translators, so update it in directory inputs, if not
   already done for initex.
4- kb7to8 and kb8to7 generation: look at kb2lex.tex
5- If you are not using the default keyboard encoding, 
   translate f7abbrev.tex to frabbrev.tex via any pgm like kb7to8.
6- Go to the tst directory for validation.
7- If not already done: copy the inputs directory to your usual
   directory TEXINPUT (i.e. for everybody).
8- Drop me the message enmsgOK (in English) or frmsgOK (in French). 

Optionally, look at the contrib directory.
 
I hope you enjoy it,
    
    Bernard GAULLE          
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