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%                           Copyright GUTenberg-Bernard Gaulle as in french.doc
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%                                                           last mods: 04/20/94

This material was designed to help (La)TeX users to print french documents
i.e. according to french typographic habits. Here are the files that require
to be found via the usual TEXINPUT path.

The french style files, as distributed by his author is composed of 
other directories. This inputs directory hosts the following files:
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-rw-------  1 gaulle       5085 Mar 13 09:58 README.inputs
-rw-------  1 gaulle       5853 Mar 13 10:36 english.doc
-rw-r--r--  1 gaulle       2338 Mar 13 08:54 english.sty
-rw-------  1 gaulle       2043 Mar 13 10:36 epreuve.sty
-rw-r--r--  1 gaulle       5634 Mar 13 09:48 f7abbrev.tex
-rw-------  1 gaulle       1926 Mar 13 10:36 f7hyphex.tex
-rw-r--r--  1 gaulle       5392 Mar 13 09:48 f8abbrev.tex
-rw-------  1 gaulle       1946 Mar 13 10:36 f8hyphex.850
-rw-------  1 gaulle       1926 Mar 13 10:36 f8hyphex.mac
-rw-------  1 gaulle       1924 Mar 13 10:36 f8hyphex.tex
-rw-r--r--  1 gaulle       5573 Mar 13 09:48 frabbrev.850
-rw-r--r--  1 gaulle       5573 Mar 13 09:48 frabbrev.mac
-rw-------  1 gaulle       5392 Mar 13 10:36 frabbrev.tex
-rw-------  1 gaulle       4800 Mar 13 10:36 french.bug
-rw-------  1 gaulle       4258 Mar 13 10:36 french.chk
-rw-------  1 gaulle       5117 Mar 13 10:36 french.dmy
-rw-------  1 gaulle     135258 Mar 13 10:36 french.doc
-rw-r--r--  1 gaulle      72667 Mar 13 09:37 french.sty
-rw-------  1 gaulle       2510 Mar 13 10:36 frhyphex.tex
-rw-r--r--  1 gaulle        471 Mar 22  1994 fridx1.ist
-rw-------  1 gaulle      50021 Mar 13 10:36 kbconfig.tex
-rw-r--r--  1 gaulle      48634 Mar  1 09:43 kbconfig.texV1.15
-rw-r--r--  1 gaulle      13669 Jan 12 13:50 keyboard.850
-rw-r--r--  1 gaulle      14832 Feb 10 12:09 keyboard.dat
-rw-r--r--  1 gaulle      13622 Feb  8 14:03 keyboard.mac
-rw-r--r--  1 gaulle       2826 Dec  6 09:49 language.dat
-rw-------  1 gaulle        628 Mar 13 10:36 pmfrench.sty
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Quick description of contents:

README.inputs : this file.
english.doc   : the following file with its comments
english.sty   : a minimum set of things for an english like language (i.e. the
                language used in LaTeX)
epreuve.sty   : write \'EPREUVE on each PostScript page.
frabbrev.tex  : the french abbreviations file (a 8-bit ISO-Latin-1 binary file)
f8abbrev.tex  : the same file.
frabbrev.mac  : the same file for Mac input encoding 
                                               (then to be rename frabbrev.tex)
frabbrev.850  : the same file for PC code-page 850 input encoding.
                                               (then to be rename frabbrev.tex)
f7abbrev.tex  : the same file in full ASCII 7-bit. Normaly not usable asis.  
                Specially useful if your keyboard isn't ISO-Latin-1 to
                recreate frabbrev.tex (look at kb2lex.tex file in the main dir)
french.bug    : contains all known bugs at the date enclosed.
french.chk    : a (La)TeX code for checking any incompatibilty 
                                         with the french style
french.dmy    : a (La)TeX code to run a french doc. without any french style
french.doc    : the code with its comments  and the Copyright
french.sty    : the code (may run alone but normally uses other files such as:)
frhyphex.tex  : the french hyphenation exceptions master coding to load
                the appropriate file as following (look at it):
f7hyphex.tex  : the french hyphenation exceptions file in 7-bit.(OT1 encoding)
f8hyphex.tex  : the french hyphenation exceptions file in 8-bit (T1 encoding)
f8hyphex.mac  : the french hyphenation exceptions file in 8-bit (Mac encoding) 
f8hyphex.850  : the french hyphenation exceptions file in 8-bit (PC 850 c-p)
fridx1.ist    : index style for Makeindex (makeindex -s fridx1.ist)
kbconfig.tex  : the code which is used to read & understand keyboard.dat
keyboard.dat  : the file in which you specify the special keys of your keyboard
                (this is of course a 8-bit binary file) or can (look at it)
                load the appropriate one of the following 2 files : 
keyboard.mac  : file called for Mac input encoding. 8-bit file.
keyboard.850  : file called for PC code-page 850 input encoding. 8-bit file.
language.dat  : the configuration file for languages.
pmfrench.sty  : "Poor Man French" style. Calls french.sty but run it 
                in a "poor-man" way (e.g. in any installation not completely
                configured for  French).

Documentation: look for ALIRE.* in the main directory (source is in dir. doc)
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Your "TO DO" list: is explained in other directories.
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Hope you enjoy it,
    
    Bernard GAULLE          
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