WELCOME TO LOOTEX!!!

	Created by Jason R. Looker
	Department of Mathematics and Statistics
	The University of Melbourne
	Victoria 3010
	AUSTRALIA
	Ph: (61-3) 8344 9772
	E-mail: j.looker@ms.unimelb.edu.au


* SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS AND INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS

This README file assumes that you are using the teTeX distribution of LaTeX, 
and have a Linux or Unix style OS with either the Bourne, Bash, C or TC shell 
as your default. I will only describe the system requirements and installation 
instructions for LooTeX - the instructions for LooTeX LiTe are similar.


* SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

LooTeX requires the following LaTeX packages:

- amsmath
- amssymb
- ifthen.

LooTeX LiTe only requires the ifthen package.

You should already have these packages as they come with most, if not all, 
distributions of LaTeX.


* INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS

LooTeX can be installed in two ways: 

1) Place lootex.sty in the same directory as your current .tex file. 
Then if your .tex file is stored in a different directory in the future, 
a copy of lootex.sty must be placed in the new directory. 

OR

2) (Thanks to Chris Green.)

i) Choose a location for your style files, say ~/TeXstylefiles.

ii) Set the MYLATEXINPUTDIR and TEXINPUTS environment variables as 
follows:

* In the Bourne shell, add the following to ~/.profile

MYLATEXINPUTDIR=~/TeXstylefiles
export MYLATEXINPUTDIR

TEXINPUTS=".:$MYLATEXINPUTDIR:"
export TEXINPUTS

* In the Bash shell, add the above to ~/.bash_profile OR ~/.bash_login 
OR ~/.profile.

* In the C or TC shells, add the following to ~/.login

setenv MYLATEXINPUTDIR ~/TeXstylefiles
setenv TEXINPUTS ".:$MYLATEXINPUTDIR:"

iii) Place lootex.sty in the ~/TeXstylefiles directory, source the relevant 
startup file and you're done.  LaTeX will now look for the style files in 
this directory. The advantage of this is that you don't have to keep copying 
lootex.sty every time you wish to use a different directory to store your 
.tex file.  
 
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