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2.071 Beta: Two small fixes to 2.07. Fixed a bug whereby dvips failed on processing a file located in the root directory of any given drive, and made the reconfiguration of the emtexgi Print button work better, I think.

2.07 Beta: Two new small features. (1) Emtexgi now accepts a tex file name as a command-line argument (this file becomes the ``jobname''), which means that you can associate .tex files with emtexgi in the Windows file manager. (2) Added a ``File, New'' menu item to facilitate creating a new document. At the same time I have updated ispell.zip to fix some bugs with the handling of filenames. Ispell should now work properly under both Windows 95 and Windows 3.1[1]. For Windows 3.x you need emtexgi 2.07 for spell-checking (with win95 you could simply install the new ispell.exe without updating emtexgi itself, if you wish). Plus some small bugfixes for emtexgi.

2.06 Beta: Integrate ispell into the distribution. Fix various small bugs. Build in support for the latest (early 1997) version of the LaTeX graphics bundle.

2.05 Beta: Add a File menu item for making an index. Make the Print button more fully user-configurable (see the new manual). Add support for the LaTeX graphics package. Add support for the "e" feature on LaTeX compilation errors (open the source file at the site of the error -- again, see the new manual). 16-bit only: Fix some bugs that crept into 2.04 due to win95/win3.1 incompatibilities.

2.04 Beta2: Add support for Babel, AMSTeX. Many bugfixes. Add a help menu. Make emtexgi configurable (under the Configure menu) as a sort of button bar. Various fixes for greater compatibility with Windows NT.

2.03 Beta2: Fix a few bugs in 2.02 Beta. Certain programs were not found if they were on a drive other than where emtexgi was installed. They should be found now. All buttons now have shortcut keys. The display jobname feature now works for directory names with dots. Also fixed emtex.bat so that dviwin should find its helpfile.

2.02 Beta2: Incorporate responses to problem-reports and suggestions from many users, to whom thanks for their comments. For instance:

• Menus and buttons are now more fully equipped with shortcut keys (e.g. Alt-L to LaTeX the current job). I find this convenient on the ThinkPad I'm using for development, which has an awkward little mouse-substitute.
• Menus are a bit more "honest": If emtexgi can't find a program specified in the cfg file, corresponding to a given menu item or button, that item or button appears disabled.
• Improved "Purge" item on the File menu: deletes (after confirmation) *.aux, *.log, *.dvi and *.ps in the current directory.
• Emtexgi remembers which directory you were working in from one session to the next, and also the job you were working on. If that directory was not the one where emtexgi2.exe resides, then on starting up the program you are given the option of going back to the previous working directory. Also the current jobname is displayed in the emtexgi window.
• Improved internal handling of the information from emtexgi2.cfg means that you're less likely to get errors (file or path not found) when you're TeXing files on a drive other than the one where your emTeX stuff is installed.
• Improved handling for directory names under Windows 95: Now emtexgi should be able to handle directory names that have spaces in them (e.g. "My Documents"). Note, however, that tex cannot handle file names with spaces, so don't go trying "my document.tex".
• Added two new items under the File menu, for spell checking and LaTeX checking. If you want to use these, you will have to add two more lines to the end of the "working" part of the configuration file, emtexgi2.cfg. These lines should take the form of the full path to the program you want to call, enclosed in quotes, with a space before the closing quote. I don't have any particular recommendation for these programs.