Bug#4346: Essential LaTeX style files missing
> Thomas> In 1.1.7, Debian's TeX is unusable for somebody who wants to do
> Thomas> serious work with it, at least for me (I work in German). Hardly
> Thomas> any of the often - used packages is there (this starts with a4.sty,
> Thomas> which is required by the documentation of german.sty, missing).
With \LaTeX2e you shouldn't need A4.sty. Just say a4paper in the
\documentclass
options.
> - if you were to start from Karl Berry's sources, you wouldn't get it
> either, what Debian delivers is a standard "base" TeX.
Just a silly question: Which flavour of \TeX is Debian shipping?
How far is it away from e.g. teTeX?
>And Debian is after all an open system. Everybody could package, say,
>latex-goodies. I just put these things into /usr/local/lib/texmf/tex/latex
//
Sidenote: I've packaged some things from teTeX for myself, for example the
rsfs fonts, which are badly needed.
But: Is somebody knowledgeable on the copyright terms on the rsfs's fonts?
>As for a4, I much prefer vmargin (which the LaTeX Companion has as vpage,
>described on page 89).
And I pagesize...
David
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