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Re: Bug#358695: ITP: latex-utils -- utilities for LaTeX/xfig



Vincent Danjean <Vincent.Danjean@ens-lyon.org> wrote:

> I retry:
>
> Package name : latex-compile
> Description  : easy compiling of complexe (and simple) LaTeX documents
>  This package provides several tools that aim to simplify the
>  compilation of LaTeX documents :
>  .
>  LaTeX.mk: a make(1) snippets to help compiling LaTeX documents in
>  DVI, PDF, PS, ... format. Dependencies are automatically tracked : one
>  should be able to compile documents with a one-line Makefile
>  containing 'include LaTeX.mk'. Complexe documents (with multiple
>  bibliographies, indexes, glossaries, ...) should be correctly managed.
>  .
>  figlatex.sty: a LaTeX package to easily insert xfig figures (with
>  \includegraphics{file.fig}). It can interact with LaTeX.mk so that the
>  latter automatically invokes transfig if needed.
>  .
>  And various helper tools for LaTeX.mk
>  .
>  Homepage: http://gforge.inria.fr/projects/latex-utils/

That sounds much better.  Some grammar/spelling corrections:
s/complexe/complex/, please don't put a space before the colons. 

>> I rarely use xfig - now this sounds as if the package would indeed
>> include LaTeX macros, or can I use \includegraphics with *.fig files
>> with standard LaTeX?
>
> Does the new description answer correctly the question ?

Yes, just fine.

Be sure to follow the Debian TeX Policy draft in the tex-common package
- but I guess in your case that only means putting the style file at its
proper place, and making the documentation for it available to texdoc.

Regards, Frank

-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)



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