Bug#206568: amslatex/3567: Re: tetex-doc: Documentation for amscd.sty is missing

[frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)]

Frank (bugs reply) <latex-bugs@latex-project.org> wrote:

You're Frank Mittelbach, aren't you?

> Frank Kuester writes:
>
>  > In amsltx2.tgz, amscd.dvi (or pdf) is missing.  amscd.dtx and
>  > amscd.sty are included, but not the documentation generated from
>  > amscd.dtx.
>  > 
[...]
> sorry but this must be some misunderstanding. as you correctly write
> "generated from ..."  
>
> it is a standard custom in the LaTeX world to distribute packages in their
> source format only with the documentation usually generateable by the
> receiver. sometimes manuals are "additionally" distributed in generated form,
> but it is clearly no bug if this is not the case
>
> so if at all it is up to the actual distributors to precompile the
> documentation as an extra service

Thomas, what do you think about it? The amsltx distribution is
inconsistent in that it does _not_ distribute just the source, but the
generated *sty and *cls and some dvi files along with it; however if
they chose to do so, we can just accept this.

Will you include more compiled documentation in the next tetex releases?
Would it be a good idea to add a dvi or pdf target to the Makefile in
tetex-texmf-2.0.2/doc/? Unfortunately, this would depend on a working
LaTeX installation.

Bye, Frank

-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie