Bug#53927: tetex-bin: /usr/info/dvips.info.gz out of date to /usr/lib/texmf/tex/plain/dvips/dvips.tex

[Brett Wuth <wuth@errant.castrov.cuug.ab.ca>]

Hilmar Preusse writes:
 > On 03.01.00 wuth@errant.castrov.cuug.ab.ca (wuth@errant.castrov.cuug.ab.ca) wrote:
 > 
 > Hi,
 > 
 > > /usr/info/dvips.info.gz seems to take most of its contents from
 > > /usr/lib/texmf/tex/plain/dvips/dvips.tex.  But is missing
 > > the following paragraph:
 > > 
 > 
 > drachi:[t3] >more dvips.info
 > This is dvips.info, produced by makeinfo version 4.4 from dvips.texi.
 > 
 > So I guess rather dvips.texi is the source for generation of the info
 > files. Further dvips.tex is much older that dvips.texi. Is that bug
 > still relevant or should we close it?

I just skimmed through the current documentation.  It doesn't mention
landplus90 or an alternative way of creating the same effect.  So I'd
say the documentation is still lacking.

This bug could be addressed by simply adding a sentence:

For documentation on some obscure features you may want to refer to
.../dvips.tex.

Cheers,
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