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Re: Mapping of teTeX files to TeXLive packages



Frank Küster wrote:
> "Kevin B. McCarty" <kmccarty@Princeton.EDU> wrote:
>>One big help would be to include a URL to the TDS in the paragraph
>>quoted above.  I don't know if it's available in HTML format.  Even if
>>it isn't, a pointer would still be very helpful, for instance "The TDS
>>is available in the texlive-doc-en package and the tetex-doc package; it
>>may be viewed by running 'texdoc tds' if one of these packages is
>>installed."
> 
> I have now commited the following patch, which moves the TDS stuff to
> the subsection about File searching instead of TEXMF trees.  What do you
> think about it?

It looks great.  I have one very minor nitpick:

> +        File locations must follow the TeX Directory Structure, TDS.
> +        The TDS specification is installed in
> +        the <package>texlive-doc-en</package>
> +        and <package>tetex-doc</package> packages
> +        as <file>tds.dvi</file>,

I think it is actually installed as tds.dvi.gz.

>>Alternatively you could consider shipping the TDS doc in tex-common
>>instead of (or in addition to) texlive-doc-en/tetex-doc, say in the same
>>directory as the Debian TeX policy docs.
> 
> That's actually what we should do, just as debian-policy ships a copy of
> the FHS.  I just don't have time for this right now.

No problem :-)

> Should we recreate
> the html/dvi files at package build time?

I imagine this wasn't directed only at me, but IMHO: yes, why not?

best regards,

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Kevin B. McCarty <kmccarty@princeton.edu>   Physics Department
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