Re: Meta-package to replace tetex-extra
On Die, 19 Dez 2006, Florent Rougon wrote:
> > In other words, we need to urge maintainers of documentation packages
> > to add a texlive-lang-* dependency for each language they add to their
> > docs. I think this is a disadvantage of texlive as a tool for automated
> > documentation processing, but I don't see any way out.
>
> Well, is there any real point not turning on most patterns by default,
> as is the case in teTeX? If not, why not do the same for TeX Live?
> Probably some texlive-lang-* packages would then become useless; they
> could be removed from the archive---I don't see it as a problem.
Hmmm, in theory possible, but I would opt NOT to just unconditionally
activate ALL hyphen patters, as there are quite a lot, and it may happen
that the TeX mem is exceeded.
If we have *only* all the texlive-lang-* patterns then it should work,
but there is already one other package littex which provides patterns
for Lithuanian, and there is always the option that new will emerge. At
the end this could easily exceed TeX pattern size. Imagine:
- texlive-lang-*
- latex-cjk-*
- littex (up to here it works ;-)
- other than patterns for arabic, etc etc
I am for a conservative approach.
Best wishes
Norbert
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Dr. Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> Università di Siena
Debian Developer <preining@debian.org> Debian TeX Group
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