Bug#494876: endfloat.cfg for apa.cls

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 12.08.08 Frank Küster (frank@debian.org) wrote:

> Package: texlive-publishers
> Version: 2007.dfsg.3-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi Christoph,
> 
> > Here's a link to
> > the file on CTAN:
> > http://tug.ctan.org/get/macros/latex/contrib/apa/endfloat.cfg
> >
> > This can cause problems when using apa.cls (e.g., when using
> > longtables together with apa.cls). Would it be possible to add that
> > file to the texlive package?
> 
> Hm, yes, unless there's a reason not to.  Is this file used by the
> endfloat package?
> 
I searched for "endfloat" on CTAN and found the following list:

macros/latex/contrib/apa/endfloat.cfg
macros/latex/contrib/endfloat/COPYING
macros/latex/contrib/endfloat/endfloat.asc
macros/latex/contrib/endfloat/endfloat.dtx
macros/latex/contrib/endfloat/endfloat.ins
macros/latex/contrib/endfloat/endfloat.pdf
macros/latex/contrib/endfloat/readme.enf
macros/latex/contrib/endfloat.zip
macros/latex/contrib/osa/optics_letters/endfloat.cfg
macros/latex/contrib/osa/optics_letters/mac/endfloat.cfg
obsolete/macros/latex209/contrib/misc/endfloat.sty

(excluded some packages for special distributions like MikTeX/TeX
Live).

endfloat.cfg is not installed by the endfloat package, but by the
"OSA's Optics Letters" package. And even there it can probably be
removed. The endfloat.cfg in "OSA's Optics Letters" differs
significantly from the file in the APA class and both redefine
different commands.

I suggest to move both files to the doc dir and the user can decide
then, which one he'd like to use.

H.
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