[Devnag-general] Re: [tex-live] Directory structure

[Dominik Wujastyk]

That's a good idea.  I've long had separate Velthuis and Wikner 
directories under devanagari on my machine, to keep things clear.

Dominik





On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Anshuman Pandey wrote:

>
> Thank you Zdenek and Karl for your work on getting the devnag package into 
> tex-live.
>
> Can we somehow specify 'velthuis' in the directory structure? I requested 
> such a change a while ago in CTAN so that the devnag package now resides 
> under 'language/devanagari/velthuis/'. I requested this with the intent of 
> eventually moving the wikner package from 'sanskrit' to 'devanagari'. This 
> existing taxonomy is a bit confusing.
>
> Also, can we use 'devanagari' instead of 'devanagr', or are we still 
> restricting filename lengths to eight characters?
>
>
> Regards,
> Anshu
>
> On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Karl Berry wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Zdenek,
>>>
>>>     Currently manual.*, README and copying reside in
>>>     doc/fonts/devanagr but they document not only fonts but also macros
>>> 
>>> My impression is that it is better for users if documentation for a
>>> package is in one place, where feasible.  Whether it is
>>> doc/fonts/devanagr or doc/generic/devanagr or whatever does not matter
>>> as much as the doc for the package being together.  Including samples
>>> and README's.  Feel free to make a subdir for samples, e.g.,
>>> doc/fonts/devanagr/demos.
>>> 
>> doc/generic/devanagr sounds best to me.
>> 
>>> In terms of distribution, the easiest way to incorporate big packages
>>> like this into TL is if they are on CTAN in exactly the final
>>> directories, so all I have to do is copy them.  See, for instance, the
>>> Lucida package I uploaded recently.  (Perhaps devanagr is already like
>>> this, I don't remember.)
>>> 
>> Unfortunatelly not, I have only manually restructured the package for TL.
>> I would like to have the same directory structure on CVS so that
>> preparation f releases is simple. I will do it tomorrow.
>> 
>>> Sound reasonable?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Karl
>>> 
>> 
>> Zdenek Wagner
>> e-mail: wagner at cesnet.cz
>> 
>> see also http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/
>>         http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz
>> 
>> 
>> 
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