[tex-live] teTeX: no next release

David Kastrup dak at gnu.org
Sat Jun 3 11:40:27 CEST 2006


Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns at cl.cam.ac.uk> writes:

>> >>>>> "Karl" == Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> writes:
>
> the problem is precisely that such a script has to have built-in
> knowledge about the package and how its docs are supposed to be
> processed.  there are a significant number of packages on ctan that
> just won't work in (what i think of as) the standard way -- process
> .ins, process .dtx -- enough that every so often i'm surprised by
> another twist.

That's not the standard way.  The standard way is process .ins,
process .drv.  Only if there is no .drv generated, is .dtx worth a
try.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum


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