[tex-live] texdoc suggestion for the cool package
Reinhard Kotucha
reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Wed Dec 8 22:33:07 CET 2010
On 8 December 2010 Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard wrote:
> > I don't know what to do with vntex-man.pdf. Maybe Manuel can give
> > advice. I didn't find out from the texdoc code how catalogue tags are
> > handled.
>
> Well, you didn't find that part of the code because there is none!
> The actual contents of the "details" field are mostly ignored,
> since it's basically free-form text. The idea is, if the file was
> worth a comment in the catalogue, then it's probably worth a score
> bonus. I hope Robin won't start adding comments like "don't read
> this" :-)
>
> (Full disclaimer: I lied and texdoc does look at the content, but
> only to see if it contains the string "readme", then it gives it a
> lesser bonus.)
>
> > If "manual" has a higher precedence than "documentation", it
> > would be sufficient to assign:
> >
> > vntex.pdf ==> 'Package manual'
> > vntex-man.pdf ==> 'Package documentation'
> >
> > Manuel, any suggestions?
> >
> None at all on this point.
>
> Currently, there is an alias vntex=vntex that forces vntex.pdf to
> be the first result. If vntex gets any comment in the catalogue,
> then this alias will become useless and my alias checking script
> will warn me, so I'll eventually remove it.
Thanks for the explanation.
Regards,
Reinhard
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