[texhax] Collection for social sciences and the humanities for TeXLive 2006

Uwe Lück uwe.lueck at web.de
Fri Sep 15 23:57:48 CEST 2006


... on including manyfoot together with bigfoot:

At 20:22 15.09.06, Juergen Fenn wrote:
>David Kastrup <dak at gnu.org> writes:
>
> > In particular, since manyfoot is _required_ by bigfoot.  It won't work
> > without it.

Same holds for ednotes in place of bigfoot!

And as for including lineno or not -- ednotes needs lineno as well.

>Hm. The problem with manyfoot is that it is no package of its own, but
>rather part of the ncctools bundle in collection-latexextra. When I
>have a look at the Catalogue entry for ncctools I don't think it makes
>much sense to include the whole ncctools bundle in
>collection-humanities because most packages don't have anything to do
>with critical-edition typesetting or with the humanities.

Right.

>Could we (or should we) make manyfoot a package of its own for
>installation in collection-humanities?

Does this mean to create a new manyfoot directory in
macros/latex/contrib/?

Thanks,

Uwe.



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