[tex-live] Format of README file for a package

[Josef Kleber]

Am 02.10.2014 um 20:52 schrieb jfbu:
> I could not do that with README (afaik)
> as TeX's \input adds .tex extension to filenames without extension.

That's true. But you can use a makefile for renaming, dedtxing and 
producing the documentation. And there can be other targets like git and 
ctan, e.g.: http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/getmap/makefile

> Thus README.md is the natural thing for me to work with, but it is no
> big deal to rename it to README before packaging my submission. And
> anyhow it is mandatory for CTAN displaying it.
>
> Your message makes me think that rather than including the README.md
> verbatim, as a section in the package PDF documentation, I could as well
> choose to provide a separate README.pdf.
>
> Indeed I already had experimented with producing README.pdf using Pandoc
> from README.md and it's fine.

Could also be a make target. You write it once and it's a no-brainer for 
the rest of your life! ;-)

Josef