Re: Various questions concerning TeX live
Hi Ralf!
On Sam, 03 Jun 2006, Ralf Stubner wrote:
> In case you see any difference between 'mentioned' and 'asked for'
> fonts; IMO these fonts are on the same level wrt PSNFSS.
Ok.
>
> > * rsfs
> > move rsfs from fonts-extra to fonts-recommended
>
> Same here, font is asked for/mentioned by PSNFSS.
ok.
> > * (HA-prosper)/beamer/powerdot
> > (old) prosper is in latex-recommended
> > beamer and powerdot in latex-extra
> >
> > Exchange?
>
> That would be a possibility. But I am not usre if it makes sense to
> implement such random comments allready.
Why not, the idea is to make this change upstream and cary it out also
in the Debian packages.
> > * jurabib/juramisc
> > move jurabib from lang-de to latex-extra
>
> bibtex-extra would be more appropriate IMO (and latex-extra is to large
> allready ;-)
good.
> [...]
> > * publishers
> > move from latex-extra to publishers
> >
> > Reason: the name?
>
> What I meant was that tl-publishers is meant for styles specific for
> certain journals etc. But there are quite a few such styles in
> tl-latex-extra, too. IMO it would make sense to move them to the other,
> similar styles.
Quick checks gives me:
IEEEconf -- IEEEconf proceedings
aastex -- Macros for Manuscript Preparation for AAS Journals.
apa -- American Psychological Association format.
asaetr -- Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers.
ascelike -- Bibliography style for the American Society of Civil Engineer.
gatech-thesis -- Georgia Institute of Technology thesis class
imac -- International Modal Analysis Conference format.
jhep -- JHEP style.
jpsj -- Document Class for Journal of the Physical Society of Japan.
muthesis -- Document classes for University of Manchester Department of
Computer Science.
osa -- Macros for Optical Society of America Journals, etc.
ptptex -- Macros for 'Progress of Theoretical Physics'.
sae -- Typeset an SAE technical paper.
siggraph -- SIGGRAPH conference class.
tugboat -- LaTeX macros for TUGboat articles.
uaclasses -- University of Arizona thesis and dissertation format.
ucthesis -- University of California thesis format.
uiucthesis -- UIUC thesis class.
umich-thesis -- University of Michigan Thesis LaTeX class.
Comments?
> > * Remove collection-pdfetex and move all the files into latex-base?
>
> I think in TL (but not in TL for Debian) collection-pdfetex contains the
> actual pdfetex binary. If this is the case, then one has to consider
No. It contains only stuff related to pdfetex specific things. the
pdfetex binary is in collection-basebin.
Best wishes
Norbert
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