From eijkhout at tacc.utexas.edu  Wed Nov  1 12:57:25 2017
From: eijkhout at tacc.utexas.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 11:57:25 +0000
Subject: [ho-tex] Feedback for /pkg/oberdiek?lang=en
Message-ID: <276662B6-F6C1-4041-A5CA-037F41E73EA2@tacc.utexas.edu>

Would it be possible to include instructions in the oberdiek README about how to obtain cls and sty files?

For instance, this link seems to indicate that they are anomalous:

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/29763/can-i-convert-a-dtx-file-to-tex-file

And even with those instructions I?m not getting there:

[oberdiek:99] latex ifpdf.dtx
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.18 (TeX Live 2017/MacPorts 2017_2) (preloaded format=latex)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./ifpdf.dtx
LaTeX2e <2017-04-15>
Babel <3.10> and hyphenation patterns for 55 language(s) loaded.

! LaTeX Error: File `ltxdoc.cls' not found.

Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed,
or enter new name. (Default extension: cls)

Enter file name: x

[oberdiek:100] tex ifpdf.dtx
This is TeX, Version 3.14159265 (TeX Live 2017/MacPorts 2017_2) (preloaded format=tex)
(./ifpdf.dtx
! I can't find file `docstrip'.
l.16 \input docstrip

(Press Enter to retry, or Control-D to exit)


Victor.

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From joseph.wright at morningstar2.co.uk  Wed Nov  1 13:39:28 2017
From: joseph.wright at morningstar2.co.uk (Joseph Wright)
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 12:39:28 +0000
Subject: [ho-tex] Feedback for /pkg/oberdiek?lang=en
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On 01/11/2017 11:57, Victor Eijkhout wrote:
> Would it be possible to include instructions in the oberdiek README about how to obtain cls and sty files?
> 
> For instance, this link seems to indicate that they are anomalous:
> 
> https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/29763/can-i-convert-a-dtx-file-to-tex-file
> 
> And even with those instructions I?m not getting there:
> 
> [oberdiek:99] latex ifpdf.dtx
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.18 (TeX Live 2017/MacPorts 2017_2) (preloaded format=latex)
>  restricted \write18 enabled.
> entering extended mode
> (./ifpdf.dtx
> LaTeX2e <2017-04-15>
> Babel <3.10> and hyphenation patterns for 55 language(s) loaded.
> 
> ! LaTeX Error: File `ltxdoc.cls' not found.
> 
> Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed,
> or enter new name. (Default extension: cls)
> 
> Enter file name: x
> 
> [oberdiek:100] tex ifpdf.dtx
> This is TeX, Version 3.14159265 (TeX Live 2017/MacPorts 2017_2) (preloaded format=tex)
> (./ifpdf.dtx
> ! I can't find file `docstrip'.
> l.16 \input docstrip
> 
> (Press Enter to retry, or Control-D to exit)
> 
> 
> Victor.

Hi Victor,

What TeX system setup do you have? DocStrip is part of the LaTeX base
distribution, so any reasonable system should have it available!

Joseph


From gene at gerd-neugebauer.de  Wed Nov  1 14:05:56 2017
From: gene at gerd-neugebauer.de (Gerd Neugebauer)
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 14:05:56 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [ho-tex] Feedback for /pkg/oberdiek?lang=en
In-Reply-To: <276662B6-F6C1-4041-A5CA-037F41E73EA2@tacc.utexas.edu>
References: <276662B6-F6C1-4041-A5CA-037F41E73EA2@tacc.utexas.edu>
Message-ID: <386156292.86276.1509541556111@email.1und1.de>

> On 01 November 2017 at 12:57 Victor Eijkhout <eijkhout at tacc.utexas.edu> wrote:

>  Would it be possible to include instructions in the oberdiek README about how to obtain cls and sty files?
[...]

Hi,

you should address this request to the author. The CTAN team does not modify the contributions at all. I would expect that Heiko will be helpful.

[...]

> Victor.

Ciao
Gerd
(webmaster at ctan.org)

From d.p.carlisle at gmail.com  Wed Nov  1 14:58:04 2017
From: d.p.carlisle at gmail.com (David Carlisle)
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 13:58:04 +0000
Subject: [ho-tex] Feedback for /pkg/oberdiek?lang=en
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 <386156292.86276.1509541556111@email.1und1.de>
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On 1 November 2017 at 13:05, Gerd Neugebauer <gene at gerd-neugebauer.de> wrote:
>> On 01 November 2017 at 12:57 Victor Eijkhout <eijkhout at tacc.utexas.edu> wrote:


Hi,

> ! LaTeX Error: File `ltxdoc.cls' not found.

you should never get that, like docstrip, ltxdoc is part of the base
latex distribution.
If you have latex installed at all then it should be there.

Can you see if it is there, but latex can't find it, or it isn't there
at all (neither should happen:-)

eg I get:

$ kpsewhich ltxdoc.cls
/usr/local/texlive/2017/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/ltxdoc.cls

I'm not sure it's possible to address this in the readme for the
bundle, it has to assume a working latex setup.

David

From eijkhout at tacc.utexas.edu  Wed Nov  1 15:03:32 2017
From: eijkhout at tacc.utexas.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 14:03:32 +0000
Subject: [ho-tex] Feedback for /pkg/oberdiek?lang=en
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References: <276662B6-F6C1-4041-A5CA-037F41E73EA2@tacc.utexas.edu>
 <386156292.86276.1509541556111@email.1und1.de>
 <CAEW6iOixnDMOvnfharXOjxdZhDyg68dmOCCymZk6u-weOeHeTQ@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <0F15960D-FD97-4502-B86C-DCAA86AF8626@tacc.utexas.edu>


On Nov 1, 2017, at 8:58 AM, David Carlisle <d.p.carlisle at gmail.com<mailto:d.p.carlisle at gmail.com>> wrote:

you should never get that, like docstrip, ltxdoc is part of the base
latex distribution.

Yeah, I?m not sure what I broke.

So let?s just limit my comments to the dtx handling in the README. Instructions for unpacking would be greatly appreciated.

Victor.

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From d.p.carlisle at gmail.com  Wed Nov  1 15:52:40 2017
From: d.p.carlisle at gmail.com (David Carlisle)
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 14:52:40 +0000
Subject: [ho-tex] Feedback for /pkg/oberdiek?lang=en
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On 1 November 2017 at 14:03, Victor Eijkhout <eijkhout at tacc.utexas.edu> wrote:
>
> On Nov 1, 2017, at 8:58 AM, David Carlisle <d.p.carlisle at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> you should never get that, like docstrip, ltxdoc is part of the base
> latex distribution.
>
>
> Yeah, I?m not sure what I broke.
>
> So let?s just limit my comments to the dtx handling in the README.
> Instructions for unpacking would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Victor.
>
I could add something I suppose. The ctan page
https://ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek
does document that you just run plain tex on the dtx file so

tex ifpdf.dtx



If you want to build everything then the script that I reverse
engineered to build a distribution when we
started this ho-tex github is available as:

https://github.com/ho-tex/oberdiek/blob/master/mkctan


getting the Lua parts and other dependencies in place is a bit tricky
for some packages:-)