[tex-live] documentation of arydshln

Heiko Oberdiek oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de
Wed Oct 24 11:23:23 CEST 2007


On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 06:35:09PM -0500, Karl Berry wrote:

>     running the documentation file of arydshln.sty requires
>     the dtx file, which is read by the arydshln-man.tex.
>     But this file cannot be found by tex, it is in the
>     source directory.
> 
> I know the problem, but that is simply the way TL has always been
> arranged (since long before I was involved) -- the dtx/ins have always
> been put in the source/ subtree.
> 
> However, I'm not sure if it really gains anything to have the dtx/ins
> under source; perhaps it would be better for them to be in the
> doc/package directory, which would keep everything together.  I've
> thought about that, but it's quite a big change, so I procrastinate ...

Source is source and isn't ready-to-read documentation
such as arydshln-man.pdf. The source file arydshln-man.tex
doesn't belong to TDS:doc, it should be put into TDS:source.

Yours sincerely
  Heiko <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de>


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