[tex-live] Bug#528493: texlive-base: apalike.sty missing
Robin Fairbairns
Robin.Fairbairns at cl.cam.ac.uk
Thu May 21 09:17:05 CEST 2009
Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> wrote:
> but apalike.sty is not in TL 2008
>
> Or in any previous release. I am a bit amazed that this has not been
> noticed before. Guess everyone was still using teTeX (which had the
> germbib version installed), and/or uses natbib.
well, quite. people obviously _do_ go for current packages rather than
those long left behind ... this old apalike really has all the hallmarks
of an "original" latex 2.09 package.
> The germbib version is available in TL'07 (and subsequent) in
> doc/bibtex/germbib/apalike.germbib_sty, specifically to avoid conflict
> with the (heretofore uninstalled) standard one.
>
> Now I have installed all the standard apalike files from
> CTAN:biblio/bibtex/contrib/apalike, so the conflict actually exists :).
> We now have:
> texmf-dist/bibtex/bst/apalike/apalike.bst
> texmf-dist/doc/bibtex/apalike/apalike.doc
> texmf-dist/tex/latex/apalike/apalike.sty
> texmf-dist/tex/plain/apalike/apalike.tex
> (I also removed apalike.bst from bibtex/bst/base.)
>
> one looks newer by the file date (and it uses \refname and \bibname
> instead of hardcoded strings):
>
> Which is clearly desirable. I have written to Oren about it.
it might be appropriate to 2e-ise the thing, completely. i really have
no feel about how many people use that whole enormous bibtex/contrib
tree. (the germbib modifications arise from the 2.09 changes wrought by
frank and rainer before the 2e project got under way.)
> Robin/CTAN: as far as I can see, apalike2.bst is not anything Oren did;
> it's a modification by one Brian Reiser. I suggest moving it to a
> different directory, such as biblio/bibtex/contrib/apalike2.
will do. reiser doesn't appear anywhere else on ctan, so here's for his
moment of glory. (ha ha. who ever reads the catalogue anyway?)
ah ... i note that one eric ho (with the amazing address eho at word) also
had a hand in it. it looks as though the two of them were thinking
quite hard about usage in some environment where they were working.
r
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