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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><font face="monospace">Hi Andy, <br>
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i don't think you are in the right place here, as the TeX Live<br>
team has, as far as i know, no say in what the different
distros<br>
put into their repositories. <br>
<br>
I haven't seen line numbering in schientific works except for<br>
code listings. But almost everybody uses ppackage *listings* for<br>
this purpose. <br>
<br>
Best Regards<br>
<br>
<br>
On 06.09.2014 14:43, Andy Buckley wrote:</font><br>
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<pre wrap="">Hi,
I was trying to figure out why CTAN lists the commonly used lineno
package as in TeXlive, yet it wasn't available on my Ubuntu texlive base
+ extras installation. Then I found this blog post:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://shihho.wordpress.com/2013/01/29/latex-lineno/">http://shihho.wordpress.com/2013/01/29/latex-lineno/</a>
which explains that for some odd reason lineno is considered a
"humanities" package. As a scientist, I hadn't seen a need to install
texlive-humanities, but can assure you that demand for line numbering
isn't restricted to the humanities ;-)
As far as I can tell this hasn't yet been reported as a bug, and
hopefully isn't just an accidental misassignment or oversight... so:
Could lineno please be moved to the TeXlive base so it'll be
automatically available in lots of scientific computing environments
that won't have installed the humanities repo?
Thanks,
Andy
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