[ho-tex] A patch for the doi package (was: (fwd) Feedback for /author/oberdiek?lang=en)

[Maarten Sneep]

I thought I had transferred ownership & maintenance to someone else some time ago. Don’t wait for me to say something.

Maarten


> On 9 Sep 2018, at 11:59, David Carlisle <d.p.carlisle at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I put a possible updated version here
> 
> https://github.com/ho-tex/doi
> 
> but I won't upload to CTAN  unless Heiko or Maarten say that's OK...
> 
> David
> 
> David
> 
> On Sun, 9 Sep 2018 at 09:43, David Carlisle <d.p.carlisle at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Actually looking at the DOI website the preferred form these days is
>> https://doi.org (so https not http, and no dx.)  Maarten and Heiko, if
>> you want I could add a repo in github under https://github.com/ho-tex
>> and fix it. Probably use something like
>> 
>> 
>> \def\doiurl{https://doi.org}
>> 
>> and use \doiurl in the body of the code, then if a user wants the
>> existing form they just need
>> 
>> \renewcommand\doiurl{http://dx.doi.org}
>> 
>> after loading the package.
>> 
>> David
>> On Sun, 9 Sep 2018 at 07:26, Petra Ruebe-Pugliese <petra at ctan.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello Maarten,
>>> 
>>> the following message reached us due to missing contact data in
>>> the package itself and on our webpage:
>>> 
>>> ----- Forwarded message from Olivier Cailloux <olivier.cailloux at gmail.com> -----
>>> 
>>> From: Olivier Cailloux <olivier.cailloux at gmail.com>
>>> To: webmaster at ctan.org
>>> Subject: Feedback for /author/oberdiek?lang=en
>>> Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2018 23:00:54 +0200
>>> Message-ID: <abf47e42-4725-ae58-c97d-bb1fd50765f6 at gmail.com>
>>> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Just wanted to point out about the package doi that the doi package uses
>>> old-style dx.doi url, see 3.8 DOI system Proxy Server technical details,
>>> “Users may resolve DOI names that are structured to use the DOI system Proxy
>>> Server (http://doi.org (preferred) or http://dx.doi.org).”,
>>> https://www.doi.org/doi_handbook/3_Resolution.html.
>>> 
>>> The following patch solves the problem:
>>> 
>>> \makeatletter
>>> \patchcmd{\@doi}{dx.doi.org}{doi.org}{}{}
>>> \makeatother
>>> 
>>> Please consider referring to the preferred url.
>>> 
>>> Thanks for the packages!
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Olivier
>>> 
>>> ----- End forwarded message -----
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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>>>    Petra Rübe-Pugliese
>>>     for the CTAN team
>>> 
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