[tex-live] [de.comp.text.tex] Re: hfoldsty und microtype - font problem

Heiko Oberdiek oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de
Sun Aug 28 16:14:10 CEST 2005


Hello,

On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 02:08:53PM +0200, Morten Høgholm wrote:

> Martin Schröder wrote:
> 
> >How about including ifpdf in latex/required/tools?
> 
> I don't know what Heiko thinks about that but I doubt it would be that 
> useful. Not because it's not a good idea but because chances are the 
> user already has it installed.  Users with teTeX or TeXLive already get 
> it installed from the start and MiKTeX users get it installed 
> automatically the first time they try to use it if they didn't go for 
> the full package when installing.

tex/generic
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I agree that ifpdf is "required". However, ifpdf is not just a
LaTeX package, but it can be used by plain TeX users, too.
Some weeks ago Thomas Esser forwarded me the problem:

| because some plain TeX users might want to remove tex/latex from the
| search path.

Therefore Thomas and I agreed to put such packages of mine into
  TDS:tex/generic/oberdiek/

Together with Martin's idea the best place would be
  TDS:tex/generic/required/...
but this doesn't exist. Perhaps not too bad, because each has
different ideas about what is "required".

use in hyperref
---------------
I could use it in hyperref, without driver option hyperref
checks for pdfTeX in pdf mode. But I don't know whether this
is a good idea. Anyway it would put another argument for
TeX distributors to include ifpdf.

documentation
-------------
That is an easier issue, converting it to dtx format and
provide better user documentation.

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



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