[tex-live] zip'ed archives in the installed TeXLive tree

Frank Küster frank at kuesterei.ch
Wed Aug 15 21:34:42 CEST 2007


Hi,

by chance I found that there are a number of zip files in texmf-dist/doc
of an installed TeXLive tree (I looked at TL 2007).  Most of them
contain documentation (or font) sources, I think it would be better to
install them in the source tree, maybe even unzipped.  Some are
different, though, and rather a real bug:

- TeXLive2007/texmf-dist/doc/latex/greektex/ywcl.zip

,---- README
| ywcl.zip          This contains all the metafont files necessary
|                   to produce the Greek fonts.
`----

- TeXLive2007/texmf-dist/doc/latex/mathdesign/commercialfonts/mdfga.zip

contains a lot of Type1 fonts (GPL'ed math fonts for use with Fontsite
Garamond) 

- TeXLive2007/texmf-dist/doc/latex/webeq/acrotex.zip

This seems to be an archive with dtx, ins and more documentation files
which should be installed

- TeXLive2007/texmf-dist/doc/latex/webeq/eq2db.zip
  TeXLive2007/texmf-dist/doc/latex/webeq/eq_pdfs.zip

,---- README
| 6)  eq_pdfs.zip -- this zip file contains a file eq_pdfs.tex that
|     demonstrates that exerquiz works with pdfscreen.
| 7)  eq2db.zip/eq2db Package --- The eq2db Package is a LaTeX package converts exerquiz
|     quizzes to quizzes that are submitted to server-side script. There are also
|     general server-side script for storing quiz results to to a database, emailing
|     results to the instructor, and storing quiz results to a tab-delimited text file.
|     The scripts are ASP (Active Server Pages) and require Ms IIS 4.0 or later.
`----

Not sure whether it's worth unzipping these, but generally the TeX"Live"
approach requires unzipped files, doesn't it?

- TeXLive2007/texmf-dist/doc/latex/stellenbosch/templates/masters-sample.zip
  TeXLive2007/texmf-dist/doc/latex/stellenbosch/templates/report-sample.zip

Well, sample files showing how to use this publisher's styles.  

Regards, Frank

-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)


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