[tex-live] TL vs CTAN

[Heiko Oberdiek]

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 08:55:23AM -0500, Victor Ivrii wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 8:01 AM, Heiko Oberdiek
> <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
> 
> > hyperref.dtx, backref.dtx, nameref.dtx are the sources,
> > the link goes to the typeset form of the dtx documents.

> Now let us look at the very first page of hyperref.pdf (NOT to bookmarks)
> 
> [hyperref.dtx] This is the source code documentation for hyperref (this file).
> [backref.dtx] "Back referencing from bibliographical citations"
> [nameref.dtx] "Section name references in LATEX"
> 
> where what is in brackets is bold and blue as hyperlink should be. But
>  [hyperref.dtx] is a link to hyperref.pdf
> not to hyperef.dtx.  So my question is: why it is labelled this way?

To make clear that this is the source/source docu, not the manual.

> Why not just [hyperref] ?

See this thread, some assume/want to have the manual.

> Why it is referred as a source?

The source of hyperref is hyperref.dtx.

> Or was it
> supposed to be a link to hyperref.dtx (as link to itself it is rather
> senseless)

No.

> But the second link is not supposed to be to backref.dtx for sure!
> 
> Exactly the same you can find  on the first page of backref.pdf but
> here sentence
> 
> [hyperref.dtx] This is the source code documentation for hyperref (this file)
> 
> is contradictory as "this file" is now not hyperref.pdf but backref.pdf

Thanks, that is a bug, corrected now.

> OT: how looking on hyperlink in pdf document one can learn the
> supposed target without attempting to go to this target (as target
> could be nonexistent)?

Use a appropriate PDF viewer, e.g.
* xpdf shows the link target in the status line when moving the mouse
  over the link.

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