[tex-live] Please update aastex in texlive-publishers

[Singer, Leo P. (GSFC-6610)[OAK RIDGE ASSOCIATED UNIVERSITIES (ORAU)]]

Uwe Siart <usenet at siart.de> writes:

> "Singer, Leo P. (GSFC-6610)[OAK RIDGE ASSOCIATED UNIVERSITIES (ORAU)]"
> <leo.p.singer at nasa.gov> writes:
> 
>> AASTeX, the LaTeX class used by the Astrophysical Journal and the
>> Astrophysical Journal Letters, has been updated and version 6.1 is
>> available (http://journals.aas.org/authors/aastex.html). Is it
>> possible to please add aastex61.cls to texlive-publishers?
> 
> Concerning TeX development I am just a casual bystander. But as far as I
> understand only packages and updates that are uploaded to CTAN will make
> it in TeX Live. Certainly, we can't expect TL maintainers to permanently
> scan the entire web for anything that might be useful.
> 
> So the actual contact persons would be the aastex developers. If they
> upload 6.1 to CTAN it will end up in Tex Live - otherwise it won't.
> 
> However, after reading
> 
> <http://journals.aas.org/authors/aastex/linux.html>
> 
> I got the impression that they might have their reasons for not
> releasing it to CTAN.

Hi,

I contacted the journal and immediately got a response from Greg Schwarz, the AAS Journals Data Editor, that updating AASTeX in CTAN was on his radar. He has been uploading it routinely:

https://ctan.org/pkg/aastex

But he hasn't updated 6.1 yet because he is working on a few bug fixes first.

Thanks!
Leo