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authorNorbert Preining <norbert@preining.info>2023-11-27 03:00:55 +0000
committerNorbert Preining <norbert@preining.info>2023-11-27 03:00:55 +0000
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@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
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<meta name="author" content="Petra R&uuml;be-Pugliese" />
- <meta name="date" content="2022-12-19" />
+ <meta name="date" content="2023-11-26" />
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@@ -489,40 +489,40 @@
</li>
<li class="kleinerabstandoben">
<a id="packageidrestriction"></a>
- <p>
- Moreover, package ids have to be all
- <span class="highlight">lowercase</span>,
- and they must
- <span class="highlight">not start with a digit</span>.
- </p>
- <p>
- (To ease some of the harshness of this particular rule,
- <span class="highlight">package <a id="packagenames"><em>names</em></a></span>
- have been introduced which can be seen
- at the beginning of the title line of their
- &ldquo;CTAN home page&rdquo;.
- For instance, at the top of
- <a href="https://ctan.org/pkg/arsclassica">https://ctan.org/pkg/arsclassica</a>
- you see &ldquo;ArsClassica&rdquo;,
- at the top of
- <a href="https://ctan.org/pkg/mathtype">https://ctan.org/pkg/mathtype</a>
- you see &ldquo;MathType&rdquo;,
- at the top of
- <a href="https://ctan.org/pkg/one2many">https://ctan.org/pkg/one2many</a>
- you see &ldquo;12many&rdquo;, etc.
- Of course, the CTAN team <em>prefer</em>,
- for the sake of simplicity, to have
- &ldquo;package name = package id&rdquo;,
- but small variants like CamelCase are accepted
- for the &ldquo;names&rdquo;.)
- </p>
+ Moreover, package ids have to be all
+ <span class="highlight">lowercase</span>,
+ they must
+ <span class="highlight">not start with a digit</span>,
+ and they should be
+ <span class="highlight"><em>at least</em> 4&nbsp;characters long</span>.
+ </li>
+ <li class="kleinerabstandoben">
+ To ease some of the harshness of the previous rule,
+ <span class="highlight">package <a id="packagenames"><em>names</em></a></span>
+ have been introduced which can be seen
+ at the beginning of the title line of their
+ &ldquo;CTAN home page&rdquo;.
+ For instance, at the top of
+ <a href="https://ctan.org/pkg/arsclassica">https://ctan.org/pkg/arsclassica</a>
+ you see &ldquo;ArsClassica&rdquo;,
+ at the top of
+ <a href="https://ctan.org/pkg/mathtype">https://ctan.org/pkg/mathtype</a>
+ you see &ldquo;MathType&rdquo;,
+ at the top of
+ <a href="https://ctan.org/pkg/one2many">https://ctan.org/pkg/one2many</a>
+ you see &ldquo;12many&rdquo;, etc.
+ Of course, the CTAN team <em>prefer</em>,
+ for the sake of simplicity, to have
+ &ldquo;package name = package id&rdquo;,
+ but small variants like CamelCase are accepted
+ for the &ldquo;names&rdquo;.
</li>
<li class="kleinerabstandoben">
CTAN and TeX Live have a preference for
<a id="hyphenvsunderscore"><span class="highlight">hyphens</span></a>
in package ids, rather than underscores.
- There are at the moment (December 2022)
- 1398 Catalogue entries with a hyphen in their name vs.
+ There are at the moment (November 2023)
+ 1450 Catalogue entries with a hyphen in their name vs.
10 with an underscore.
You will therefore have to give <em>very</em> good reasons
if you want us to accept the 11th package
@@ -1586,6 +1586,6 @@
$LastChangedDate$
</p>
Until then: -->
- Last updated: 2022-12-19
+ Last updated: 2023-11-26
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