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+
+ README for the `latexfileinfo-pkgs' package
+ Comparison of packages showing LaTeX file infos
+ (C) Uwe Lueck 2012/05/15
+
+
+This "package" in the first instance provides a file
+
+ `latexfileinfo_pkgs.htm'
+
+to be viewed by a web browser. It is an HTML list and comparison
+of CTAN packages displaying LaTeX source file informations
+according to the commands \ProvidesClass, \ProvidesFile,
+and \ProvidesPackage that LaTeX files should start with.
+The document especially describes five packages of my own,
+including interrelations and dependencies, and thus extends
+their documentations. Among packages from different authors
+mentioned or described as well are
+
+ * `latexfileversion' and `ltxfileinfo' (rather)
+ for single files, as well as
+
+ * `classlist' and `dateiliste' for listing inputted files.
+
+Support of revision control systems is mentioned briefly.
+
+The .htm has been generated with extensions of `blog.sty' from
+the `morehype' bundle that are not on CTAN today, hopefully soon
+...
+
+For v0.2b, the method for generating the .htm and `SrcFILEs.txt'
+has been refined, see docsrc/ in the CTAN directory or
+source/tex/latexfileinfo-pkgs/ in TDS. They are generated from
+the same source and use `nicefilelist.sty'. Encoding problems
+with umlauts are expected to be solved.
+
+When file `latexfileinfo_pkgs.RLS' is installed in TEXMF/tex/,
+you can access a release summary by some of the packages
+described in the .htm file, e.g.,
+
+ latexfileversion latexfileinfo_pkgs.RLS
+
+Generalizing this ([PKG].RLS) may be helpful for managing
+multi-package bundles (such as [PKG]) or when code versions of
+a package (such as [PKG]) are distinguished from documentation
+versions. Using the `myfilist' package, you can then generate
+lists of states of bundles ...
+
+
+LICENSE:
+
+The files can be redistributed and/or modified under the terms
+of the LaTeX Project Public License; either version 1.3c of the
+License, or any later version, see
+
+ http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt
+
+We did our best to help you, but there is NO WARRANTY.
+
+The `latexfileinfo-pkgs' package is author-maintained in the sense
+of this license.
+
+The latest public version of the package is available at
+
+ http://mirror.ctan.org/info/latexfileinfo-pkgs/
+
+A TDS version of the package is available as
+
+ http://mirror.ctan.org/install/info/latexfileinfo-pkgs.tds.zip
+
+Please report mistakes, missing packages, and other suggestions via
+
+ http://www.contact-ednotes.sty.de.vu
+
diff --git a/info/latexfileinfo-pkgs/docsrc/SrcFILEs.txt b/info/latexfileinfo-pkgs/docsrc/SrcFILEs.txt
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+
+ *File List*
+ nicefilelist.sty 2012/05/20 v0.4 more file list alignment (UL)
+ monofill.sty 2012/03/19 v0.1a monospace alignment (UL)
+ myfilist.sty 2012/05/26 v0.4 \listfiles -- mine only (UL)
+ readprov.sty 2012/03/20 v0.3b file infos without loading (UL)
+ blog.sty 2012/05/15 v0.7 simple fast HTML (UL)
+ fifinddo.sty 2012/03/17 v0.51 filtering TeX(t) files by TeX (UL)
+ dowith.sty 2012/05/19 v0.21a simple list loop (UL)
+ texlinks.sty 2012/05/13 v0.6 TeX-related links (UL)
+ blogexec.sty 2011/12/15 v0.1 assignments with blog.sty (UL)
+ texblog.fdf 2012/05/15 -- extra blog settings
+ atari_ht.fdf 2012/05/13 -- Atari umlauts for blog.sty
+mkht_ltxfinfo_pkgs.tex 2012/05/27 -- HTML driver
+latexfileinfo_pkgs.tex 2012/05/29 v0.22 latex file info packages (UL)
+latexfileinfo_pkgs.RLS 2012/05/29 r0.22 v0.22 myfilist w/o readprov, robust
+ ***********
+
+ List made at 2012/05/29, 15:01
+ from script file mkht_ltxfinfo_pkgs.tex
+
diff --git a/info/latexfileinfo-pkgs/docsrc/latexfileinfo_pkgs.tex b/info/latexfileinfo-pkgs/docsrc/latexfileinfo_pkgs.tex
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+\ProvidesFile{latexfileinfo_pkgs.tex}[2012/05/29 v0.22 latex file info packages (UL)]
+% \ProvidesFile{finfpkgs.tex}[2012/05/06 v0.2 latex file info packages (UL)]
+\head \charset{ISO-8859-1} %%% {utf-8}
+ \texrobots
+ \title{Display LaTeX file metadata ("info")}
+% \stylesheet{all}{plain} %% tried 2012/05/06
+ </head><body>\CLBrk %%% \body
+ \lineanc{top-of-page} %%% \textopofpage
+\EXECUTE{\let\CPR\ctanpkgref \def\title{\heading1} \def\section{\heading2}
+ \def\subsection{\heading3} \let\pkg\pkgnamefmt
+ \def\fakeitem{\bullet\enspace}
+ \def\strongcs#1{\strong{\cs{#1}}}
+ \def\metaarg#1{\code{\{\metavar{#1}\}}}
+}
+% \EXECUTE{\BlogInterceptHash} %% upfinfo.sh instead
+% \EXECUTE{\RequirePackage{monofill}} %% upfinfo.sh instead
+% \EXECUTE{\let\pkgnamefmt\code}
+\title{\code{latexfileinfo-pkgs} ---\vspace{6} Displaying \Wikienref{Metadata}
+ (\endqtd{Info}) of \emph{\LaTeX} Source Files}
+
+\pardash a comparison of packages available from \acro{CTAN}
+% \small[\,\UseVersionOf{finfinfo.tex}~as~of~\UseDateOf{finfinfo.tex}\,]\endsmall
+%% <- TODO \relax 2012/04/09
+ <p> %%% \vspace{24}
+\begin{small}
+[\,\ancrefslist{{{intro}{intro}}
+ {{table}{table}}
+ {{single}{\cs{GetFileInfo}~etc.}}
+ {{several}{\cs{listfiles}~etc.}}{{rcs}{rcs/svn}}
+ {{thanks}{thanks}}}\,]\quad
+[\,\textit{\fileref{\htmljob}{reload}}\,]
+\end{small}
+\nextruleview{intro}
+\section{0\quad Introduction (with links to sections)}
+For \Wikienref{\LaTeX} source files,
+it is recommended to start them with \LaTeX\ command
+\begin{itemize}
+ \item \cs{ProvidesClass}\code{ ~}\quad (for \file{.cls} files)
+ \item \cs{ProvidesPackage}\quad (for \file{.sty} files)
+ \item \cs{ProvidesFile}\code{ ~ }\quad (for all other files)
+\end{itemize}
+(after \cs{NeedsTeXFormat}).
+Their trailing optional argument can provide the most recent
+\begin{itemize}
+ \item \wikienref{Revision control}{revision} \strong{date}\\
+ (expected as \emph{\endqtd{first word}} in trailing optional argument)
+ \item the corresponding \strong{version} string\\
+ (expected as \emph{\endqtd{second word}}
+ in trailing optional argument)\pardash and
+ \item and a brief \strong{description} of the file ("caption")\\
+ (expected as anything \emph{else} in trailing optional argument).
+\end{itemize}
+Here we are listing and comparing \TeX\ packages available from
+\httpref{ctan.org}{\acro{CTAN}} that make use of this information.
+ <p>
+The document especially describes five packages of my own,
+including interrelations and dependencies, and thus extends
+their documentations; see \ancref{table}{table below} for them.
+An \emph{asterisk}* near a package name indicates that the package
+is \emph{not mine}; so what I tell about it may be wrong or bad \dots\
+(please let me know via \webdesignref{contact.html}{form},
+ or should I add something?) ...
+ <p>
+We have the \emph{cases} of %% single vs. several
+\begin{enumerate}
+ \item displaying \ancref{single}{single} file info (\strongcs{GetFileInfo} ...)
+ \item listing infos of \ancref{several}{several} files (\strongcs{listfiles} etc.)
+\end{enumerate}
+and for each %% LaTeX vs. external
+\begin{enumerate-a}
+ \item access by \emph{\LaTeX} (\ancref{sing-ltx}{1\,}\cdot\ancref{sev-ltx}{\,2})
+ \item access by \emph{external} program (\ancref{sing-ext}{1\,}\cdot\ancref{sev-ext}{\,2}).
+\end{enumerate-a}
+\emph{Related} subjects are using
+\begin{enumerate-i}
+ \item \ancref{rcs}{revision control systems} and
+ \item modification time according to \ancref{filemod}{pdf\TeX}.
+\end{enumerate-i}
+\lineanc{table}A \emph{tabular overview} of the first two case distinctions:
+ <p>
+\begin{stdallrulestable}
+ \endcell just using \emph{\LaTeX}\qquad \endcell using \emph{external} program
+ \endline
+ \textbf{\ancref{single}{single} file}\endcell
+ \fakeitem \ancref{doc}{\pkg{doc}}* ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~\,\,\,
+ (Frank \ctanpkgauref{mittelbach}{Mittelbach})\\
+ \fakeitem \ancref{zwgetfdate}{\pkg{zwgetfdate}}*\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,
+ (Zden\unicodehexentity{011b}k \ctanpkgauref{wagner}{Wagner})\\
+ \fakeitem \ancref{readprov}{\pkg{readprov}}
+ \endcell
+ \fakeitem \ancref{lfv} {\pkg{latexfileversion}}*
+ \,(Harald \ctanpkgauref{harders}{Harders}) \\
+ \fakeitem \ancref{lfi} {\pkg{ltxfileinfo}}*~ ~ ~ ~ \,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,
+ \,(Wybo \ctanpkgauref{dekker}{Dekker}) \\
+ \fakeitem \ancref{tofi}{\pkg{typeoutfileinfo}}
+ \endline
+ \textbf{file \ancref{several}{list}}\endcell
+ \fakeitem \ancref{cl} {\pkg{classlist}}*~~~~~~~\,\,\,\,
+ (Heiko \ctanpkgauref{oberdiek}{Oberdiek}) \\
+ \fakeitem \ancref{dl} {\pkg{dateiliste}}*~~~~~ ~\,
+ \,(Paul \ctanpkgauref{ebermann}{Ebermann}) \\
+ \fakeitem \ancref{lnfl}{\pkg{longnamefilelist}} \\
+ \fakeitem \ancref{nfl} {\pkg{nicefilelist}} \\
+ \fakeitem \ancref{mfl} {\pkg{myfilist}} \\
+ \endcell
+ \fakeitem[\ancref{ltxinput}{\pkg{ltxinput}}* ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ \,\,\,\,\,\,
+ (Jim \ctanpkgauref{green}{Green})] \\
+ \fakeitem[\ancref{tle}{\pkg{texlog-extract}}* ~ \,\,\,
+ (Wybo \ctanpkgauref{dekker}{Dekker})] \\
+ \\
+ [\,don't really belong here \dots\,] \\
+ \\
+\end{stdallrulestable}
+
+\nextruleview{single}
+\section{1\quad Access Single File Info}
+%% v0.11: distributing intro words over first two subsections
+% \internallinksbar{{{sing-ltx}{a}}{{sing-ext}{b}}{{filemod}{c}}}
+\begin{small}
+ [\,\ancref{sing-ltx}{a:}\enspace
+ \ancrefslist{{{doc}{\pkg{doc}}}
+ {{readprov}{\pkg{readprov}}}
+ {{zwgetfdate}{\pkg{zwgetfdate}}}
+ }\,]\quad
+ [\,\ancref{sing-ext}{b:}\enspace
+ \ancrefslist{{{lfv}{\pkg{latexfileversion}}}
+ {{lfi}{\pkg{ltxfileinfo}}}
+ {{tofi}{\pkg{typeoutfileinfo}}}}\,]\quad
+ [\,\ancref{filemod}{c:\enspace \pkg{filemod}}\,]
+\end{small}
+\subsection{\lineanc{sing-ltx}a.\quad Access in \emph{\LaTeX} Run}
+%% shortening 2012/04/05:
+\emdash originally for \emph{automatic} inclusion of \emph{current}
+revision date and version of a package %%% (? cf.~\ancref{sing-ext}{next subsection})
+in \emph{typesetting} the latter's documentation
+(\textit{\endqtd{This document describes version \dots\ as of \dots}}), but then \dots
+\begin{description}
+ \ditem{\lineanc{doc}\CPR{doc}*}
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item Belongs to \LaTeX\ \CtanPkgRef{latex-base}{base} distribution.
+ \item Provides \strong{\cs{GetFileInfo}}\code{\{\metavar{file}\}}; after using this,
+ you have \cs{filedate}, \cs{fileversion}, \cs{fileinfo} of \metavar{file}.
+ \item \metavar{file} must have been \emph{loaded} in the \LaTeX\ run.
+ \item \cs{GetFileInfo} is \emph{fragile}.
+ \end{itemize}
+ \ditem{\lineanc{zwgetfdate}\CPR{zwgetfdate}*}
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item Provides \strongcs{DateOfFile}\metaarg{file}
+ and \strong{\cs{DateOfPackage}}\metaarg{file}.
+ \item \metavar{file} must have been \emph{loaded}.
+ \end{itemize}
+ \ditem{\lineanc{readprov}\CPR{readprov}}
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item %%% \pkg{readprov} further provides %%% \emph{robust}, expandable
+ Provides
+ \strongcs{UseDateOf}\metaarg{file} and \strongcs{UseVersionOf}\metaarg{file}
+ \Endash \emph{robust} (expandable). %% add. 2012/05/29
+ \item %%% It steals
+% Steals \ancref{doc}{\pkg{doc}}'s \strongcs{GetFileInfo} so \pkg{doc} is not
+% needed, in case ...
+ %% <- 2012/05/26 ->
+ Provides \ancref{doc}{\pkg{doc}}'s \strongcs{GetFileInfo}
+ (with modified definition; used internally) %% was "useed" 2012/05/29
+ \item Provides
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item \strongcs{ReadFileInfos}\metaarg{files}
+ \item \strongcs{ReadPackageInfos}\metaarg{files}
+ \item \strongcs{ReadClassInfo}\metaarg{file}
+ \end{itemize}
+ as \emph{alternatives} to \cs{GetFileInfo}.
+ \begin{itemize} %% 2012/04/05
+ \item They do \emph{not} really \emph{load} \metavar{file}/\metavar{files} ...
+ \item ... so can be used with incompatible packages and
+ classes (multiple latter by \cs{ReadFileInfos\{\metavar{base}.cls\}}).
+ \item This allows \strong{adding arbitrary} \LaTeX\ source files
+ to the list of files that \LaTeX\ manages for
+ \ancref{latex}{\strong{\cs{listfiles}}}\pardash this is used for
+ \ancref{myfilist}{\pkg{myfilist}}.
+ \end{itemize}
+ \end{itemize}
+\end{description}
+\subsection{\lineanc{sing-ext}b.\quad \emph{Screen} Display Using \emph{External} Program}
+\emdash when you wonder whether the most recent version of a package
+or a chapter file is present \dots
+\begin{description}
+ \ditem{\lineanc{lfv}\CPR{latexfileversion}*}
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item \Wikienref{Bash (Unix shell)} script.
+ \item \emph{Nice} screen display. %% TODO sample 2012/05/05
+ \item Invokes \code{latex} run using a copy of
+ \ancref{doc}{\pkg{doc}}'s \cs{GetFileInfo}.
+ \end{itemize}
+ \ditem{\lineanc{lfi}\CPR{ltxfileinfo}*}
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item \Wikiendisambref{Ruby}{programming language} script.
+ \item Displays nice
+ \mirrorctanref{support/ltxfileinfo/doc/ltxfileinfo.html}{table}
+ of infos (including \emph{location} in file system) on screen.
+ \end{itemize}
+ \ditem{\lineanc{tofi}\CPR{typeoutfileinfo}}
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item 5-lines \Wikienref{Bash (Unix shell)} script.
+ \item Expects \code{latex} won't append too many screen lines after
+ 1-line \strongcs{typeout}\\
+ (\emph{tolerable} screen display as compared with
+ \ancref{lfv}{latexfileversion}).
+ \item Invokes \code{latex} run using \ancref{readprov}{\pkg{readprov}}.
+ \end{itemize}
+\end{description}
+\subsection{\lineanc{filemod}c.\quad Related, while different ...}
+\begin{description}
+ \ditem{\CPR{filemod}*}
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item Uses \tugref{applications/pdftex/NEWS}{\pdfTeX}'s
+ \cs{pdffilemoddate\{\metavar{file}\}} primitive.
+ \item Compares modification dates of files.
+ \item Files include images.
+ \item Also works with \code{pdflatex} in \acro{DVI} mode.
+ \end{itemize}
+\end{description}
+
+\nextruleview{several}
+\section{2\quad File Info List}
+This is about listing \emph{all} files input in a \LaTeX\ run, \emph{or}~...
+\subsection{\lineanc{sev-ltx}a.\quad Create in \LaTeX\ Run}
+\begin{small}
+[\,\ancrefslist{{{latex}{\pkg{LaTeX}}}
+ {{cl}{\pkg{classlist}}}
+ {{dl}{\pkg{dateiliste}}}
+ {{lnfl}{\pkg{longnamefilelist}}}
+ {{mfl}{\pkg{myfilist}}}
+ {{nfl}{\pkg{nicefilelist}}}}\,]
+\end{small}
+\begin{description}
+ \ditem{\lineanc{latex}\CPR{latex}*}
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item \LaTeX\ provides \strong{\cs{listfiles}} for the document preamble.
+ \item \cs{listfiles} issues a list of \strong{all} files input in the \code{latex} run
+ near end of \file{.log} file, together with their infos according
+ to \cs{Provide...} commands.
+ \item The list is a \strong{two-column} "table" (plain text), \emph{base} filenames
+ flush right, \emph{info} (maybe date, maybe version, maybe anything) flush left.
+ \item Any file whose base \Wikienref{filename} has \strong{more than 8}~characters
+ or whose filename extension does \emph{not} have 3~characters \strong{corrupts} alignment.
+ \end{itemize}
+ \ditem{\lineanc{cl}\CPR{classlist}*}
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item Remembers (separately) files input by ~(a)~\strong{\cs{documentclass}}~
+ and what was input by ~(b)~\strong{\cs{LoadClass}}.
+ \item On \strong{\cs{PrintClassList}}, the list of loaded class files appears on screen.
+ \item Configurable by \strongcs{PrintClassListEntry} and \strongcs{PrintClassListTitle}.
+ \end{itemize}
+ \ditem{\lineanc{dl}\CPR{dateiliste}*}
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item Lists anything that the \ancref{latex}{original} \cs{listfiles} would list.
+ \item \strong{Typesets} the list as a \LaTeX\ table, using package \CPR{longtable}.
+ \item Separate \strong{columns} for
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item filename
+ \item \emph{page} where input (optionally) %% \emph 2012/04/09
+ \item date
+ \item version
+ \item description ("caption")
+ \end{itemize}
+ \item Supports \strong{\acro{RCS}},
+ \wikienref{Concurrent Versions System}{\acro{CVS}},
+ and \acro{SVN} (cf.~\ancref{rcs}{section below}).
+ \item Highly configurable.
+ \item E.g., you can replace info for a file by what you want to see in the list
+ (cf.~\ancref{myfilist}{\pkg{myfilist}}).
+ \item I haven't seen what happens with \emph{plain text} (\file{.log}) output.
+ \end{itemize}
+ \ditem{\lineanc{lnfl}\CPR{longnamefilelist}}
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item Overcomes \ancref{latex}{\LaTeX}'s "8-character~limit"
+ by a new \strong{optional argument} for \cs{listfiles},
+ indicating number of characters to be reserved for
+ base filenames, e.g. accounting for "\code{longnamefilelist.sty}":
+ \begin{quote}
+ \cs{listfiles[16]}
+ \end{quote}
+ \pardash view
+ \mirrorctanref{macros/latex/contrib/longnamefilelist/%
+ SrcFILEs.txt}{example outcome}
+ \item \emdash showing combination with \ancref{mfl}{\pkg{myfilist}}
+ \item \emdash while also working as single addition to
+ \LaTeX~\CtanPkgRef{latex-base}{base},
+ \emph{no} need of \ancref{mfl}{\pkg{myfilist}} or \CPR{monofill}.
+ \item Still, filename \strong{extension}s with number of characters
+ differing from 3 break alignment. Martin Mnch mentions
+ \file{t1cmtt.fd} (standard \LaTeX\ font definition) and
+ \file{supp-pdf.mkii} (\Wikienref{ConTeXt}).
+ \end{itemize}
+ \ditem{\lineanc{nfl}\CPR{nicefilelist}}
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item Uses separate \strong{columns} for \strong{date} and \strong{time}
+ (like \ancref{dl}{\pkg{dateiliste}}).
+ \item (Picky) recognition of "date" and "version"\pardash if not present,
+ left \strong{empty} or gets "missing" display:
+ \begin{codelines}
+ nicefilelist.sty~ 2012/03/29~ v0.2 ~ more file list alignment (UL)\/
+ nicefilelist.tex~ 2012/03/23~ ~--~ ~ documenting nicefilelist.sty
+ \end{codelines}
+ (Martin Mnch's idea).
+ \item Problem of varying filename \strong{extension} lengths overcome
+ by actually keeping a separate flush-left column for them.
+ \item Column widths configurable by \strong{templates}\pardash replace
+ pre-configuration (\CPR{monofill} commands):
+ \begin{codelines}
+ \EXECUTE{\MFfieldtemplate[~]{nfl}{%
+ /MFfieldtemplate(f-base)...(nicefilelist)..}}
+ \MFleftinfield{%
+ \\MFfieldtemplate\{f-base\}~~~\{nicefilelist\}}{nfl}\%\%\ base name \/
+ \MFleftinfield{%
+ \\MFfieldtemplate\{f-ext\}~~~~\{tex\}}{nfl}\%\%\ name extension \/
+ \MFleftinfield{%
+ \\MFfieldtemplate\{f-version\}\{v0.11a\}}{nfl}\%\%\ version
+ \end{codelines}
+ \item First code line above shows \strong{difference} to \CPR{longnamefilelist},
+ equivalent there would be \cs{listfiles[12]}.
+ \pkg{nicefilelist} does \emph{not} provide an optional argument
+ for \cs{listfiles}.
+ \item Column \strong{distances} and "\strong{missing}" display configurable too.
+ \item Can be combined with \ancref{mfl}{\pkg{myfilist}}\pardash view
+ \mirrorctanref{macros/latex/contrib/nicefilelist/%
+ doc/% %% 2012/05/26
+ SrcFILEs.txt}{output sample}.
+ \item Needs just \CPR{monofill}, additionally to
+ \LaTeX~\CtanPkgRef{latex-base}{base}.
+ %% 2012/05/27:
+ \item \pkg{nicefilelist} v0.4 provides an option \code{[r]} to allow
+ "release numbers" in the column reserved for versions:
+ \begin{codelines}
+ nicefilelist.sty~ 2012/05/20~ v0.4 ~ more file list alignment (UL)\/
+ nicefilelist.tex~ 2012/05/20~ ~--~ ~ documenting nicefilelist.sty\/
+ nicefilelist.RLS~ 2012/05/20~ r0.4 ~ v0.4 Kabelschacht + [r]
+ \end{codelines}
+ \file{.RLS} files are an idea to provide/access a release summary.
+ \end{itemize}
+ \ditem{\lineanc{mfl}\lineanc{myfilist}\CPR{myfilist}}
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item Allows \strong{removing} all entries that \LaTeX\ has collected
+ for \ancref{latex}{\cs{listfiles}} at a certain point
+ (\strong{\cs{EmptyFileList}}). %% 2012/05/26
+ \item Then, by commands from \ancref{readprov}{\pkg{readprov}},
+ you can \strong{add arbitrary} files to the list
+ (as they are \emph{not} really \emph{loaded}),
+ in the order you want to have them in the list.
+ %% 2012/05/29:
+ (However, for many combinations of package files,
+ you could actually \emph{load} them, without \pkg{readprov}.)
+ \item Thus actually, you can set up a list of files you want to have
+ \emph{independently} of a typesetting run ...
+ \item ... and actually, the \strong{intended} application is generating the
+ list \strong{without} any \strong{typesetting},
+ by running \code{latex} on a "\strong{script}" file
+ just loading \pkg{readprov} and \pkg{myfilist}
+ and using only commands from \emph{them}.
+ (No \cs{documentclass}, no \code{\{document\}} environment.)
+ \item View
+ \mirrorctanref{macros/latex/contrib/longnamefilelist/docsrc/%
+ srcfiles.tex}{input example}
+ for \ancref{lnfl}{\pkg{longnamefilelist}}.
+ \item Besides \file{.log} output, the list can be written into a \strong{separate}
+ plain text \strong{file%%% } ...
+% \item ... view
+ }\pardash view
+ \mirrorctanref{macros/latex/contrib/longnamefilelist/%
+ SrcFILEs.txt}{output example}
+ for \ancref{lnfl}{\pkg{longnamefilelist}}.
+ \item \strong{Main applications} in my mind and actual work:
+ \begin{enumerate}
+ \item List of \file{.sty} and \file{.tex} files for \emph{my}
+ \strong{\acro{CTAN} packages} and \strong{bundles}
+ (instead of the \file{.dtx}/\CPR{docstrip} system, I use \CPR{nicetext}).
+ \item List of \strong{package} files specific to some \strong{project}
+ that often change\pardash manual replacement for a
+ "concurrent versions" system with single author.
+ E.g.:
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item \CPR{nicetext} packages underlying \strong{documentation}
+ of a certain different package.
+ \item \strong{style} files underlying a \strong{book} project
+ at which authors and programmers work on changing computers.
+ \end{itemize}
+ \item List of \strong{chapter} \cs{include} files for a \strong{book} project,
+ edited at changing computers (by a number of authors).
+ \item Often, one \strong{forgets} to \strong{update} version information
+ in the \cs{Provides...} command\pardash the \pkg{myfilist}
+ helps you to \pkg{check} this
+ (e.g., right before a release;
+ \ancref{filemod}{\pkg{filemod}} might automate this check,
+ perhaps together with \ancref{readprov}{\pkg{readprov}},
+ \emph{without} \pkg{myfilist}).
+ \end{enumerate}
+ \item My actual \strong{workflow} with \Wikienref{Bash (Unix shell)}:
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item \strong{\code{upsfl}} with
+ \begin{codelines}
+ alias upsfl='latex srcfiles'}
+ \end{codelines}
+ updates the list of source files,
+ and actually displays the updated list on screen.
+ \item \strong{\code{shsfl}} with
+ \begin{codelines}
+ \code{alias shsfl='more SrcFILEs.txt'}
+ \end{codelines}
+ displays the source file list without updating,
+ and waits when the list is too long for your (netbook) screen.
+ \end{itemize}
+ \item Combinable with \ancref{dl}{\pkg{dateiliste}}?
+ \end{itemize}
+\end{description}
+\subsection{\lineanc{sev-ext}b.\quad Create by External Program}
+Hm, not so related, \emph{no} infos (it seems), lists only;
+so, just \emph{"most related I could find"} for this section~...
+\begin{description}
+ \ditem{\lineanc{ltxinput}\CPR{ltxinput}*}
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item \wikienref{MS-DOS}{\acro{MS-DOS}} utility
+ (compiled from \wikienref{C (programming language)}{\acro{C}}).
+ \item Lists files that \emph{would} be input (recursively).
+ \end{itemize}
+ \ditem{\lineanc{tle}\CPR{texlog-extract}*}
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item \Wikiendisambref{Ruby}{programming language} script.
+ \item Lists files that issued errors and warnings (colored).
+ \end{itemize}
+\end{description}
+
+\nextruleview{rcs}
+\section{\lineanc{rcs}3\quad \acro{RCS}/\acro{SVN}}
+For \wikienref{Revision control}{revision control systems}
+\wikienref{Revision control system}{\acro{RCS}} and
+\wikienref{Apache Subversion}{\acro{SVN}}, there are
+\begin{itemize}
+ \item \CPR{rcs}* \cdot\ \CPR{rcsinfo}* \cdot\ \CPR{rcs-multi}*
+ \item \CPR{svn}* \cdot\ \CPR{svninfo}* \cdot\ \CPR{svn-multi}*
+ \item \CPR{svn-prov}* provides \acro{SVN} variants of
+ \cs{ProvidesClass}, \cs{ProvidesFile}, and \cs{ProvidesPackage}.
+\end{itemize}
+\emdash sorry, I can't tell more about them right now~\dots %% 2012/04/08
+
+\nextruleview{thanks}
+\section{Acknowledgements}
+Thanks to Martin Mnch, Moss
+(I wrote this for his question), %% 2012/04/06
+and Rainer Sch”pf!
+\ancref{rcs}{\acro{RCS} stuff} mainly has been stolen from
+\bytopicref{revision}{Jrgen Fenn's Topic Index} of the
+\mirrorctanref{help/Catalogue}{\TeX~Catalogue}.
+ <p> %%% \vspace{24}
+\hrule
+\small*~not~mine\endsmall
+\rightpar{\textit{%
+ Last~revised~\isotoday\ \copyright~\webdesignref{contact.html}{Uwe Lck}
+ \vspace{6}
+ (using \CtanPkgRef{morehype}{blog.sty}
+ and \CtanPkgRef{monofill}{monofill.sty})
+ \vspace{6}
+ License: \httpref{www.latex-project.org/lppl/}{LPPL~1.3c} or later, author-maintained.}}
+\entotopofpage
+\vspace{550}
+\finish
+
+%% HISTORY:
+%% 2012/04/02 v0.1 first upload
+%% 2012/04/02 v0.11 little improvements afterwards,
+%% especially intro words for section 1
+%% 2012/04/05 v0.12 less words in section 1;
+%% sub-itemize for readprov
+%% 2012/04/06 wrote for Moss
+%% 2012/04/08 started table, some other additions
+%% 2012/04/09 continued (fix of strange bug!?)
+%%
+%% 2012/05/05f. v0.2 renamed `latexfileinfo-pkgs', table
+%% reformatted manually, minor rewordings
+%% and reformattings, link fixes
+%% 2012/05/13 v0.2a modified \ProvidesFile for different
+%% generation method
+%% 2012/05/26 v0.21 corr. \GetFileInfo,
+%% nicefilelist sample link fixed
+%% 2012/05/27 nicefilelist's option [r]
+%% 2012/05/29 v0.22 remark `myfilist' without `readprov',
+%% typo fix, \UseDateOf ... robust
diff --git a/info/latexfileinfo-pkgs/docsrc/mkht_ltxfinfo_pkgs.tex b/info/latexfileinfo-pkgs/docsrc/mkht_ltxfinfo_pkgs.tex
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e43e885562
--- /dev/null
+++ b/info/latexfileinfo-pkgs/docsrc/mkht_ltxfinfo_pkgs.tex
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+\ProvidesFile{mkht_ltxfinfo_pkgs.tex}[2012/05/27 HTML driver]
+\RequirePackage[r]{nicefilelist} %% [r] 2012/05/27
+\MFfieldtemplate{f-base}{latexfileinfo_pkgs}
+\RequirePackage{myfilist}
+\RequirePackage{blog}[2011/11/20] \BlogInterceptEnvironments*
+\RequirePackage{texlinks}
+\input{texblog.fdf}
+\input{atari_ht.fdf} %% umlauts -> entities
+\def\htmljob{latexfileinfo_pkgs}
+\ResultFile{\htmljob\htmakeext}
+\BlogProcessFinalFile[%
+ \TextCodes
+ \MakeActiveDef\"{\catchdq}%% TODO \MakeActiveLet?
+ ]{\htmljob.tex}
+\ReadFileInfos{mkht_ltxfinfo_pkgs,latexfileinfo_pkgs}
+\ReadFileInfos{latexfileinfo_pkgs.RLS}
+\ListInfos[SrcFILEs.txt]
+\stop
diff --git a/info/latexfileinfo-pkgs/latexfileinfo_pkgs.htm b/info/latexfileinfo-pkgs/latexfileinfo_pkgs.htm
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..fd7359cf92
--- /dev/null
+++ b/info/latexfileinfo-pkgs/latexfileinfo_pkgs.htm
@@ -0,0 +1,600 @@
+<!-- generated from
+
+ latexfileinfo_pkgs.tex, 2012/05/29 v0.22 latex file info packages (UL),
+
+ with blog.sty, 2012-05-29 -->
+
+<html><head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; ISO-8859-1">
+ <meta name="robots" content="index,follow,noarchive">
+ <title>Display LaTeX file metadata (&ldquo;info&rdquo;)</title>
+
+</head><body>
+
+<a name="top-of-page"></a>
+
+
+<h1><code>latexfileinfo-pkgs</code> &mdash;
+<table width="" height="6" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody>
+ <!-- HVspace -->
+ <tr valign="top"><td></td> </tr>
+
+</tbody></table>
+ Displaying <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metadata" target="_blank">Metadata</a> (&ldquo;Info&rdquo;) of <em>LaTeX</em> Source Files</h1>
+
+&thinsp;&mdash;&thinsp;a comparison of packages available from <acronym>CTAN</acronym>
+
+<p>
+<small>
+[&#8239;<a href="#intro">intro</a>&nbsp;| <a href="#table">table</a>&nbsp;| <a href="#single"><code>\GetFileInfo</code>&nbsp;etc.</a>&nbsp;| <a href="#several"><code>\listfiles</code>&nbsp;etc.</a>&nbsp;| <a href="#rcs">rcs/svn</a>&nbsp;| <a href="#thanks">thanks</a>&#8239;]&emsp;
+[&#8239;<i><a href="latexfileinfo_pkgs.htm">reload</a></i>&#8239;]
+
+</small>
+<p align="right"><a href="#intro">[&rarr;</a>|<a href="#top-of-page">&nbsp;&uarr;&nbsp;]</a></p><hr><a name="intro"></a>
+<h2>0&emsp;Introduction (with links to sections)</h2>
+For <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX" target="_blank">LaTeX</a> source files,
+it is recommended to start them with LaTeX command
+<ul>
+ </li>
+ <li><code>\ProvidesClass</code><code> &nbsp;</code>&emsp;(for <code>.cls</code> files)
+ </li>
+ <li><code>\ProvidesPackage</code>&emsp;(for <code>.sty</code> files)
+ </li>
+ <li><code>\ProvidesFile</code><code> &nbsp; </code>&emsp;(for all other files)
+</li>
+</ul>
+(after <code>\NeedsTeXFormat</code>).
+Their trailing optional argument can provide the most recent
+<ul>
+ </li>
+ <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revision control" target="_blank">revision</a> <strong>date</strong><br>
+(expected as <em>&ldquo;first word&rdquo;</em> in trailing optional argument)
+ </li>
+ <li>the corresponding <strong>version</strong> string<br>
+(expected as <em>&ldquo;second word&rdquo;</em>
+in trailing optional argument)&thinsp;&mdash;&thinsp;and
+ </li>
+ <li>and a brief <strong>description</strong> of the file (&ldquo;caption&rdquo;)<br>
+(expected as anything <em>else</em> in trailing optional argument).
+</li>
+</ul>
+Here we are listing and comparing TeX packages available from
+<a href="http://ctan.org" target="_blank"><acronym>CTAN</acronym></a> that make use of this information.
+<p>
+The document especially describes five packages of my own,
+including interrelations and dependencies, and thus extends
+their documentations; see <a href="#table">table below</a> for them.
+An <em>asterisk</em>* near a package name indicates that the package
+is <em>not mine</em>; so what I tell about it may be wrong or bad &hellip;
+(please let me know via <a href="http://www.webdesign-bu.de/uwe_lueck/contact.html" target="_blank">form</a>,
+or should I add something?) ...
+<p>
+We have the <em>cases</em> of
+<ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>displaying <a href="#single">single</a> file info (<strong><code>\GetFileInfo</code></strong> ...)
+ </li>
+ <li>listing infos of <a href="#several">several</a> files (<strong><code>\listfiles</code></strong> etc.)
+</li>
+</ol>
+and for each
+<ol type="a"
+ </li>
+ <li>access by <em>LaTeX</em> (<a href="#sing-ltx">1&#8239;</a>&middot;<a href="#sev-ltx">&#8239;2</a>)
+ </li>
+ <li>access by <em>external</em> program (<a href="#sing-ext">1&#8239;</a>&middot;<a href="#sev-ext">&#8239;2</a>).
+</ol>
+<em>Related</em> subjects are using
+<ol type="i"
+ </li>
+ <li><a href="#rcs">revision control systems</a> and
+ </li>
+ <li>modification time according to <a href="#filemod">pdfTeX</a>.
+</ol>
+<a name="table"></a>A <em>tabular overview</em> of the first two case distinctions:
+<p>
+<table cellpadding="6" width="" frame="box" rules="all">
+ <tbody>
+ <!-- standard all-rules table -->
+ <tr bgcolor="#EEEEEE" style="font-weight:bold">
+ <td>
+</td><td>just using <em>LaTeX</em>&emsp;&emsp;</td><td>using <em>external</em> program
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<b><a href="#single">single</a> file</b></td><td>
+&bull;&ensp;<a href="#doc">doc</a>* &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&#8239;&#8239;&#8239;
+(Frank <a href="http://ctan.org/author/id/mittelbach" target="_blank">Mittelbach</a>)<br>
+&bull;&ensp;<a href="#zwgetfdate">zwgetfdate</a>*&#8239;&#8239;&#8239;&#8239;&#8239;&#8239;&#8239;&#8239;
+(Zden&#x011b;k <a href="http://ctan.org/author/id/wagner" target="_blank">Wagner</a>)<br>
+&bull;&ensp;<a href="#readprov">readprov</a>
+</td><td>
+&bull;&ensp;<a href="#lfv">latexfileversion</a>*
+&#8239;(Harald <a href="http://ctan.org/author/id/harders" target="_blank">Harders</a>) <br>
+&bull;&ensp;<a href="#lfi">ltxfileinfo</a>*&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &#8239;&#8239;&#8239;&#8239;&#8239;&#8239;&#8239;&#8239;&#8239;
+&#8239;(Wybo <a href="http://ctan.org/author/id/dekker" target="_blank">Dekker</a>) <br>
+&bull;&ensp;<a href="#tofi">typeoutfileinfo</a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+<b>file <a href="#several">list</a></b></td><td>
+&bull;&ensp;<a href="#cl">classlist</a>*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8239;&#8239;&#8239;&#8239;
+(Heiko <a href="http://ctan.org/author/id/oberdiek" target="_blank">Oberdiek</a>) <br>
+&bull;&ensp;<a href="#dl">dateiliste</a>*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&#8239;
+&#8239;(Paul <a href="http://ctan.org/author/id/ebermann" target="_blank">Ebermann</a>) <br>
+&bull;&ensp;<a href="#lnfl">longnamefilelist</a> <br>
+&bull;&ensp;<a href="#nfl">nicefilelist</a> <br>
+&bull;&ensp;<a href="#mfl">myfilist</a> <br>
+</td><td>
+&bull;&ensp;[<a href="#ltxinput">ltxinput</a>* &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &#8239;&#8239;&#8239;&#8239;&#8239;&#8239;
+(Jim <a href="http://ctan.org/author/id/green" target="_blank">Green</a>)] <br>
+&bull;&ensp;[<a href="#tle">texlog-extract</a>* &nbsp; &#8239;&#8239;&#8239;
+(Wybo <a href="http://ctan.org/author/id/dekker" target="_blank">Dekker</a>)] <br>
+<br>
+[&#8239;don&rsquo;t really belong here &hellip;&#8239;] <br>
+<br>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+
+</tbody>
+</table>
+
+<p align="right"><a href="#single">[&rarr;</a>|<a href="#top-of-page">&nbsp;&uarr;&nbsp;]</a></p><hr><a name="single"></a>
+<h2>1&emsp;Access Single File Info</h2>
+
+<small>
+[&#8239;<a href="#sing-ltx">a:</a>&ensp;
+<a href="#doc">doc</a>&nbsp;| <a href="#readprov">readprov</a>&nbsp;| <a href="#zwgetfdate">zwgetfdate</a>&#8239;]&emsp;
+[&#8239;<a href="#sing-ext">b:</a>&ensp;
+<a href="#lfv">latexfileversion</a>&nbsp;| <a href="#lfi">ltxfileinfo</a>&nbsp;| <a href="#tofi">typeoutfileinfo</a>&#8239;]&emsp;
+[&#8239;<a href="#filemod">c:&ensp;filemod</a>&#8239;]
+
+</small>
+<h3><a name="sing-ltx"></a>a.&emsp;Access in <em>LaTeX</em> Run</h3>
+
+&mdash;originally for <em>automatic</em> inclusion of <em>current</em>
+revision date and version of a package
+in <em>typesetting</em> the latter&rsquo;s documentation
+(<i>&ldquo;This document describes version &hellip; as of &hellip;&rdquo;</i>), but then &hellip;
+<dl>
+ <dt><strong><a name="doc"></a><a href="http://ctan.org/pkg/doc" target="_blank">doc</a>*</strong><dd>
+<ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>Belongs to LaTeX <a href="http://ctan.org/pkg/latex-base" target="_blank">base</a> distribution.
+ </li>
+ <li>Provides <strong><code>\GetFileInfo</code></strong><code>{&lang;<i>file</i>&rang;}</code>; after using this,
+you have <code>\filedate</code>, <code>\fileversion</code>, <code>\fileinfo</code> of &lang;<i>file</i>&rang;.
+ </li>
+ <li>&lang;<i>file</i>&rang; must have been <em>loaded</em> in the LaTeX run.
+ </li>
+ <li><code>\GetFileInfo</code> is <em>fragile</em>.
+</li>
+</ul>
+ <dt><strong><a name="zwgetfdate"></a><a href="http://ctan.org/pkg/zwgetfdate" target="_blank">zwgetfdate</a>*</strong><dd>
+<ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>Provides <strong><code>\DateOfFile</code></strong><code>{&lang;<i>file</i>&rang;}</code>
+and <strong><code>\DateOfPackage</code></strong><code>{&lang;<i>file</i>&rang;}</code>.
+ </li>
+ <li>&lang;<i>file</i>&rang; must have been <em>loaded</em>.
+</li>
+</ul>
+ <dt><strong><a name="readprov"></a><a href="http://ctan.org/pkg/readprov" target="_blank">readprov</a></strong><dd>
+<ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+Provides
+<strong><code>\UseDateOf</code></strong><code>{&lang;<i>file</i>&rang;}</code> and <strong><code>\UseVersionOf</code></strong><code>{&lang;<i>file</i>&rang;}</code>
+&ndash; <em>robust</em> (expandable).
+ </li>
+ <li>
+
+Provides <a href="#doc">doc</a>&rsquo;s <strong><code>\GetFileInfo</code></strong>
+(with modified definition; used internally)
+ </li>
+ <li>Provides
+<ul>
+ </li>
+ <li><strong><code>\ReadFileInfos</code></strong><code>{&lang;<i>files</i>&rang;}</code>
+ </li>
+ <li><strong><code>\ReadPackageInfos</code></strong><code>{&lang;<i>files</i>&rang;}</code>
+ </li>
+ <li><strong><code>\ReadClassInfo</code></strong><code>{&lang;<i>file</i>&rang;}</code>
+</li>
+</ul>
+as <em>alternatives</em> to <code>\GetFileInfo</code>.
+<ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>They do <em>not</em> really <em>load</em> &lang;<i>file</i>&rang;/&lang;<i>files</i>&rang; ...
+ </li>
+ <li>... so can be used with incompatible packages and
+classes (multiple latter by <code>\ReadFileInfos{&lang;<i>base</i>&rang;.cls}</code>).
+ </li>
+ <li>This allows <strong>adding arbitrary</strong> LaTeX source files
+to the list of files that LaTeX manages for
+<a href="#latex"><strong><code>\listfiles</code></strong></a>&thinsp;&mdash;&thinsp;this is used for
+<a href="#myfilist">myfilist</a>.
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+
+</dl>
+<h3><a name="sing-ext"></a>b.&emsp;<em>Screen</em> Display Using <em>External</em> Program</h3>
+&mdash;when you wonder whether the most recent version of a package
+or a chapter file is present &hellip;
+<dl>
+ <dt><strong><a name="lfv"></a><a href="http://ctan.org/pkg/latexfileversion" target="_blank">latexfileversion</a>*</strong><dd>
+<ul>
+ </li>
+ <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bash (Unix shell)" target="_blank">Bash (Unix shell)</a> script.
+ </li>
+ <li><em>Nice</em> screen display.
+ </li>
+ <li>Invokes <code>latex</code> run using a copy of
+<a href="#doc">doc</a>&rsquo;s <code>\GetFileInfo</code>.
+</li>
+</ul>
+ <dt><strong><a name="lfi"></a><a href="http://ctan.org/pkg/ltxfileinfo" target="_blank">ltxfileinfo</a>*</strong><dd>
+<ul>
+ </li>
+ <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby (programming language)" target="_blank">Ruby</a> script.
+ </li>
+ <li>Displays nice
+<a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/ltxfileinfo/doc/ltxfileinfo.html" target="_blank">table</a>
+of infos (including <em>location</em> in file system) on screen.
+</li>
+</ul>
+ <dt><strong><a name="tofi"></a><a href="http://ctan.org/pkg/typeoutfileinfo" target="_blank">typeoutfileinfo</a></strong><dd>
+<ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>5-lines <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bash (Unix shell)" target="_blank">Bash (Unix shell)</a> script.
+ </li>
+ <li>Expects <code>latex</code> won&rsquo;t append too many screen lines after
+1-line <strong><code>\typeout</code></strong><br>
+(<em>tolerable</em> screen display as compared with
+<a href="#lfv">latexfileversion</a>).
+ </li>
+ <li>Invokes <code>latex</code> run using <a href="#readprov">readprov</a>.
+</li>
+</ul>
+
+</dl>
+<h3><a name="filemod"></a>c.&emsp;Related, while different &hellip;</h3>
+<dl>
+ <dt><strong><a href="http://ctan.org/pkg/filemod" target="_blank">filemod</a>*</strong><dd>
+<ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>Uses <a href="http://tug.org/applications/pdftex/NEWS" target="_blank">pdfTeX</a>&rsquo;s
+<code>\pdffilemoddate{&lang;<i>file</i>&rang;}</code> primitive.
+ </li>
+ <li>Compares modification dates of files.
+ </li>
+ <li>Files include images.
+ </li>
+ <li>Also works with <code>pdflatex</code> in <acronym>DVI</acronym> mode.
+</li>
+</ul>
+
+</dl>
+
+<p align="right"><a href="#several">[&rarr;</a>|<a href="#top-of-page">&nbsp;&uarr;&nbsp;]</a></p><hr><a name="several"></a>
+<h2>2&emsp;File Info List</h2>
+This is about listing <em>all</em> files input in a LaTeX run, <em>or</em>&nbsp;...
+<h3><a name="sev-ltx"></a>a.&emsp;Create in LaTeX Run</h3>
+<small>
+[&#8239;<a href="#latex">LaTeX</a>&nbsp;| <a href="#cl">classlist</a>&nbsp;| <a href="#dl">dateiliste</a>&nbsp;| <a href="#lnfl">longnamefilelist</a>&nbsp;| <a href="#mfl">myfilist</a>&nbsp;| <a href="#nfl">nicefilelist</a>&#8239;]
+
+</small>
+<dl>
+ <dt><strong><a name="latex"></a><a href="http://ctan.org/pkg/latex" target="_blank">latex</a>*</strong><dd>
+<ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>LaTeX provides <strong><code>\listfiles</code></strong> for the document preamble.
+ </li>
+ <li><code>\listfiles</code> issues a list of <strong>all</strong> files input in the <code>latex</code> run
+near end of <code>.log</code> file, together with their infos according
+to <code>\Provide...</code> commands.
+ </li>
+ <li>The list is a <strong>two-column</strong> &ldquo;table&rdquo; (plain text), <em>base</em> filenames
+flush right, <em>info</em> (maybe date, maybe version, maybe anything) flush left.
+ </li>
+ <li>Any file whose base <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/filename" target="_blank">filename</a> has <strong>more than 8</strong>&nbsp;characters
+or whose filename extension does <em>not</em> have 3&nbsp;characters <strong>corrupts</strong> alignment.
+</li>
+</ul>
+ <dt><strong><a name="cl"></a><a href="http://ctan.org/pkg/classlist" target="_blank">classlist</a>*</strong><dd>
+<ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>Remembers (separately) files input by &nbsp;(a)&nbsp;<strong><code>\documentclass</code></strong>&nbsp;
+and what was input by &nbsp;(b)&nbsp;<strong><code>\LoadClass</code></strong>.
+ </li>
+ <li>On <strong><code>\PrintClassList</code></strong>, the list of loaded class files appears on screen.
+ </li>
+ <li>Configurable by <strong><code>\PrintClassListEntry</code></strong> and <strong><code>\PrintClassListTitle</code></strong>.
+</li>
+</ul>
+ <dt><strong><a name="dl"></a><a href="http://ctan.org/pkg/dateiliste" target="_blank">dateiliste</a>*</strong><dd>
+<ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>Lists anything that the <a href="#latex">original</a> <code>\listfiles</code> would list.
+ </li>
+ <li><strong>Typesets</strong> the list as a LaTeX table, using package <a href="http://ctan.org/pkg/longtable" target="_blank">longtable</a>.
+ </li>
+ <li>Separate <strong>columns</strong> for
+<ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>filename
+ </li>
+ <li><em>page</em> where input (optionally)
+ </li>
+ <li>date
+ </li>
+ <li>version
+ </li>
+ <li>description (&ldquo;caption&rdquo;)
+</li>
+</ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>Supports <strong><acronym>RCS</acronym></strong>,
+<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrent Versions System" target="_blank"><acronym>CVS</acronym></a>,
+and <acronym>SVN</acronym> (cf.&nbsp;<a href="#rcs">section below</a>).
+ </li>
+ <li>Highly configurable.
+ </li>
+ <li>E.g., you can replace info for a file by what you want to see in the list
+(cf.&nbsp;<a href="#myfilist">myfilist</a>).
+ </li>
+ <li>I haven&rsquo;t seen what happens with <em>plain text</em> (<code>.log</code>) output.
+</li>
+</ul>
+ <dt><strong><a name="lnfl"></a><a href="http://ctan.org/pkg/longnamefilelist" target="_blank">longnamefilelist</a></strong><dd>
+<ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>Overcomes <a href="#latex">LaTeX</a>&rsquo;s &ldquo;8-character&nbsp;limit&rdquo;
+by a new <strong>optional argument</strong> for <code>\listfiles</code>,
+indicating number of characters to be reserved for
+base filenames, e.g. accounting for &ldquo;<code>longnamefilelist.sty</code>&rdquo;:
+<blockquote>
+<code>\listfiles[16]</code>
+
+</blockquote>
+&thinsp;&mdash;&thinsp;view
+<a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/longnamefilelist/SrcFILEs.txt" target="_blank">example outcome</a>
+ </li>
+ <li>&mdash;showing combination with <a href="#mfl">myfilist</a>
+ </li>
+ <li>&mdash;while also working as single addition to
+LaTeX&nbsp;<a href="http://ctan.org/pkg/latex-base" target="_blank">base</a>,
+<em>no</em> need of <a href="#mfl">myfilist</a> or <a href="http://ctan.org/pkg/monofill" target="_blank">monofill</a>.
+ </li>
+ <li>Still, filename <strong>extension</strong>s with number of characters
+differing from 3 break alignment. Martin M&uuml;nch mentions
+<code>t1cmtt.fd</code> (standard LaTeX font definition) and
+<code>supp-pdf.mkii</code> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConTeXt" target="_blank">ConTeXt</a>).
+</li>
+</ul>
+ <dt><strong><a name="nfl"></a><a href="http://ctan.org/pkg/nicefilelist" target="_blank">nicefilelist</a></strong><dd>
+<ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>Uses separate <strong>columns</strong> for <strong>date</strong> and <strong>time</strong>
+(like <a href="#dl">dateiliste</a>).
+ </li>
+ <li>(Picky) recognition of &ldquo;date&rdquo; and &ldquo;version&rdquo;&thinsp;&mdash;&thinsp;if not present,
+left <strong>empty</strong> or gets &ldquo;missing&rdquo; display:
+<blockquote><code>
+nicefilelist.sty&nbsp; 2012/03/29&nbsp; v0.2 &nbsp; more file list alignment (UL)<br>
+nicefilelist.tex&nbsp; 2012/03/23&nbsp; &nbsp;--&nbsp; &nbsp; documenting nicefilelist.sty
+</code>
+</blockquote>
+(Martin M&uuml;nch&rsquo;s idea).
+ </li>
+ <li>Problem of varying filename <strong>extension</strong> lengths overcome
+by actually keeping a separate flush-left column for them.
+ </li>
+ <li>Column widths configurable by <strong>templates</strong>&thinsp;&mdash;&thinsp;replace
+pre-configuration (<a href="http://ctan.org/pkg/monofill" target="_blank">monofill</a> commands):
+<blockquote><code>
+
+\MFfieldtemplate{f-base}&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;{nicefilelist}&nbsp;&nbsp;%% base name <br>
+\MFfieldtemplate{f-ext}&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;{tex}&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;%% name extension <br>
+\MFfieldtemplate{f-version}{v0.11a}&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;%% version
+</code>
+</blockquote>
+ </li>
+ <li>First code line above shows <strong>difference</strong> to <a href="http://ctan.org/pkg/longnamefilelist" target="_blank">longnamefilelist</a>,
+equivalent there would be <code>\listfiles[12]</code>.
+nicefilelist does <em>not</em> provide an optional argument
+for <code>\listfiles</code>.
+ </li>
+ <li>Column <strong>distances</strong> and &ldquo;<strong>missing</strong>&rdquo; display configurable too.
+ </li>
+ <li>Can be combined with <a href="#mfl">myfilist</a>&thinsp;&mdash;&thinsp;view
+<a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/nicefilelist/doc/SrcFILEs.txt" target="_blank">output sample</a>.
+ </li>
+ <li>Needs just <a href="http://ctan.org/pkg/monofill" target="_blank">monofill</a>, additionally to
+LaTeX&nbsp;<a href="http://ctan.org/pkg/latex-base" target="_blank">base</a>.
+
+ </li>
+ <li>nicefilelist v0.4 provides an option <code>[r]</code> to allow
+&ldquo;release numbers&rdquo; in the column reserved for versions:
+<blockquote><code>
+nicefilelist.sty&nbsp; 2012/05/20&nbsp; v0.4 &nbsp; more file list alignment (UL)<br>
+nicefilelist.tex&nbsp; 2012/05/20&nbsp; &nbsp;--&nbsp; &nbsp; documenting nicefilelist.sty<br>
+nicefilelist.RLS&nbsp; 2012/05/20&nbsp; r0.4 &nbsp; v0.4 Kabelschacht + [r]
+</code>
+</blockquote>
+<code>.RLS</code> files are an idea to provide/access a release summary.
+</li>
+</ul>
+ <dt><strong><a name="mfl"></a><a name="myfilist"></a><a href="http://ctan.org/pkg/myfilist" target="_blank">myfilist</a></strong><dd>
+<ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>Allows <strong>removing</strong> all entries that LaTeX has collected
+for <a href="#latex"><code>\listfiles</code></a> at a certain point
+(<strong><code>\EmptyFileList</code></strong>).
+ </li>
+ <li>Then, by commands from <a href="#readprov">readprov</a>,
+you can <strong>add arbitrary</strong> files to the list
+(as they are <em>not</em> really <em>loaded</em>),
+in the order you want to have them in the list.
+
+(However, for many combinations of package files,
+you could actually <em>load</em> them, without readprov.)
+ </li>
+ <li>Thus actually, you can set up a list of files you want to have
+<em>independently</em> of a typesetting run ...
+ </li>
+ <li>... and actually, the <strong>intended</strong> application is generating the
+list <strong>without</strong> any <strong>typesetting</strong>,
+by running <code>latex</code> on a &ldquo;<strong>script</strong>&rdquo; file
+just loading readprov and myfilist
+and using only commands from <em>them</em>.
+(No <code>\documentclass</code>, no <code>{document}</code> environment.)
+ </li>
+ <li>View
+<a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/longnamefilelist/docsrc/srcfiles.tex" target="_blank">input example</a>
+for <a href="#lnfl">longnamefilelist</a>.
+ </li>
+ <li>Besides <code>.log</code> output, the list can be written into a <strong>separate</strong>
+plain text <strong>file</strong>&thinsp;&mdash;&thinsp;view
+<a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/longnamefilelist/SrcFILEs.txt" target="_blank">output example</a>
+for <a href="#lnfl">longnamefilelist</a>.
+ </li>
+ <li><strong>Main applications</strong> in my mind and actual work:
+<ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>List of <code>.sty</code> and <code>.tex</code> files for <em>my</em>
+<strong><acronym>CTAN</acronym> packages</strong> and <strong>bundles</strong>
+(instead of the <code>.dtx</code>/<a href="http://ctan.org/pkg/docstrip" target="_blank">docstrip</a> system, I use <a href="http://ctan.org/pkg/nicetext" target="_blank">nicetext</a>).
+ </li>
+ <li>List of <strong>package</strong> files specific to some <strong>project</strong>
+that often change&thinsp;&mdash;&thinsp;manual replacement for a
+&ldquo;concurrent versions&rdquo; system with single author.
+E.g.:
+<ul>
+ </li>
+ <li><a href="http://ctan.org/pkg/nicetext" target="_blank">nicetext</a> packages underlying <strong>documentation</strong>
+of a certain different package.
+ </li>
+ <li><strong>style</strong> files underlying a <strong>book</strong> project
+at which authors and programmers work on changing computers.
+</li>
+</ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>List of <strong>chapter</strong> <code>\include</code> files for a <strong>book</strong> project,
+edited at changing computers (by a number of authors).
+ </li>
+ <li>Often, one <strong>forgets</strong> to <strong>update</strong> version information
+in the <code>\Provides...</code> command&thinsp;&mdash;&thinsp;the myfilist
+helps you to check this
+(e.g., right before a release;
+<a href="#filemod">filemod</a> might automate this check,
+perhaps together with <a href="#readprov">readprov</a>,
+<em>without</em> myfilist).
+</li>
+</ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>My actual <strong>workflow</strong> with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bash (Unix shell)" target="_blank">Bash (Unix shell)</a>:
+<ul>
+ </li>
+ <li><strong><code>upsfl</code></strong> with
+<blockquote><code>
+alias upsfl='latex srcfiles'
+</code>
+</blockquote>
+updates the list of source files,
+and actually displays the updated list on screen.
+ </li>
+ <li><strong><code>shsfl</code></strong> with
+<blockquote><code>
+<code>alias shsfl='more SrcFILEs.txt'</code>
+</code>
+</blockquote>
+displays the source file list without updating,
+and waits when the list is too long for your (netbook) screen.
+</li>
+</ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>Combinable with <a href="#dl">dateiliste</a>?
+</li>
+</ul>
+
+</dl>
+<h3><a name="sev-ext"></a>b.&emsp;Create by External Program</h3>
+Hm, not so related, <em>no</em> infos (it seems), lists only;
+so, just <em>&ldquo;most related I could find&rdquo;</em> for this section&nbsp;...
+<dl>
+ <dt><strong><a name="ltxinput"></a><a href="http://ctan.org/pkg/ltxinput" target="_blank">ltxinput</a>*</strong><dd>
+<ul>
+ </li>
+ <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS" target="_blank"><acronym>MS-DOS</acronym></a> utility
+(compiled from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C (programming language)" target="_blank"><acronym>C</acronym></a>).
+ </li>
+ <li>Lists files that <em>would</em> be input (recursively).
+</li>
+</ul>
+ <dt><strong><a name="tle"></a><a href="http://ctan.org/pkg/texlog-extract" target="_blank">texlog-extract</a>*</strong><dd>
+<ul>
+ </li>
+ <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby (programming language)" target="_blank">Ruby</a> script.
+ </li>
+ <li>Lists files that issued errors and warnings (colored).
+</li>
+</ul>
+
+</dl>
+
+<p align="right"><a href="#rcs">[&rarr;</a>|<a href="#top-of-page">&nbsp;&uarr;&nbsp;]</a></p><hr><a name="rcs"></a>
+<h2><a name="rcs"></a>3&emsp;<acronym>RCS</acronym>/<acronym>SVN</acronym></h2>
+For <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revision control" target="_blank">revision control systems</a>
+<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revision control system" target="_blank"><acronym>RCS</acronym></a> and
+<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache Subversion" target="_blank"><acronym>SVN</acronym></a>, there are
+<ul>
+ </li>
+ <li><a href="http://ctan.org/pkg/rcs" target="_blank">rcs</a>* &middot; <a href="http://ctan.org/pkg/rcsinfo" target="_blank">rcsinfo</a>* &middot; <a href="http://ctan.org/pkg/rcs-multi" target="_blank">rcs-multi</a>*
+ </li>
+ <li><a href="http://ctan.org/pkg/svn" target="_blank">svn</a>* &middot; <a href="http://ctan.org/pkg/svninfo" target="_blank">svninfo</a>* &middot; <a href="http://ctan.org/pkg/svn-multi" target="_blank">svn-multi</a>*
+ </li>
+ <li><a href="http://ctan.org/pkg/svn-prov" target="_blank">svn-prov</a>* provides <acronym>SVN</acronym> variants of
+<code>\ProvidesClass</code>, <code>\ProvidesFile</code>, and <code>\ProvidesPackage</code>.
+</li>
+</ul>
+&mdash;sorry, I can&rsquo;t tell more about them right now&nbsp;&hellip;
+
+<p align="right"><a href="#thanks">[&rarr;</a>|<a href="#top-of-page">&nbsp;&uarr;&nbsp;]</a></p><hr><a name="thanks"></a>
+<h2>Acknowledgements</h2>
+Thanks to Martin M&uuml;nch, Moss
+(I wrote this for his question),
+and Rainer Sch&ouml;pf!
+<a href="#rcs"><acronym>RCS</acronym> stuff</a> mainly has been stolen from
+<a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/bytopic.html#revision" target="_blank">J&uuml;rgen Fenn&rsquo;s Topic Index</a> of the
+<a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue" target="_blank">TeX&nbsp;Catalogue</a>.
+<p>
+<hr>
+<small>*&nbsp;not&nbsp;mine
+</small>
+<p align="right"><i>Last&nbsp;revised&nbsp;2012-05-29 &copy;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.webdesign-bu.de/uwe_lueck/contact.html" target="_blank">Uwe L&uuml;ck</a>
+<table width="" height="6" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody>
+ <!-- HVspace -->
+ <tr valign="top"><td></td> </tr>
+
+</tbody></table>
+ (using <a href="http://ctan.org/pkg/morehype" target="_blank">blog.sty</a> and <a href="http://ctan.org/pkg/monofill" target="_blank">monofill.sty</a>)
+<table width="" height="6" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody>
+ <!-- HVspace -->
+ <tr valign="top"><td></td> </tr>
+
+</tbody></table>
+ License: <a href="http://www.latex-project.org/lppl/" target="_blank">LPPL&nbsp;1.3c</a> or later, author-maintained.</i></p>
+<p align="right"><a href="#top-of-page">[<i>&rarr;&nbsp;top&nbsp;of&nbsp;page</i>&nbsp;]</a></p>
+
+<table width="" height="550" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody>
+ <!-- HVspace -->
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+
+</tbody></table>
+
+</body></html>
+
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@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+\ProvidesFile{latexfileinfo_pkgs.RLS} %% RELEASE INFO
+ [2012/05/29 r0.22 v0.22 myfilist w/o readprov, robust]
+ [{2012/05/27 r0.21 v0.21 corr. \string\GetFileInfo\space + link, [r]}]
+ [2012/05/15 r0.2b refined; corr. tex/ + doc.]
+ [2012/05/14 r0.2a generation refined] %% not used
+ [2012/05/07 r0.2 first on CTAN] %% was "2012/05/10" with r0.2a
+