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author | Norbert Preining <norbert@preining.info> | 2019-09-02 13:46:59 +0900 |
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committer | Norbert Preining <norbert@preining.info> | 2019-09-02 13:46:59 +0900 |
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diff --git a/macros/latex/contrib/fileinfo/README b/macros/latex/contrib/fileinfo/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..56272c284a --- /dev/null +++ b/macros/latex/contrib/fileinfo/README @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ + + == README for the `fileinfo' bundle == + +This bundle has packages `readprov.sty' and `myfilist.sty'. + +`readprov.sty' + + renders \GetFileInfo from LaTeX's `doc.sty' (without the + latter being required), as well as new robust (expandable) + variants of it, usable with files that are not really + loaded (they are quit when their file info is found, + cf. the `zwgetfdate' package). So, e.g., you can describe + packages that are incompatible with each other or with + packages that your document uses. You even can report about + various class files. + + Such packages then also appear with LaTeX's \listfiles. + You may consider this a bug ... + +`myfilist.sty' + + makes this "bug" a feature. In a "TeX script," you can + choose some files and their order. Their names can be + output into a plain text file with their dates, version + ids, and one-line descriptions, formatted in the way + \listfiles does it after a LaTeX run. This way you can get + an overview of, e.g., some package bundle ... + +The two packages are described in more detail in `readprov.pdf' +and `myfilist.pdf'. These documentation files also serve to +demonstrate some .txt->.tex functionality of the `nicetext' +bundle. + +Both packages evaluate the \Provides... commands that should +identify a LaTeX file. They are described in the context of +other packages evaluating the \Provides... entries by the +`info' package `latexfileinfo-pkgs', + + http://ctan.org/pkg/latexfileinfo-pkgs + +The file `fileinfo.RLS', when installed just like +`myfilist.sty' and `readprov.sty' (in the `tex' tree of a TDS), +provides a summary of the currently installed release of the +`fileinfo' bundle, accessible as LaTeX file info by all of +these packages. + +`readprov' and `myfilist' are LICENSEd according to the LaTeX +Project Public License (see files; NO WARRANTY!). They are +author-maintained. + +A TDS version is available as + + CTAN:/install/macros/contrib/fileinfo.tds.zip + +2012/05/26, Uwe Lueck, http://contact-ednotes.sty.de.vu + |