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authorNorbert Preining <norbert@preining.info>2023-03-08 03:03:20 +0000
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-README for lastpage package, 2021/09/03, v1.2n
+README for lastpage package, 2023-03-07, v2.0a
TABLE OF CONTENTS
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 INTRODUCTION
==============
-This LaTeX package puts the label LastPage (\AtEndDocument)
+This LaTeX package puts the label LastPage at the end of the document
into the .aux file, allowing the user to refer to the last page
of a document. This might be particularly useful in places
like headers or footers. -
@@ -26,47 +26,46 @@ fnsymbol page numbering scheme is used, or another package
has output after this package, or the number of pages
instead of the last page's name is needed, or the page
numbers exeed a certain range, there might be problems,
-which can be solved by using the pageslts package instead.
+which can be solved by using the pageslts package instead
+[which needs updating to current LaTeX-format and therefore might fail].
This material is published under the LPPL 1.3c: This work may be
distributed and/or modified under the conditions of the LaTeX Project
-Public License, either version 1.3c of this license or (at your option) any
-later version. This version of this license is in
+Public License, either version 1.3c of this license or (at your option)
+any later version. This version of this license is in
https://www.latex-project.org/lppl/lppl-1-3c.txt
and the latest version of this license is in
https://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt
-and version 1.3c or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX version
-2005/12/01 or later.
+and version 1.3c or later is part of all distributions of
+LaTeX version 2005-12-01 or later.
2 DOWNLOAD
==========
-`lastpage' is available on CTAN:
-https://www.ctan.org/pkg/lastpage
+"lastpage" is available on CTAN:
+https://ctan.org/pkg/lastpage
Also a ZIP file is provided that contains the files:
the manual (lastpage.pdf), the example (lastpage-example.tex),
the compiled example (lastpage-example.pdf),
driver (lastpage.drv), lastpage.dtx,
installation file (lastpage.ins),
-the style files (lastpage.sty, lastpage209.sty),
+the style files (lastpage.sty, lastpage209.sty, lastpage23.sty,
+lastpageclassic.sty, lastpagemodern.sty),
and this README, already sorted in a TDS tree:
-https://mirrors.ctan.org/install/macros/latex/contrib/lastpage.tds.zip
+https://mirror.ctan.org/install/macros/latex/contrib/lastpage.tds.zip
3 INSTALLATION
==============
-First, please make sure that there is no old version of
-lastpage at some obsolete place in your system.
-
Installation with ZIP file in TDS format
----------------------------------------
-The ZIP file `lastpage.tds.zip' contains the files
+The ZIP file "lastpage.tds.zip" contains the files
sorted in a TDS tree. Thus you can directly unpack the
ZIP file inside a TDS tree.
-See https://www.ctan.org/TDS-guidelines for an explanation
+See https://ctan.org/TDS-guidelines for an explanation
of TDS.
Example:
cd /...somewhere.../texmf
@@ -82,18 +81,22 @@ a) Download the lastpage files from CTAN.
If necessary, unpack them.
b) Generate the package and driver files:
tex lastpage.dtx
-c) Install the file `*.sty' in your TDS tree:
- cp *.sty TDS:tex/latex/lastpage/
- Replace `TDS:' by the prefix of your TDS tree
+c) Install the files "*.sty" in your TDS tree:
+ cp lastpage.sty TDS:tex/latex/lastpage/
+ cp lastpage209.sty TDS:tex/latex/lastpage/
+ cp lastpage23.sty TDS:tex/latex/lastpage/
+ cp lastpageclassic.sty TDS:tex/latex/lastpage/
+ cp lastpagemodern.sty TDS:tex/latex/lastpage/
+ Replace "TDS:" by the prefix of your TDS tree
(texmf directory).
d) Create the documentation, if necessary, e.g.
pdflatex lastpage.dtx
makeindex -s gind.ist lastpage.idx
- pdflatex undolabl.dtx
+ pdflatex lastpage.dtx
makeindex -s gind.ist lastpage.idx
pdflatex lastpage.dtx
-e) Update the databases, if necessary, e.g. for teTeX:
- mktexlsr .../texmf
+e) Update the databases if necessary, e.g. for TeXLive
+ texhash or mktexlsr.
f) Create the lastpage-example.pdf, if necessary, e.g.
pdflatex lastpage-example.tex
pdflatex lastpage-example.tex
@@ -110,19 +113,18 @@ g) Copy the documentation files to
The lastpage package does not depend on other packages,
but the lastpage.dtx does (for unpacking and constructing
the documentation), see "7.1 Downloads" in the manual
-https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/lastpage/lastpage.pdf
+https://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/lastpage/lastpage.pdf
5 PACKAGE COMPATIBILITY
=======================
-lastpage is not compatible with the very old version 2.0
+lastpage is not compatible with the ancient version 2.0
(and earlier) of the endfloat package. The recent version of
-endfloat is available at
-https://www.ctan.org/pkg/endfloat
+endfloat is available at https://ctan.org/pkg/endfloat
6 AUTHORS/MAINTAINER
-=====================
+====================
* Author of the original main code:
Jeffrey P. Goldberg (Thanks!)
@@ -131,19 +133,19 @@ https://www.ctan.org/pkg/endfloat
7 BUG REPORTS
-==============
+=============
A bug report should contain:
* Comprehensive problem description. This includes error or
warning messages.
* \errorcontextlines=\maxdimen can be added in the
TeX code to get more information in TeX error messages.
-* Minimal test file that shows the problem, but does not
- contain any unnecessary packages and code.
+* Minimal test file that shows the problem,
+ but does not contain any unnecessary packages and code.
* Used drivers/programs.
* Version information about used packages and programs.
-* If you are using LaTeX, then add "\listfiles". Then
- a list of version information is printed at the end
+* If you are using LaTeX, then add "\listfiles" to the document.
+ Then a list of version information is printed at the end
of the LaTeX run.
* Please no other files than the minimal test file.
The other files .log, .dvi, .ps, .pdf are seldom
@@ -158,6 +160,6 @@ Bug reports can be send to the maintainer:
8 KNOWN PROBLEMS
-=================
+================
Really a lot, see chapter 3 of the documentation! \ No newline at end of file