README This is the README file for the classpack package. 1 Summary LaTeX document classes and packages are normally created, maintained, and distributed in .dtx format using the ltxdoc class, which provides facilities for modular or fragmentary coding combined with interleaved documentation. However, the accurate construction of these files is technically challenging. ClassPack allows a developer to create an XML document containing user documentation and annotated code, based on the DocBook vocabulary (with some minor abuses). An XSLT2 script then generates the .dtx and .ins files, ensuring that all the relevant pieces are emitted in the correct order and in the correct syntax. This is experimental software, and is incomplete. It has been successfully used in-house by the author since 2008 for several institutional and commercial packages and classes. There are some known deficiencies which remain to be corrected, and some legacy code (originally included for one specific package) which needs to be removed to an external file. A paper describing the system has been accepted for the Balisage markup conference 2013 in Montréal. 2 Normal installation This package is distributed as a .tds.zip file (TDS is the TeX Directory Structure, the standard layout for a modern TeX installation). Install it on any personal TDS-compliant TeX system by unzipping it into your personal TeX directory (folder). This will put all the files into the right places, so you can start using them immediately. If you haven't yet created a personal TeX directory, see below for details of what one is, and how to create it. On a shared (multiuser) system like a server, unzip it into the $TEXMFLOCAL directory instead (see below), and run your TeX directory-indexing program (eg texhash, mktexlsr, Update FNDB, etc) so that everyone can use it. If you are using an old non-TDS-compliant system, see below under Manual Installation. 2.1 Your personal TeX directory This is a directory (folder) on single-user systems like desktops and laptops where you put all your local manual modifications, updates, and additions such as classes, packages, and fonts. The name and location are fixed: Apple Mac OS X ~/Library/texmf Unix and GNU/Linux ~/texmf MS-Windows 95/XP C:\texmf MS-Windows 2007 and above Computer\System\YOURNAME\texmf Create that folder if it does not already exist. WARNING: If you are a Windows user running MiKTeX ! ! When you create the folder, you must add it to MiKTeX's list of ! supported folders. Run the MiKTeX Maintenance/Settings program, ! select the Roots tab, and add the folder. You only have to do this ! once. ! ! Each time you add or remove software in your personal TeX folder, ! you MUST also click on the Update FNDB button in the General tab. Unix (Mac and GNU/Linux) users do not need to (indeed, should not) run their filename database indexer (mktexlsr or texhash) for files put in your personal TeX directory. 2.2 Installation on shared systems On multi-user systems (Unix-based), identify the shared local directory tree with the command kpsewhich -expand-var '$TEXMFLOCAL' This will give you the location of the shared texmf directory into which you must install these files. Do not forget to run the texhash or mktexlsr (filename indexer) program after installation, otherwise the files will not be found by LaTeX and nothing will work! 3 Manual installation (non-TDS systems) To install this software manually, unzip the zip file into a temporary directory and move the classpack.sty file from the tex/latex/classpack directory to a location (directory/folder) where LaTeX will find it on your system. This referred to in some documentation as "the TEXINPUTS directory", although it may be called something else on your system. IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO KNOW WHERE THIS LOCATION IS. See the question in the TeX FAQ at http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=inst-wlcf for more information. If you do not know, or cannot find it, or do not have access to it, your TeX system may be out of date need replacing. 3.1 Last resort In an emergency, and as a last resort on unmanageable systems, it is possible simply to put the classpack.sty file in your current working directory (the same folder as your .tex file[s]). While this may work, it is not supported, and may lead to other resources (packages, fonts, etc) not being found. 4 Usage Make this the first line of your LaTeX document: \usepackage[options]{classpack} Read the documentation for the options available. The documentation is distributed as a PDF document in the zip file. You can also regenerate it by typesetting the classpack.dtx file with LaTeX (and BiBTeX and makeindex) in the normal way. 5 Bugs and TODO No outstanding reported bugs at the time of this version, but there are many facilities and features unimplemented, and the documentation is incomplete. 6 Copyright The following statement is included in the source code: % Extracted from classpack.xml % classpack.sty is copyright © 2012-2013 by Peter Flynn % % This work may be distributed and/or modified under the % conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either % version 1.3 of this license or (at your option) any later % version. The latest version of this license is in: % % http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt % % and version 1.3 or later is part of all distributions of % LaTeX version 2005/12/01 or later. % % This work has the LPPL maintenance status `maintained'. % % The current maintainer of this work is Peter Flynn % % This work consists of the files classpack.dtx and classpack.ins, % the derived file classpack.sty, and any ancillary files listed % in the MANIFEST.