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ednotes is CHANGING on and on ...
October 2006, Uwe Lueck
http://www.contact-ednotes.sty.de.vu
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ABSTRACT:
This file is to draw your attention to the *possibility* that
the version of the ednotes bundle that you have received lacks
*recent improvements* -- and to how to profit from such
improvements. Some improvements under present work or consideration
are *listed*.
POSSIBLE REASONS:
Maybe you have got the bundle files from a TeX Live CD or DVD
-- which usually is not updated as often as ednotes is updated.
Or you have received the files from somewhere else than from CTAN
or TeX Live. Or you just are not in the mood sufficiently often to
check whether ednotes has been updated recently. Or the maintainers
of ednotes have made the improvement privately, yet are not ready to
send it around at the moment.
Sorry, due to the complexity of ednotes and to our limited resources,
we really cannot promise that each release or upload of ednotes is
error-free. (I always do some basic tests of changes, but it is quite
impossible to test all "possible situations". Sometimes a foolish typo
shows up only in a very special situation.) A "recent improvement"
(as I called it) thus may just be a correction of recently introduced
errors, having been uploaded to CTAN shortly after the (bad) files
that you have received were collected.
Or better: in working with ednotes, you may discover possibilities
to increase its functionality. Indeed, we sometimes get such ideas in
using the bundle ourselves. Please report problems you encounter with
ednotes via the above URL, as well as suggestions for new ednotes
features. (Again however, we may be unable to follow such a suggestion
immediately/soon.) -- We receive such problem reports and suggestions
every few weeks or months and usually try to account for them;
so you might profit from recognizing such developments -- more often
than (say) once a year.
RECEIVE UPDATE-ALERTS BY E-MAIL:
After subscribing to the mailing list for CTAN announcements
https://lists.dante.de/mailman/listinfo/ctan-ann
you will be automatically informed when an update of the ednotes
bundle has been uploaded to CTAN -- the Comprehensive TeX Archive
Network. Of course you will be informed about uploads and updates
of many other packages than ednotes -- and this is a nice, little
time-consuming way of being informed what macro and font packages
etc. there are.
Moreover, I maintain a newsletter about ednotes to which you can
subscribe via the URL above below the title of the present file.
I usually inform the subscribers when new ednotes files have been
installed on CTAN. Sometimes I write a little more in the newsletter
than what is announced on the CTAN announcements mailing list.
TO UPDATE:
For the most basic way, you can download the most recent public
version of the ednotes bundle by downloading the
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ednotes
subdirectory of CTAN. You may know or learn about substituting
"tug.ctan.org/tex-archive" appropriately to address a nearby CTAN
mirror -- indeed when you try the previous, you may be offered URLs
of several CTAN mirrors out of which you can choose your favourite
mirror for the future. The downloading procedures that the mirrors
offer may slightly differ, but it's easy nowadays anyway. You may
better leave "ednotes" away in the previous URL and just look for
"ednotes" in the "contrib" subdirectory. -- The README that should
have come along with your copy of the ednotes bundle should direct
you how to properly install the new packages on your machine.
For Windows, there is the
http://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/miktex/
distribution; cf.
http://texcatalogue.sarovar.org/entries/miktex.html
http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=miktex
-- which includes an updating manager that makes updating very easy.
Note that a recent version of ednotes may need updating other
packages, cf. `READMORE.txt'.
PLANNED IMPROVEMENTS:
* \multicolumn in tables/arrays presents a problem to ednotes, a
first solution to which just has been prepared; I am pondering how
to implement a more comfortable way to deal with the problem.
Another improvement with tables/arrays is near.
* More substantially: The bigfoot package by David Kastrup has
appeared on CTAN:
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/bigfoot
-- it very much improves the performance of the manyfoot package
that underlies ednotes. Something (perhaps?) must be added to
ednotes in order to use bigfoot.
* Recently I discovered that Peter Wilson's memoir class
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memoir
-- that many people use to have more flexibility than with the
Standard LaTeX classes -- offers footnote facilities that are
similar to those of manyfoot and bigfoot. It should be easy
to offer an option to use ednotes with memoir without using
manyfoot or bigfoot.
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