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author | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2014-11-02 21:50:27 +0000 |
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committer | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2014-11-02 21:50:27 +0000 |
commit | 4443aa712503e8404b2152c761c2ab5e1a98d197 (patch) | |
tree | c387f072c69b1415bca5a9878ce161eb50cad9ce /Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/bigfoot/README | |
parent | 5c146a8c39f3d52b9b6aba7423a0984e5830f407 (diff) |
bigfoot (2nov14)
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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/bigfoot/README b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/bigfoot/README index b85d8f9f2f2..1ce209de090 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/bigfoot/README +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/bigfoot/README @@ -4,29 +4,47 @@ package in development can be accessed using the CVS instructions at <URL:http://sarovar.org/projects/bigfoot>, and CTAN:/macros/latex/contrib/bigfoot provides released versions. -The whole bundle is released under the GPL version 2 (or later). Part -of the work has been sponsored or commissioned by various parties -(including TUG), but further functionality and development depends on -your support, financially or by participation. The author has a -Paypal account which you might consider contributing to. +The whole bundle is released under the GPL version 2 (or later), see +the file COPYING for details. Part of the work has been sponsored or +commissioned by various parties (including TUG), but further +functionality and development depends on your support, financially or +by participation. The author has a Paypal account which you might +consider contributing to. All of the files (except perpage.sty, for historical reasons) need -eTeX 2 as the LaTeX engine. Newer distributions already are -eTeX-based; with older distributions you might need to use the -`elatex' command. +eTeX 2 as the LaTeX engine. All modern distributions provide this by +default. + +A Makefile is provided for generating most files. In case the +platform does not support Make, the distribution tarball includes the +file bigfoot.ins pregenerated from bigfoot.dtx. File descriptions for available files: -bigfoot.ins: This is a generated file and not in the CVS archive (but - on CTAN). If you need to generate it, you can do so by running - `tex docstrip' and answering the prompts +bigfoot.ins: This is a generated file and not in the Git repository (but + on CTAN). Generating it can be done by running `tex docstrip' and + answering the prompts \infileext=dtx \outfileext=ins \Options=installer \filelist=bigfoot - Running TeX on bigfoot.ins will generate further files. + If you instead use + + \Options=installer,make + + you will get a version of `bigfoot.ins' which will not ask before + overwriting files, but will only place them in the current + directory even if your docstrip configuration contains target + directory declarations. + + Running TeX on bigfoot.ins will generate a number of style files + (with the extension .sty) and a number of documentation driver + files (with the extension .drv). + + +Here come the source files themselves: suffix.dtx: This is the doc source for `suffix.sty', a package that makes it very easy to define command variants like \macro* or |