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authorKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2014-11-02 21:50:27 +0000
committerKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2014-11-02 21:50:27 +0000
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@@ -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