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authorKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2006-07-17 22:56:22 +0000
committerKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2006-07-17 22:56:22 +0000
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bigfoot update (18jul06)
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@@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ This is the bigfoot bundle for critical edition typesetting and other
concerns, written by David Kastrup (mailto:dak@gnu.org). The complete
package in development can be accessed using the CVS instructions at
<URL:http://sarovar.org/projects/bigfoot>, and
-CTAN:/macros/latex/contrib/bigfoot should provide released versions
-once they are fit for general consumption.
+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
@@ -18,17 +17,16 @@ eTeX-based; with older distributions you might need to use the
File descriptions for available files:
-suffix.ins: This is a generated file and not in the CVS archive (but
+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
\infileext=dtx
\outfileext=ins
\Options=installer
- \filelist=suffix
+ \filelist=bigfoot
- Running TeX on suffix.ins will generate further files from
- `suffix.dtx'.
+ Running TeX on bigfoot.ins will generate further files.
suffix.dtx: This is the doc source for `suffix.sty', a package that
makes it very easy to define command variants like \macro* or
@@ -38,19 +36,19 @@ suffix.dtx: This is the doc source for `suffix.sty', a package that
\=>, or things like \footnote' macros, or \footnote<...\footnote>
with different formatting/numbering and so on.
-perpage.sty: Work in progress, CVS only. Used for keeping counters
- sorted in order of page appearance and making numbering per page
- possible.
-
-bigfoot.sty: Work in progress, CVS only. Used for solving every
- problem around footnotes and then some. Deals with nested
- footnotes in several apparatus, uses a backtracking algorithm for
- finding the optimal break across several footnotes, automatically
- breaks in-paragraph style footnotes across pages, uses fuzzy logic
- for deciding about when to prefer in-paragraph layout to
- one-footnote-per-paragraph layout on a per-note and per-block
- basis, deals with colors in footnotes even when broken across
- pages, adapts the document class's footnote style to in-paragraph
- footnotes as good as it can, allows customization of styles
- differing across footnote blocks, allows verbatim text in
+perpage.dtx: This is the doc source for `perpage.sty'. Used for
+ keeping counters sorted in order of page appearance and making
+ numbering per page possible.
+
+bigfoot.dtx: This is the doc source for `bigfoot.sty'. Used for
+ solving every problem around footnotes and then some. Deals with
+ nested footnotes in several apparatus, uses a backtracking
+ algorithm for finding the optimal break across several footnotes,
+ automatically breaks in-paragraph style footnotes across pages,
+ uses fuzzy logic for deciding about when to prefer in-paragraph
+ layout to one-footnote-per-paragraph layout on a per-note and
+ per-block basis, deals with colors in footnotes even when broken
+ across pages, adapts the document class's footnote style to
+ in-paragraph footnotes as good as it can, allows customization of
+ styles differing across footnote blocks, allows verbatim text in
footnotes and so on.