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+ =======================================
+ ednotes is CHANGING on and on ...
+
+ October 2006, Uwe Lueck
+ http://www.contact-ednotes.sty.de.vu
+ =======================================
+
+
+ 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.
+
+