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author | Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> | 2006-10-07 19:42:45 +0000 |
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committer | Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> | 2006-10-07 19:42:45 +0000 |
commit | a0ec1f41c7dbc4bda73a4b155ea91dee96705f76 (patch) | |
tree | 4726974c30b5f6725dc107debefc2239d4207939 /Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/ednotes/CHANGING.txt | |
parent | e7d01390c7f9356131d93b26d3a33808d78f635d (diff) |
update of ednotes
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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/ednotes/CHANGING.txt b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/ednotes/CHANGING.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..34baa7dbd88 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/ednotes/CHANGING.txt @@ -0,0 +1,127 @@ + ======================================= + 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. + + |