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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/source/latex/camel/README b/Master/texmf-dist/source/latex/camel/README deleted file mode 100644 index 7cd1e1f76b2..00000000000 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/source/latex/camel/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,87 +0,0 @@ -Last updated: 17 Feb 1997 - -Welcome to version 1.0t of camel.sty and its friends. Camel is a -LaTeX2e macro package that will, if all goes according to plan, -one day drastically simplify the typesetting of citations and -bibliographies in (potentially) a wide variety of styles and -formats. This release is a *prototype*, and should be treated -as ALPHA software; I hope that you will experiment with it and -send me your comments, but you should not assume that it is -perfect, and you should not assume that it will not change. - -Using Camel, citations are referred to in a way similar to that -used in `standard BibTeX', but with a number of significant -enhancements; citation tags can be used to generate subdivided -bibliographies, separate bibliographies for each subdivision of a -larger work are supported, as are in-footnote cross-referenced -citations, bibliographies indexed to the pages where citations to -the relevant work occur, and much else. This is also the only -supported LaTeX2e bibliography style that supports legal -citation styles (using the law.dtx module). The package also -provides genuinely helpful error messages and an extremely simple -syntax for adding details like page numbers and the like to -citation tags. - -To use Camel, you will need to fetch camel.dtx and its extractor, -camel.ins, and law.dtx with its extractor law.ins. You will also -need to fetch and extract index.dtx/index.ins, the (pre-release) -index support package for LaTeX2e by David M. Jones, and the -"keyval" package that can be found on CTAN in latex/packages/graphics. -To typeset the documentation (by running camel.dtx and law.dtx -themselves directly through LaTeX), you will need the array.sty -package. Also, and most important, you will need a BibTeX that -has a wizard-defined function space of over 7,000. The standard -BibTeX (with a function space of 3,000) is too small to handle -the .bst files used by the Camel style modules. - -*** Notes on version 1.0s *** - -In the past year there have been a few bug fixes in the 1.0r -code. Since some people are using the package (!), I'm -releasing these fixes as version 1.0s. The new release -includes a sample bibtex.ch file, based on jbibtex.ch (NOT -the usual bibtex.ch --- use only as a reference.) - -*** Notes on version 1.0r *** - -FOR USERS UPDATING THEIR CAMEL: In this version, I have fixed a -small bug in the @ARTICLE entry type in law.dtx, and have -cut out the code used to show case holdings, comments, questions -and fact patterns (a whip-round asking who wanted to preserve -these features received no response, so out they went). -I have also fixed a fatal bug in the code that handles pinpoints -in parallel citations. Please note that this release calls on -the new index.sty for LaTeX2e distributed by David Jones as the -index.dtx package. You will need this new version of index.sty -to run version 1.0q of Camel. The previous prerelease of that -file, 'indexdmj.sty' can be deleted from your system. Note that -you also do need the "keyval" package from CTAN. - -NOTE ON FUTURE CHANGES: This version (v1.0r) will is the last -of its kind --- but this does not mean the end of Camel. -Rather, it marks a new beginning. As many of you will know, -Oren Patashnik is at work on an upgrade of BibTeX to -version 1.0. As things look at present, the new BibTeX will -make a further rationalization of the structure of the Camel -code. Not only will this make the editing of styles easier, -but it will also increase the overall speed of processing -a document, and reduce the amount of memory required in LaTeX. - -On a rough guess, these changes will about double the size of -the (already large) BibTeX style file for legal citations, and -render about half of the existing LaTeX style code in Camel -redundant (sniff, sniff). The inputs --- your documents and -your bibliographies --- should work equally well with the new-style -package, but fairness dictates that I at least let folks know -what's going to happen. - -The most immediate effect of these plans is that I will do -nothing to enhance the existing code until BibTeX 1.0 comes -out. Given that Oren Patashnik has a large amount of work to -do on BibTeX, and given the scale of the changes contemplated -for Camel, this could all take awhile. So there you have it; -a curious form of `stability'. - -Have a nice ride! - -FB@soas.ac.uk |