X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1757" "Thu" "3" "July" "1997" "10:46:44" "-0700" "Marcel Oliver" "moliver@MATH.UCI.EDU" nil "55" "Re: Availability of Class files (was: LaTeX3 goals)" "^Date:" nil nil "7" nil nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from listserv.gmd.de (listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.1]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA27634; Thu, 3 Jul 1997 19:47:18 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <1.5FF706A1@listserv.gmd.de>; Thu, 3 Jul 1997 19:47:17 +0200 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 162566 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Thu, 3 Jul 1997 19:47:14 +0200 Received: from math.uci.edu (moliver@math.uci.edu [128.200.174.70]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.7.6/8.7.4) with ESMTP id TAA26700 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 1997 19:46:48 +0200 (MET DST) Received: by math.uci.edu (8.8.5) id KAA00247; Thu, 3 Jul 1997 10:46:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <199707031746.KAA00247@math.uci.edu> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Date: Thu, 3 Jul 1997 10:46:44 -0700 From: Marcel Oliver Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: Availability of Class files (was: LaTeX3 goals) Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 2240 Sebastian Rahtz wrote: > i suggest that going beyond my 3 - way is too hard. so > > * we don't have any choice about 1; its what They give us > * by default everything is in 3, ie useful if you feel like looking > at it > * things go into 2 by acclamation; its a staging post to 1, if you > like. things like carlisle, calc, fancyhdr, and cite seem obviously > useful on any system, whereas nassflow is probably only used by 3 > people. Maybe 3 should be split into two categories: 4: default 3: Package is documented (!), reasonably stable, and is deemed the best, or one of the best, packages for the intended purpose. Yet the application is too specific that one could reasonably expect every distribution of TeX to carry it. Example: tipa as opposed to some other phonetic alphabets. > one thing i can promise is that if anyone does classify LaTeX > packages, i will instantiate it on TeX Live. please note that the TeX > Live coding is present in Graham Williams catalogue, so thats an > excellent place to encapsulate the decisions. Further, it might be useful to introduce some independent categories for user information, e.g. L: works under LaTeX OL: works under LaTeX 2.09 P: works under plain TeX X: support application, OS specific etc., also---as suggested by Sebastian---some classification scheme by topic (independent of the 1 to 4 above). I'll add some more: - useful general hacks - class files for publishers and journals - other class files - letters - font related - language related - graphics - packages for special applications: Chemistry, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics etc. Marcel PS: Where are the AMS macros/fonts in the category 2 list suggested by Sebastian? ,