X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1482" "Fri" "4" "July" "1997" "14:48:48" "+0200" "Frank Mittelbach" "Frank.Mittelbach@UNI-MAINZ.DE" nil "30" "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 PAA30087 for ; Fri, 4 Jul 1997 15:03:13 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <12.DAF127F6@listserv.gmd.de>; Fri, 4 Jul 1997 15:03:12 +0200 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 163560 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Fri, 4 Jul 1997 15:03:07 +0200 Received: from kralle.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (kralle.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.158]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.7.6/8.7.4) with ESMTP id PAA05771 for ; Fri, 4 Jul 1997 15:03:06 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from frank.zdv.uni-mainz.de (Ufrank@localhost) by kralle.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.8.5/8.8.5) with UUCP id OAA17046 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Fri, 4 Jul 1997 14:54:46 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: kralle.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE: Ufrank set sender to frank.zdv.uni-mainz.de!latex3 using -f Received: (from latex3@localhost) by frank.zdv.uni-mainz.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) id OAA27288; Fri, 4 Jul 1997 14:48:48 +0200 References: <199707031135.MAA13033@knott.elsevier.co.uk> <199707031448.KAA09508@fenris.math.albany.edu> <199707031600.RAA14964@knott.elsevier.co.uk> <199707031710.TAA02026@frank.zdv.uni-mainz.de> <199707040803.JAA16297@knott.elsevier.co.uk> <199707040859.KAA27034@frank.zdv.uni-mainz.de> <199707041004.LAA16541@knott.elsevier.co.uk> Message-ID: <199707041248.OAA27288@frank.zdv.uni-mainz.de> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <199707041004.LAA16541@knott.elsevier.co.uk> Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 14:48:48 +0200 From: Frank Mittelbach 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: 2262 Sebastian Rahtz writes: > > and even if it would balk at \footheight unknown or something like > > this in the documentation (but only there) i would (as a tester) put > > it into *3 but having in that form a line saying, documentation a bit > > shaky press return on ... > i dont agree with this detail, actually. those of who process material > CTAN to TDS do NOT want to press return, or read documentation, or > anything. i really think xymtex stays in *5* until someone fixes it to > run without errors under 2e. but not important for now important enough if you want to give poential volunteers some criteria at hand. users want to read documentation (or in some cases should:-). if you want to autoprocess for a distribution like tex-live then i agree that this would rule things out. so okay, perhaps if it is trivial one should either fix it or mail the author or whatever but keeping otherwise sound stuff in 5 just because it is having a trivial problem with the documentation seems to me counter productive a) you would then at a later stage make the same work again b) if the code works and documentation mostly it should not be classified untested (as that is not true) since it is tested such stuff should be allowed to go at least into *4 in my opinion frank ps just to correct a perhaps wrong impression: xymtex does work both with code and documentation although the documentation uses latex compat mode --- i was only making up an example