Subject: Bug#4346: Essential LaTeX style files missing

From: Thomas Koenig <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 14:46:35 +0200 (MET DST)

Package: ltxmisc
Version: 1.0-1

In 1.1.7, Debian's TeX is unusable for somebody who wants to do serious
work with it, at least for me (I work in German).  Hardly any of the
often - used packages is there (this starts with a4.sty, which is
required by the documentation of german.sty, missing).

The best way would probably be to go through the LaTeX Companion and
install everything that's mentioned in there.
-- 
Thomas Koenig, [email-masked], [email-masked].
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From: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 96 10:49 EDT

Thomas>  Package: ltxmisc 
  Thomas>  Version: 1.0-1
  Thomas> 
  Thomas> In 1.1.7, Debian's TeX is unusable for somebody who wants to do
  Thomas> serious work with it, at least for me (I work in German).  Hardly
  Thomas> any of the often - used packages is there (this starts with a4.sty,
  Thomas> which is required by the documentation of german.sty, missing).
  Thomas> 
  Thomas> The best way would probably be to go through the LaTeX Companion
  Thomas> and install everything that's mentioned in there.

That option was once discussed informally between Nils, Erick and myself. We
never did this because 
  
  - it would be overkill, there are too many style files mentioned in the 
    Companion, and some of them change or get replaced by the bi-annual 
    LaTeX release

  - if you were to start from Karl Berry's sources, you wouldn't get it
    either, what Debian delivers is a standard "base" TeX.

And Debian is after all an open system. Everybody could package, say,
latex-goodies. I just put these things into /usr/local/lib/texmf/tex/latex//

As for a4, I much prefer vmargin (which the LaTeX Companion has as vpage,
described on page 89).

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Dirk Eddelb"uttel                             http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd