CTAN package upgrade: Frankenbundle, including swiftex.el
Date: September 11, 2001 1:13:54 PM CEST
An upgrade of the Frankenbundle package has been installed on tug.ctan.org
and should make its way to the other CTAN sites and mirrors in the
next day or two.
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint at tug.ctan.org
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: Frankenbundle, including swiftex.el
Name: Matt Swift
Location on CTAN: support/frankenbundle
Summary description: Develop and distribute groups of LaTeX packages and classe; ALSO Edit doc.sty and normal LaTeX files with GNU Emacs. s and BibTeX bibstyles;
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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Interim cleanup release prior to some more significant work (I hope).
Please see README for a full description and ChangeLog for changes.
Please note that a preformatted TeX Catalogue database describing
this software is at http://www.shore.net/~swift/latex/swift.db. A
web page of description like the TeX Catalogue descriptions is at
http://www.shore.net/~swift/latex/.
Frankenbundle: Develop and distribute groups of LaTeX packages and classes and BibTeX bibstyles.
Frankenbundle allows an author to maintain and distribute a bundle of
one or more LaTeX packages and classes and BibTeX bibliography styles,
their documentation, and any support files with a high degree of
sophistication, consistency, and convenience both for the author and
their end users, who will receive the bundle in a form easy to
understand and use. The author using Frankenbundle needs a Unix-like
environment, GNU Make, and a rudimentary understanding of
Makefiles. The end user does not need Make.
Frankenbundle also includes swiftex.el:
Swiftex.el: Edit doc.sty and normal LaTeX files with GNU Emacs.
docTeX mode is for editing buffers containing self-documenting
LaTeX code that uses the doc package, including the ltxdoc
document class. For these buffers, docTeX mode is IMHO
significantly more useful than the alternatives provided by
standard Emacs and AUC TeX, though I do intend to merge this code
into AUC TeX one day. swifTeX mode is for editing buffers
containing normal \LaTeX{} files and provides an alternative to
the other LaTeX modes.
The most important changes are noted here:
* Frankenbundle: Handles variety of bundle licenses: LPPL and
GPL are preconfigured. Extensive documentation revision.
* swiftex.el: Fix `stx-merge-list' for the thousandth time.
Additional documentation. Moved user documentation and todo
list to swiftex-doc.txt. Begin to implement Emacs
customization. Numerous bugfixes. Numerous small extensions.
Please note that Frankenbundle is in the public domain and swiftex.el
is under the GPL.
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frankenbundle – Develop and distribute LaTeX packages and classes and BibTeX styles
Frankenbundle allows an author to maintain and distribute a bundle of one or more LaTeX packages and classes and BibTeX bibliography styles, their documentation, and any support files with a high degree of sophistication, consistency, and convenience both for the author and their end users, who will receive the bundle in a form easy to understand and use. The author using Frankenbundle needs a Unix-like environment, GNU Make, and a rudimentary understanding of Makefiles. The end user does not need Make.
Package | frankenbundle |
Version | 1.10 |
Maintainer | Matt Swift |