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@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: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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