Below is an upload from Will Robertson that I somehow contrived to misplace. He prompted me, and on reading it, I want to consult before I reply.
He is perhaps a bit vague, but I think he is proposing m/l/c/journals/pracjourn . I think he is volunteering to find in our holdings other journal classes, and then we can move them.
I can think of a number of reasons to resist that (sounds like work; authors and others have links to the present locations on web pages; some packages are multi-usage, etc.). But OTOH he is an enthusiastic fellow who perhaps could be encouraged and someday induced to do some of my work.
I'm inclinded to at least install this package under journals/ and caution him, but I thought I should ask wiser heads.
Jim
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Name of contribution: pracjourn Author's name: Will Robertson Author's email: wspr81@gmail.com Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ [journals/] pracjourn Summary description: Class for typesetting articles for The PracTeX Journal License type: gpl
Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Class for typesetting articles for The PracTeX Journal. Please find more information at http://www.tug.org/pracjourn.
To the CTAN maintainers: if you guys like the idea of subdirectories in contrib, I suggest this be placed within journals. Contact me if you do like this idea and want help in finding/moving journal classes into such a newly created directory. (Also see the conferences subdirectory.) I understand long-term stability might be a reason against such a thing. ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Below is an upload from Will Robertson that I somehow contrived to misplace. He prompted me, and on reading it, I want to consult before I reply.
He is perhaps a bit vague, but I think he is proposing m/l/c/journals/pracjourn . I think he is volunteering to find in our holdings other journal classes, and then we can move them.
I can think of a number of reasons to resist that (sounds like work; authors and others have links to the present locations on web pages; some packages are multi-usage, etc.). But OTOH he is an enthusiastic fellow who perhaps could be encouraged and someday induced to do some of my work.
you mean, running mathematics at smc? ;-)
I'm inclinded to at least install this package under journals/ and caution him, but I thought I should ask wiser heads.
i see no particular reason not to install his thing under journals. but, given that our long-term aim is metadata-based access, rather than path-based, moving other packages about has no real benefit, except possibly in the short term, and has the various negative effects that you suggest.
so i would politely decline.
i just happened to notice a paper of robertson's on the pracjourn pages, at lunch-time; he was saying how he found himself hooked on tex, which i think is a bad sign. as a whole, i find pracjourn stuff sort-of-faintly-interesting, but seldom enough to warrant a link from the faq (which is why i scan it anyway). [i've not read your contribution from a while back.]
r
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