[Devnag-general] Re: [tex-live] Directory structure

[Anshuman Pandey]

Thank you Zdenek and Karl for your work on getting the devnag package into 
tex-live.

Can we somehow specify 'velthuis' in the directory structure? I 
requested such a change a while ago in CTAN so that the devnag package now 
resides under 'language/devanagari/velthuis/'. I requested this with the 
intent of eventually moving the wikner package from 'sanskrit' to 
'devanagari'. This existing taxonomy is a bit confusing.

Also, can we use 'devanagari' instead of 'devanagr', or are we still 
restricting filename lengths to eight characters?


Regards,
Anshu

On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Zdenek Wagner wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Karl Berry wrote:
>
>> Hi Zdenek,
>>
>>     Currently manual.*, README and copying reside in
>>     doc/fonts/devanagr but they document not only fonts but also macros
>>
>> My impression is that it is better for users if documentation for a
>> package is in one place, where feasible.  Whether it is
>> doc/fonts/devanagr or doc/generic/devanagr or whatever does not matter
>> as much as the doc for the package being together.  Including samples
>> and README's.  Feel free to make a subdir for samples, e.g.,
>> doc/fonts/devanagr/demos.
>>
> doc/generic/devanagr sounds best to me.
>
>> In terms of distribution, the easiest way to incorporate big packages
>> like this into TL is if they are on CTAN in exactly the final
>> directories, so all I have to do is copy them.  See, for instance, the
>> Lucida package I uploaded recently.  (Perhaps devanagr is already like
>> this, I don't remember.)
>>
> Unfortunatelly not, I have only manually restructured the package for TL.
> I would like to have the same directory structure on CVS so that
> preparation f releases is simple. I will do it tomorrow.
>
>> Sound reasonable?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Karl
>>
>
> Zdenek Wagner
> e-mail: wagner at cesnet.cz
>
> see also http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/
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