At 22.17 +0200 2001-04-13, Frank Mittelbach wrote: > > Despite my not knowing whether the release of a new LaTeX2e*-y package is > > that much to mention anymore > >yes please, mention it, it looks great though I'm a bit horrified to see that >somebody really attempted to let galley2 loose on the world :-) Well, so far I've only let it loose on doc.dtx and the LaTeX2e sources, and neither came out looking worse than the average text you see coming out of a word processor. :-) It has only been there because xhj needs it though, and I've only been setting the justification, so I suspect that the things you've done for the frontmatter stuff could serve just as well. But speaking about the justification ... I'm effectively making a hanging indentation by giving leftskip and rightskip nonzero natural widths, rather than by using any of the higher layer settings. This works fine but I suspect it would confuse quite a lot of code if used in a more general context, so it might need some thought. Maybe justification shouldn't be allowed to give these nonzero natural widths? [I'm not really expecting an answer.] >as I said in the mail the other day, I really don't consider that package >being "usable" in a real practical sense. But if you prove me wrong, so much >the better. Neither do I, but I wonder how much code it would take to have it "active" only in parts of a document (like e.g. the frontmatter) so that the formatting in the rest of the document could be controlled by old code? If it isn't that much then it could be a good idea to have a go at it, as it would make full scale experiments with the package much less unattractive. > > Frank's mail the other day sounded like at least template and something > > like xhj was fairly close to getting properly released, and I would > > consider that a Good Thing. > >so would I but I leave updating template.dtx to other David or others (for the >moment at least) and like you work within its limits. >seems I gaveyou the wrong impression: what is going to be released before May >is a fromt matter package (and perhaps with it a simple xhj version that works >without galley2 so that i don't run into problems using the frontmatter >package in the real world :-) As I wrote above, that simple xhj version may be quite adequate for the needs of docindex. > > I'd still like to announce the availability of my own docindex/docidx2e > > package, which can be found on CTAN in macros/latex/exptl/xdoc/ since about > > a day. > >for some reason the xdocdemo.tex file the readme talks about is not on CTAN >(though the ftp search has it in its cache) Appearently Robin removed it without my asking him to. I've written to him about it. Lars