Hello Frank, Have you looked at the docmfp package? Peter W. On 16/04/18 19:22, Frank Mittelbach wrote: > Hi folks, > > after about 20+ years I finally got around taking a closer look at doc > package and one ore the other extension that has been written based on > it. > > Given that on one hand doc is missing a lot of useful functionality > but on the other hand 2/3 of the LaTeX packages use .dtx based code I > thought it isn't advisable to change anything that exists but only > provide a modest update that offers some in my opinion useful features > without rendering existing documentation obsolete. > > Speaking of not changing anything: of course any addition is a change > and while \NewDocElement is probably safe other bits may not be and > that might call for some adjustments. > > So basically I added > > hyperref support out of the box > and integrated some of the ideas from the dox package by Didier Verna > (though I didn't keep his interfaces). The latter allows addition > doc-elements so that you can structure the documentation properly and > obtain a more useful index according to your needs, eg document > options, counters lengths etc and have them indexed in various ways. > > Out of the box, doc will still only offer Macro and Env but this way > it is now trivial to customize this on a per package basis. I have > tested this on various documentation already, but of course some wider > tests are advisable before I will move that (or rather a later version > as I'm still working on code and documentation) into the main LaTeX > distribution. > > So I'm looking for people trying this out on their own packages and > report any problems or suggestions back to me, preferably via the > github issue tracker. > > The code is located at > > https://github.com/FrankMittelbach/fmitex/tree/master/doc-v3 > > for those who want to give it a try > > thanks > frank > > ps the new code uses the new rollback functionality of the 2018-04 > release of LaTeX, even though you can use the package with an older > LaTeX release. But if you have a current one then > > \usepackage{doc}[v2] > > should always get you back the older version and thus should run any > old package code. (Of course that only works if you use the 2018 > version of the LaTeX kernel)