I write this because I find it rather remarkable that the bugs in doc.dtx of the last LaTeX release still hasn't been corrected (or at least not the corrections being put on CTAN) a good month and a half after the reports started to arrive. Had it been some other package then maybe it would have been understandable (understaffed as the LaTeX3 project is often claimed to be), but the doc package is so central for code development in the TeX world that I think the negligence tends to being gross. For those of you who hasn't encountered any of these bugs yet, here are the ones I know about (in some cases thanks to the LaTeX bugs database, my acknowledgements to those who reported them): 1. The syntax of \DescribeMacro has been changed; it now reads its argument while having \catcode`\\=12. Primarily this means that the name of the macro described must now be surrounded by { and }, but this has also had the ironic side effect that the doc package documentation is no longer compatible with the doc package! There have been some claims that this is really a feature, and I agree it's not a bad idea per se (even if it makes it a lot harder to write a \DescribeMacro for \{ and \}), but isn't this exactly the kind of feature which should have been added as a new command, instead of through changing an old, especially since it appearently breaks tons of code? 2. There's a typo on code line 395. It reads |gdef|gtempa{#2}% (| has catcode 0 at that point), but should most likely be |gdef|@gtempa{#2}% 3. If a control sequence with an empty name (like \csname\endcsname generates; bug 1 unfortunately makes almost everything become such a control sequence since only the backslash is read) is to go into the index, it causes an error on line 420: \expandafter\@tempb\@gtempa\relax because what is stored in \@gtempa is precisely the macro name and \@tempb is at this point macro: #1#2\relax -> <etcetera> Taking the intended delimiting \relax as #1, \@tempb scans ahead for another and fails miserably. The direct error can be avoided by appending an extra \relax to line 420, but the index entries generated will still become rather weird. 4. Last, and indeed least, the checksum is wrong. BTW, has ever a case in which the doc checksum facility correctly detected that code was missing been recorded? It seems to me that by putting the \Finale in the end of the .dtx file, as is the recommended (by doc.dtx) practice, the very macro which checks the checksum will itself be missing whenever there actually is something missing (due to truncation) which would be noticed on the checksum! Somehow, I don't think that the expected form of a checksum error report is to mention nothing at all about the checksum. Still, I hope it all will be fixed with some speed, now that it has been dragged into the public (?) and all. :-) Lars Hellström