Ralf Stubner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 18:33 +0000, Richard Lewis wrote: >> More generally it would be useful to have a README.Debian-config file >> (but with a sensible name) that could document how one customises TeX >> under Debian, it could also mention >> >> *enabling/disabling map files >> *installing new packages >> *changing language.dat (adding new patterns or disabling some) >> *fmtutil versus fmtutil-sys (or maybe a user will never need this) >> *installing new fonts (this is possibly too ambitious) >> *etc >> >> ie the stuff where Debian has diverged slightly from upstream. Some >> of this is explained well in the policy draft (i think), but users >> wont find it there. > > There is /usr/share/doc/tetex-bin/README.Debian.gz, but I am not sure > how many users look at it. I think quite a bit of your suggestions is > included in there, though I haven't checked it in detail. The part about > changing the configuration could be amde more explicit, though. > Favouring adding new files over changing existing ones.
I have now added a paragraph about "add, not edit". Besides that, it's gotten pretty long meanwhile, and adding section headings doesn't help much in plain text. I guess it would be a good idea to convert it to debiandoc-sgml or similar and provide a html version (registered in doc-base...) Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)