Karl Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doesn't look straightforward to fix - any ideas? > > We will probably reinstate the Catalogue in TL, and when we do, I guess > we should not just copy the files, but set up some kind of "conversion" > process. Ugh.
the catalogue as you see it on ctan or sarovar is the result of processing the xml files that make up the repository. since those xml files contain the names of tpm files (for those for which i know the correspondence). for example: <entry datestamp='$Date: 2007-06-20 23:40:03 +0100 (Wed, 20 Jun 2007) $' modifier='$Author: robin $' id='footmisc'> ... <texlive location='footmisc'/> ... </entry> [the id is the name of the xml file (and hence the name of the converted html file); the texlive location is the name of the tpm file.] given that info, one could in principle match things up, presumably? but before we even start, we need to know what we want the links to point to. suppose ctan has pdf docs and texlive has .dvi ... or, as in the case of footmisc, ctan has pdf and texlive has no docs at all? > Does MiKTeX contain the Catalogue? If so, are the links properly > transformed? If so, maybe we could just work from that. it doesn't, that i can see. (there's a file called files.csv.bz2 in the miktex package repository, that tells you every file in miktex and the miktex package it belongs to. i've no script that looks in all the different formats and extracts the data.) > If someone wants to take this up, great. as it stands, i don't think it's do-able. we need a definition of what's really required. (this comes as a surprise to me ... until this issue arose, i had assumed it was all trivial.) would a non-ctan html version, as you find on sarovar, help? robin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]