Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!otter.hpl.hp.com!hpltoad!ghiggins!gjh From: gjh@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Graham Higgins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Tex/LaTeX & *.sty files.. Message-ID: Date: 5 Feb 91 09:31:44 GMT References: <38673@cup.portal.com> <28507@cs.yale.edu> <1991Feb04.221451.854@convex.com> Sender: news@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Usenet News Administrator) Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK. Lines: 29 In-Reply-To: rosenkra@convex.com's message of 4 Feb 91 22:14:51 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: ghiggins.hpl.hp.com Bill Rosenkranz writes: ++ still, it seems to me that a system as complex as TeX should have a README ++ with at least this sort of minimal introduction, so that from the first ++ step, a user/installer has a somewhat global view of how the system works. It would be nice, admittedly, but that rather lays the burden on someone else's shoulders. What might *they* get out of it --- books dedicated to the subject are available for purchase. It's a difficult judgement to make with a system as complex as TeX. What does the team think .... How much info --- and what sort --- should go into a README file? Graham ====== ------------------------------------------------------------------ Graham Higgins | Phone: (0272) 799910 x 24060 Hewlett-Packard Labs | gjh%ghiggins@hpl.hp.co.uk Bristol | gjh%ghiggins@hplb.hpl.hp.com U.K. | ------------------------------------------------------------------ Disclaimer: My opinions above are exactly that, mine and opinions. ------------------------------------------------------------------