Thomas> Package: ltxmisc
Thomas> Version: 1.0-1
Thomas>
Thomas> In 1.1.7, Debian's TeX is unusable for somebody who wants to do
Thomas> serious work with it, at least for me (I work in German). Hardly
Thomas> any of the often - used packages is there (this starts with a4.sty,
Thomas> which is required by the documentation of german.sty, missing).
Thomas>
Thomas> The best way would probably be to go through the LaTeX Companion
Thomas> and install everything that's mentioned in there.
That option was once discussed informally between Nils, Erick and myself. We
never did this because
- it would be overkill, there are too many style files mentioned in the
Companion, and some of them change or get replaced by the bi-annual
LaTeX release
- if you were to start from Karl Berry's sources, you wouldn't get it
either, what Debian delivers is a standard "base" TeX.
And Debian is after all an open system. Everybody could package, say,
latex-goodies. I just put these things into /usr/local/lib/texmf/tex/latex//
As for a4, I much prefer vmargin (which the LaTeX Companion has as vpage,
described on page 89).
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Dirk Eddelb"uttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd
