> 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).
With \LaTeX2e you shouldn't need A4.sty. Just say a4paper in the \documentclass options. > - if you were to start from Karl Berry's sources, you wouldn't get it > either, what Debian delivers is a standard "base" TeX. Just a silly question: Which flavour of \TeX is Debian shipping? How far is it away from e.g. teTeX? >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 // Sidenote: I've packaged some things from teTeX for myself, for example the rsfs fonts, which are badly needed. But: Is somebody knowledgeable on the copyright terms on the rsfs's fonts? >As for a4, I much prefer vmargin (which the LaTeX Companion has as vpage, >described on page 89). And I pagesize... David
