Jörg Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Frank, > > Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Joerg Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>> Here comes the usual comment: Please make sure to follow the Debian TeX >>>> Policy Draft in /usr/share/tex-common/. >>> >>> Xindy does not provide any tex, style or class files. >> >> Aren't there any index style files (like the ones passed to traditional >> makeindex with the -s option)? > > Yes, you can give Xindy user defined style files. But how they are > related to TeX? They are LISP.
They are related to TeX because they are required in the workflow of processing TeX documents. They must be searched at least at two places: Some directory for site installations, and in the current directory and/or a subdirectory of it for distribution with a particular document. It would also be nice to follow the TeX tradition and allow to override distributed versions with local versions, and those with per-document versions. TEXMF trees do not only contain TeX input files - they also contain input files for makeindex and bibtex, Perl and Ruby scripts and of course lots of different font file formats. But this is something that should be discussed among the upstream developers of xindy and the TeX Directory Structure. I just assumed that this has already happened and resulted in xindy searching TEXMF trees (and being linked against libkpathsea). Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
