On Sun, 3 Feb 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
The LaTeX-package floatflt that we use for wrap floats has been deleted in
TeXLive and MikTeX:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.live/15236
So from now on new LyX users won't be able to use wrap floats nor compile the
manuals. This was the reason why we got so many complaints abpout the manuals
the last days.
As first reaction I contacted the package author if he agrees to change
the package license and remove the nosell statement. But I guess he's
not responding since the floatflt package has not been updated since 10
years now.
For LyX 1.6, I rewrote the wrap floats stuff so that we now use wrapfig.
But shall we do in the meantime for LyX 1.5.4. I could remove the
explanation of wrap floats but don't like this solution. Any ideas?
Some short term alternatives (not necessarily exclusive):
A) Do nothing.
B) Say that users have to install floatflt.sty themselves in the
installation notes.
B1) Explain how users can install flaotflt.sty
C) Provide the manual in PDF form
D) Windows only: Modify the installer to install floatflt.sty
E) Remove the section of wrapping floats?
E1) Putting the section about wrapping floats in a branch?
(Will this help?)
F) Provide the flaotflt.sty package with the users' guide?
(Can we do this from a license point of view?)
Other ideas?
Generally speaking I think it sucks that the user guide doesn't compile
out of the box. Have other popular (Linux) LaTeX distributions also
skipped the floatflt package?
/C
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Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
