On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 08:00 +0100, Herbert Voss wrote: > Uwe Stöhr schrieb: > > > > 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? > > > > TeXLive came up with the removal, others followed. For Linux TeXLive is > > the only active LaTeX-distribution I know. > > Generally speaking, it sucks that they discovered that floatflt has a > > nosell license after 10 years and not before! Argh. > > contact the author to change the license ... > which is sometimes difficult after all these years.
This happened with prettyref as well. I looked inside prettyref when I eventually found it, and saw how little it contained. Surely there is somebody knowledgeable enough to re-implement floatflt and contribute it to the distributions. Why didn't TeXLive do that before the removal? It must have irked more than just LyX users. Have fun, Darren
