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Re: Copyright zzzz
- To: Lars Hellström <Lars.Hellstrom@math.umu.se>, fontinst@cogs.susx.ac.uk
- Subject: Re: Copyright zzzz
- From: Rebecca and Rowland <rebecca@astrid.u-net.com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 00:23:07 +0000
- In-Reply-To: <l03102801b2dcc1a412ec@[130.239.20.144]>
At 4:30 pm +0000 2/2/99, Lars Hellström wrote:
>Alan wrote:
[snip]
>To clarify things: My reluctance is towards a complete maintenance
>responsibility (since that would mean I have to figure out what the
>!@%&#!@# the !@%*&#!@# \latinfamily !@%&#!@# command #!@#!@%& does
Hang on a bit - isn't that documented well enough by now? Oh, you mean you
need to know how it works? Ah...
[snip]
>What would, to me, seem like a reasonable idea is to do the following:
>Create a new directory in the CTAN/.../fontinst; call it "new", "beta",
>"prerelease", or something like that.
[snip]
>Any opinions on that?
Sounds good to me.
>There is, by the way, another thing I've meant to write and ask about. Is
>there any convention regarding the exact meanings of the words "version"
>and "release"? What made me worder is that the v1.8 fontinst.dtx contains
>the two sections
>
> About this version of \texttt{fontinst}
>and
> About this \texttt{fontinst} release
>
>which to me seem to have exactly the same meaning!
[snip]
Me too - bloody stupid distinction to try and make IMNSHO. I think the
thing to do is roll the two sections into one.
(I'm not volunteering - I've started on the drugs recorded in `Cockpit
check' (R. Calvert, Capt. Lockheed & the Starfighters. Oh, alright:
Haloperidol, but not the horse pills fed to dangerous psychos) and I
suspect I might be even less reliable than usual for a bit).
Rowland.