Re­quested Fea­tures

Search for files in tex-archive

The search can be used to find a file in tex-archive by its name – with and with­out ex­ten­sion.

Search for con­trol se­quences in tex-archive

The search can be used to fins a file in tex-archive which con­tains a given con­trol se­quence. Since cat­codes are hard to grok only those ap­pear­ances are in­dexed which re­ally start with a back­slash.

A clas­si­fi­ca­tion with the cat­e­gories “de­fined”, “used”, and “doc­u­mented” would be help­ful.

The same hold for LaTeX en­vi­ron­ments.

Ex­tend browser in texarchive by file types

Add ex­pla­na­tion about file types to the browser. This can be dis­played ei­ther in a sep­a­rate col­umn, as tool tip, or as note. Note might be a bad so­lu­tion since there might be other de­scrip­tions in there al­ready.

News on CTAN

Show the most re­cent pack­ages on CTAN. Since noth­ing bet­ter is avail­able the in­for­ma­tion might be ex­tracted from CTAN an­nounce mail­ing list.

Ac­tiv­ity Pro­file of Pack­ages

Show a pro­file show­ing all changes on a time axis.

Tag­ging Pack­ages

The pack­ages can be tagged. The tags can be added by the user. The tag­ging is pos­si­ble for au­then­ti­cated users only.

Rat­ing Pack­ages

Pack­ages can be rated with 1 to 5 stars. The av­er­age is shown. Only a logged in user can rate. If a user rates sev­eral times then only the last rat­ing is taken into ac­count. Thus a sin­gle user can not raise a rat­ing to the sky.

Tag­ging Direc­to­ries

Logged-in user can add tags to di­rec­to­ries. The tag­ging is only pos­si­ble for au­then­ti­cated users.

Per­sonal Start Page

A user can de­fine a per­sonal start page with some portlets to choose and place.

Visu­al­ize num­ber of pack­ages and files

The num­ber of pack­ages and files can be shown as chart. A pie chart can be used to show the sizes of the di­rec­to­ries di­rectly un­der tex-archive and for those un­der tex-archive/macros. The pie chart should fit in its col­ors to the cur­rent skin.

Cor­rec­tions for the Cat­a­logue

Pro­pos­als for cor­rec­tions of Cat­a­logue en­tries can be sub­mit­ted via the Web in­ter­face.

Al­low Lo­gin with OpenId

Al­low the user to lo­gin via an OpenId iden­tity.

Link to So­cial Net­work­ing Plat­forms

Al­low the user to like a pack­age on Face­book, Google+, Twit­ter,…

Search: In­dex the files in the TeX archive

The files in the TeX archive should be in­dexed and made search­able. This in­cludes the macros as well a the doc­u­men­ta­tion.

Vot­ing for fea­tures

Al­low a au­then­ti­cated user to vote for a re­quested fea­ture. The vote is recorded and can be cor­rected. Thus a user can not vote sev­eral times for the same fea­ture.

No­ti­fi­ca­tions

The users can reg­is­ter for change events. For in­stance on the pack­ages, files, guest book, or com­ments.