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dtxtut Tutorial on writing .dtx and .ins files

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NameDateSize Description
README 2004-11-05 971 bytes download Shown below
cskeleton.dtx 2004-11-05 3 Kbyte download
cskeleton.ins 2004-11-05 1 Kbyte download
dtxtut.pdf 2004-11-05 257 Kbyte download
dtxtut.tex 2004-11-05 68 Kbyte download
skeleton.dtx 2004-11-05 3 Kbyte download
skeleton.ins 2004-11-05 1 Kbyte download

Contents of the README file


	       +-------------------------------------+
	       |  HOW TO PACKAGE YOUR LATEX PACKAGE  |
	       | By Scott Pakin, scott+dtx@pakin.org |
	       +-------------------------------------+

This tutorial is intended for advanced LaTeX2e users who want to learn
how to create .ins and .dtx files for distributing their homebrewed
classes and style files.

Distributed files include:

   README        -- This file
   dtxtut.pdf    -- Preformatted tutorial
   dtxtut.tex    -- Tutorial source code (LaTeX2e)
   skeleton.ins  -- A sample .ins file (generates .sty)
   skeleton.dtx  -- A sample .dtx file (generates .sty)
   cskeleton.ins -- A sample .ins file (generates .cls)
   cskeleton.dtx -- A sample .dtx file (generates .cls)


The author would like to thank the following people (in alphabetical
order) for their suggestions on improving dtxtut and the skeleton
files:

   * Robin Fairbairns
   * Marcel Heldoorn
   * Rolf Niepraschk
   * Hans Fredrik Nordhaug


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