The ydoc class and packages

Copyright (c) 2011-2022 by Martin Scharrer martin.scharrer@web.de
License: LPPL v1.3c
CTAN: https://www.ctan.org/pkg/ydoc
Texdoc: https://texdoc.org/pkg/ydoc
Homepage: https://github.com/MartinScharrer/ydoc
Repository: https://github.com/MartinScharrer/ydoc.git
Issue tracker: https://github.com/MartinScharrer/ydoc/issues

ydoc provides macros and environments to document LaTeX packages and classes. It is an alternative to the ltxdoc class and doc package. It targets a different layout and tries to provide more modern styles (xcolor, hyperref, etc.).

This is an alpha release. It should not be used yet for other packages.

INSTALL

This package might be part of your LaTeX distribution (TeX Live, MikTeX, ...) and then is installable using the distributions package manager (TeX Live: tlmgr install ydoc). However, it is also manually installable using the following ways:

TDS ZIP FILE

A TDS ZIP file includes all files in a installable format and using the required directory structure. Simply unzip the TDS ZIP file over your TEXMF tree. The TDS ZIP file can be downloaded from CTAN: http://mirrors.ctan.org/install/macros/latex/contrib/ydoc.tds.zip

DTX FILE

The ydoc.dtx file includes all required files, which can be extracted by compiling it using TeX (not LaTeX):

tex ydoc.dtx

To build the documentation compile the same file using LaTeX (preferable 'pdflatex') multiple times:

pdflatex ydoc.dtx
pdflatex ydoc.dtx
pdflatex ydoc.dtx

Copy all files to their correct location of your local TEXMF tree. For example under Linux a personal TEXMF is normally located at ~/texmf ($HOME/texmf) and under Windows usually under C:\Users\<username>\texmf.
The files can be installed using the following Linux commands:

mkdir -p "${TEXMF}/tex/latex/ydoc/"
mkdir -p "${TEXMF}/source/latex/ydoc/"
mkdir -p "${TEXMF}/doc/latex/ydoc/"
mkdir -p "${TEXMF}/tex/generic/ydoc/"
cp ydoc.sty ydoc.cls ydoc-code.sty ydoc-desc.sty ydoc-doc.sty ydoc-expl.sty ydoc.cfg "${TEXMF}/tex/latex/ydoc"
cp ydoc.dtx ydoc.ins "${TEXMF}/source/latex/ydoc"
cp ydoc.pdf README "${TEXMF}/doc/latex/ydoc"
cp ydocincl.tex ydocstrip.tex "${TEXMF}/tex/generic/ydoc"

Update the tree database file (might be not required for modern versions and personal TEXMF trees):

texhash ${TEXMF}