Project third-party enhancements

Copyright © 2023 Markus Kohm

Release: See the README.md of the individual packages.

License: LPPL 1.3c

KOMA presents the third-party enhancements project.

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This work has the LPPL maintenance status "maintained".

The Current Maintainer and author of this work is Markus Kohm.

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Abstract

For several years KOMA-Script provided a package scrhack, that has been made not only to improve the compatibility of third-party packages with KOMA-Script classes, but also to generally improve third-party packages. The package consisted not only in the package file scrhack.sty but also in several so called hacks as separate files with extension .hak. In the course of splitting off former KOMA-Script packages from the KOMA-Script collection, it was decided to create independent packages from the individual hacks. These new independent packages then serve as replacements for the original packages they were intended to improve. In addition, to preserve the functionality of loading the enhancements only when the corresponding original package is loaded, a new scrhack was created to do just that.

The third-party enhancements project combines both the new scrhack and the new standalone packages.

Organization

The project consists of several sub-folders. Each of these hosts one of the standalone packages. These are:

• scrhack — compatibility package to emulate the former KOMA-Script package scrhack (not yet released).
• floatbytocbasic — an enhancement to package float using package tocbasic.
• floatrowbytocbasic — an enhancement to package floatrow using package tocbasic.
• listingsbytocbasic — an enhancement to package listings using package tocbasic (withdrawn without beeing released).
• lscapeenhanced — an enhancement to package lscape resp. package pdflscape.
• setspaceenhanced — an enhancement to package setspace.
• standardsectioning — defining the sectioning commands of the standard classes (not yet released).

There is also a build.lua for l3build in the main folder. However, this should be used only to do all the checks using:

l3build check

or do a local installation of all the packages.

You should not use it for distribution, uploading etc. See the following section for more information.

Installation for Users

If you are a user, you should wait until all the packages have been added to your preferred TeX distribution. Then you can use the package manager of your TeX distribution to install all the packages at once.

Unpacking and Installation Distributors

Since no distribution of the entire project is planned, distributors are explicitly referred to the individual README.md files in the subdirectories of the single packages.

Unpacking and Installation for Developers

Developers who want the current developer version of the code to be installed for testing, should clone the third-party-enhancements repository, e.g., using

git clone https://github.com/komascript/third-party-enhancements.git

You can than either unpack and install all the third-party enhancements using:

l3build install --full

from within the main directory of the cloned respository. For installation one of the new standalone package, run the same command from within the corresponding subdirectory or the standalone package. For installation without the manuals omit option --full, but this is not recommended for developers.

How to get the Manuals

After installation you should get the user manuals using:

texdoc NAMEOFTHEPACKAGE

Note: You have to replace NAMEOFTHEPACKAGE with the name of the single package whose manual you want to read. There isn't a manual of the whole third-party enhancement project.

Developers or distributors can also build the manuals from the source using:

l3build doc

How to Contribute

To become a contributor, e.g., do heavy testing. If you find an issue, please report it using the issue tracker. You can also become a developer and, e.g., make new test files to the packages. See the l3build manual for more information about tests. If you've created a new test and think that it would be useful. Please either do a pull request or add a new issue and include your test file.

Another kind of contribution would be to contact an author of one of the third-party packages and convince her or him to integrate the code of the corresponding enhancement package from this project into her or his package.

How to Report Issues

If you think you have found a bug (or another kind of issue) using any of the packages you should use the issue tracker. Please first search for similar issues already reported and maybe also already fixed and closed. Maybe the replies to such a similar report would help you too.

If your issue is new, you should report it also using the issue tracker. Please be kind, not only when writing the report but also when reading replies and commenting or answering. And please always add a minimal working example and usually the relevant parts of the log-file to your report. Please use the markdown for code to add such files into the text of your report. The correct language identifier for LaTeX code would be latex. For log-files you won't need any language identifier. Usually you should not use attachments for code or log-files unless you've been asked to do so. And please note, reports should always be self-containing. External links often break and so the report become useles.

How to Say Thank You for my Work

Hey, I'm doing this as a hobby. So no need to say thank you. But I'm a vain fop, so I'm certainly up for a quick thank you by email. On komascript.de you can find an explanation of my wishes if you want to give more. If you don't understand German, just click to links at that page.