Package Distribution

DAs noted earlier, the goals of an archive and the goals of a workingCTeX system are sometimes in conflict. We encourage package authors@to consider how their packages fit into a working TDS system andMto document (or, preferably, automate) how the files should be moved from the)archive structure into the TDS structure.

GFor example, a package for Martian language typesetting that works with(Plain TeX and LaTeX might be distributedas the following:

martian-1.0/READMEmartian-1.0/doc/martdoc.texmartian-1.0/doc/example.texmartian-1.0/hyphen/marthyph.texmartian-1.0/plain/martian.texmartian-1.0/latex/martian.stymartian-1.0/latex/OT1mart.fdmartian-1.0/fonts/martian.mfmartian-1.0/fonts/mart10.mfmartian-1.0/fonts/mart10.tfm

LDocumentation accompanying the distribution should describe how to construct the corresponding TDS structure:

texmf/doc/latex/martian/README#texmf/doc/latex/martian/martdoc.tex#texmf/doc/latex/martian/example.textexmf/doc/plain/martian/README%texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/marthyph.tex#texmf/tex/plain/martian/martian.tex#texmf/tex/latex/martian/martian.sty"texmf/tex/latex/martian/OT1mart.fd,texmf/fonts/source/public/martian/martian.mf+texmf/fonts/source/public/martian/mart10.mf)texmf/fonts/tfm/public/martian/mart10.tfm

@Note that the main documentation is stored in the latex=section of the documentation tree, but a README file?also occurs in the plain section---presumably to point"users to the latex files.