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You can get the contents of this directory bundled as a zip file.

Packages in this directory:

Identifier Caption
dtxtut Tutorial on writing .dtx and .ins files

Files

Name Size* Date UTC Notes
README 1 KiB 2004-Nov-05 Shown below
cskeleton.dtx 4 KiB 2004-Nov-05
cskeleton.ins 2 KiB 2004-Nov-05
dtxtut.pdf 258 KiB 2004-Nov-05
dtxtut.tex 69 KiB 2004-Nov-05
skeleton.dtx 4 KiB 2004-Nov-05
skeleton.ins 2 KiB 2004-Nov-05

  *File sizes in kibibytes.

Contents of README

	       +-------------------------------------+
	       |  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