======================================= ednotes is CHANGING on and on ... October 2006, Uwe Lueck http://www.contact-ednotes.sty.de.vu ======================================= ABSTRACT: This file is to draw your attention to the *possibility* that the version of the ednotes bundle that you have received lacks *recent improvements* -- and to how to profit from such improvements. Some improvements under present work or consideration are *listed*. POSSIBLE REASONS: Maybe you have got the bundle files from a TeX Live CD or DVD -- which usually is not updated as often as ednotes is updated. Or you have received the files from somewhere else than from CTAN or TeX Live. Or you just are not in the mood sufficiently often to check whether ednotes has been updated recently. Or the maintainers of ednotes have made the improvement privately, yet are not ready to send it around at the moment. Sorry, due to the complexity of ednotes and to our limited resources, we really cannot promise that each release or upload of ednotes is error-free. (I always do some basic tests of changes, but it is quite impossible to test all "possible situations". Sometimes a foolish typo shows up only in a very special situation.) A "recent improvement" (as I called it) thus may just be a correction of recently introduced errors, having been uploaded to CTAN shortly after the (bad) files that you have received were collected. Or better: in working with ednotes, you may discover possibilities to increase its functionality. Indeed, we sometimes get such ideas in using the bundle ourselves. Please report problems you encounter with ednotes via the above URL, as well as suggestions for new ednotes features. (Again however, we may be unable to follow such a suggestion immediately/soon.) -- We receive such problem reports and suggestions every few weeks or months and usually try to account for them; so you might profit from recognizing such developments -- more often than (say) once a year. RECEIVE UPDATE-ALERTS BY E-MAIL: After subscribing to the mailing list for CTAN announcements https://lists.dante.de/mailman/listinfo/ctan-ann you will be automatically informed when an update of the ednotes bundle has been uploaded to CTAN -- the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network. Of course you will be informed about uploads and updates of many other packages than ednotes -- and this is a nice, little time-consuming way of being informed what macro and font packages etc. there are. Moreover, I maintain a newsletter about ednotes to which you can subscribe via the URL above below the title of the present file. I usually inform the subscribers when new ednotes files have been installed on CTAN. Sometimes I write a little more in the newsletter than what is announced on the CTAN announcements mailing list. TO UPDATE: For the most basic way, you can download the most recent public version of the ednotes bundle by downloading the http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ednotes subdirectory of CTAN. You may know or learn about substituting "tug.ctan.org/tex-archive" appropriately to address a nearby CTAN mirror -- indeed when you try the previous, you may be offered URLs of several CTAN mirrors out of which you can choose your favourite mirror for the future. The downloading procedures that the mirrors offer may slightly differ, but it's easy nowadays anyway. You may better leave "ednotes" away in the previous URL and just look for "ednotes" in the "contrib" subdirectory. -- The README that should have come along with your copy of the ednotes bundle should direct you how to properly install the new packages on your machine. For Windows, there is the http://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/miktex/ distribution; cf. http://texcatalogue.sarovar.org/entries/miktex.html http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=miktex -- which includes an updating manager that makes updating very easy. Note that a recent version of ednotes may need updating other packages, cf. `READMORE.txt'. PLANNED IMPROVEMENTS: * \multicolumn in tables/arrays presents a problem to ednotes, a first solution to which just has been prepared; I am pondering how to implement a more comfortable way to deal with the problem. Another improvement with tables/arrays is near. * More substantially: The bigfoot package by David Kastrup has appeared on CTAN: http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/bigfoot -- it very much improves the performance of the manyfoot package that underlies ednotes. Something (perhaps?) must be added to ednotes in order to use bigfoot. * Recently I discovered that Peter Wilson's memoir class http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memoir -- that many people use to have more flexibility than with the Standard LaTeX classes -- offers footnote facilities that are similar to those of manyfoot and bigfoot. It should be easy to offer an option to use ednotes with memoir without using manyfoot or bigfoot.