[tex-live] Include avm.sty (lingtrees)

[Victor Ivrii]

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at> wrote:
> On Di, 30 Sep 2008, Hendrik Maryns wrote:
>> I ask here to include the package avm.sty, which is in the lingtrees
>> bundle to be included in TeXlive.
>
> Lingtrees could be included, there is only one problem, avm.sty we
> cannot since it lacks any license statement.
>
> >From avm.sty in CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/LingTrees/CDM:
> % avm.sty  --  for attribute-value matrices -- v 1.00 mar 29, 1992
> % v 1.01 dec 6, 1993; v 1.02 jan 5, 2006
> % (c) 1992 christopher manning (manning at csli.stanford.edu) -- see avm-doc.tex
>
> but there is no avm-doc.tex around on CTAN.

Googling around:

http://users.cs.dal.ca/~vlado/tex/avm/

(not sure if it is enough)


>
> So we cannot distribute it without anyone hunting down the author, askin
> him to upload a new version with license statement, etc.
>
>> work using it), so my real question would be: could you enhance the
>> tlmgr to be able to install any package found on CTAN?
>
> No.
>
> If you want to contribute to write a general
>        CTAN->TDS
> converter (we have one, but it is handwork for every package added one
> by one) please tell us and we will show you what we have ATM.
>
>
> Best wishes
>
> Norbert
>
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