[tex-live] installation of revtex4-1 is faulty

[Enrico Gregorio]

> On 18 Jan 2019, at 16:25, Collins, John C <jcc8 at psu.edu> wrote:
> 
> On 1/18/19 10:20 AM, Enrico Gregorio wrote:
>>> On 18 Jan 2019, at 16:17, Ulrike Fischer <news3 at nililand.de> wrote:
>>> 
>>> .. all files are installed in the doc folder.
>> 
>> 
>> The files in
>> 
>> texmf-dist/doc/latex/revtex4-1/tex/latex/revtex/
>> 
>> should be in
>> 
>> texmf-dist/tex/latex/revtex4-1/revtex/
> 
> Shouldn't that be
> 
>   texmf-dist/tex/latex/revtex4-1/
> 
> and correspondingly for the other files?

Yes, sorry: forgot to `revtex`. :-)

> By the way, on the APS website for ReVTex at 
> https://journals.aps.org/revtex there is an updated version of the 
> revtex package, which has the v 4.1 files (and bug corrections to some 
> .bst files). This version is not (yet) on CTAN. The updated version has 
> the old v. 4.1 files alongside the v. 4.2 in the same directories, i.e., 
> they are in texmf-dist/tex/latex/revtex etc.  I'm not sure that's ideal.

I believe the maintainers of revtex are doing a big mess.

Ciao
Enrico