Re: AGU and EGS layouts

Le 15/02/2018 à 21:14, Scott Kostyshak a écrit :
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 04:56:24PM +0000, Jean-Pierre Chrétien wrote:
>> Le 14/02/2018 à 00:12, Scott Kostyshak a écrit :
>>
>>>> I think the sections in Additional.lyx about obsolete document classes
>>>> should be removed. I propose the create a new LyX file in Git's attic folder
>>>> which will contain the deleted sections.
>>>> When you delete the sections, please do t for all language versions of
>>>> Additional.lyx in branch an master.
>>>
>>> Jean-Pierre, did you finish the work that you planned on 2.3.x regarding
>>> this?
>>
>> I'm almost done with the documentation part, I have edited all
>> Additional.lyx files and moved AGUTeX.lyx in templates/obsolete. I see that
>> I should have put an original version of Additional.lyx in the attic, I will
>> do it with appropriate LyX notes.
>>
>> I'm going to delete jgrga.layout and agums.layout, which were used by
>> pre-2008 agutex.cls and reused by aguplus.cls (which is still in TeXLive,
>> but obsolete in CTAN, so I think it will not be part anymore of
>> TeXLive2018).
>> aguplus (1999) was in turn obsoleted by post-2008 agutex.cls, which included
>> jgrga and agums (and others) as class options coded in the class file
>> instead of  external .sty files.
>>
>> Currently, here I can compile successfully AGUTeX.lyx which used
>> agutex.layout and post-2008 agutex.cls, that I have installed in my
>> texmf-local tree in 2013 when it was available.
>>
>> As it is now impossible to find the agutex.cls class (agujournal.cls is the
>> current AGU class), the template/obsolete/AGUTeX.lyx can only be compiled if
>> one has kept the class file in one's texmf-local tree, and this only for the
>> sake of recreation of the pdf of an old paper, any new paper needing
>> agujournal.
>>
>> So should I remove also template/obsolete/AGUTeX.lyx? What is the
>> compilation status of other obsoleted templates?
>>
>> As for EGS, I'm going to remove egs.layout as well, the class is obsolete
>> since 2001, and there is no template.
>>
>> I do not think that it is feasible to build a layout and template for the
>> new agujournal.cls and copernicus.cls classes for 2.3.0, it will involve
>> strings changes.
>>
>> The AGUTeX wiki page
>>
>> http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/AGUTeX
>>
>> is completely out of date for Linux, I will edit that also.
> 
> Thanks for this detailed update, Jean-Pierre.
> 
> I agree with your changes for AGUTeX since I was familiar with that
> particular situation and since we had not decided on the final release
> date. As for the other obsolete layout files and classes, now that we
> have decided the final release could be in a week or so, I would prefer
> to not make those changes at this point. These removals should ideally
> be done at the beginning of the release cycle.  Further, I'm worried
> that we could miss something (e.g. forgetting to change the Make files
> or making a typo in the Make files). I'm sorry if it seemed like I gave
> the green light to go through all the obsolete layout files. If both you
> and Uwe disagree with me and express your disagreement by Monday and you
> can complete all of the work by Monday, I could be convinced with these
> extra removals. Otherwise, I would suggest going forward with the work
> on master.

You are right, there is no hurry to remove unusable layouts. Maybe the best 
would be to remove these when a layout for agujournal and one for copernicus 
(for EGU) are available. It seems to me that agutex.layout can be reused for 
agujournal, I will give a try later.

As these are new layouts (and hopefully, templates), this can be done with the 
2.3 maintenance releases, it is not necessary to wait for master release.

José, I see that you developed with Martin a layout file and a set of .inc files 
for use with DocBook. I guess this is obsolete as well?

-- 
Jean-Pierre