The README is for CTAN, that document is for the TeX
distributions. Moreover, the recommendation that there
be a dot at the end is for the minimal CD standard. It
seems to me that TeX Live CDs did not adhered to that
standard (and now they are DVDs and presumably held to
a different standard.
>it should not. we're driven by the default action of a majority of
>apache-based servers, which will display the content of README on a
>visit to a directory that has no index.html
>
Many browsers will display that README file without wrapping
lines. My previous version of firefox was like that and it
couldn't find a way to force it to do wordwrap (except
asking it to display the source code).
So I beg writers of these README to limit the line lengths
to 72 characters, using actual linefeeds (pressing [ENTER])
rather than simply accepting what one might see on the
editor's word-wrapped screen.
I know some of you will say "get a better browser", but it
is a general truth that linelength-limited plain text will
work in more settings than the one-line-per-paragraph style
so common today. It used to be the standard for email, usenet,
and other electronic communications methods. It is still a
good idea on comp.text.tex to minimize the chance that lines
will be broken in transmission and change the meaning of
(La)TeX code.
Dan
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