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DocTeX without the ins file

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From: peter@silmaril.ie (Peter Flynn)
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Subject: DocTeX without the ins file
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by: Peter Flynn - Tue, 22 Nov 2022 21:41 UTC

I think I recall recently seeing a package that installed from a .dtx
file WITHOUT the use of a .ins file.

Is this true, or is my memory playing tricks?

If true, is this the result of an update to DOCTeX?

Peter

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From: scott+ctt@pakin.org (Scott Pakin)
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Subject: Re: DocTeX without the ins file
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by: Scott Pakin - Wed, 23 Nov 2022 19:26 UTC

On 11/22/22 14:41, Peter Flynn wrote:
> I think I recall recently seeing a package that installed from a .dtx
> file WITHOUT the use of a .ins file.
>
> Is this true, or is my memory playing tricks?
>
> If true, is this the result of an update to DOCTeX?

You remember correctly. See dtxtut (https://www.ctan.org/pkg/dtxtut),
Section 5.2, "Single-file package distributions".

-- Scott

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From: peter@silmaril.ie (Peter Flynn)
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by: Peter Flynn - Wed, 23 Nov 2022 21:12 UTC

On 23/11/2022 19:26, Scott Pakin wrote:
> On 11/22/22 14:41, Peter Flynn wrote:
>> I think I recall recently seeing a package that installed from a .dtx
>> file WITHOUT the use of a .ins file.
>>
>> Is this true, or is my memory playing tricks?
>>
>> If true, is this the result of an update to DOCTeX?
>
> You remember correctly. See dtxtut (https://www.ctan.org/pkg/dtxtut),
> Section 5.2, "Single-file package distributions".

Excellent, thank you.

Subject	Author
DocTeX without the ins file	Peter Flynn
Re: DocTeX without the ins file	Scott Pakin
Re: DocTeX without the ins file	Peter Flynn