[tex-live] texnames.sty

[Nelson H. F. Beebe]

I concur with Martin Schröder: the latest version of texnames.sty is
1.10, dated 02 March 1998 08:36:13 MST, present in the CTAN path
tex-archive/info/biblio/texnames.sty.

Even though the 7 other versions in the CTAN tree at

	tex-archive/help/uk-tex-faq/texnames.sty
	tex-archive/macros/eplain/texnames.sty
	tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/misc/texnames.sty
	tex-archive/usergrps/uktug/baskervi/4_6/texnames.sty
	tex-archive/usergrps/uktug/baskervi/6_2/texnames.sty
	tex-archive/usergrps/uktug/baskervi/6_3/texnames.sty
	tex-archive/usergrps/uktug/baskervi/6_4/texnames.sty

proclaim themselves to be version 1.09, MD5 checksums show that there
are 5 different flavors.

Only two of them correspond to my original distributions:

	% find . -type f | xargs --max-args=1 checksum -v
	The checksum verification of the input file ./help/uk-tex-faq/texnames.sty did not succeed.
	The checksum verification of the input file ./info/biblio/texnames.sty was successful.
	The checksum verification of the input file ./macros/eplain/texnames.sty was successful.
	The input file did not have the correct format.
	The checksum verification of the input file ./usergrps/uktug/baskervi/4_6/texnames.sty did not succeed.
	The checksum verification of the input file ./usergrps/uktug/baskervi/6_2/texnames.sty did not succeed.
	The checksum verification of the input file ./usergrps/uktug/baskervi/6_3/texnames.sty did not succeed.
	The checksum verification of the input file ./usergrps/uktug/baskervi/6_4/texnames.sty did not succeed.

The Baskerville ones differ by internal hacks (a distinct no-no
without changing the filename or version number), and by missing final
newlines.

I'd prefer that the deviant versions were either removed from CTAN, or
renamed (along with the references to them).  The whole point of the
timestamps and checksums in the standard file comment headers is to
allow the correct versions to be recognized.

The only significant difference between the official 1.09 and 1.10
versions is the addition of a definition of \LaTeXe.  Thus, files that
use the 1.09 version should be able to transparently use the 1.10
version without no output differences.

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