[LyX/master] AA not longer exists in CTAN; deleting section on AA.

[John Robert Hudson]

On Wednesday, 30 November 2022 18:16:02 GMT Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, dem 30.11.2022 um 17:31 +0000 schrieb John Robert Hudson:
> > My rationale was based on a CTAN decision only to include material
> > which was compliant with the TeX/LaTeX licences - as a result of
> > which a number of packages disappeared from CTAN. Consequently
> > TeXLive and MikTeX no longer include such packages in their
> > distributions.
> 
> But this does not include A&A, since this class _never_ was on CTAN as
> far as I can tell.
> 
> > Obviously this does not prevent people following the guidance in the
> > Customization guide about adding other classes.
> > 
> > Equally obviously there is no need for LyX to follow CTAN except that
> > most people downloading LyX will not know that these packages exist
> > because they do not find them in their distribution.
> 
> Yes, but you could also argue that documentation for these cases is
> even more important, as it guides people in how to install it.
> 
> Furthermore, you remove documentation, but not support. We still ship
> the aa.layout
> 
> > I previously became aware of this when surveying BibTeX files after
> > CTAN’s decision and a number of BibTeX files not only disappeared
> > from CTAN but have disappeared completely.
> > 
> > I have no principled objection to including material not available in
> > CTAN - I happen to use a BibTeX file which was temporarily excluded
> > from CTAN because of licensing issues which have now been resolved. I
> > did not feel it was wrong to continue using the file when it was
> > excluded from CTAN.
> 
> As I said, I don't think CTAN presence should be a criterion. After
> all, if people want, or must, publish, in the A&A journal, they should
> be able to do that notwithstanding CTAN's policy (or the willingness or
> motivation of class authors to publish on CTAN).
> 
> > As I mentioned previously, in all the other cases except A&A which I
> > have reviewed so far the files have disappeared from CTAN and from
> > the Internet more widely.
> 
> Removing documentation in these cases makes sense, I agree.
> 
> > I am very happy to follow whatever guidance the developers give me.
> > (I expect that in thinking about how best to develop Additional.lyx I
> > may raise other similar questions which the developers may need to
> > consider.)
> 
> These were just my personal thoughts, no guidance.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jürgen
> 
> > John
> 
> --
> Jürgen
I have downloaded the current version of aa.cls which is 9.1 and edited the 
section for A&A in my working copy to reflect the changes since 5.1 (the last 
version referenced in Appendix.lyx). I can insert that into the 2.4 
Appendix.lyx.

John