@UlrikeFischer I think it would be OK to just rename README to README.md that would match the current position where mirrors.ctan.org/support/pdfcrop/README is the long form.
@DavidCarlisle I see Petra complained as expected ;-). I will sort it out (and look if I can find something to let pdfcrop find ghostscript in the git bash too without disturbing curious cygwin installations ...).
@UlrikeFischer as long as it finds gs via the path I don't think the cygwin gs launched via a cygwin perl will pick up any native windows versions unless you do something really strange
@DavidCarlisle pdfcrop does a long search for ghostscript in many places and then use the first hit, so I was considering to simply extend the list for unix (which is the path used in the bash):
@UlrikeFischer yes I would guess it mostly uses relative paths anyway so picking up the gswin versions will be better than nothing. in cygwin absolute paths won't work as if cygwin perl passes a file like /users/zzz/foo.pdf then a native windows gs will need c:/cygwin64/users/zzz/foo.pdf as the "root" of the cygwin filesystem isn't at teh top of the windows filesystem
@DavidCarlisle I didn't change the cygwin entry only unix (and added gswin64c to win and miktex), but I could add gswin64c to cygwin too.
@DavidCarlisle ah no, that is not needed I just saw the following code: it will look for gswin64c automatically for win, cygwin and miktex. I need to check how to handle unix here.
@UlrikeFischer if ctan markdown supports tables (most, including github, do) you could mark it as a table, using | betwwwn the cells (and a blank line at the start) or just as an itemized list with - at start of each line
yes I was going to suggest simplifying the text a bit as well more like teh other ho-tex ones, I don't think there is any need to say The latest version of this license is in http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt and version 1.2 or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX version 1999/12/01 or later.
@UlrikeFischer I'd copy the format from pdftexcmds/README.md (just with different dates) so:
## Copyright (C)
* 2007, 2009-2011 Heiko Oberdiek
* 2016-2020 Oberdiek Package Support Group
## License
LATEX Project Public License, version 1.3c or later.
@DavidCarlisle I have now moved the whole content of the old readme to readme.md (hard work to get a markdown table to behave ...). I also adapted the licence and the authors everywhere (I hope) to 1.3c + HO+Oberdiek Group. if you could take a look then I can update again.
@UlrikeFischer checking the markdown at github.com/ho-tex/pdfcrop the "Windows" heading was still in the unix list so I just pushed a change unindenting it. Oh copyright, I'll fix here..
@UlrikeFischer pushed a couple of things but looks fine thanks
@DavidCarlisle I checked against the ctan tester and there it worked - markdown isn't easy ;-) (the main problem was that the ctan markdown doesn't like empty table cells). Thanks for looking I will upload now.
@DavidCarlisle and the only word I recognized in lesson14 (latin1) made me look at the english text. I think Unicode-encoded should be utf8 shouldn't it? And the paragraph sounds a bit odd, as it is unclear if with "modern pdflatex" one should still use latin1 or not.
@Skillmonlikestopanswers.xyz Yes, unfortunately. Or obsessed.
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@DavidCarlisle @PauloCereda
Would you still like to become a German language master?
Then I have a teacher for you here.
(But she is more something for the eye. I do not agree with her teaching on all points. Never be fooled with subordinate clauses ["Nebensatz"]. It is an artificial word that requires a lot of experience. In fact, there are clearer rules.)