Re: [AUCTeX] Contributing style files

[Tassilo Horn]

Mandar Mitra <address@hidden> writes:

Hi Mandar,

> I had earlier emailed a very basic tabu.el as a starting point for
> tabu.sty to auctex-devel.  I've attached it with this email as well.
> I'm not sure of the proper way to go about getting this reviewed and
> included in the styles directory if it's found to be reasonable.
> Could you please advise?

If you want to contribute, one thing you need to do before we can accept
your patches is assign the copyright to the Free Software Foundation.
To do so, fill out the following form and send it to the stated mail
address.

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As package you are contributing to, state either GNU AUCTeX or GNU
Emacs.  Since AUCTeX is in GNU ELPA, it can be considered part of Emacs
and thus the copyright assignment for Emacs covers AUCTeX, too, but the
other way round is not true.

> ;;; tabu.el --- AUCTeX style for the tabu package.
>
> ;; Author: Mandar Mitra

I'd suggest to add an email address so that you can be contacted.

Other than that, the code looks good.  However, I did not test it as I
don't know tabu.

Bye,
Tassilo