ctan-ann October 2001

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CTAN submission -- MathTimePro support package
by Reinhard Zierke 31 Oct '01

31 Oct '01

----- Forwarded message from Walter Schmidt ----- I have uploaded the file mathtimepro.zip to the /incoming directory at dante.ctan.org. Please, create a new directory macros/latex/contrib/supported/psnfssx/mathtimepro and unzip my archive there. This is the macro package for using Y&Y's new math font set `MathTimeProfessional' with LaTeX. Development of the package was was commissioned by Y&Y, Inc. thank you very much Walter Schmidt ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the upload. I installed the package in CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/psnfssx/mathtimepro/ as suggested. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN submission -- MonTeX Implementation Level IV, 04.083
by Reinhard Zierke 30 Oct '01

30 Oct '01

A submission was uploaded to nova.dante.de:/ftp/incoming/upload-20011030.001/. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: MonTeX Implementation Level IV, 04.083 Name and email: Dr. Oliver Corff Suggested location on CTAN: language/mongolian/montexiv Summary description: Improved Version of MonTeX IV License type: Other Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Many bugs of Sunday, October 28, release eliminated. Major new functions include vertical text boxes (page within page, so to say) for Mongolian and Manju. Documentation begins to take shape. If you have MonTeX IV.04.08 already it is sufficient to exchange texinput/mls.sty and doc/montex.tex against the latest versions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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belleek fonts on ctan
by Robin Fairbairns 30 Oct '01

30 Oct '01

I have installed Richard Kinch's belleek font set on CTAN at fonts/belleek (retrieve belleek.zip). from the README: These are the Belleek fonts described in my paper at TUG 98, the 1998 annual meeting of the TeX Users Group. They are drop-in replacements for the proprietary fonts required by the LaTeX mathtime style, where the dropping in process is simply to change the .fd files calling for specific fonts to reflect the font names starting with bl. Notwithstanding any copyright notices in the files, these fonts have been contributed to the public domain in their Type 1 (.pfb) and TrueType (.ttf) forms: blex blsy rblmi these fonts have been available via http://truetex.com for a long time; they have recently been the subject of some discussion in comp.text.tex and elsewhere, and i (and Richard) felt it appropriate to make them more readily accessible to the world. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN submission --- verse package
by Robin Fairbairns 30 Oct '01

30 Oct '01

Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded verse.tar to the UK incoming directory. Please use this > to replace the current macros/latex/contrib/supported/verse subdirectory. > > The distribution is under the LPPL. > > From the README: > > verse provides some aids for typesetting simple verse (poems). > > Changes in v1.2 > o Vertical spacing matches the original verse environment i've installed the update as requested. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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four new CTAN packages, for the tipa fonts
by Jim Hefferon 25 Oct '01

25 Oct '01

Four new packages have been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make their way to mirrors in the next few days. The four separate descriptions are below. Thanks for the contribution, Jim Hefferon ftpmaint(a)tug.ctan.org == Package: cipa ======================================================= The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Concrete TIPA Name: Berthold Crysmann Location on CTAN: fonts/tipa/contrib/cipa Summary description: Concrete parameters for TIPA License type: gpl Announcement text: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package provides mf parameter files to generate a Concrete version of the tipa IPA fonts, together with LaTeX .fd for the new font family, and type1 outlines generated from the .mf source via TeXtrace. The parameters are taken from Knuth's original Concrete fonts and combined with a few values specific to the TIPA fonts. You need the tipa sources (CTAN:fonts/tipa) to generate .pk files. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- == Package: pipa ======================================================= Name of contribution: Palatino TIPA Name: Berthold Crysmann Location on CTAN: fonts/tipa/contrib/pipa/ Summary description: Palatino-compatible parameters for TIPA License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package provides mf parameter files to generate a version of the tipa IPA fonts that should combine a bit better with Palatino-type fonts. Included are tfm's and a LaTeX .fd for the new font family, and type1 outlines generated from the .mf source via TeXtrace. You need the tipa sources (CTAN:fonts/tipa) to generate .pk files. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- == Package: bipa ======================================================= Name of contribution: CM Bright TIPA Name: Berthold Crysmann Location on CTAN: fonts/tipa/contrib/biba Summary description: CM Bright parameters for TIPA License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package provides mf parameter files to generate a CM Bright version of the tipa IPA fonts, together with tfm's and a LaTeX .fd for the new font family, and type1 outlines generated from the .mf source via TeXtrace. The parameters are taken from Walter Schmidt's original CM Bright fonts and combined with a few values specific to the TIPA fonts. You need the tipa sources (CTAN:fonts/tipa) to generate .pk files. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- == Package: tipa ======================================================= Name of contribution: TIPA type1 fonts Name: Berthold Crysmann Location on CTAN: fonts/tipa/contrib/tipa Summary description: Type1 version of TIPA fonts License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package provides unhinted type1 outlines of the CM-compatible tipa IPA. The type1 fonts were converted using TeXtrace 0.46. ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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CTAN submission -- preview-latex version 0.5.8
by Reinhard Zierke 24 Oct '01

24 Oct '01

----- Forwarded message from David Kastrup ----- I have uploaded a new release of the preview-latex package, as a file preview-latex-0.5.8.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de. It should be installed as previously, as one archive file in CTAN:support/preview-latex, and the README file should be unpacked into that directory. License is GPL. Release focus are user interface additions and skeletons for XEmacs support (not yet working, volunteers welcome). Here is an excerpt from the README: Purpose of the package is to embed LaTeX environments such as display math or figures into the source buffers. By mouse-clicking, you can open the original text. After editing, another click will just run the region in question through LaTeX and redisplay the new results. Thr project is just starting. Current state of affairs: you need to get access to a version of Emacs 21. The public release 21.1 should be ok for starters. Pretest versions before that have problems. You also need AucTeX installed and working, and probably a fairly recent version of GhostScript. At the current point of time, XEmacs is not supported. Work is underway to change that in future versions, contributions would be welcome. Offers to support further development will be appreciated. ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the upload. I installed the new version in the directory CTAN:/tex-archive/support/preview-latex as suggested and removed the old version. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN submission -- BibTool 2.45
by Reinhard Zierke 24 Oct '01

24 Oct '01

----- Forwarded message from Gerd Neugebauer ----- Hi, I have uploaded Bibtool-2.45.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de. It replaces tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool/BibTool-2.44.tar.gz and is distributed unnder the GPL. The following text is an excerpt from the Changes and the ReadMe files: - Version 2.45 Resource suppress.initial.newline introduced to suppress the empty line at the beginning of the output file Bugfix: Some C comilers don't like the initialization of static variables with stderr. The code has been moved to a initialization routine. Bugfix: -R disables the reading of the resource at the end of processing of commandline arguments. Bugfix: Parsing of select arguments with backslashes were not treated correctly. Minor documentation bugs fixed. ====================================================================== ###### ############ ####### ############ ## ## ## ## ## ## ##### ## #### #### ## ####### ## ###### ## ###### ###### ## ####### ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ###### ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ####### ## ###### ## ###### ###### ####### ###### ## ##### ## #### #### ####### ====================================================================== BibTool: A Tool for Manipulating BibTeX Data Bases BibTeX provides an easy to use means to integrate citations and bibliographies into LaTeX documents. But the user is left alone with the management of the BibTeX files. The program BibTool is intended to fill this gap. BibTool allows the manipulation of BibTeX files which goes beyond the possibilities --- and intentions --- of BibTeX. The possibilities of BibTool include * Pretty-printing BibTeX data bases adjustable by lots of parameters. * Syntactic checks with error recovery superior to BibTeX and helpful error messages. * Semantic checks can be specified by the user. * Sorting and merging of BibTeX data bases according to a free definable sort key. * Generation of uniform reference keys according to predefined rules or according to an own specification. * Selecting references used in one publication which are found by analyzing an .aux file. * Selecting references by a set of criteria (regular expressions). * Controlled rewriting of fields utilizing regular expressions to specify the rewriting rules. * Macro (String) expansion to eliminate the need of extra string definitions. * Collecting statistics about one or more BibTeX data bases. BibTool contains a documentation written in LaTeX of more than 60 pages (and still growing). BibTool is written in C and has been compiled on various operating systems like flavors of UN*X and MSDOG machines. It is distributed in source code. No compiled versions are available from the author (Useless to ask!). BibTool can be obtained from the CTAN archives: * ftp.dante.de:/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool * ftp.tex.ac.uk:/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool * ctan.tug.org:/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool Get the file BibTool-x.xx.tar.gz where x.xx is the version number. Unpack it with the command (on UN*X) gunzip < BibTool-x.xx.tar.gz | tar -xvf - Alternatively get the file BibTool-x.xx.zip where x.xx is the version number. Unpack it with the command unzip BibTool-x.xx.zip It will create a directory named BibTool-x.xx which contains the installation instructions in the file INSTALL. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the upload. I installed it in CTAN:/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool/BibTool-2.45.tar.gz and removed the old version BibTool-2.44.tar.gz Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN Upload - BaKoMa teX 4.01, EC/TC, LH fonts
by Rainer Schoepf 23 Oct '01

23 Oct '01

On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Basil K. Malyshev wrote: > I have uploaded to `ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma' directory > update for BaKoMa TeX and font packages comming with BaKoMa TeX. > > Please put the files to 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' directory. > > Update includes: > 1. Patch 4.01 which fixes several bugs in BaKoMa TeX kernel. > 2. EC/TC and LH fonts in ATM Compatible Type 1 font format. > Now, the fonts are free for registered users of BaKoMa TeX 4 and later. > 3. Updated virtual fonts CZ for CMCYR fonts. > 4. PSCyr font package. > > Bye. > Basil K. Malyshev > 23-Oct-2001 Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested. > PS: Previous update (22-Oct-2001) of font packages was failed: > a) packages was removed from incoming directory > b) announce was sent to CTAN-ANN list > c) However, they was not updated in CTAN directory. Sorry for that, I hadn't realized my mistake. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: Upload: ttf2tex 0.3.1
by Rainer Schoepf 22 Oct '01

22 Oct '01

On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Philipp Lehman wrote: > node: ftp.dante.de > directory: /incoming/ttf2tex > destination: /tex-archive/support/ttf2tex > license: gpl > > I've put a new release of ttf2tex into /incoming/ttf2tex on > ftp.dante.de. Please remove the contents of support/ttf2tex and > replace them with the uploaded files. Thank you very much. > > From the README: > > ttf2tex is a Bash script which will create all files neccessary > to use TrueType fonts with teTeX from a set of *.ttf files. It > will sort them, build the map files required by ttf2pk and > pdftex, and optionally install them. It supports small caps and > slanted shapes. ttf2tex is for UNIX/Linux systems with teTeX > and certain FreeType support binaries. > > Changes: > > 2001-10-15 v0.3.1 > * mark files and map entries created by ttf2tex > * bug fixes > * updated manual > > 2001-10-08 v0.3 > * support for TS1 encoding > * support for user-defined small caps > * support for user-defined slanted shapes > * revised command line switches > * updated manual > > 2001-03-09 v0.2 > * support for various weights > * one pdftex map file for each font family > * improved feedback > * updated manual > > 2000-10-25 v0.1 > * initial release Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: upload
by Rainer Schoepf 22 Oct '01

22 Oct '01

On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Nikola Jaksic wrote: > I uploaded a new program - eps2pdf - into incoming/eps2pdf directory. > > This application is similar to epstopdf, but (?much?) better and friendlier! > > > ********************************* > Read me file of the eps2pdf > > Name: eps2pdf > Author: Nikola Jaksic (in LaTeX code: Nikola Jakv{s}i{c}) > E-mail: nikola.jaksic(a)fs.uni-lj.si > Purpose: It converts EPS file(s) to PDF file(s) > Version: 3.0.2.10 > OS: Win32 > Home page: http://www.fs.uni-lj.si/ladisk/ > CTAN: /tex-archive/support/eps2pdf > License: Free - Public Domain > Manual: eps2pdf.pdf > Needs: GhostScript > > > > The eps2pdf: > > * is GUI application that calls GhostScript! > * makes everything 'clickable'! > * enables you to search for eps files and add them into the list! > * enables you to select directory and add all eps files into the list! > * enables you to edit the list of eps files prior conversion! > * enables you to convert all files in the list! > * alerts you if conversion failed! > * doesn't need GhostScript exe file in the PATH variable! > * can search for GhostScript exe file! > * can handle long filenames with spaces! > * enables you to edit and store configuration, see the manual! > * code is available, if requested! Thanks for the upload, I installed the files as requested, in support/eps2pdf For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Recent CTAN-ANN@LISTSERV messages
by Rainer Schoepf 22 Oct '01

22 Oct '01

Please ignore ALL messages about CTAN-ANN@listserv... I don't know why these messages appear (and I don't care). The list is now a majordomo mailing list hosted at dante.de. Do not send any messages to me nor to the listserv. Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN Upload -- BaKoMa TeX EC/TC, LH Type 1 fonts
by Rainer Schoepf 22 Oct '01

22 Oct '01

On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Basil K. Malyshev wrote: > I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma/images directory > update for font packages comming with BaKoMa TeX. > > Please put the files to 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' directory. > > General reason is in changing license for EC/TC and LH font > in ATM Compatible Type 1 font format comming with BaKoMa TeX. > > According to new license EC/TC and LH fonts are free for registered > users of BaKoMa TeX 4 and later. Thanks for the updates, I installed it as requested. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: Submission: dtk.cls
by Rainer Schoepf 22 Oct '01

22 Oct '01

On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, Gerd Neugebauer wrote: > I have uploaded dtk-1.6.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de/incoming. > This file replaces tex-archive/usergrps/dante/dtk/dtk_1_3.zip and the > files in the subdirectory unpacked. > The files are distributed under the GPL. > The following text is a part of the ReadMe file: > > > > dtk: A Document Class and Style for > ``Die TeXnische Komoedie'' > > written by > Gerd Neugebauer > gene(a)gerd-neugebauer.de > > > dtk is a document class and style file which has been written to be > used for the communications of the German speaking TeX users group > Dante e.V.: ``Die TeXnische Komoedie''. Thanks for the update. As you requested, I installed the files under usergrps/dante/dtk For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: frenchle V5,03 update
by Robin Fairbairns 18 Oct '01

18 Oct '01

i'm announcing this even though my mail to bernard gaulle bounces, so i can't confirm he wanted announcement... Bernard GAULLE (CNRS/IDRIS - France) writes: > I've upload to ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming the file > french.tar.gz which is the last update for the LPPL > part of language/french. > This update gives a better support for hypertext > documents using hyperref and/or pdfscreen with pdflatex. i've installed the files as requested. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN upload underscore.sty
by Robin Fairbairns 18 Oct '01

18 Oct '01

Donald Arseneau writes: > I've just uploaded a revised underscore.sty to CTAN-UK, for > macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/underscore.sty > > Changes from previous: > A [nohyphen] option to suppress hyphens at line-breaks after _ > Compatibility with Babel's active characters i've installed the file as requested. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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New CTAN package: Hitec document class
by Jim Hefferon 17 Oct '01

17 Oct '01

A new LaTeX document class has been installed on tug.ctan.org. It should make its way through the mirroring process in the next day or two. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ftpmaint(a)tug.ctan.org ======================================================================= The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Hitec document class Name: Eli Billauer Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/hitec Summary description: Document class for hi-tec technical papers License type: lppl Announcement text: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A new document class, very different from common LaTeX classes, is now available. By switching class from article to hitec, your paper takes the form of a common technical document in the hi-tec industry. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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New package on CTAN: psgo
by Jim Hefferon 15 Oct '01

15 Oct '01

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should make its way through the mirroring process in the next day or two. Thanks for the package, Jim Hefferon ftpmaint(a)tug.ctan.org ========================================================= The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: psgo Name: Victor Bos Location on CTAN: graphics/pstricks/contrib/psgo Summary description: Psgo is a package to draw Go diagrams with LaTeX. License type: lppl Announcement text: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Psgo is a LaTeX package to draw Go diagrams. It is built on top of PSTricks, does not need additional fonts, and is easy to install. More information can be found on the psgo homepage: http://members.chello.nl/~v.bos01/psgo-frame.html - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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CTAN Submission -- euro.sty
by Reinhard Zierke 15 Oct '01

15 Oct '01

----- Forwarded message from Melchior FRANZ ----- I've just uploaded version 1.0 of `euro.sty' as archive === euro.tar.gz === to === ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/ === Please replace the contents of === /macros/latex/contrib/supported/euro/ === by the new files. The package is again licenced under the terms of the === LPPL === Changelog: - added the Greek drachma, that is joining the Euro zone since 2001/01/01. (How could these Greeks live so long without the euro.sty package supporting their currency. Could it be, that nobody is actually using euro.sty? OK, don't answer! ;-) - added a Makefile for Unix/Linux systems - version number jumped from 0.1 to 1.0, because the package can now really be considered stable. (Not a single bug report. Hmm ...!?) ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the upload. I installed it as suggested replacing the old version in CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/euro Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN submission -- repeatindex
by Reinhard Zierke 15 Oct '01

15 Oct '01

----- Forwarded message from Harald Harders ----- I have uploaded repeatindex.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de. It contains the package repeatindex.sty as well an an xml file for the catalogue. I suggest to put the file's contents to CTAN:/macros/latex/contrib/supported/repeatindex. License is lppl. >From the README: This Package repeats item of an index if a page or column break occurs within a list of subitems. This helps to find out to which main item a subitem belongs. Example: Main Item A, 1, 3, 6 Main Item A... Subitem a, 1 Subitem g, 1 Subitem b, 1 Subitem h, 1 Subitem c, 2 Subitem i, 1 Subitem d, 3 Subitem j, 1 Subitem d, 1 Main Item B, 3, 6 Subitem e, 4 Subitem a, 3 Subitem f, 2 Subitem b, 4 Problems: - When an item is repeated a small vertical space is included two items later - If the last item is a subitem and the only entry on the last page of the index the repeation is omitted This package has not been tested much, yet. Please help me to find more problems and if possible solutions to my problems. I have had much trouble in solving the problem that the code defined in afterpage is executed with a delay. ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the upload. I installed the new package as suggested in CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/repeatindex/ Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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New CTAN installation: Technics Package
by Jim Hefferon 12 Oct '01

12 Oct '01

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org. It should make its way through the mirroring system in the next few days. Thanks for the upload, Jim ftpmaint(a)tug.ctan.org ===================================================================== The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Technics Package Name: Joachim Nilsson Location on CTAN: /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/technics Summary description: Simplifies the making of technical documents, specifications, etc. Uses fancyhdr package to construct advanced headers. License type: lppl Announcement text: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- New package for writing technical documents. Makes use of the fancyhdr package to build advanced headers. Headers contains document name, prepared by, approved by, etc. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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CTAN Submission -- CM-Super font package v0.3.0
by Reinhard Zierke 12 Oct '01

12 Oct '01

----- Forwarded message from Vladimir Volovich ----- Dear CTAN maintainers, i'm uploading the CM-Super package to ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/cm-super-0.3.0.tar.gz It contains Type 1 fonts which cover entirely EC, TC and LH fonts (see the README below for more information). License conditions: GPL. Please install it where you think it is more appropriate: CTAN:fonts/psfonts/cm-super/ or CTAN:fonts/ps-type1/cm-super/ You have recently installed the similar package Tt2001 under CTAN:fonts/ps-type1/ec/. Compared to the Tt2001 package, this package * covers much bigger set of fonts (all cyrillic encodings are added, and eventually also other encodings like greek and vietnamese) * has the fonts optimized and hinted * has more exact (non-INT) glyph widths and more correct parameters like ItalicAngle, Weight, isFixedPitch, etc. * has more correct (AGL-compliant) glyph names (esp. for non-EC fonts), which makes the fonts usable in non-TeX applications, too * is more compact (contains all glyphs from one font shape combined in one PFB file -- superfont). if one will use the approach with separate files for all supported encodings, the package will be 6 times bigger in size (and in number of font files). while supporting much bigger number of glyphs than Tt2001 package, the CM-Super package is even smaller! (partially because of font optimization) * contains some additional glyph variants like german sharp s which looks like in CM fonts * includes AFM files (useful for non-TeX applications) [but Tt2001 package contains some additional non-EC and non-TC fonts which are not and will not be covered by CM-Super package] See the ChangeLog for list of changes from previous versions. The README file follows. Best, v. ========================================================================= CM-Super font package version 0.3.0 (October 11, 2001) Copyright (c) 2001 Vladimir Volovich <vvv(a)vsu.ru>. This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. As a special exception, permission is granted to include these font programs in a Postscript or PDF file that consists of a document that contains text to be displayed or printed using this font, regardless of the conditions or license applying to the document itself. This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA The CM-Super package contains Type 1 fonts converted from METAFONT fonts and covers entire EC/TC and LH fonts (Computer Modern font families). All European and Cyrillic writings are covered. Each Type 1 font program contains ALL glyphs from the following standard LaTeX font encodings: T1, TS1, T2A, T2B, T2C, X2, and also Adobe StandardEncoding (585 glyphs per non-SC font and 468 glyphs per SC font), and could be reencoded to any of these encodings using standard dvips or pdftex facilities (the corresponding support files are also included). The goal was to provide full support for a wide number of fonts used in LaTeX, and at the same time minimize the number and total size of font files. Each Type 1 font shares all common glyphs which are present in supported encodings. E.g. Latin letters, Russian letters, accents and a number of other glyphs which are present in more than one font encoding are stored only once in Type 1 fonts. These Type 1 fonts could be used as a drop-in replacement for LaTeX's EC, TC, and LH fonts to create Postscript and PDF documents with vector fonts (if you used METAFONT versions of EC, TC or LH fonts, no changes to your LaTeX documents are required to use these Type 1 fonts once you have them installed). You will still need the METAFONT sources of these fonts to be able to generate needed TFM metric files (once you have them generated, METAFONT will not be used). You could also prepare EPS or PDF illustrations in your favorite applications with texts written using these fonts, and then include them in your LaTeX documents. These fonts could be used not only in TeX-related applications, but also as all other Type 1 text fonts, e.g. in Windows (and you will be able to typeset multilingual texts using them). Font file names correspond to the scheme used in EC fonts, with the first two letters sf (super font) instead of ec. E.g., sfrm1000.pfb contains all glyphs from: ecrm1000, tcrm1000, larm1000, lbrm1000, lcrm1000, rxrm1000. The third and fourth letters in the font name correspond to font shape. The list of provided font shapes is included below: rm: Computer Modern Roman sl: Computer Modern Slanted ti: Computer Modern Italic cc: Computer Modern Caps and Small Caps ui: Computer Modern Unslanted Italic sc: Computer Modern Slanted Caps and Small Caps ci: Computer Modern Classical Serif Italic bx: Computer Modern Bold Extended bl: Computer Modern Bold Extended Slanted bi: Computer Modern Bold Extended Italic xc: Computer Modern Bold Extended Caps and Small Caps oc: Computer Modern Bold Extended Slanted Caps and Small Caps rb: Computer Modern Roman Bold bm: Computer Modern Roman Bold Variant ss: Computer Modern Sans Serif si: Computer Modern Sans Serif Slanted sx: Computer Modern Sans Serif Bold Extended so: Computer Modern Sans Serif Bold Extended Slanted tt: Computer Modern Typewriter st: Computer Modern Typewriter Slanted it: Computer Modern Typewriter Italic tc: Computer Modern Typewriter Caps and Small Caps vt: Computer Modern Variable Width Typewriter vi: Computer Modern Variable Width Typewriter Italic dh: Computer Modern Dunhill Roman fb: Computer Modern Fibonacci Medium fs: Computer Modern Fibonacci Slanted ff: Computer Modern Funny Roman fi: Computer Modern Funny Italic Each font shape comes in 14 font sizes ranging from 5pt to 35.83pt (or 11 font sizes for typewriter fonts ranging from 8pt to 35.83pt). Also, the following 13 one-sized font shapes are included: sflq8: Computer Modern SliTeX Sans Serif Quotation sfli8: Computer Modern SliTeX Sans Serif Quotation Inclined sflb8: Computer Modern SliTeX Sans Serif Quotation Bold sflo8: Computer Modern SliTeX Sans Serif Quotation Bold Oblique sfltt8: Computer Modern LaTeX Typewriter isflq8: Computer Modern SliTeX Sans Serif Quotation Invisible isfli8: Computer Modern SliTeX Sans Serif Quotation Inclined Invisible isflb8: Computer Modern SliTeX Sans Serif Quotation Bold Invisible isflo8: Computer Modern SliTeX Sans Serif Quotation Bold Oblique Invisible isfltt8: Computer Modern LaTeX Typewriter Invisible sfsq8: Computer Modern Sans Serif Quotation sfqi8: Computer Modern Sans Serif Quotation Inclined sfssdc10: Computer Modern Sans Serif Demi Condensed Fonts were created using TeXtrace (based on AutoTrace and Ghostscript), t1utils and a bunch of Perl scripts, and were optimized and hinted using FontLab 3.1. The set of UniqueID values was registered at Adobe. We use AGL compliant glyph names when possible (there are some glyphs which are neither present in AGL nor in Unicode). I'd like to thank Peter Szabo for TeXtrace, Martin Weber for AutoTrace, and FontLab Ltd. for providing a copy of FontLab. It should be noted that while creating these fonts we intentionally and on principle used only automatic methods which do not require font designers talents. The aim was to use TOTALLY automatic conversion of METAFONT fonts to Type 1 format, automatic optimization and hinting, with the best achievable quality of final Type 1 fonts, to be able to re-generate the fonts if necessary (e.g. when a new version of original METAFONT fonts will be released). Undoubtedly, there are fields for improvement of this approach, which we will use in future versions of the fonts, but even now the fonts seem to look and print quite good (we hope :-). It appears that careless approach to FontLab's optimization and auto-hinting facilities could lead to loss of quality of the original font (some glyph shapes could be broken), so we used the most precise optimization, and hope that optimized and hinted fonts are indeed better than original traced fonts (also, they are significantly smaller in size). So far, we did not find any bugs in optimized fonts. Note that a small number of (fortunately, rarely used) fonts are not included yet because of the bugs in EC font drivers which prevented their generation. We plan to provide these missing fonts soon. (Currently there are 376 Type 1 font files here, of total 401.) The CM-Super package could be freely downloaded from CTAN:fonts/ps-type1/cm-super and also from ftp://ftp.vsu.ru/pub/tex/font-packs/cm-super/ (see also ftp://ftp.vsu.ru/pub/tex/README for a list of mirrors) The total size of all PFB files is about 53.3 Mb (AFM files are provided, too, for use with non-TeX applications). To install this package in teTeX or TeX Live systems, copy all Type 1 fonts (*.pfb files) to .../texmf/fonts/type1/public/cm-super/ directory and install the MAP (*.map) and ENC (*.enc) files to their usual place (e.g. under .../texms/dvips/cm-super/), and instruct dvips and pdftex to use these MAP files (e.g. using the updmap script). Do not forget to update the texmf filename database (run mktexlsr). If you wish to use the original CM germandbls (sharp s) shape, rather than the new EC one, change germandbls to germandbls.alt in t1.enc. Although this package is provided AS IS, WITHOUT WARRANTY (as explained in the file PUBLIC), we welcome your comments and bug reports which should be sent to the email address given above. Happy TeXing! ========================================================================= ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the huge submission. I installed it in CTAN:/tex-archive/fonts/ps-type1/cm-super parallel to the above mentioned .../ps-type1/em fonts. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN submission: tmmath.zip
by Rainer Schoepf 09 Oct '01

09 Oct '01

On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Walter Schmidt wrote: > I have uploaded the file tmmath.zip to the /incoming directory > at dante.ctan.org. Please, unpack it to the directory > > macros/latex/contrib/supported/psnfssx/tmmath > > thus replacing the present files. > > This is release 2.1 of the LaTeX packages tmmaths.sty and > tmmathm.sty for using MicroPress' TM-Math fonts. I have > fixed a potential clash with the amsmath package and an > omission in the documentation. Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN submission -- ttf2tex 0.3
by Reinhard Zierke 08 Oct '01

08 Oct '01

----- Forwarded message from Philipp Lehman ----- node: ftp.dante.de directory: /incoming/ttf2tex destination: /tex-archive/support/ttf2tex license: gpl I've uploaded a new release of ttf2tex to /incoming/ttf2tex on ftp.dante.de. Please remove the contents of support/ttf2tex and replace them with the uploaded files. Thank you. >From the README: ttf2tex is a Bash script which will create all files neccessary to use TrueType fonts with teTeX from a set of *.ttf files. It will sort them, build the map files required by ttf2pk and pdftex, and optionally install them. It supports small caps and slanted shapes. ttf2tex is for UNIX/Linux systems with teTeX and certain FreeType support binaries. See the file ttf2tex.pdf for requirements, usage instructions, and some general information. Changelog: 2001-10-08 0.3 -- support for TS1 encoding -- support for user-defined parameters when generating small caps -- support for user-defined parameters when generating slanted shapes -- revised command line switches 2001-03-09 0.2 -- support for various weights -- create one pdftex map file for each font family -- improved feedback 2000-10-25 0.1 -- initial release ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the upload. I replaced the old version in CTAN:/tex-archive/support/ttf2tex as suggested. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN Submission -- crop.sty
by Reinhard Zierke 08 Oct '01

08 Oct '01

----- Forwarded message from Melchior FRANZ ----- I've just uploaded version 1.5 of `crop.sty' as archive === crop.tar.gz === to === ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/ === Please replace the contents of === /macros/latex/contrib/supported/crop/ === by the new files. The package is again licenced under the terms of the === LPPL === The new version now has - options for selectively suppressing graphics or text, which may be useful for printing just color graphics on a color laser and the rest on a cheap mono laser. - options for changing the cropmarks origin (which are deprecated, though) - a new page info line, which also contains the time and a new cropmarks index and is printed on top, rather than in the upper right corner - a configuration command for the info line font - options for better collaboration with dvips/pdftex/vtex - an improved documentation with some more examples - a Makefile for Unix/Linux systems ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the submission. I replaced the old version in CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/crop as suggested. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN submission -- eline.sty now swrule.sty
by Reinhard Zierke 08 Oct '01

08 Oct '01

Toby, > > This sounds like an excellent idea, but could you call them > > (and perhaps the package) by the more conventional name of > > swelled rules? I think a lot of people may have a problem > > identifying the package under the name eline. Perhaps swrule? > > Considering that I frankly have no idea what Englische Linien > are properly called in English, I don't care. Go ahead. > Rename the package. ;-) Thank you for you permission. I renamed the file from macros/generic/eline.sty ro macros/generic/swrule.sty Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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