ctan-ann October 2001

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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-… [View More]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 [View Less]

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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. … [View More]

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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, … [View More]

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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 … [View More]

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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 … [View More]

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CTAN submission -- TeXnicCenter
by Reinhard Zierke 08 Oct '01

08 Oct '01

---------------------------------------------------------------------- A submission was uploaded to nova.dante.de:/ftp/incoming/upload-20011008.001/. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: TeXnicCenter Name and email: Sven Wiegand Suggested location on CTAN: /tex-archive/systems/win32 Summary description: Integrated development environment for LaTeX on Windows. License type: Free Announcement text: ----------------------------------------------… [View More]------------------------ Some of you might already know TeXnicCenter (TXC). For those: This is the current release which has been much more improved in comparison to the version that was avaialable at CTAN before. For those who do not know TXC here a short overview: TeXnicCenter is an integrated development environment (IDE) for developing LaTeX-documents on windows (Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT 4.0). TXC is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) and is therefore AVAILABLE FOR FREE including the source codes. Here is a list of some features provided by TeXnicCenter: - Project orientated integrated development environment for LaTeX-documents - Definition of unlimited output profiles (i.e. LaTeX => DVI, LaTeX => PS, LaTeX => PDF) - Editor: - Syntax highlighting - Dynamic word wrapping (you don't need to scroll horizontally) - Unlimited undo and redo - Bookmarks - Go to last change - Incremental search - Find, find and replace - Fully customizable - Structure View: - Clear, document orientated tree view of the whole document structure - Displays headers, floating figures and floating tables - Supports file inclusion via input and include - Simple navigation by double clicking on an item - Simple referencing by inserting references with an item's context menu - Simple updating by saving one or all files - LaTeX-support: - Simple insertion of LaTeX-constructs by menu or toolbar - Compilation of the project in the IDE -- simple jumping to errors, warnings and bad boxes. - Support for document templates - Full customizable menu and toolbars in modern and skinable look and feel (including Office 2000 and Office XP like skins). - Support for English and German language More details about TXC are available on our homepage www.ToolsCenter.org Happy TeXing... Sven Wiegand ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. I installed the new version in CTAN:/tex-archive/systems/win32/TeXnicCenter as suggested Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team [View Less]

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CTAN submission -- eline.sty: english lines
by Reinhard Zierke 07 Oct '01

07 Oct '01

----- Forwarded message from Tobias Dussa ----- I have just uploaded a rather small style file for producing english lines (i. e. lines that are thicker in the middle than at the ends). The package is just one style file and quite simple. I have placed it in incoming/texmf of ftp.dante.de; the file is called eline.sty. I would assume that it would best be added to someplace in macros/generic, as it is coded entirely with plain TeX commands. I did not much think about the licensing issue much, … [View More]

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CTAN submission -- EC/TC Type1 font collection
by Reinhard Zierke 04 Oct '01

04 Oct '01

----- Forwarded message from Szabo Peter ----- I've just uploaded tt2001, an EC/TC Type1 font collection to CTAN. I've attached its README to my e-mail. Please find an appropriate location for the fonts, and move them there. Thank you, Szabó Péter README.txt, Mon Oct 1 13:30:27 CEST 2001 This is version 1.0 of Tt2001. This is Tt2001, a TeX .pfb font collection, converted to .pfb in 2001 by the author of TeXtrace, using TeXtrace. It contains almost _all_ the EC (European Computer Modern) … [View More]and TC (Text Companion) fonts in all possible design sizes, _all_ the AMS fonts in all possible design sizes, plus some more. Author: pts(a)inf.bme.hu The missing EC/TC fonts are: fcvt0500.pfb fcvi0500.pfb fctt0500.pfb fcst0500.pfb fcit0500.pfb fctc0500.pfb fcff0500.pfb fcff0600.pfb fcff0700.pfb fcff0800.pfb fcfi0500.pfb fcfi0600.pfb fcfi0700.pfb fcfi0800.pfb fcfb2488.pfb fcfb2986.pfb fcfb3583.pfb fcfs2488.pfb fcfs2986.pfb fcfs3583.pfb fymisc10.pfb ucfb2488.pfb ucfb2986.pfb ucfb3583.pfb ucfs2488.pfb ucfs2986.pfb ucfs3583.pfb ucff0500.pfb ucff0600.pfb ucff0700.pfb ucff0800.pfb ucff1728.pfb ucff2074.pfb ucff2986.pfb ucff3583.pfb ucfi0500.pfb ucfi0600.pfb ucfi0700.pfb ucfi0800.pfb ucfi2986.pfb ucfi3583.pfb ucit0500.pfb ucst0500.pfb uctt0500.pfb ucvi0500.pfb ucvt0500.pfb They are missing because METAFONT failed to generate them. The missing EC fonts are just some typewriter fonts at 5pt, plus some Fibonacci and funny fonts. Quick and dirty UNIX shell command to find the missing fonts: ls `awk -F '<' '/^[a-z]/{print$2}' <ecpfb.map` 2>&1 >/dev/null | awk -F ':' '{print substr($2,2)}' TeXtrace is available from the net: http://textrace.sf.net TeXtrace was first presented at EuroTeX 2001 http://www.ntg.nl/eurotex/. Tanakori Uchiyama has reported: By the way, there is a musixps-unix.tar.gz at CTAN. fonts/musixtex/ps-type1/musixps-unix.tar.gz I think that it is easy to get and use it. Quoting subsubsection 5.4.1 of dvips.dvi: Commercial versions of the Computer Modern fonts are available from Blue Sky; public domain versions are available from CTAN sites (for CTAN info, see section `unixtex.ftp'' in Kpathsea) in: fonts/postscript/bakoma fonts/postscript/paradissa You may need to modify these fonts; see http:///xxx.lanl.gov/faq/bakoma.html Knuth's original CM (Computer Modern) fonts (_not_ including European accentend letters) were converted to .pfb by Bluesky in 1991. These Bluesky .pfb fonts (such as cmr10.pfb) are part of the standard teTeX distribution, and are available from CTAN since years ago. Some auxilary fonts (such as the MetaFont logo and the Wasy fonts) were converted to .pfb by Taco Hoekwater, 1998. Some fonts, such as Times, Helvetica and Charter were _originally_ in PFB format, so they need no conversion. Many of them are part of the standard teTeX distribution, and also from CTAN. -- [B]+[T] Knuth's original CM (Computer Modern) fonts Knuth's original CM fonts converted by Bluesky are: cmb10 cmbsy10 cmbx10 cmbx12 cmbx5 cmbx6 cmbx7 cmbx8 cmbx9 cmbxsl10 cmbxti10 cmcsc10 cmdunh10 cmex10 cmex9 cmff10 cmfi10 cmfib8 cmitt10 cmmi10 cmmi12 cmmi5 cmmi6 cmmi7 cmmi8 cmmi9 cmmib10 cmr10 cmr12 cmr17 cmr5 cmr6 cmr7 cmr8 cmr9 cmsl10 cmsl12 cmsl8 cmsl9 cmsltt10 cmss10 cmss12 cmss17 cmss8 cmss9 cmssbx10 cmssdc10 cmssi10 cmssi12 cmssi17 cmssi8 cmssi9 cmssq8 cmssqi8 cmsy10 cmsy5 cmsy6 cmsy7 cmsy8 cmsy9 cmtcsc10 cmtex10 cmtex8 cmtex9 cmti10 cmti12 cmti7 cmti8 cmti9 cmtt10 cmtt12 cmtt8 cmtt9 cmu10 cmvtt10 Missing from Bluesky CM, included in Tt2001: cmex9 -- [T] all AMS fonts (AMS A, AMS B, other math fonts, Euler fraktur, cyrillic etc.) Most of them are available from [B]. AMS fonts as Bluesky .pfb's, converted in automn 1992: (below). Since then a lot of AMS fonts were drawn, so these are not enough: cmbsy5 cmbsy7 cmmib5 cmmib7 euex10 eufb10 eufb5 eufb7 eufm10 eufm5 eufm7 eurb10 eurb5 eurb7 eurm10 eurm5 eurm7 eusb10 eusb5 eusb7 eusm10 eusm5 eusm7 msam10 msam5 msam7 msbm10 msbm5 msbm7 wncyb10 wncyi10 wncyr10 wncysc10 wncyss10 Tt2001 contains all AMS fonts (including those above): cmbsy5 cmbsy6 cmbsy7 cmbsy8 cmbsy9 cmcsc8 cmcsc9 cmex7 cmex8 cmmib5 cmmib6 cmmib7 cmmib8 cmmib9 wncyb10 wncyb5 wncyb6 wncyb7 wncyb8 wncyb9 wncyi10 wncyi5 wncyi6 wncyi7 wncyi8 wncyi9 wncyr10 wncyr5 wncyr6 wncyr7 wncyr8 wncyr9 wncysc10 wncyss10 wncyss8 wncyss9 euex10 euex7 euex8 euex9 eufb10 eufb5 eufb6 eufb7 eufb8 eufb9 eufm10 eufm5 eufm6 eufm7 eufm8 eufm9 eurb10 eurb5 eurb6 eurb7 eurb8 eurb9 eurm10 eurm5 eurm6 eurm7 eurm8 eurm9 eusb10 eusb5 eusb6 eusb7 eusb8 eusb9 eusm10 eusm5 eusm6 eusm7 eusm8 eusm9 msam10 msam5 msam6 msam7 msam8 msam9 msbm10 msbm5 msbm6 msbm7 msbm8 msbm9 -- [T] EC (European Computer Modern) fonts (drawn by Jorg Knappen and Norbert Schwarz), LaTeX usepackage{t1enc} -- [T] TC (Text Companion) fonts (drawn by Jorg Knappen and Norbert Schwarz) -- [T] Knuth's original Concrete fonts (the font family of the book Concrete Mathematics) -- [T] some LaTeX picture drawing etc. fonts. Converted in May 2001: icmcsc10 icmex10 icmmi8 icmsy8 icmtt8 ilasy8 ilcmss8 ilcmssb8 ilcmssi8 -- [T] all xypic: LaTeX picture drawing [2] contains some, but not all xypic: xyatip10 xybsql10 xybtip10 xycirc10 xycmat10 xycmbt10 xydash10 xyeuat10 xyeubt10 [T] contains all xypic, except for xymisc10 (for which dvips failed): xyatip10 xybsql10 xybtip10 xycirc10 xycmat10 xycmbt10 xydash10 xyeuat10 xyeubt10 xyline10 xyqc10 -- [T] yandy mathtime fonts: mtcmmi mtcmsy The following common teTeX .mf fonts are not available in .pfb yet: -- jknappen/sauter/* -- lh/*/* (many!) -- public/*/* (too many!) __EOF__ ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the huge (53974 KB) submission. I installed it in CTAN:/tex-archive/fonts/ps-type1 Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team [View Less]

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CTAN submission -- onlyamsmath package
by Reinhard Zierke 04 Oct '01

04 Oct '01

----- Forwarded message from Harald Harders ----- I have uploaded the file onlyamsmath.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de. Please install its contents to CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/supported/onlyamsmath. Licence is lppl. >From the README: This package inhibits the usage of plain TeX and on demand of standard LaTeX math environments. This is useful for class writers who want to force their clients to use the environments provided by the amsmath package. ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the … [View More]

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CTAN submission -- pdftricks 1.15
by Reinhard Zierke 04 Oct '01

04 Oct '01

----- Forwarded message from Radhakrishnan CV ----- > 1. Uploaded pdftricks-1.15.tar.gz to /incoming/pdftricks of > ftp.dante.de > > 3. shall go to > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/pdftricks by > replacing the existing contents of the directory > > The following major changes are made: > > 1. pdftricks automatically finds out whether shell escape facility > is available in the user's pdfTeX implementation. > > 2. If yes, it … [View More]

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ctan-ann October 2001