ctan-ann September 2001

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CTAN package upgrade: FiXme v1.4
by Jim Hefferon 11 Sep '01

11 Sep '01

An upgrade to the FiXme 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 contribution! Jim Hefferon ftpmaint(a)tug.ctan.org ================================================================== The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: FiXme v1.4 Name: Didier Verna Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/ Summary description: FiXme 1.4 is out. License type: lppl Announcement text: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm happy to release the next version of FiXme (1.4). This version contains one bug fix, plus additional support for the koma-script classes. This package provides you with a way of inserting fixme notes in documents being developped (in draft mode). Such notes can appear in the margin of the document, as index entries, in the log file and as warnings on stdout. It is also possible to summarize them in a list, and in the index. If your document is in a final version, any remaining fixme note will produce an error. FiXme also comes with support for AUC-TeX. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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CTAN package upgrade: Frankenstein
by Jim Hefferon 11 Sep '01

11 Sep '01

An upgrade of the Frankenstein package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make its way through the mirroring process in the next day or two. Jim Hefferon ftpmaint(a)tug.ctan.org ============================================================ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Frankenstein Name: Matt Swift Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/frankenstein Summary description: a collection of LaTeX packages and a Bibtex bibstyle License type: lppl Announcement text: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Cleanup release prior to some more significant work (I hope). Please see README for full package descriptions and ChangeLog for changes. Please note that a preformatted TeX Catalogue database describing these packages is at http://www.shore.net/~swift/latex/swift.db. A web page of description like the TeX Catalogue descriptions is at http://www.shore.net/~swift/latex/. The most important changes are noted here: all: LPPL instead of GPL * achicago.bst: Extensive revisions to documentation. Thanks to Panagiotis Louridas for pointing out a significant bug that would indicate authors with the same last name as the same with a 3-em dash in the bibliography. Major version to 1; reflects non-beta state. * achicago.sty: Depends on slemph and verbatim too now, but not relsize. * newclude.sty: Move from unsupported to supported. Extensive documentation revisions. Incorporation of includex package (working yet? includex still available). Revision and extension of hooks mechanisms. Remove group option. * tag.sto: Add 2d optional argument to include. Revise documentation. * titles.dtx: Changed: ooktitle -> ook, journaltitle -> journal, musictitle -> music, articletitle -> article, playtitle -> play, crafttitle -> craft. Compatibility easily retained in configuration file. New: species, WrapquotesSN, WrapquotesDN, WrapquotesSK, ospacelist (abstraction of what was hard-coded). * titles.cfg: New: ewletlongpoem extitswitch ewletfilm extitswitch ewletessaytitleWrapquotes ewletchaptertitleWrapquotes. * moredefs.sty: Many documentation changes. Change implementation of provideboolean and ewboolean to be compatible with ifthen package. Fix prependto@macro g@prependto@macro so they work. Fix check for defined macro in SaveName. Fix SaveName so it works. Fix GobbleO GobbleMO so they work. * abbrevs.sty: Added emulation of acromake.sty. * lips.sty: New: BracketedLips, olips, Lips, mla package option. * compsci.sty: New: file email. Add hyperlatex package option. * bits.sty: Requires letterhead package -- which I don't think I distribute. Aha, that's why this is unsupported! It may be usable with a dummy letterhead package. * attrib.sty: Add attribcitations. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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CTAN package upgrade: Frankenbundle, including swiftex.el
by Jim Hefferon 11 Sep '01

11 Sep '01

An upgrade of the Frankenbundle package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should make its way to the other CTAN sites and mirrors in the next day or two. Jim Hefferon ftpmaint(a)tug.ctan.org ========================================== The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Frankenbundle, including swiftex.el Name: Matt Swift Location on CTAN: support/frankenbundle Summary description: Develop and distribute groups of LaTeX packages and classe; ALSO Edit doc.sty and normal LaTeX files with GNU Emacs. s and BibTeX bibstyles; License type: gpl Announcement text: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Interim cleanup release prior to some more significant work (I hope). Please see README for a full description and ChangeLog for changes. Please note that a preformatted TeX Catalogue database describing this software is at http://www.shore.net/~swift/latex/swift.db. A web page of description like the TeX Catalogue descriptions is at http://www.shore.net/~swift/latex/. Frankenbundle: Develop and distribute groups of LaTeX packages and classes and BibTeX bibstyles. Frankenbundle allows an author to maintain and distribute a bundle of one or more LaTeX packages and classes and BibTeX bibliography styles, their documentation, and any support files with a high degree of sophistication, consistency, and convenience both for the author and their end users, who will receive the bundle in a form easy to understand and use. The author using Frankenbundle needs a Unix-like environment, GNU Make, and a rudimentary understanding of Makefiles. The end user does not need Make. Frankenbundle also includes swiftex.el: Swiftex.el: Edit doc.sty and normal LaTeX files with GNU Emacs. docTeX mode is for editing buffers containing self-documenting LaTeX code that uses the doc package, including the ltxdoc document class. For these buffers, docTeX mode is IMHO significantly more useful than the alternatives provided by standard Emacs and AUC TeX, though I do intend to merge this code into AUC TeX one day. swifTeX mode is for editing buffers containing normal LaTeX{} files and provides an alternative to the other LaTeX modes. The most important changes are noted here: * Frankenbundle: Handles variety of bundle licenses: LPPL and GPL are preconfigured. Extensive documentation revision. * swiftex.el: Fix `stx-merge-list' for the thousandth time. Additional documentation. Moved user documentation and todo list to swiftex-doc.txt. Begin to implement Emacs customization. Numerous bugfixes. Numerous small extensions. Please note that Frankenbundle is in the public domain and swiftex.el is under the GPL. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: CTAN submission: typedref
by Robin Fairbairns 11 Sep '01

11 Sep '01

Greg Seidman writes: > Please find on cam.ctan.org the file typedref.tar.gz, an update of the > saferef package. Due to the licensing of the original the name had to be > changed. The license for the original reads like this: > > %% Package `saferef' for use with LaTeX2e > %% Copyright (C) 1997 James Ashton (email `James.Ashton(a)anu.edu.au'). > %% All rights reserved. You may not alter the contents of this file > %% unless you also change its name. > > ...so I am not entirely certain of the legitimacy of my submission. Anyway, > my license reads identically (since I don't know what other rights I can > give according to the previous license). sigh. leave it where it is for the time being: you're obviously doing the best you can. if your version is enough better, we could well find saferef withering on the branch (at which point we could shuffle it off to obsolete, if we were to remember at that stage...). > Presumably, typedref belongs in the same place in the tree as saferef, i.e. > macros/latex/contrib/supported. > > The improvements over saferef are: > > 1. Compatibility with hyperref. This has been tested extensively. > 2. Support for referencing appendices in documents which do not define > chapter (i.e. anything that isn't a book). > 3. Minor documentation changes/fixes. thanks for the upload. i've installed the files as suggested. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN submission - gloss 1.5
by Rainer Schoepf 10 Sep '01

10 Sep '01

On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Javier Bezos wrote: > I've uploaded to the DANTE server the following files under > incoming/gloss/: > gloss.sty, gloss.tex, glsbase.bib, glsplain.bst, glsshort.bst, > readme, sample.bib, sample.tex. > > Please, delete the contents of /macros/latex/contrib/ > supported/gloss, and place under it the new files. > > Gloss is a LaTeX package which allows the creation of > glossaries using bibTeX. New in gloss 1.5: > - hyperlinks from text to entries when hyperref is used. > - a new glsshort.bst style which sorts entries by the > short field. > > License is lppl. Thanks for the update, I installed it in macros/latex/contrib/supported/gloss For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: Upload: register
by Robin Fairbairns 07 Sep '01

07 Sep '01

Matthew Lovell writes: > I have uploaded register.tar.gz to the UK incoming directory. I would > suggest that this new packaged be placed under > > macros/latex/contrib/supported/register > > The distribution is under the LPPL. > > A description of the package is as follows: > > The register package is designed for typsetting the programmable > elements in digital hardware, i.e., registers. Such registers > typically have many fields and can be quite wide; they are thus a > challenge to typeset in a consistent manner. > > Register is similar in some aspects to the bitfield package by > Reuben Thomas. Anyone doing hardware documentation using LaTeX > should examine both packages. > > Register requires a fairly recent version of the float package. i've installed the files as requested. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN submission --- combine class
by Robin Fairbairns 06 Sep '01

06 Sep '01

Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded combine.tar to the UK incoming directory. Please use > this to replace the current contents of > macros/latex/contrib/supported/combine. > > The distribution is under the LPPL. > > From the README: > > The combine class lets you bundle individual documents into a single > document, such as when preparing a conference proceedings. > > The auxiliary combinet package puts the titles and authors from > maketitle commands into the main documents table of contents, and > combnat.sty enables the combine class and the natbib package to work > harmoniously together. > > Changes in version 0.45 of combine.cls and version 0.2 of combinet.sty: > o Fixed minor ToC alignment problem i've installed the files as requested. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: New version TkTeXCAD
by Robin Fairbairns 05 Sep '01

05 Sep '01

Hilmar Straube writes: > What: New Beta for TkTeXCAD, a graphical user interface to the > picture environment > Which node: graphics > Licence: GPL > Description: Tk-Python script for graphical creation of picture > environments. Runs on every GUI-platform with the Tk/Python scripting > language (see www.python.org). Provides Lines, Vectors, circles, > filled rectangles, various textboxes, .EPS-graphics, ... i've installed the update. thanks for submitting. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN Submission --- memoir class
by Robin Fairbairns 04 Sep '01

04 Sep '01

Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded memoir.tar to the UK incoming directory. Please > use this to replace the current > macros/latex/contrib/supported/memoir. > > The distribution is under the LPPL. > > From the README: > > Memoir is a configurable class for typesetting general fiction, > non-fiction and mathematical books. It encompasses the standard book > and report classes and can simulate the article class as well as a > double spaced typewritten manuscript. > > It provides a variety of predefined page, chapter and caption > styles plus easy means of creating new ones. There is a reasonably > intuitive way of specifying page margins, etc., with an option for > printing trimmining marks. Standard font sizes are 9--12pt and > 14pt. > > Changes in version 0.33 (2001/08/31) > o Added controllable chapter spacing in LoF and LoT > o Fixed bug in appendixpage > o Added dictionary style Index headers (in memman.(tex|ist) ) thanks for the upload: i've installed the files as requested. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN upload
by Robin Fairbairns 04 Sep '01

04 Sep '01

Maurizio Loreti writes: > + what you've uploaded: a file called brushscr.tar.gz > + which CTAN node you've uploaded to: ftp.tex.ac.uk > + where you want the files to go: the uploaded files should replace the > files currently in the directory tex-archive/fonts/brushscr > + what licensing conditions you apply to your software: public domain > + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do: here follows the > uploaded file brushscr/README: > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This directory contains: a Type-1 font named BrushScript-Italic, that > simulates hand-written characters; all the files needed by LaTeX in > order to use that font; a file AAA_readme.tex that fully describes the > package; a sample file sample.tex . > > The font itself and all the files are Public Domain. > > History: > > - The original (public domain) NeXT screen font has been edited, with > a Type-1 font editor named TypeSmith, on an Amiga computer. The > service files have been generated using the fontinst package by > Alan Jeffrey. > - Later, having TypeSmith generated a buggy font, a more strict dvips > refuses to handle BrushScript. Louis Vosloo of Y&Y, with enormous > courtesy, has fixed the font in his spare time (I no longer have an > Amiga computer, or a font editor of any kind). > - Rolf Niepraschk submits a file pbsi.sty . > - A more strict dvips (5.86e) still refuses to handle the font. Rolf > Niepraschk submits a fix, generated by the type1fix perl script > part of the TeXtrace package (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~pts/textrace/) > by Peter Szabo i've installed the files as requested: thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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ctan-ann September 2001