ctan-ann March 2003

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Re: CTAN submission --- ledmac package
by Robin Fairbairns 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded ledmac.tar.gz to UK incoming. The distribution > is under the LPPL. > > From the README: > The ledmac package is for typesetting critical editions. It is a > LaTeX port of the plain TeX EDMAC macros. > > version 0.1 (2003/03/25) first public experimental release. > > I don't know where this would best go on CTAN as it is > definitely experimental, but hopefuly robust in the sense that any > bugs will be repeatable. All I can say is that it processed the four > EDMAC example files I tried. If there is a `tryout' area perhaps it > should go there, otherwise in macros/latex/contrib/supported. i've installed the stuff; thanks for the upload. faut de mieux, the directory is now macros/latex/contrib/supported/ledmac sorry about the delay. other mail to you seems blocked, and i've only just put two and two together about my mail about positioning... Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package: apacite
by Jim Hefferon 28 Mar '03

28 Mar '03

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should make its way to a mirror near you in a day or two. Thanks for the update, Jim Hefferon ftpmaint(a)tug.ctan.org ======================================================================= The following information was provided by our fellow contributor. Name of contribution: apacite Author's name: Erik Meijer Location on CTAN: biblio/bibtex/contrib/apacite Summary description: citation style following rules of American Psychological Assoc. License type: lppl Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Update of apacite LaTeX/BibTeX citation package that attempts to implement the rules of the American Psychological Association. Still work in progress, but a big step forward from the 1994 version. Main changes: author indexing facility, additional code for compatibility with babel/backref/natbib. - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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CTAN package update: booktabs
by Jim Hefferon 28 Mar '03

28 Mar '03

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org. It should make its way to a mirror near you 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: booktabs Author's name: Simon Fear (patch by Danie Els) Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/booktabs Summary description: publication quality tables License type: gpl Announcement text: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The booktabs package provides some additional commands to enhance the quality of tables in LaTeX. Guidelines are given as to what constitutes a good table in this context. This is a patched version of booktabs. The original author, Simon Fear, could not be contacted or reached in any other way up to now. This patch was submitted on behalf of the wide group users of this very useful package. All changes were properly documented. - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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CTAN upload -- Font Installation Guide
by Reinhard Zierke 28 Mar '03

28 Mar '03

----- Forwarded message from Philipp Lehman ----- I've uploaded the file 'ltxfonts.pdf' to the incoming directory on ftp.dante.de. This is the initial upload. I suggest to create the new subdirectory 'info/Type1/fontguide/' and moving ltxfonts.pdf into this directory. Thank you in advance. For the catalogue: ltxfonts.pdf - The Font Installation Guide The font installation guide discusses the most common scenarios you are likely to encounter when installing Type1 Postscript fonts. While the individual tools employed in the installation process are documented well, the actual difficulty most users are facing when trying to install new fonts is understanding how to put all the pieces together. This is what this guide is about. ----- End of forwarded message ----- Thanks for the upload. After some internal discussion we installed this document as CTAN:info/Type1fonts/fontinstallationguide.pdf This is my first try at an XML Catalogue entry; I hope it is correct (The license type gfdl doesn't fit with the current dtd but this will probably be adapted soon): *************************************************************** <?xml version=1.0?> <!DOCTYPE entry SYSTEM ../catalogue.dtd> <entry id=The Font Installation Guide datestamp=2003/03/28 modifier=zierke(a)dante.de> <about> <name>The Font Installation Guide</name> <caption>Using PostScript fonts to their full potential with LaTeX</caption> <author> <name>Philipp Lehman</name> <email>lehman(a)gmx.net</email> </author> <license type=gfdl /> </about> <description> <abstract> The font installation guide discusses the most common scenarios you are likely to encounter when installing Type1 Postscript fonts. While the individual tools employed in the installation process are documented well, the actual difficulty most users are facing when trying to install new fonts is understanding how to put all the pieces together. This is what this guide is about. </abstract> </description> <distribution> <ctan>info/Type1fonts/fontinstallationguide.pdf</ctan> </distribution> </entry> *************************************************************** Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN submission -- CJK version 4.5.2
by Reinhard Zierke 28 Mar '03

28 Mar '03

----- Forwarded message from Werner LEMBERG ----- I've uploaded the archives cjk-4.5.2.tar.gz cjk-4.5.2-doc.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de/incoming. Please replace the old CJK version in language/chinese/CJK with the new one. In the archive, the top directory is called cjk-4.5.2 -- maybe it is better to rename this to 4_5.2 as with the previous archive. The archive cjk-4.5.2-doc.tar.gz should not be unpacked. Below is a proper announcement. Thanks in advance. Werner ====================================================================== CJK 4.5.2 ========= CJK 4.5.2 is available from ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/language/chinese/CJK and other CTAN hosts and its mirrors. Following the CTAN rules, the source files of CJK are unpacked. Additionally, the archive CJK-4.5.2-doc.tar.gz is available which provides some CJK documentation and example files in various output formats. Current development snapshots (updated twice a day) are available from ftp://ftp.ffii.org/pub/cjk/devel/. Bug reports should go to cjk-bug(a)ffii.org. CJK is a macro package for LaTeX, providing simultaneous support for various Asian scripts in many encodings (including Unicode): Chinese (both traditional and simplified) Japanese Korean Thai A special add-on feature is an interface to the Emacs editor (cjk-enc.el) which gives simultaneous, easy-to-use support to a bunch of other scripts in addition to the above: Cyrillic Greek Latin-based scripts Russian Vietnamese See below for the relevant snippet from the history file. Enjoy! Werner ====================================================================== Version 4.5.2: new: 28-Mar-2003 The new macro CJKnohwkatakana prevents the use of the C49 encoding for half-width katakana; instead, the characters are mapped to full-width glyphs. The opposite command is CJKhwkatakana (the default). Improved support for pseudo-vertical typesetting. . CJKvert.sty provides new commands CJKvert (the default) and CJKhorz to toggle pseudo-vertical typesetting. . After loading CJKvert.sty, LaTeX reads file `<foo>.fdv' (if it exists) immediately after reading `<foo>.fd'. Such a file contains additional information how to typeset a font vertically. Most importantly, outline fonts can be configured so that they are rotated with the graphicx package, making it work with both dvips and pdfTeX. See `vertical.doc' for more information. errors: CJKchar sometimes didn't accept 7bit representations. pinyin.sty: Added missing syllables chua, den, ua. Make it work properly in tables. contrib/wadalab: Older versions of the `makefont' script produce bad hints for all Wadalab fonts. Either use the new version to regenerate all fonts or use the new script `fixwada' to correct fonts created with an old version of `makefont'. EUC-TW.chr: Make it really work. ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the upload. I installed it as suggested in CTAN:language/chinese/CJK/ and the documentation in CTAN:language/chinese/cjk-4.5.2-doc.tar.gz, replacing the old version 4.5.1. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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new CTAN package: mps2eps
by Jim Hefferon 26 Mar '03

26 Mar '03

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and it should make its way to a mirror near you real soon now. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ftpmaint(a)tug.ctan.org ========================================================================== The following information was provided by our fellow contributor. Name of contribution: mps2eps Author's name: Jon Edvardsson Location on CTAN: support/mps2eps Summary description: MPS2EPS converts a MetaPost output file (.mps) to a self-contained EPS file License type: gpl Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Having a problem with your MetaPost pictures? Symbols missing when pictures are included in your LaTeX document? Should you use prologues := 1 or not? Well then MPS2EPS is a file converter for you! - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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New CTAN package: Formatting Information: a beginner's guide to LaTeX
by Jim Hefferon 25 Mar '03

25 Mar '03

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and it should make its way to your favorite mirror 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: Formatting Information: a beginner's guide to LaTeX Author's name: Peter Flynn Location on CTAN: info/beginlatex Summary description: Teach yourself basic LaTeX in 10 sessions License type: lgpl Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a major revision of the Beginners' Guide which has been hosted until now on my own site. It is now available in HTML as well as PDF and PS formats, and full GNU FDL source is available with images (warning: 40Mb uncompressed). Please mail corrections to info(a)silmaril.ie - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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CTAN Upload - BaKoMa TeX 5.30 - OpenType/OTF supported
by Reinhard Zierke 25 Mar '03

25 Mar '03

----- Forwarded message from Basil K. Malyshev ----- I have uploaded to `ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma' directory update for BaKoMa TeX 5.30 (issued 23-Mar-2003). Please put the files to 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' directory. Most important new features: 1) Comrehensive support for *OpenType fonts with Postscript outlines (OTF)*. Supported: Font Setup Wizard, Generating PDF and Postscript, Preview and Print under any Windows system (including 9x and NT 4.0). 2) Generation of PDF files with enabled searh and copy-paste of text with international (for example cyrillic) characters. See `Support Copy-Paste and Search in PDF files' in PDF generation dialog. The feature is implemented via embeding ToUnicode CMAPs. Bye. Basil K. Malyshev 24-Mar-2003 PS: Please send announce to appropriate mailing lists and news groups. --------------- About BaKoMa TeX 5.30 ---------------------- CONTENTS * Highlights * Graphical Capabilities * Fonts * User Interface * PDF Generation Features * HTML Generation features * New Features of BaKoMa TeX 5.30 For more information about BaKoMa TeX see <ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/index.html> BaKoMa TeX is a complete TeX system for Microsoft Windows XP/2000/NT/98/95 HIGHLIGHTS * Dynamical Preview allows the user to preview instantly selected region of the file being edited. (It is analog of Instant Preview - http://www.activetex.org). * PostScript enabled TeX system. ** Generates *PDF* from documents with *PSTricks*, *PSfrag*, etc. ** Generates HTML (TeX4HT, DVI2HTML), also supports Hevea and TTH. * Supports using PostScript Type 1 fonts (including MM) *WITHOUT ATM*. However, using ATM for font rendering is optionally available. * Complete distribution includes about *1500* TeX Fonts (including EC/TC, LH) in ATM Compatible PostScript Type 1 font format. * Font Setup Wizard installs Postscript/TrueType fonts almost in one click * Consistent graphics and font support for all DVI back-ends. * BibEdit - editor for LaTeX BIB files is included. * Supports hyperlink text broken across lines and pages. * Easy to install and use. * Much less expensive than other analogues. GRAPHICAL CAPABILITIES BaKoMa TeX includes an interpreter for *PostScript Level 2*, which is tested for compatibility with output from popular software such as: MetaPost, Adobe Illustrator 10, Adobe Streamline 4.0, Mathematica 4, MatLab, CorelDraw 10, CorelXARA, HIGZ, PageDraw, FrameMaker, ImageMagick, etc. All DVI back-ends support the same special interface compatible with well known Rokicki's DVIPS, including processing PostScript embedded into DVI files (PSTricks, PSfrag, XyPic, etc.). The system includes Graphics Import Filters for the following formats: PostScript, HPGL, DXY, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, MSP, BMP. FONTS BaKoMa TeX supports the following font formats: * OpenType (both TTF and OTF are supported), * PostScript Type 1 (including Multiple Masters), * PostScript Type 3, * TrueType, * TeX PK/VF. The system includes about *1500* typefaces in PostScript Type 1 and Type 3 font format including the following fonts: * CM (including LaTeX and Logo fonts + vf for T1 with CX * AMS Fonts (Euler, Math Symbols), * EC/TC, * LH (T2A), * Concrete (Math, ECC), * Malvern, * CMCyr + vf for T2A/LCY * Scripting fonts, CMPica, Punk. Math Fonts: * Stmaryrd, Wasy, Rsfs, YHMath, BlackBoard (bbm, doublestroke). Diagram drawing fonts: * Lams, Astro Symbols (cmastro, astrosym, moonphase), * Barcodes (barcodes, wlean, wlc*), Logical (loggates, milstd), * timing, MusiXTeX, Chess/CChess, Go, Backgammon, Dingbats/NiceFrame. etc. Any font type can be used for any output device/format. This feature is supported by automatic font conversion between font formats when needed. This feature enables the rendering of Type 1 fonts *without ATM*. On the other hand, it enables the use of TrueType/OpenType fonts for generating PostScript printed even on PostScript Level 1 printers. In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use most of free Type 1 fonts available on CTAN and Trutype fonts coming with MS Windows systems. Font Setup Wizard lets you to install most of commercial (and free) Postscript Type 1 and TrueType fonts in one click. USER INTERFACE * Dynamical Preview (Instant Preview) of selected part of a document. It reformats (and preview) selected part of document on the fly, when you edit it. This feature accelerates tuning paragraphs, mathematics, pictures, etc. * Flexible window docking lets you optimize splitting your screen for using Dynamical Preview efficiently. * One touch key for TeX + Preview + other customizable postprocessors, * Quick navigation via document structure, * DVI Forward/Reverse search (format independent), * Powerful support for different input encodings, * Project support, * Graphics import assistant, * Assitance for multi-file documents: context sensitive openning of included text and graphics files, * Searching for TeX errors using the TeX log file, * Searching for help for TeX commands in entire document collection, * Syntax highlighting is configurable for catcodes and command dictionaries, * Customizable GUI Bars and menus for inserting Math Symbols and other commands, * Automatic creation of a BB-file for non-PostScript graphics. * Spell Checker: On-the-spot highlighting of misspelled words, correction proposals, handling accents and babel shortcuts. configurable for handling (La)TeX commands. * BibEdit - editor for LaTeX BIB files is included. * Syntax Completion is context sensitive and flexible. * Support for Multi-User systems. OUTPUT DEVICES/FORMATS * View on Windows Display. * Print on any printer supported by a MS Windows driver. * PostScript (really scalable), * PDF, * HTML. Important feature of BaKoMa TeX is consistent graphics and font support for all types of output. This means that all font formats mentioned may be used for every type of output. This also means that all graphical capabilities mentioned are supported for every type of output. PDF GENERATION FEATURES * Handling in-line PostScript in DVI files (PSTricks). * Creating PDF files which share fonts. Suitable for preparing CD-ROM based document libraries. * Embedding fonts in CFF requires 2--3 times less space then other font forms. * Handles HyperTeX (HyperRef) and document outline. HTML GENERATION FEATURES BaKoMa TeX 5 supports several ways for conversion of (La)TeX documents into HTML files. * `TeX|Generate HTML ...' text editor menu command lets you launch `TeX4HT' convertor with numerous options. * `File|Generate HTML ...' DVI viewer menu command lets you convert pages of a DVI file into PNG files wrapped into navigation HTML pages. This approach is useful for documents with complex graphics, such as slides. In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use `HEVEA' and/or `TTH' convertors. Launching of these convertors is available via extra TABS of `TeX|Generate HTML ...' editor command. Including graphics is well integreated with BaKoMa TeX graphical engine. In this reason, you can insert everithing supported by BaKoMa TeX into generated HTML pages. *** NEW FEATURES OF BAKOMA TEX 5.30 in comparison with BAKOMA TEX 5.25 *** Fonts - Support for OpenType fonts with Postscript outlines (OTF). ----------------------------------------------------------------- BaKoMa TeX 5.30 includes support for OpenType fonts with Postscript outlines, whose have extension `OTF' (in following they are called OTF-fonts, to avoid mixing with OpenType fonts with TrueType outlines). To install `OTF-fonts' under BaKoMa TeX user can use Font Setup Wizard available via: `Options|Install OpenType, TrueType, and Postscript fonts for (La)TeX' text editor menu command. The wizard properly do configuring fonts, generating proper TFM files; and creating/updating LaTeX Font Definition (FD) files. In other words, it enables using your OTF-fonts for LaTeX documents in almost one-click. Advanced feature of BaKoMa TeX is that OTF-fonts may be used also under Windows 95, 98 and NT 4.0 (even without ATM installed) for preview and print on any Windows supported printer. OTF-fonts are properly used for generating PDF and Postscript files. Another improvements in Font Setup Wizard * Improved updating of FD-files: handling `endinput', copying modified files to LOCAL tree, that avoids forgetting user fonts added to common FD-files. * `Win 9x skewing support' - new option in Font Setup Wizard. It enables work around for displaying slanted fonts under Windows 95/98. Commonly, this option is checked automatically, when it is needed. PDF - Searchable PDF (ToUnicode CMAPs) -------------------------------------- BaKoMa TeX 5.30 can generate PDF files that permite search and copy-paste of text with international (for example cyrillic) characters. This feature may be enabled by `Support Copy-Paste and Search in PDF files' option available in PDF generation dialog. This feature is implemented via embeding into PDF file ToUnicode CMAPs, whose map characters of every text font to unicode codes. These CMAPs are generated automatically from font encodings. In this reason, this feature works for fonts with custom encodings. It works without any additional packages. Other Improvements ------------------ * `Insert|Indexing Stuffs' lets you choose Index Style for current document. In advance, it forces automatical running of MakeIndex after every TeXing, and marking inserted commands with bookmark #9. For more information about changes see <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes5.html> ---------- End of BaKoMa TeX Information ---------- ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the upload; I installed it as suggested in CTAN:nonfree/systems/win32/bakoma/ replacing the old version. License: BaKoMa is shareware. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN update -- multibib v1.2
by Reinhard Zierke 25 Mar '03

25 Mar '03

----- Forwarded message from Thorsten Hansen ----- I have just uploaded version 1.2 of multibib. -- uploaded file: multibib-v1.2.tar.gz -- uploaded to CTAN node: dante.ctan.org (ftp.dante.de) -- recommended place: /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/multibib -- licensing condition: lppl -- brief summary: The `multibib' package allows to create references to multiple bibliographies within one document. It thus provides a complementary functionality to packages like `bibunits' or `chapterbib', which allow to create one bibliography for multiple, but different parts of the document. Changes to version 1.1 include . enhanced compatibility to natbib and KOMA-SCRIPT classes . various small bug fixes ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the upload. I installed it as suggested replacing the old version in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/multibib/ Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN submission -- evweek & evautofl
by Reinhard Zierke 25 Mar '03

25 Mar '03

----- Forwarded message from Emanuele Vicentini ----- I've uploaded in incoming/ two small tarballs: an update of evweek class (macros/latex/contrib/supported/calendar/contrib) and evautofl, a spinn-off/bugfix of autofilo.sty of LaTeX Calendar Bundle. Licese is lppl. I'd put evweek.{dtx,ins} in macros/latex/contrib/supported/calendar/contrib to replace previous version; evautofl.{dtx,ins} could be put there too. Here's the summary: evweek.cls is a small extension of weekly.cls, the class for the weekly calendar format of the LaTeX Calendar Bundle. In this release I've added support for use of evautofl evautofl.sty is a spin-off of autofilo.sty; the code has been hacked to separate the two columns making the page in autofilo, so now it's possibile to use ps2ps to put more than one single page on a sheet and print your calendar saving a lot of paper. ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the submission. As you suggested, I installed both the evweek update and the new evautofl package in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/calendar/contrib/ The license in LPPL. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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