ctan-ann June 2003

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New on CTAN: numalg.bst
by Jim Hefferon 30 Jun '03

30 Jun '03

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and 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: numalg.bst Author's name: Richard J Mathar Location on CTAN: biblio/bibtex/contrib Summary description: BibTeX style for Kluwer's Numerical Algorithms License type: lppl Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A BibTeX style file for the journal Numerical Algorithms published by Kluwer. - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: upload (new version of) mimetex.zip to ftp.tex.ac.uk
by Robin Fairbairns 27 Jun '03

27 Jun '03

John Forkosh writes: > As per your README.uploads instructions... > + what you've uploaded > mimetex.zip > (version 1.01, or 3.14 if you prefer, to replace > support/mimetex/mimetex.zip) > + which CTAN node you've uploaded to > ftp.tex.ac.uk > + where you want the files to go > support/mimetex > Please REPLACE all existing files (mimetex.zip and README) in > support/mimetex (please unzip mimetex.zip README and place > this separate copy of README alongside mimetex.zip in the > support/mimetex directory) > + what licensing conditions you apply to your software > GNU GPL > + brief summary of what your upload is intended to do. > (a) New features: optional lowpass text anti-aliasing for gif images, > and optional HTTP_REFERER check blocks use from unwanted domains. > (b) Also: several (very obscure:) bug fixes. > From original submission... > MimeTeX parses LaTeX math expressions, and emits either > mime xbitmaps or gif images of them, rather than TeX dvi's. > Therefore, mimeTeX's images can be directly used by html > documents in the form, e.g., > <img src=../cgi-bin/mimetex.cgi?f(x)=int_{-infty}^x~e^{-t^2}dt > border=0 align=absmiddle> > without intermediate dvi-to-gif conversion, and without storing > lots of resulting little gif files, one file for each converted > expression. This makes your html documents more readable and > easily maintained. See > http://www.forkosh.com/mimetex.html#examples > for examples demonstrating mimeTeX's features and usage. > MimeTeX isn't primarily meant for latex2html-like tasks > where you're maintaining native LaTeX documents that are later > redistributed in several formats, including html. Rather, mimeTeX > is primarily meant to help maintain native html documents containing > math. In this sense it's a kind of lightweight alternative to > MathML, with the advantage that mimeTeX preserves LaTeX syntax. > Similar non-MathML packages, like textogif and gladTeX, > require setup procedures that use TeX to help generate external > gif images of your equations, which are later included > in your html document as it's being rendered. MimeTeX, as far > as I know, is the only such non-MathML package that has its > own built-in parser and rendering engine, entirely independent > of TeX, and therefore requires no setup procedure or external > images whatsoever. It renders realtime, on-the-fly images > directly from LaTeX math expressions embedded in html documents. i've installed the (revised) file as requested. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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new package on CTAN: MLA package
by Jim Hefferon 26 Jun '03

26 Jun '03

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon propagate to your favorite local mirror. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ftpmaint(a)tug.ctan.org ===================================================================== The following information was provided by our fellow contributor. Name of contribution: mla-paper Author's name: Ryan Aycock Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/mla-paper Summary description: This package allows for proper MLA formatting License type: bsd Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LaTeX is a wonderful tool that has long been known for typesetting scientific papers books. Unfortunately, when it comes to the humanities, writers are left out in the cold due to the lack of packages for writing in the MLA style. The aim of this package is to allow students and other academics properly typeset their materials with minimal effort on their part. - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: CTAN upload notification: References
by Reinhard Zierke 26 Jun '03

26 Jun '03

> A submission was uploaded to nova.dante.de:/ftp/incoming/upload-20030626.001/. > > The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: > > Name of contribution: References > Name and email: Volker Kiefel > Suggested location on CTAN: tex-archive/support/references > Summary description: Bibliographic software supporting LaTeX/BibTeX > License type: GNU Project > > Announcement text: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > REFERENCES is bibliographic software for authors of > scientific manuscripts and for management of > bibliographic data of ARTICLES IN JOURNALS, of BOOKS > and of CHAPTERS IN BOOKS and other document types > including notes and electronic documents. REFERENCES > supports LaTeX including BibTeX. Bibliographic records > in MEDLINE format are easily converted. Retrieval of > references by keywords, authors' or editors' names, > date of publication, title of article, book title, > journal name or combinations thereof is possible. > Lists of references can be compiled in any > bibliographic style required by the publishers of > scientific journals. REFERENCES is provided with a text > based console interface compiled for win32-systems, an > external text editor is required for editing data. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. I installed it as suggested replacing the old version in CTAN:support/references/. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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Re: Upload: bitfield.dtx
by Robin Fairbairns 25 Jun '03

25 Jun '03

Reuben Thomas writes: > I want to withdraw a package I have previously submitted to CTAN. The > reason for this is that there's now a superior package on CTAN that > performs the same function rather better, and I want to avoid confusion > among users. I have often wasted time when I have found two or three > different packages that do the same job, because I have to evaluate them > in order to pick the one I should use. I want to spare other users this > tedium by removing my inferior package. > > In my opinion my bitfield package is superseded by bytefield. I would > certainly use bytefield in future rather than my package. The few features > that bytefield does not provide which bitfield provides are, I think, > unnecessary, and a result of my lack of understanding of typesetting. > > Below is a list of what I originally uploaded: > > > As per README.uploads: > > > > + what you've uploaded > > > > bitfield.dtx, bitfield.ins > > > > + which CTAN node you've uploaded to > > > > cam.ctan.org > > > > + where you want the files to go > > > > macros/latex/contrib/supported/bitfield/ i have moved bitfield from the macros tree (it had migrated to macros/latex/contrib/bitfield) to the corresponding place on the obsolete tree, but it will remain in the incorrect place in the catalogue until that is next updated (not under my control). Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: Upload to ftp.tex.ac.uk -- textpos v1.3
by Robin Fairbairns 25 Jun '03

25 Jun '03

Norman Gray writes: > + what you've uploaded > > textpos-1.3.tar.gz > > + which CTAN node you've uploaded to > > ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming > > + where you want the files to go > > tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/textpos/ > ...replacing the files already there in fact, it's become macros/latex/contrib/textpos (we're phasing out the supported directory). > + what licensing conditions you apply to your software (see list > below). > > GPL > > + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do. > > Version 1.3 adds the extblockcolour command, specifying the > background colour of text blocks. thanks for the upload: installed as noted. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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New CTAN package: pst-circ
by Jim Hefferon 25 Jun '03

25 Jun '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: pst-circ Author's name: Christophe Jorssen Location on CTAN: graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-circ Summary description: PSTricks package for drawing electric circuits License type: lppl Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- pst-circ is a package built above PSTricks and in particular pst-node. It can draw easily current dipoles, some tripoles and quadrupoles used in elecronic or electric theory. For a presentation, see http://pstcirc.free.fr - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: CTAN submission -- pdfpages v0.3a
by Rainer Schöpf 21 Jun '03

21 Jun '03

On 21 Jun 2003, Andreas Matthias wrote: > I have uploaded the archive file `pdfpages-v0.3a.tar.bz2' to > ftp.dante.de/incoming. > > Please, extract this archive and replace the files in > > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pdfpages/ > > This version adds support for VTeX. > > The `pdfpages' package makes it easy to insert pages of > external PDF documents. Several logical pages can be > arranged onto each sheet of paper. The package provides > hypertext operations like hyperlinks and article threads. > > It is distributed under the LPPL. Thanks for the update, I installed it in: macros/latex/contrib/pdfpages For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN upload notification: ps4pdf v0.6c
by Rainer Schöpf 21 Jun '03

21 Jun '03

A submission was uploaded to CTAN by Rolf Niepraschk: > Name of contribution: ps4pdf v0.6c > Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ps4pdf/ > Summary description: Using Postscript code in pdfLaTeX documents > License type: LaTeX Project > > Announcement text: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Changes: > o The name of the graphics container can now be changed. > o A document without any PSforPDF commands creates now > an empty container file. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update, I installed it. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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uk tug faq v3.7
by Robin Fairbairns 20 Jun '03

20 Jun '03

i've just installed v3.7 of the faq, on the web (www.tex.ac.uk/faq) and on ctan in directory help/uk-tug-faq. apart from the steady accretion of answers, there have been big changes in: - quality of pdf from postscript, which has been split into several bite-sized chunks, following a complaint from a user that it was too daunting (http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=dvips-pdf) - installing files, which has gained the first few of a series about installing fonts. these have proved extremely difficult to write: striking a balance between accessibility and completeness, while retaining the crucial compactness needed of a faq answer, has taxed my feeble writing skills something rotten (http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=instfont is the first of the series; follow next question to review the set) in addition, the ctan distribution also includes an archive of the static html version of the faq that i've been offering to distribution builders for some time: see FAQ-html.tar.gz Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team (my apologies to c.t.t people: i can't announce things to ctan-ann without bothering you.)

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