August 2003 - ctan-ann

v3.9 of the uk tex faq
by Robin Fairbairns 29 Aug '03

29 Aug '03

i have just installed a new version on ctan at help/uk-tex-faq, and on the web at http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq this latest version has a few minor changes (mostly editorial in nature), and i'm only releasing it because of the changes in the structure of the macros/latex/contrib tree on ctan: the subdirectories supported/ and other/ are to disappear before i expect to have a chance to work on the faq again. Robin Fairbairns UK TeX FAQ (and CTAN) maintainer

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aas macros
by Robin Fairbairns 28 Aug '03

28 Aug '03

i've just read a post from chris wallace, on c.t.t, which says the canonical source is elsewhere, and the 2.09 ones on ctan are obsolete (the post offered a link to some publisher's site, fwiw). so i've done the obvious thing and moved macros/latex209/contrib/aasmacros to the obsolete tree on ctan. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: uploads at cambridge switched off for a month
by Robin Fairbairns 27 Aug '03

27 Aug '03

> I trust that it's not anything too serious, Robin. > I'm sure the thoughts of anyone reading this list will be with you at > this time. i'm now back from my morale-raising holiday: pre-admission discussion with the surgeon tomorrow. thanks for the good wishes. robin

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Re: CTAN upload notification: WP2latex 2.111
by Rainer Schöpf 25 Aug '03

25 Aug '03

Jaroslav Fojtik submitted a new version of wp2latex: > Name of contribution: WP2latex 2.111 > Suggested location on CTAN: support/wp2latex > Summary description: Convertor from Wordperfect to LaTeX > License type: dfsg > > Announcement text: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > New: > 2.95 Better placing of /. Small attempt to do something with images (high gamma). > 2.96 Again small attempt to do something with images (high gamma). > 2.97: You could type wp2latex figure.wpg - but still gamma :-; > 2.98: Converts hatched regions inside WPG l.1 > 2.99: Correct calculation of bouding boxes of rotated objects in WPG l.1 > 2.100: Ability to dig out some WP7.x and WP8.x files stored inside OLE wrapper. > 2.101: Bugfix in the formula parser, better conversion from T602 module. > 2.102: Ability to parse Accent file format - new module. > 2.103: The OLE support was improved by using cole library. > 2.104: The Windows GUI port should not hang - if so, please report. I obtained bugreport for UNIX port of wp2latex. If you want to get it working please download character.cc from 2.105.: Better support for external WPG files. > 2.106: Ability to cope with [center] inside caption. Detecting XML documents. > 2.107: Converting MTEF r3.x objects inside OLE archive. > 2.108 Fixed character tables for unicode. New: Converting MTEF r2.x objects inside OLE archive. > 2.109: Implemented full WPG l.1 color table (palette), better decoding of WPG l.2 RLE. > 2.110: Compilable under GCC 3.x, redesigned automatical file format detection see -force-xxx argument. > 2.111: Attempt to autodetect WP4.x, conversion module for AbiWord. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload, the new version is now installed in support/wp2latex For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: gost
by Jim Hefferon 23 Aug '03

23 Aug '03

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make its way to your favorite local mirror in a day or two. Thanks for the material, Jim Hefferon ftpmaint(a)tug.ctan.org ======================================================================= The following information was provided by our fellow contributor. Name of contribution: gost Author's name: Maksym Polyakov Location on CTAN: biblio/bibtex/contrib/gost Summary description: BibTeX styles to format bibliography in English, Russian and Ukrainian according to GOST 7.1-84 and GOST 7.80-00 License type: lppl Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BibTeX styles to format bibliography in English, Russian and Ukrainian according to GOST 7.1-84 and GOST 7.80-00 - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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CTAN has a new package: ibycus-babel
by Jim Hefferon 23 Aug '03

23 Aug '03

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should be at your favorite mirror by now. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ftpmaint(a)tug.ctan.org ===================================================================== The following information was provided by our fellow contributor. Name of contribution: ibycus-babel Author's name and: Peter Heslin Location on CTAN: language/greek/package-babel/ibycus-babel Summary description: Compatibility package for using the Ibycus 4 Greek font with Babel License type: lppl Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package allows you to use the Ibycus 4 font for ancient Greek with Babel. It uses a Perl script to generate hyphenation patterns for Ibycus from those for the ordinary Babel encoding, cbgreek. It sets up ibycus as a pseudo-language you can specify in the normal Babel manner. For proper hyphenation of Greek quoted in mid-paragraph, you should use it with elatex. See the README for details. - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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CTAN package update: ledmacs
by Jim Hefferon 23 Aug '03

23 Aug '03

The ledmacs package has been updated at tug.ctan.org, and will soon work its way to your favorite local mirror. This package by Peter Wilson is for typesetting critical editions. I can be found in macros/latex/contrib/ledmacs. A .pdf version of the manual has been included. Thanks for the update, Jim Hefferon ftpmaint(a)tug.ctan.org ============================================================== >From the README file: The ledmac package is for typesetting critical editions. It is a LaTeX port of the plain TeX EDMAC and TABMAC macros. Users are warned that the package is still experimental. Do not rely on any part of it. Bug reports and suggestions will be welcome. Changes in version 0.2 (2003/08/16) o Added indexing by page and line number o Added simple tabular- and array-style environments

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Re: CTAN upload notification: pst-3dplot
by Rainer Schöpf 21 Aug '03

21 Aug '03

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 Herbert Voss submitted: > Name of contribution: pst-3dplot > Suggested location on CTAN: ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-3dplot/ > Summary description: plotting basic 3d objects and mathematical functions > License type: LaTeX Project > > Announcement text: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This version fixes small bugs and offers some > new options for drawing 3D math functions > > please replace all files in the dir > thanks > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update, I installed it in /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-3dplot For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: removal of CTAN directories fonts/psfonts/tools/mathptm(x)
by Rainer Schöpf 21 Aug '03

21 Aug '03

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Walter Schmidt wrote: > please remove the followng directories from CTAN: > > fonts/psfonts/tools/mathptm > fonts/psfonts/tools/mathptmx > > These are obsolete fontinst sources for the virtual Times > math fonts, which are used by the LaTeX packages mathptm and > mathptmx. The directories were created before I took over > PSNFSS. > > The current versions of these sources can be found in the > directory fonts/psfonts/psnfss-source, together with other > sources of the VFs for the PSNFSS collection. Thanks for letting us know, I deleted the two directories; this change will propagate to the other CTAN hosts in due course. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: euroitc
by Jim Hefferon 20 Aug '03

20 Aug '03

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make its way around the world to your favorite local mirror quite soon. Thanks, Jim Hefferon ftpmaint(a)tug.ctan.org ======================================================================= The following information was provided by our fellow contributor. Name of contribution: euroitc Author's name: R Schlicht Location on CTAN: fonts/euroitc Summary description: LaTeX interface for the ITC euro font symbols License type: lppl Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The `euroitc' package provides a LaTeX interface to the PostScript euro font symbols which are available free of charge from the International Typeface Corporation in 16 variants (serif and sanserif, in four weights, upright and italic). The package consists of the TeX font metrics, PS font map files, and a LaTeX style file. (The fonts themselves have to be downloaded from ITC.) Loading the package will define a new macro euro, which typesets the euro symbol, corresponding with the currently loaded font family, shape and weight. - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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CTAN upload notification: LaTeXDB
by Reinhard Zierke 18 Aug '03

18 Aug '03

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload ----- Name of contribution: LaTeXDB Name and email: Hans-Georg Eßer <h.g.esser(a)gmx.de> Suggested location on CTAN: macros Summary description: LaTeXDB integrates LaTeX and SQL databases License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LaTeXDB brings together LaTeX and a MySQL database. You can use SQL queries in your LaTeX document and loop over the result sets creating tables, serial letters, and other stuff. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- XML file: ********************************************************************** <?xml version=1.0?> <!DOCTYPE entry SYSTEM ../catalogue.dtd> <entry id=LaTeXDB datestamp=2003/08/16 modifier=ftpmaint(a)dante.ctan.org> <about> <name>LaTeXDB</name> <caption>LaTeXDB integrates LaTeX and SQL databases</caption> <author> <name>Hans-Georg Eßer</name> <email>h.g.esser(a)gmx.de</email> </author> <license type=gpl /> </about> <description> <abstract> LaTeXDB brings together LaTeX and a MySQL database. You can use SQL queries in your LaTeX document and loop over the result sets creating tables, serial letters, and other stuff. </abstract> </description> <distribution> <ctan>support/latexdb</ctan> </distribution> </entry> ********************************************************************** ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the upload. I copied the uploaded tar.gz file into CTAN:support/latexdb/, extracted the README file from the archive and added the above abstract to the README file. -- Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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Metapost 3D upload
by Reinhard Zierke 18 Aug '03

18 Aug '03

----- Forwarded message from Denis Roegel ----- I have uploaded a new version of my 3d metapost package on dante/incoming/mp3d.tar.gz This should completely replace ctan/graphics/metapost/macros/3d. This new version corresponds to the article published in TUGBOAT (volume 22, number 4, December 2001, pages 298-314). It contains in particular new features for space geometry drawings. ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the upload. I installed it as suggested replacing the old version in CTAN:graphics/metapost/macros/3d/ Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN upload notification: keystroke 1.5
by Rainer Schöpf 17 Aug '03

17 Aug '03

On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 Rolf Niepraschk submitted: > Name of contribution: keystroke 1.5 > Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/keystroke/ > Summary description: The LaTeX package `keystroke' provides macros for the graphical representation of the keys on a computer keyboard. > License type: GNU Project > > Announcement text: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This is a bug fix release (problem with the english option). > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update, I installed it. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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uploads at cambridge switched off for a month
by Robin Fairbairns 17 Aug '03

17 Aug '03

i have suppressed uploads (both via ftp and via http) at cambridge, until i come out of hospital some time around the middle of september 2003. i apologise for the inconvenience, but i am comforted by the fact that so few users upload at cambridge that the inconvenience is at least strictly limited. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: Upload of dvi2bitmap-0.11b1.tar.gz
by Robin Fairbairns 14 Aug '03

14 Aug '03

Norman Gray writes: > + what you've uploaded > > dvi2bitmap-0.11b1.tar.gz > > + which CTAN node you've uploaded to > > ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming > > + where you want the files to go > > /dviware/dvi2bitmap > replacing the distribution currently there > > + what licensing conditions you apply to your software > > gpl > > + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do. > > Major restructuring. > > Now a static/shareable library, libdvi2bitmap, which the dvi2bitmap > program now `merely' wraps. The library has extensive API > documentation, and is intended to be useful for other projects. > > Can read DVI files from a pipe. > > Internal bitmaps now automatically expandable. > > Documentation improvements, discussing optimal font and parameter > choices, and usage of dvi2bitmap as part of a batched workflow (ie, > fancy pipe plumbing). > > Builds using automake/libtool, so should (?!) be buildable on cygnus > systems (reports keenly appreciated). > > Various stability improvements; some speedups. > > Some minor option changes from 0.10 (which had major option changes > from previous versions); I hope these are the last such changes. i've (eventually) installed the package at dviware/dvi2bitmap. thanks for the upload. sorry about the delay: the load of being the only windows admin in the department has been slightly stressful over the last few days, for some reason. today, my colleague came back off holiday :-) Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN new package: viking
by Jim Hefferon 13 Aug '03

13 Aug '03

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should make its way to your favorite mirror in the next day or two. Thanks, Jim Hefferon ftpmaint(a)tug.ctan.org ======================================================================= The following information was provided by our fellow contributor. Name of contribution: Viking Author's name: Uwe Zimmermann Location on CTAN: fonts/archaic/viking Summary description: the Scandinavian runic alphabet as used by the vikings License type: lppl Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package VIKING contains the two 16 letter runic alphabets as used by the vikings in Scandinavia. It is based on the archaic font series by Peter Wilson and uses the same, simple installation and interface routines. - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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new version of fncylab.sty
by Robin Fairbairns 13 Aug '03

13 Aug '03

fncylab is a jiffy package that helps to change the way in which labels are defined. (the package itself contains the source of a small test/example document.) this new version adds a command Ref, suggested by Frank Mittelbach for the package. Ref is for use when referring to a fancy label at the start of a sentence: it capitalises the first letter of the label. Robin Fairbairns (prolific author of trivial packages) For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN submission --- chngpage.sty
by Robin Fairbairns 11 Aug '03

11 Aug '03

Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded chngpage.sty to UK incoming. Please use this to > replace the current macros/latex/contrib/misc/chngpage.sty. The > distribution is under the LPPL. > > Description: > Provides commands to change the page layout in the middle of a > document, and to robustly check for typeseting on odd or even > pages. > > Changes in v1.2 > o Odd page checking no longer limited to arabic page numbers thanks for the upload: i've installed the file as requested. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: upquote.sty
by Robin Fairbairns 11 Aug '03

11 Aug '03

Frank Mittelbach writes: > > could I ask you to update upquote.sty on CTAN for us? > > differences: > > - works for any typewriter font (old version forced cmtt) > > - is not hardwired to T1 encoding (or was it OT1 encoding, cant remember but > works with any encoding as it uses the official names extasciigrave > > - because of that requires std package textcomp thanks for the submission. i've installed the new version to replace the old macros/latex/contrib/upquote/upquote.sty Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: New version of the AE package
by Robin Fairbairns 10 Aug '03

10 Aug '03

Lars Engebretsen writes: > I have just uploaded a new version of the AE package, a set of virtual > fonts that emulate T1 encoded fonts with CM fonts, to cam.ctan.org. > The new version contains a bugfix: Apparently there are no ff, fi, fl, > ffi or ffl ligatures in cmr5, so the corresponding glyphs in aer5 > must be faked. > > Please replace all current files, which I believe reside in > /tex-archive/fonts/ae with the contents of the archive ae.tar.gz that > I put in /incoming on cam.ctan.org; licensing conditions are > unchanged. i've installed the files as requested. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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tug.ctan.org is back
by Jim Hefferon 06 Aug '03

06 Aug '03

The ftp://tug.ctan.org archive and its http://www.ctan.org front end are back up. Thank you for your patience. Jim Hefferon ftpmaint

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CTAN has a new package: ShLaTeX
by Jim Hefferon 06 Aug '03

06 Aug '03

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make its way to your favorite local mirror in the next day or two. Thanks for the upload, Jim ================================================================ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor. Name of contribution: ShLaTeX Author's name: Mael Hilléreau Location on CTAN: support/shlatex Summary description: LaTeX compilation script for Linux (written in Bash) License type: gpl Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This script allows to centralize the many program calls necessary to completely compile a LaTeX document. In particular, the multiple calls of the latex command necessary in order to create a table of contents, a bibliography or an index are carried out automatically. Are also managed the calls of the programs bibtex and makeindex as well as the vizualisation of the resulting file (in DVI, PostScript or PDF format) by calling an external program. It is possible to stress characters in documents which use the input and include commands to make references to some external files, and that in a transparent way by compiling only the main source file. Available in English and French languages. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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CTAN Upload - BaKoMa TeX 5.55 - SVG Gradients optimization
by Reinhard Zierke 05 Aug '03

05 Aug '03

----- Forwarded message from Basil K. Malyshev ----- I have uploaded to `ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma' directory update for BaKoMa TeX 5.55 (issued 1-Aug-2003). Please put the files to 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' directory. Most important improvement in BaKoMa TeX 5.55 is optimized embedding of gradient fills into generated SVG and PDF. Gradient fills are often used for Presentations, for example by nice styles of Prosper package. Most noticeable effect of optimization is in generated SVG: * generated files are much smaller, * they are displayed much faster (by any SVG Viewer), * gradients looks much better (in many SVG Viewers), * animations running over optimized gradients work much faster. Optimization of PDF files is less noticeable, however size of PDF files with gradient fills will be smaller. More information about changes is at: <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes5.html> This version has Patch status and may be freely installed by holders of NON-UPGRADABLE license for BaKoMa TeX 5.50. Bye. Basil K. Malyshev 5-Aug-2003 PS: Please send announce to appropriate mailing lists and news groups. --------------- About BaKoMa TeX 5.55 ---------------------- CONTENTS * Highlights * Graphical Capabilities * Fonts * User Interface * PDF Generation Features * HTML Generation features * New Features of BaKoMa TeX 5.55 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 * BaKoMa TeX is PostScript enabled TeX system. * Dynamical Preview allows the user to preview instantly selected region of the file being edited. (like to Instant Preview - http://www.activetex.org). ** Generates *PDF* from documents with *PSTricks*, *PSfrag*, etc. ** Generates *SVG* (PSTricks, Prosper + animations features). ** 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 OpenType/TrueType/Postscript fonts 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) OpenType, TrueType, and Postscript Type 1 fonts in almost one click. OpenType/Type1 fonts (OTF) are supported also under Windows 9x and NT 4.0 even without ATM. 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, * SVG (animation effects are supported), * 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. * Embedding ToUnicode CMAPs to support search and copy-paste of cyrillic and other international characters. * Handling 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. SVG GENERATION FEATURES BaKoMa TeX 5.50 introduces generation of SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) from a DVI files. Ability to add animation to the SVG output, makes it the best for producing high quality presentations. Sample of animated presentation is available at: ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/samples/index.html Key Features: SVG output is compatible with another output formats (PDF, PS, HTML, View, and Print) so, that the same graphical formats, font formats, and other features are supported. In details: * All TeX Formats (LaTeX 2e, LaTeX 2.09, AmSTeX, Plain TeX) are supported. * TeX extensions (e-TeX and Omega) are supported. * ALL LaTeX packages (including PSTricks, PSFrag, graphics, draftcopy, etc.) are supported. * Graphical formats: EPS, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, MSP, BMP, WMF, EMF, HPGL, and DXY are supported. * More generally, Any imported or embedded Postscript is supported. * Hyperref is supported, including outline and links. For Acrobatmenu most general commands (such as NextPage or PrevPage) are supported. * Popular presentation packages: Prosper, PDFScreen, PDFSlide, Seminar, etc. are supported. *** The existing presentations can be enhanced by adding animation. * All Font Types: OpenType (OTF/TTF), TrueType, Postscript Type1 (including MM), Postscript Type 3, and TeX PK are supported. *** NEW FEATURES OF BAKOMA TEX 5.55 in comparison with BAKOMA TEX 5.50 *** Most important improvement in BaKoMa TeX 5.55 is optimized embedding of gradient fills into generated SVG and PDF. Gradient fills are often used for Presentations, for example by nice styles of Prosper package. Most noticeable effect of optimization is in generated SVG: * generated files are much smaller, * they are displayed much faster (by any SVG Viewer), * gradients looks much better (in many SVG Viewers), * animations running over optimized gradients work much faster. Optimization of PDF files is less noticeable, however size of PDF files with gradient fills will be smaller. Optimization was done in two points: 1. implementation of `shfill' (Postscript Level 3) operator, which is efficiently converted into PDF and SVG; 2. extending of PST-GRAD.PRO (see BaKoMa/DVIPS directory) to use `shfill' operator when it is available. For more information 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 the new version as usual replacing the corresponding old files in CTAN:nonfree/systems/win32/bakoma/ Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN upload notification: pdfTeX 1.11a
by Reinhard Zierke 05 Aug '03

05 Aug '03

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload ----- Name of contribution: pdfTeX 1.11a Name and email: Martin Schröder <martin(a)pdftex.org> Suggested location on CTAN: systems/pdftex Summary description: A new stable version of pdfTeX License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Major changes since 1.10b ------------------------- - New command pdftrailer analogue to pdfcatalog whose argument ends up in the trailer dictionary. - The behaviour when an included pdf has a newer version than the one specified with pdfoptionpdfminorversion can be controlled by the new internal INT pdfoptionpdfinclusionerrorlevel: If it's 0, pdfTeX gives only a warning; if it's 1, it raises an error. This can also be set in pdftex.cfg with pdf_inclusion_errorlevel - The syntax for outlines has been extended to allow attributes: <outline spec> --> <attr spec> <action spec> [count <number>] <general text> See http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-pdftex/2003-June/000165.html - The syntax of pdfobj has been extended: pdfobj <object type spec> (h, v, m) <object type spec> --> reserveobjnum | [useobjnum <number>] [<attr spec>] [stream [<attr spec>]] <object contents> <object contents> --> <file spec> | <general text> When the optional keyword `reserveobjnum' and `useobjnum' is not given, the behaviour is unchanged. See also http://tug.org/mailman/htdig/pdftex/2003-March/003814.html - Bugfix: /CreationDate didn't care for the timezone and could be fooled. See http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-pdftex/2003-July/000223.html - Bugfix: The translation of 8-bit characters in included pdfs that had their eighth bit set sometimes got wrong because of a missing typecast. See http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-pdftex/2003-July/000216.html - Bugfix: pdfTeX -ini would crash with a minimal file because it didn't read it's config and so didn't know anything about fonts. See http://tug.org/pipermail/pdftex/2003-July/004262.html - Bugfix: pdfstartlink would produce spurious /NewWindow entries. Also the syntax of <action spec> and <goto-action spec> has been cleaned up. See http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-pdftex/2003-June/000167.html - Bugfix: pdffontattr was not used for T3 fonts. See http://tug.org/pipermail/pdftex/2003-June/004127.html - Bugfix: The cropbox of an included pdf would sometimes not be used. See http://tug.org/pipermail/pdftex/2003-May/004037.html - pdfTeX uses xpdf 2.02 %EOF the archive contains NEWS, README and pdftex.xml, which should be extracted and put alongside the archive. And pdftex.xml should go into the catalogue. :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. I installed it as suggested in CTAN:systems/pdftex Graham, can you please use systems/pdftex/pdftex.xml for the catalogue? Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN submission -- bardiag
by Reinhard Zierke 05 Aug '03

05 Aug '03

----- Forwarded message from R. Stepanyan ----- Please find below some information about BarDiag package, which I have recently uploaded to Your archive (ftp.dante.de). Name of the BarDiag v.0.4 contribution My name R. Stepanyan My email rstepanyan(a)yahoo.com Summary description package for drawing bar diagrams Suggested CTAN directory /graphics Short text for announcement: The main purpose of the package is to make the drawing of bar diagrams possible and easy in LaTeX. The BarDiag package is inspired and based on PSTricks. License lppl ----- End of rwarded message from R. Stepanyan ----- Thaks for the upload. I installed the package in CTAn:graphics/bardiag after a bit of cleaning up (removing .log and Emacs backup files, and renaming readme.txt to README to allow web browsers to show this file). Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN upload notification: beamer
by Reinhard Zierke 04 Aug '03

04 Aug '03

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload(a)nova.dante.de ----- Name of contribution: beamer Name and email: Till Tantau <tantau(a)cs.tu-berlin.de> Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/beamer Summary description: A LaTeX class for producing beamer presentation and slides License type: LaTeX Project Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The beamer class is a new LaTeX class for producing slides. It s functionality is similar to Prosper, but does not need any external programs and can directly produce a presentation using pdflatex. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the upload. I installed it as suggested in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/beamer Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN upload notification: png2pdf 1.0.1
by Reinhard Zierke 04 Aug '03

04 Aug '03

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload ----- A submission was uploaded to nova.dante.de:/ftp/incoming/upload-20030804.001/. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: png2pdf 1.0.1 Name and email: Dirk Krause <krause.dirk(a)web.de> Suggested location on CTAN: /support/png2pdf Summary description: PNG to PDF converter License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The png2pdf program converts PNG images to PDF. An alpha channel in the PNG file can be used to mix against a specified background color and/or to create a PDF image mask or PDF alpha channel. The program may be of interest for pdfLaTeX users creating posters, flyers having colored background. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the upload. I installed the new version as suggested in CTAN:support/png2pdf/. Additionally, I extracted the README file from the archive and put it in this directory too. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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tug.ctan.org to be offline for a few days
by Jim Hefferon 02 Aug '03

02 Aug '03

Because of a security situation, the ftp://tug.ctan.org archive and the http://www.ctan.org front end to that archive will be going down until at least Wed Aug 06 (US East Coast). The archives at http://www.tex.ac.uk and http://dante.ctan.org remain up. I apologize for the inconvience that this causes. Jim Hefferon ftpmaint(a)ug.ctan.org

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Re: CTAN upload notification: refstyle v0.2
by Robin Fairbairns 01 Aug '03

01 Aug '03

quoth the upload daemon at cam.ctan.org: > A submission was uploaded to /anfs/ctan-inc/upload-20030731.002/. > > The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: > > Name of contribution: refstyle v0.2 > Name and email: Danie Els <...> > Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/refstyle > Summary description: Advanced formatting of cross references > License type: LaTeX Project > > Announcement text: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The refstyle provides a consistent way of producing references > throughout a project. Enough flexibility is provided to make local > changes to a single reference. The user can configure his or own > setup. > > It has a direct interface to VARIOREF and namedref's from the > NAMEDREF package can easily be incorporated (if needed). For large > projects such as a series of books or a multi volume thesis, written > as freestanding documents, a facility is provided to interface to > the XR package for external document references. > > The REFSTYLE package is BABEL compliant in that all language > definitions are added to the extras<langauge> token list, enabling > local and global language changes through the BABEL language > changing commands. Afrikaans, Danish, English, German and Swedish > definitions are provided --- any other contributions will be > appreciated (PLEASE HELP!). > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thanks for the upload: i've installed the files as requested. users should note that the distribution is in a mini-texmf tree under macros/latex/contrib/refstyle Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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