ctan-ann August 2003

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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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