ctan-ann December 2004

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CTAN update: xkeyval and pst-xkey packages
by CTAN Announcements 21 Dec '04

21 Dec '04

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Hendri Adriaens uploaded an update to his packages xkeyval (1.8a) and pst-xkey (1.2a) xkeyval is an extension of the keyval package and offers additional macros for setting keys and declaring and setting class or package options. The package allows the programmer to specify a prefix to the name of the macros it defines for keys, and to define families of key definitions; these all help use in documents where several packages define their own sets of keys. pst-xkey is an adaptation of the techniques of xkeyval to the needs of the family of packages associated with pstricks, so that those packages can safely, and with relative ease, use key-value syntax in their commands. License is lppl. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/xkeyval Announcement text: ----------------------------------------------- The updates are related to three small bugs that were discovered on 2004/12/20. Two are related to the support of the empty family (eg, for pstricks). The previous update avoided removing spaces from key and familynames and some macros were adjusted. I overlooked the fact that one of those macros removed the empty family from the list of families. The last bug that was solved was in reusing a macro that was redefined intermediately in case presets were used. I hope no more bugs will show up now. ------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the update For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN updates of l2tabu and l2tabuen packages
by CTAN Announcements 21 Dec '04

21 Dec '04

The packages l2tabu (Das LaTeX-Sündenregister (sins of LaTeX users), by Mark Trettin) and l2tabuen (English translation of l2tabu by Jürgen Fenn) have been updated on CTAN. Location on CTAN is info/l2tabu/{german,english} respectively. Summary description: Obsolete commands, packages and other common mistakes License type: Free (Open Publication License v1.0) Announcement text of l2tabu: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A small list of obsoleted commands and packages that are constantly posted in minimal examples to de.comp.text.tex. I further listed common mistakes (e.g. egin{appendix}...end{appendix} instead of appendix ...). This file should be considered an add-on to the available documentation like l2kurz and FAQs. This document is written in German. Changes: * fixed typos * caption.sty * euler vs. eulervm * TEXINPUTS vs. graphicspath * fixed colors for b/w printing * em changed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Announcement text of l2tabuen: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Apart from some minor changes, we have inserted a new section on how to use graphicspath. We also have added new crossreferences to usrguide, clsguide, and fntguide. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: NCCTOOLS
by Jim Hefferon 20 Dec '04

20 Dec '04

A package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks for the update, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: NCCTOOLS Author's name: Alexander I Rozhenko Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ncctools Summary description: All packages are documented and revised License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- In release 3.0, all packages are documented in .dtx files and revised. The new package, nccstretch, is introduced. The short guide ncctools.tex is prepared - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ncctools although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror of CTAN that is near to you; see http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors

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CTAN package update: ibycus-babel
by Jim Hefferon 20 Dec '04

20 Dec '04

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks for the contribution, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: ibycus-babel Author's name: Peter Heslin Location on CTAN: language/greek/package-babel/ibycus-babel/ Summary description: Integrate the Ibycus Greek font with Latex Babel License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 2.4 features a major rewrite of the Babel interface by Walter Schmidt. Many new features have been added and old limitations removed. Some functionality and some command names have changed, so consult the documentation if you are upgrading from a previous version. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/greek/package-babel/ibycus-babel/ although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror of CTAN that is near to you; see http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors

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Re: CTAN submission --- mempatch.sty (again)
by CTAN Announcements 20 Dec '04

20 Dec '04

Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded mempatch.sty to UK incoming. Please use this to replace > the current macros/latex/contrib/memoir/mempatch.sty. > > This provides further solutions to the memoir class's infelicities. i've installed the file, as macros/latex/contrib/memoir/mempatch.sty thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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New package on CTAN: extract
by CTAN Announcements 19 Dec '04

19 Dec '04

On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, Hendri Adriaens submitted a new package called extract License: LPPL Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/extract Package information: --------------------------------------------------------- The package provides the means to extract specific content from a source document and write that to a target document. One could, for instance, use this to extract all exercises from lecture notes and generate an exercises book on the fly. The package also provides an environment which writes its body entirely to the target file. Another environment will write to the target file, but will also execute the body. This allows to share code (for instance, a preamble) between the source document and the target file. Finally, the package provides an interface to conditionally extract content. With a single option in the usepackage command, one can specify exactly which commands (counted from the start of the document) should be extracted and which not. This might be useful for extracting specific slides from a presentation and use them in a new file. ----------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update -- hfoldsty
by CTAN Announcements 19 Dec '04

19 Dec '04

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Harald Harders submitted an update to the hfoldsty package. It contains a new version (1.13) of the hfoldsty virtual fonts. Location on CTAN: fonts/hfoldsty License stays gpl. >From the README: The hfoldsty package provides virtual fonts for using oldstyle (0123456789) figures with the European Computer Modern fonts. It does a similar job as the eco package by Sebastian Kirsch <skirsch(a)t-online.de> but includes a couple of improvements, e.g., better kerning with guillemets, support for character protruding using the pdfcprot package, arbitrary font sizes in conjunction with fix-cm.sty. ChangeLog: 2004/11/19 v1.13 Harald Harders (h.harders(a)tu-bs.de) - More errors in ProvidesFile line fixed. Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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New package on CTAN: CBcoptic
by CTAN Announcements 19 Dec '04

19 Dec '04

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 Claudio Beccari submitted a new bundle to CTAN: Name of bundle: CBcoptic Author's name: Claudio Beccari Location on CTAN: language/coptic/cbcoptic License type: lppl Summary description: This bundle provides Coptic fonts in Metafont source and in pfb type1 format and the necessary files for using them in a LaTeX environment, with a certain amount of macros for philological applications. Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CBcoptic is a bundle of files for typesetting Coptic philological text with the proper fonts and hyphenation; the bundle includes also font descrition files, METAFONT sources and the type 1 Poscript equivalent fonts in pfb format. There are available also e certain number of macros of philological interest in an accompanying sty file. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: toil and tif2eps
by CTAN Announcements 17 Dec '04

17 Dec '04

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Staszek Wawrykiewicz submitted updates to the following packages: tif2eps ver. 0.77 date: 10.12.2004 authors: Boguslaw Jackowski, P. Pianowski and P. Strzelczyk license: GPL Location on CTAN: support/pstools/tif2eps TIF2EPS is a PostScript program for the conversion of TIFF files (ver. 6.0) to EPS ones. Compression (LZW, CCITT Fax, RLE, Flate, DCT) and ASCII85 encoding is available. The package may be used for generating colour- separated EPSes, `EPS thumbnails,' and, moreover, little header EPSes, containing only a pointer to a source TIFF file. Employing Ghostscript guarantees portability and efficient processing. -------- toil ver. 1.07 date: 15.12.2004 authors: Boguslaw Jackowski, P. Pianowski and P. Strzelczyk license: PD Location on CTAN: fonts/utilities/t1install/toil A flexible, AWK+MetaFont-based Type One Install utiLity which facilitates installation of Adobe Type 1 fonts for (plain) TeX; an alternative for afm2tfm; starting from version 1.04, includes an option that enables neutralizing sidebars (via implicit kerning mechanism); currently, the scripts are available for DOS (but adaptable for U*X). Thanks for the upload, For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN submission --- mempatch.sty (Patch file for memoir class)
by CTAN Announcements 16 Dec '04

16 Dec '04

Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded mempatch.sty to UK incoming. Please use this to replace > the current macros/latex/contrib/memoir/mempatch.sty > > mempatch.sty fixes all the known problems with the memoir class. If it > is on the system it is automatically used by memoir.cls. i have installed the file as required. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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