ctan-ann April 2004

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CTAN has a new package: a2ping
by Jim Hefferon 21 Apr '04

21 Apr '04

A new one has been installed to tug.ctan.org. It should appear at your favorite mirror very soon, if indeed it is not already there. Thanks, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: a2ping Author's name: Szabó Péter Location on CTAN: graphics/a2ping Summary description: advanced PS, PDF, EPS converter License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- a2ping is a UNIX command line utility written in Perl that converts many raster image and vector graphics formats to EPS or PDF and other page description formats. Accepted input file formats are: PS (PostScript), EPS, PDF, PNG, JPEG, TIFF, PNM, BMP, GIF, LBM, XPM, PCX, TGA. Accepted output formats are: EPS, PCL5, PDF, PDF1, PBM, PGM, PPM, PS, markedEPS, markedPS, PNG, XWD, BMP, TIFF, JPEG, GIF, XPM. a2ping delegates the low-level work to Ghostscript (GS), pdftops and sam2p. a2ping fixes many glitches during the EPS to EPS conversion, so its output is often more compatible and better embeddable than its input. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/a2ping 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 submission -- Version 2.20 of beamer
by Reinhard Zierke 20 Apr '04

20 Apr '04

----- Forwarded message from Till Tantau ----- Dear CTAN Team, I have put version 2.20 of beamer on fpt://ftp.dante.de/incoming/latex-beamer-2.20.tar.gz. Change log: Version 2.20 Added: - Added style Separator in LyX. - Added multimedia.sty for movie and sound inclusion. - Added evil allowframebreaks option to frames for automatic frame breaking. - Added evil shrink option for automatic frame text shrinking. - Added squeeze option to frames for squeezing more on a frame. - Added framesubtitle command. - Added subtitle command. - Added subject command. - Added option usepdftitle=false to suppress automatic generation of author and title entries in pdf document info. - Added framezoom command. - Added new version of beamer.el, due to Thomas Baumann. Changes: - FoilTeX emulation will now do automatic page breaking. - Empty lines in Standard lyx style will no longer be kept, use an empty Separator line instead. - Changed the qed symbol to an open rectangle. - The way frame titles are typeset is completely different now, internally. Under normal circumstance you should not notice any differences, but if you do wicked things with the frame titles, problems might arise. Bugfixes: - Fixed definition of overlayarea to give better spacing. - Fixed problem with persisting background color and dvips. - Fixed zillions of typos in the user's guide spotted by Xavier Noria and Uwe Stoer. - Fixed unrobust definition of \. ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the upload. As usual, I have replaced the previos version in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/beamer with the new one. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN upload notification: AuriocusKallgraphicus (aurical)
by Reinhard Zierke 20 Apr '04

20 Apr '04

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload ----- Name of contribution: AuriocusKallgraphicus (aurical) Name and email: Christian Gollwitzer Suggested location on CTAN: fonts/aurical Summary description: Calligraphic font for LaTeX in T1-encoding License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Aurical is the short name for the font AuriocusKalligraphicus. It implements a calligraphic font resembling my handwriting in Type1-Format, T1/Cork encoding for use with LaTeX. Some glyphs are still missing, and there is not yet exhaustive kerning information. Apart from that, the font may be useful for invitations or informal texts, as it looks calligraphic, nevertheless is quite readable. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. I installed this new font as suggested in CTAN:fonts/aurical Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: LaTeX for Autoconf
by Jim Hefferon 19 Apr '04

19 Apr '04

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and it should make its way to your favorite mirror in a day or two. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: LaTeX for Autoconf Author's name: Boretti Mathieu Location on CTAN: tools/autoconf Summary description: Autoconf macros to test for the presence of LaTeX License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LaTeX for Autoconf is a set of macro to test if latex is installed or if some package exists or .... These macro are in the M4 language. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/tools/autoconf 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 XML file: ********************************************************************** <?xml version=1.0?> <!DOCTYPE entry SYSTEM ../catalogue.dtd> <entry id=autoconf datestamp=2004/04/19 modifier=ftpmaint(a)tug.ctan.org> <about> <name>LaTeX for Autoconf</name> <caption>Autoconf macros to test for the presence of LaTeX</caption> <author> <name>Boretti Mathieu</name> <email>boretti(a)bss-network.com</email> </author> <license type=gpl /> </about> <description> <abstract> LaTeX for Autoconf is a set of macro to test if latex is installed or if some package exists or .... These macro are in the M4 language. </abstract> </description> <distribution> <ctan>tools/autoconf</ctan> </distribution> </entry> **********************************************************************

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Re: New software for mailing list ctan-ann
by Rainer Schöpf 19 Apr '04

19 Apr '04

On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, James H. Cloos Jr. wrote: > As I'm sure everyone has already discovered, ctan-ann-request is still > pointing at majordomo, so mailed mailman confirm replies end up there > instead of going to mailman. Yes, thanks for pointing it out. I changed ctan-ann-request to point to mailman. > Workaround is to GET the url in the confirm request instead of > replying to the message. Indeed. And it allows to set various useful options. Rainer

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New software for mailing list ctan-ann
by Rainer Schöpf 18 Apr '04

18 Apr '04

Dear CTAN-ANN list member, during the next week the ctan-ann mailing list will be changed to use a new mailing list software, namely GNU Mailman. Today you will receive an automatically generated message explaining how to confirm your subscription to this new incarnation of the ctan-ann mailing list. Until next weekend, messages will still be sent via the old (majordomo) software. Afterwards, they will be sent using the new software. This means: if you do not confirm your subscription until next weekend, you will not see new messages after that time. However, these messages will be archived can be accessed using the web interface. Thank you for your cooperation Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN upload notification: ptptex
by Reinhard Zierke 16 Apr '04

16 Apr '04

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload ----- Name of contribution: ptptex Name and email: Publication Office, Progress of Theoretical Physics <ptp(a)yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp> Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ptptex Summary description: Latex2e class files for Progress of Theoretical Physics License type: nocommercial Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package includes the main class file, related style files and manual for ptptex, which is the standard tex format file for the journal, Progress of Theoretical Physics. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- XML file: ********************************************************************** <?xml version=1.0?> <!DOCTYPE entry SYSTEM ../catalogue.dtd> <entry id=ptptex datestamp=2004/04/15 modifier=ftpmaint(a)dante.ctan.org> <about> <name>ptptex</name> <caption>Latex2e class files for Progress of Theoretical Physics</caption> <author> <name>Publication Office, Progress of Theoretical Physics</name> <email>ptp(a)yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp</email> </author> <license type=nocommercial /> </about> <description> <abstract> The package includes the main class file, related style files and manual for ptptex, which is the standard tex format file for the journal, Progress of Theoretical Physics. </abstract> </description> <distribution> <ctan>macros/latex/contrib/ptptex</ctan> </distribution> </entry> ********************************************************************** ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the upload. I installed this new packages as suggested in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/ptptex Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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Re: dante:/incoming/lm.zip
by Rainer Schöpf 15 Apr '04

15 Apr '04

On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, Staszek Wawrykiewicz wrote: > I've just uploaded to dante:/incoming/lm.zip > it contains ver. 0.92 of LM fonts (corrected and added kerning). Thanks for your update. I installed the new files in fonts/ps-type1/lm For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN submission -- kerntest v1.32
by Rainer Schöpf 15 Apr '04

15 Apr '04

On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Harald Harders wrote: > I have uploaded kerntest-v1_32.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de. Please replace all > files in ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/kerntest/ by > its contents. License stays LPPL. Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested, in macros/latex/contrib/kerntest > >From the README: > > Print tables and generate mtx files that help to adjust kernings > > This class makes it easy to generate tables that show many different > kerning pairs of an arbitrary font, usable by LaTeX. > It shows the kerning values that are used by the the font by default. > > In addition, this class enables the user to alternate the kernings > and to observe the results. > Kerning pairs can be defined for groups of similar glyphs at once. > Automatically, an mtx file is generated that can be loaded by > fontinst to introduce the user-made kernings into the virtual font > for LaTeX. > > > >From the ChangeLog: > > v1.32 2004/04/13 Harald Harders (h.harders(a)tu-bs.de) > - Direct access on glyph names instead of parsing getpsname. > - Speed up writemtxkern, defglyphclass, ifglyphinclass, and > @ifglyphinclass (in total, app. factor 20). > - Allow to set relative kerning widths in glyph classes. > - Do not scale Helvetica by default because this breaks > testing Helvetica. > > v1.31 2004/04/13 Harald Harders (h.harders(a)tu-bs.de) > - Use setleftkerning and setrightkerning instead of writing > every kerning pair. > > v1.30 2004/04/12 Harald Harders (h.harders(a)tu-bs.de) > - Add encodings OT1, T2A, T2B, and LY1. > - Template for OT1 encoding. > - Parameter-dependent encodings (for example with or without > ligatures). > - New option designsize for giving the design size of the font > explicitely. > > v1.11 2004/04/06 Harald Harders (h.harders(a)tu-bs.de) > - Allow to give glyphs by number (decimal, hex, octal) or by > PostScript name. > - Write glyph name to table. > - Find and complain inconsistent kerning data. > - Introduce glyph classes to set the kerning for similar glyph > shapes by once. > - Reduce left margin. > > Yours > Harald > > For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Documentation policy for packages on CTAN
by Robin Fairbairns 15 Apr '04

15 Apr '04

Documentation of packages on CTAN ================================= For a long time, the CTAN team has relied on the users to find their own way to package documentation. This reliance is proving increasingly unsatisfactory, and we hope to improve things for archive users, at the cost of some extra work by package authors. Our aim is that all packages should have with them, on the archive, a documentation file. Since we want these files to be browsable, we would ordinarily expect that the documentation be provided as an Acrobat (.pdf) file; plain text (.txt) is just about acceptable, Postscript and DVI are definitely not acceptable. We are aware that this is a mammoth aim; it is not something the CTAN team could even hope to do unaided, even if we wanted to. How does this affect _you_? --------------------------- If you're merely browsing the archive (or downloading files), you should be aware that it will be worth looking for a separate file of documentation with packages of interest. (There are not many there, yet, but things should improve.) If you're an author submitting a new or revised package, you will need to consider how best to supply documentation. For many LaTeX package authors, no more is needed than to run the documented source file (.dtx) with pdfLaTeX, and to submit the result when submitting your package. Some packages come with separate documentation: that documentation should be distributed in pdf form. If you're the author of an established package, please try to find the time to submit a documentation file. If you're an author, and unsure how to proceed, please contact the CTAN team via ctan(a)dante.de to discuss your issues. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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