ctan-ann June 2004

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New release of the free TeX System VTeX/Free
by Reinhard Zierke 30 Jun '04

30 Jun '04

----- Forwarded message from Walter Schmidt ----- ============================================================ VTeX/Free 8.44/8.46 for OS/2 and Linux ============================================================ A new release of the free TeX System VTeX/Free for OS/2 and Linux (x86) is available from ftp://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/vtex and will soon propagate to the other CTAN nodes. About VTeX/Free ---------------- VTeX/Free is a TeX distribution, which is built around the VTeX program. VTeX is an implementation of the TeX typesetting engine, including the eTeX extensions. VTeX can generate PDF or PostScript output immediately from the TeX source file. The distribution includes Plain TeX, a LaTeX system with many additional packages and fonts, and the Bibtex and Makeindex programs. VTeX is developed by MicroPress Inc. In contrast to traditional TeX systems, no intermediate DVI files need to be generated, no DVI driver programs are required, and there is no need to take care of their sometimes fussy setup. The common PostScript and PDF viewers Ghostscript and Adobe Reader (Acrobat) are to be used for (pre)viewing and printing. Output from VTeX is immediately suitable for public distribution, e.g., over the www, since PDF and PostScript are standardized document formats. Actually, VTeX/Free is a port of MicroPress' commercial TeX system VTeX for the Windows platform, see <http://www.micropress-inc.com>. However, the free distribution does not include the GUI and certain tools of VTeX/Win, and it does not support HTML and SVG generation. VTeX/Free comes in two variants: * VTeX/2 is for the OS/2 operating system * VTeX/Lnx is for Linux (on the x86 platform only) VTeX has a built-in Postcript interpreter and supports * inclusion of PostScript images, * inclusion of PDF images, * inclusion of bitmap images (PNG, JPG, TIFF and others), * inline PostScript programming. Thus, packages such as PStricks, PSfrag and draftcopy can be used with VTeX. and are part of the distribution. The hyperref features are supported in both PDF and PostScript mode. PDF encryption is available without external tools. Beside the standard Computer Modern fonts, VTeX/Free includes lots of other free Type1 fonts and the macro packages to use them: * European Computer Modern (EC/TC fonts) * URW's clones of the 35 PostScript base fonts * Pazo Math fonts * the AMS math fonts (Symbols, Euler, Fraktur and others) * various special math fonts: RSFS, WASY, St-Mary-Road, Doublestroke, esint, esvect * the Ibycus 4 system and its Greek typefaces * the ArabTeX system with Arab and Hebrew typefaces * the CJHebrew package with Hebrew typefaces * TIPA (phonetic) typefaces * BrushScriptX-Italic * various symbol fonts: MarVoSym, Cheq, Context navigation symbols, MF-Logo What is new in the currect release? ----------------------------------- * v8.44 of the VTeX compiler for OS/2, v8.46 on Linux * latest LaTeX * additional fonts: Fourier, CJHebrew, esint * ... and more, see the file <ftp://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/vtex/NEWS> NB: The previous distribution site ftp.uni-erlangen.de is NO LONGER IN USE. Please, do not attempt to download VTeX/Free from this site any longer! ----- End forwarded message ----- Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN package name change: stanpage to stdpage
by Jim Hefferon 28 Jun '04

28 Jun '04

Please note that the stanpage package has been renamed stdpage. Jim Hefferon

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CTAN submission -- pdfcrop v1.5
by Reinhard Zierke 25 Jun '04

25 Jun '04

----- Forwarded message from Heiko Oberdiek ----- I have uploaded `pdfcrop.zip' in the /incoming directory of ftp.dante.de. It replaces the files in CTAN:support/pdfcrop/ License remains LPPL 1.2 Current version is 1.5, changes: 2002/11/23 v1.3: Use of File::Spec module's devnull call. 2002/11/29 v1.4: Option --papersize added. 2004/06/24 v1.5: Clear map file entries so that pdfTeX does not touch the fonts. _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. I installed it as suggested replacing the previous version pdfcrop 1.2 in CTAN:support/pdfcrop/ Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: mentis
by Jim Hefferon 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should make its way to your favorite mirror soon. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: mentis Author's name: Georg Michael Verweyen Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/mentis Summary description: Provides adjustments for publishing at mentis publishers in Paderborn, Germany. License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This LaTeX class provides adjustments for publishing at mentis publishers in Paderborn, Germany. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mentis 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 has a new package: stanpage
by Jim Hefferon 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

A new package has been installed at 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: stanpage Author's name: Georg Michael Verweyen Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/stanpage Summary description: Produces standard pages with n lines, at most m characters each. For instance the German Normseite: 60 lines of 30 characters each. License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For translations, proofreading, journal contributions etc. standard pages are used. Those standard pages consist of a fixed number of lines and characters per line. This package produces pages with n lines of at most m characters each. For instance the German Normseite: 60 lines of 30 characters each. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/stanpage 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: Upload
by Robin Fairbairns 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

Herbert Voss writes: > I just uploaded pst-grad.tgz to the uk mirror. > Please replace the following files. > > > VERSION /graphics/pstricks/ > pst-grad.pro /graphics/pstricks/dvips/ > pst-grad.tex /graphics/pstricks/generic/ > > > This new version has the option CircleGradient to > build also circled gradients. It is the code which was > published some time ago in the pstricks mailing list. i've installed the files as requested; thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: pst-math
by Jim Hefferon 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should make its way to your favorite mirror real soon. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: pst-math Author's name: Christophe Jorssen Location on CTAN: graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-math Summary description: Enhancement of postscript math operators to use with pstricks License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Postscript lacks a lot of basic operators such as tan, acos, asin, cosh, sinh, tanh, acosh, asinh, atanh, exp (with e base). Also, cos and sin give result in degrees. pst-math provides all those operators in a header file pst-math.pro with wrappers pst-math.sty and pst-math.tex. In addition, sinc, gauss, gammaln and bessel are implemented (only partially for the latter). pst-math is designed essentially to work with pst-plot but can be used in whatever PS code (such as pstricks SpecialCoor !, useful to put labels). This work is in progress! PS is limited to single precision so complex operators like gammaln can give erroneous results. Any help on implementing double precision math in PS would be highly appreciated :-) - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-math 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 upload notification: Tapir font
by Reinhard Zierke 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload ----- The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Tapir Name and email: mitek <mitek(a)email.cz> Suggested location on CTAN: fonts Summary description: A simple geometrical font License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 'Tapir' is a simple geometrical font mostly created from line and circular segments with constant thickness. The character set contains all characters in the range 0-127 and also accented characters used in Czech language. For a rendered example of the font see the file tapir.pdf. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the upload. I installed this font in CTAN:fonts/tapir. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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v1.1 of TeX Directory Structure document
by Reinhard Zierke 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

----- Forwarded message from Karl Berry <karl(a)freefriends.org> ----- After a lengthy review process, I've released version 1.1 of the TeX Directory Structure (TDS) document. HTML: http://tug.org/tds/ PDF: http://tug.org/tds/tds.pdf DVI: http://tug.org/tds/tds.dvi sources and all output: ftp://tug.org/tex/tds/ It should propagate to CTAN (in the top-level tds directory) shortly. Here is the summary of the non-editorial changes: * Inputs for TeX extensions included under `tex', instead of in their own top-level directories. * New top-level directory `scripts'. * New subdirectories `lig', `opentype', `truetype', and `type3' under `fonts'. * `enc', `lig', and `map' all use `SYNTAX/PACKAGE' subdirectories. * `pfm' files specified to go under `type1', and `inf' files under `afm'. There is more information and rationale for each of these changes cross-referenced in the document. Happy TeX structuring, Karl Berry (on behalf of the TDS working group) ----- End forwarded message ----- Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN upload notification: MnSymbol
by Reinhard Zierke 21 Jun '04

21 Jun '04

----- Forwarded message from Achim Blumensath ----- Name of contribution: MnSymbol Name and email: Achim Blumensath <blume(a)i7.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> Suggested location on CTAN: fonts/MnSymbol Summary description: math symbol font for Adobe MinionPro License type: pd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MnSymbol is a math symbol font designed for use in conjunction with Adobe MinionPro. It includes most symbols from cmsy, cmex, and the AMS symbol fonts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. I installed is at suggested in CTAN:fonts/MnSymbol Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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ctan-ann June 2004