ctan-ann July 2004

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Re: cam.ctan.org upload: glossary
by Robin Fairbairns 30 Jul '04

30 Jul '04

Nicola Talbot writes (through the magic of the upload daemon): > Name of contribution: glossary > Author's name: Nicola Talbot > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/glossary > Summary description: Create a glossary > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The package glossary.sty is provided to assist generating a glossary > with makeindex. It has a certain amount of flexibility allowing the > user to customize the format of the glossary and define new > glossary-style objects so that you can have more than one type of > glossary in your document. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > You can have a look at the package at > http://http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/glossary/ > although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror > of CTAN that is near to you; see > http://http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/README.mirrors thanks for the upload; installed as requested. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: acronym-1.13 uploaded
by Robin Fairbairns 29 Jul '04

29 Jul '04

Tobias Oetiker writes: > I have uploaded acronym-1.13 to ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming/acronym-1.13. > > If you think it is appropriate, announce it please. i renamed readme to README for the benefit of the web server, but otherwise i've installed exactly what you uploaded in macros/latex/contrib/acronym thanks for the upload. i think the changes are enough to justify advertisement to the world at large: > Recent Changes: > --------------------------------------------------- > Version 1.13 (July 2004): deflist renamed to AC@deflist to > avoid unnecessary nameing conflict. > -- Peter May <peter.may(a)philips.com> > > Version 1.13 (July 2004): printonlyused was not working anymore > -- Tobi Oetiker <oetiker(a)ee.ethz.ch> > > Version 1.13 (July 2004): if the footnote option was on, footnotes were > printed for ALL acronyms ALL the time, this looked rather odd if the same > acronym was used more than once on the same page. Changed it so that > footnote printing follows the same rules as normal acronym printing (only > print footnote first time). One might think about changeing this, so that > either footnotes get printed 'once' per page. Or that the footnote marks are > issued once per acronym and page, so that all instances of the same acronym > on a page get the same footnote mark. Feel free to contribute patches. > -- Tobi Oetiker <oetiker(a)ee.ethz.ch> > > Version 1.12 (June 2004): Make acronyms robust and compatible > with pdf bookmarks. > -- Danie Els <dnjels(a)sun.ac.za> Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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cam.ctan.org, {ftp,rsync,www}.tex.ac.uk down sun 1 aug
by Robin Fairbairns 29 Jul '04

29 Jul '04

the central cambridge university switches, etc., will all be down from about 08:00 to 17:00 next sunday 2004-08-01. the university will keep needing more central facilities and the entire backup power supply is to be replaced. as a result, all the cambridge ctan services will be inaccessible for that period. (we don't take power from the centre, so at least our machines ought to survive the down-time.) my apologies for the inconvenience; among other things, it will allow even more under-used bandwidth to the cambridge ctan. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: Upload
by Robin Fairbairns 29 Jul '04

29 Jul '04

Herbert Voss writes: > I am just uploading pst-3dplot.tgz to the UK mirror. > Please delete _all_ files in the directory > > graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-3dplot/ > > and put the new ones in there. i've installed the new files as requested. > The 1.35 version of pst-3dplot, a PSTricks related package > contains several bugfixes (spurious blanks) and provides > now ticklines and labels for the 3D-axes. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN upload notification: bmeps-1.0.9
by Rainer Schöpf 29 Jul '04

29 Jul '04

Dirk Krause uploaded a new version of his bmeps package. > Name of contribution: bmeps-1.0.9 > Suggested location on CTAN: /support/bmeps > Summary description: Converter from PNG/JPEG/NetPBM to EPS > License type: lgpl > > Announcement text: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This update minimizes interferences between the image produced > by bmeps and the enclosing document by: (1) suppressing the > showpage operator unless required explicitely (option -o), > (2) undefining the /pstr and /inputf dictionary entries > after usage and (3) using a separate dictionary which is > removed at the end of file (Option -u). Garbage collection via > 1 vmreclaim can be forced using the -r option. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The new version has been installed in support/bmeps For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN upload notification: TeXPower bundle version 0.1b
by Rainer Schöpf 27 Jul '04

27 Jul '04

On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 Hans Fredrik Nordhaug submitted an update to the texpower package to CTAN: > Name of contribution: TeXPower bundle version 0.1b > Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/texpower > Summary description: Creating dynamic online presentations with LaTeX > License type: gpl > > Announcement text: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The TeXPower bundle consists of the TeXPower package, the powersem > class and the tpslifonts package. The main author is Stephan Lehmke. > > Changes in texpower.sty since v0.0.9d: > > - Removed font stuff (now resides in tpslifonts.sty). > - Fixed display errors with some packages like pdfscreen related to shipout > - Color management extended a little to integrate better with LaTeX. > - Made step-like commands give better error messages when outside stepwise. > - Moved source to dtx-format. This made the examples/demos much easier to read. > > Other changes in texpower bundle since v0.0.9d: > > - powersem.cls and tpslifonts.sty now in dtx format. (No other changes.) > - tpslifonts documentation moved out of manual.tex and into tpslifonts.dtx > - manual updated, only minor changes. > - tplists.sty. New (experimental) addon package for texpower which provides easy > dynamic lists. Currently there are stepped, flipped and dimmed versions of > itemize and enumerate (and corresponding lists from the eqlist and paralist > package). > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for your upload, I installed the new version in macros/latex/contrib/texpower The old version in macros/latex/exptl/texpower I replaced with a symlink to the new version. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN upload notification: CVsty
by Rainer Schöpf 27 Jul '04

27 Jul '04

On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 Marcou Gilles and Antonio Pereira submiited a new package to CTAN: > Name of contribution: CVsty > Summary description: Yet another sty for easy CV pagination > License type: pd > > Announcement text: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This package contains a proposition for making CV presentation more > easy. The sty file define new space for the page, and allows new > control of the presentation. A tex file give an example of CV. Yet, a > CV reflects your personality. We encourage you to edit that sty and > modify it as you prefer and to play with pagination of your CV as much > as possible. > > Have Fun! > > G. Marcou, A. Pereira > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for your submission. I installed your package as macros/latex/contrib/cvsty (macros/latex/contrib/cv already being there ) For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN upload notification: latexdiff
by Rainer Schöpf 27 Jul '04

27 Jul '04

On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 Frederik Tilmann submitted a new package to CTAN: > Name of contribution: latexdiff > Suggested location on CTAN: support > Summary description: latexdiff - determine and mark up significant differences between latex files > License type: gpl > > Announcement text: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > latexdiff is a script-based system for visual mark up and revision of > significant differences between two latex files. > > latexdiff is a PERL script, which compares two latex files and marks > up significant differences between them. Various options are > available for visual markup using standard latex packages such as > color.sty. Changes not directly affecting visible text, for example > in formatting commands, are still marked in the latex source. > > A rudimentary revision facilility is provided by another PERL script, > latexrevise, which accepts or rejects all changes. Manual > editing of the difference file can be used to override this default > behaviour and accept or reject selected changes only. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload, I installed your package in support/latexdiff For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: cam.ctan.org upload: probsoln
by Robin Fairbairns 24 Jul '04

24 Jul '04

> An upload to cam.ctan.org is in /anfs/ctan-inc/upload-20040724-182436/ > > ====================================================================== > > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: probsoln > Author's name: Nicola Talbot > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/probsoln > Summary description: generate problem sheets and their solution sheets > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The package probsoln.sty is designed for lecturers who have to > generate new problem sheets for their students on a regular basis > (e.g. yearly) by randomly selecting a specified number of problems > defined in another file. This means that you can easily generate a > new problem sheet that is different from the previous year, thus > alieviating the temptation of students to seek out the previous > year's students and checking out their answers. The solutions to the > problems can be defined along with the problem, making it easy to > generate the solution sheet from the same source code. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > You can have a look at the package at > http://http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/probsoln > although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror > of CTAN that is near to you; see > http://http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/README.mirrors thanks for the upload. i've now installed it as i've indicated. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN: ttb changes
by Jim Hefferon 22 Jul '04

22 Jul '04

The package that I installed yesterday as info/biblio/ttb has been put in info/bibtex/tamethebeast . You can look at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/bibtex/tamethebeast Note in particular that the .pdf now works. (Who knew that saving a .pdf from acrobat by printing to a file would cause it to come out as PostScript document text conforming at level 3.0?) Thank you to the folks who noticed the error, Jim Hefferon

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