ctan-ann October 2005

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CTAN upload: lshort-vietnamese
by CTAN Announcements 31 Oct '05

31 Oct '05

On Sat, 29 Oct 2005, Reinhard Kotucha submitted a Vietnamese translation of lshort, the not so short introduction to Latex to CTAN. Description: The not so Short Introduction to LaTeX, Vietnamese edition. Original Author: T.Oetiker, H.Partl, E.Schlegl, I.Hyna Translator: Nguyen Tan Khoa License of the translation: LPPL, version 1.3 or newer, according to http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: microtype
by CTAN Announcements 28 Oct '05

28 Oct '05

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: microtype Author's name: R Schlicht Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/microtype Summary description: An interface to the micro-typographic extensions of pdfTeX License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes in version 1.9 ======================= * Support for context-sensitive setup; different settings may be applied to different parts of the document (e.g. depending on the language); new command microtypecontext to change the configuration context; new key `context' for the configuration commands * New command DisableLigatures to disable ligatures of a font or set of fonts; this is especially useful for T1 encoded typewriter fonts (requires pdfTeX version 1.30 or later) * New key `font' to add single fonts to the font sets * New key `preset' to set all characters to the specified value before loading the lists * Support for the Polish OT4 encoding (protrusion, expansion, inheritance) * Support for the Vietnamese T5 encoding (protrusion, expansion, inheritance) * `unit=relative' renamed to `unit=character' * `DVIoutput' will work with TeXLive 2004 A preview of the next version is also included, which supports the new experimental extensions of pdfTeX: adjustment of interword spacing (glue) and the possibility to specify additional character kerning. The former may improve the appearance of the text even more, the latter allows for instance to insert small spaces before certain characters (e. g., for typesetting in the French tradition) without having to use active characters; also, letterspacing can be implemented in a robust way (albeit prohibiting hyphenation -- this may change in the future!). Currently, these extensions are only available through patches from http://pdftex.sarovar.org/. To generate the extended version of the `microtype' package and its documentation, simply remove the comments before `etatrueâ€™ near the beginning of microtype.ins and microtype.dtx. Changes in version 2.0-beta ============================ * Support for the new experimental extensions of pdfTeX: adjustment of interword spacing (glue), and additional kerning (requires pdfTeX 1.30.3 plus patches); new commands SetExtraSpacing and SetExtraKerning; new options `spacing', `kerning' * New option `babel' to activate automatic adjustment to the `babel' package * New commands extls and lsstyle for letterspacing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive//macros/latex/contrib/microtype . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN package update: LaTeXPiX
by CTAN Announcements 28 Oct '05

28 Oct '05

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you for the material, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: LaTeXPiX Author's name: N.J.H.M. van Beurden Location on CTAN: /As is Summary description: As is License type: nosource Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The nineteenth CTAN release has the following improvements: * Zoom functionality started (use + and - keys). Selecting, moving, resizing and drawing objects in zoomed position is possible. * Open/close polygon/spline worked also on other objects, causing strange behaviour. * Offset of horizontal and vertical scrollbars caused wrong preview markers when moving splines. * Logfile automatically saved on exit or exception when logging is put on in the preferences menu. * Program hanged when text form is closed by pressing the close window icon on the form. * Added quick editing for ovals. * Strange resize boxes appearing, bug reported by Robert Rutten. * Line number visible on viewer for script and converted files. * Changed coordinates (via edit coordinates) were not shown and screen was not refreshed. Bug reported by Steven Harrod. * Opening preview log file had some bugs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/latexpix . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: lineno.sty v4.4 (revising submissions; supporting ednotes.sty for criticial editions)
by CTAN Announcements 28 Oct '05

28 Oct '05

On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Uwe Lück submitted updates to the lineno and ednotes packages. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/lineno/ and /macro/latex/contrib/ednotes Summary description: Update: more natural spacing License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Better vertical spacing when a math display or a list meats an equatation; or when a paragraph ends together with a column. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: References v4.2
by CTAN Announcements 28 Oct '05

28 Oct '05

On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Volker Kiefel submitted a new version of the references package. Location on CTAN: support/references License: gpl Summary: REFERENCES is bibliographic software for authors of scientific manuscripts and for management of bibliographic data of ARTICLES IN JOURNALS, of BOOKS, of CHAPTERS IN BOOKS and other document types including notes and electronic documents. REFERENCES supports LaTeX including BibTeX. Bibliographic records in MEDLINE format are easily imported. Retrieval of references is possible by keywords, authors' or editors' names, date of publication, title of article, book title, journal name and other data fields. Lists of references can be compiled in any bibliographic style required by the publishers of scientific journals. At present, REFERENCES is provided with a text based console interface compiled for win32-systems, an external text editor is required for editing data. New in References version 4.2: New field IDNR (``identification numbers'') will contain DOI, url and other identification numbers as the PubMed identification numbers. These numbers can be addressed by bibliographic/macro format definitions and they can be searched from search commands. Width of the field for the journal code has been enlarged from 4 to 10 characters. Changes in the structure of the table for format definitions: field width changed from 14 to 24 characters AWK-scripts for text manipulation (accessible through the [edit-main-p] option) are debugged and rewritten so that the output file name can be selected. Scripts are now more `portable', they do no longer depend upon gawk, but may now also be used with awk (Kernighan) or mawk. Kernighan's awk is now included instead of gawk. The function for selection of files by the user now asks for initial characters. New command [edit-main-h] calls PDF viewer with the References documentation (refsdok.pdf). Change in user interface: if the variable OPEN_EDITOR_YN is set to `1' (default) in the configuration file, References prompts the user to open a previously created/changed text file with the message: open editor with ``name-of-text-file''? [y/n] This makes the References user interface more comfortable. You may turn off this behaviour by setting `OPEN_EDITOR_YN=0' in refs.cfg, then References will work like v4.1j and earlier. -- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: fig2vect 1.1.0 - Yet another Fig to vector converter
by CTAN Announcements 27 Oct '05

27 Oct '05

On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Dirk Krause submitted an update to his fig2vect package. The fig2vect program converts figures from jFig, XFig and WinFig to MetaPost, EPS, PDF, TeX and SVG. Program highlights: - Designed for use with LaTeX/pdfLaTeX. Handling of special text is left up to LaTeX, for non-special text you can choose whether or not to use LaTeX. For text handled by LaTeX you have three choices: - Use the fonts exactly as specified in the Fig file. - Convert to use fonts in the same features (serif/sans-serif/monospaced, normal/bold, upright/italic). This allows to use the same font families in the graphics as in the document where the graphics is included. - Write no font selection commands (text contains commands itself if necessary). - X-splines are approximated by a sequence of Bezier spline segments. - Fill patterns are drawn by vector graphics operations. - Image width and height are found by inspecting graphics elements (except texts), the paper format name is not used here. Location on CTAN: /support/fig2vect Summary description: Conversion program from *.fig to *.mp, *.eps, *.pdf, *.svg and *.tex License type: bsd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Changed behaviour: Running with default settings the program now produces best quality instead of smallest output files. When upgrading from 1.0.x and below you should create a new fig2vect.cfg file based on fig2vect.cfg.sample. Bugfix: In earlier versions there were compilation errors when zlib or libbz2 were not found. This is fixed now. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package upgrade: pstricks
by CTAN Announcements 25 Oct '05

25 Oct '05

Herbert Voss writes: > I have uploaded pstricks.tgz to the uk mirror. > Please repcae all files with the ones in > > Changes -> /graphics/pstricks/generic/ > pstricks.tex -> /graphics/pstricks/generic/ > pstricks.sty -> /graphics/pstricks/latex/ > pstricks.pro -> /graphics/pstricks/dvips/ > > pstnews* -> /graphics/pstricks/doc/ i've installed the files and updated the catalogue. > this new update (1.12) has > > > pstricks.sty -------- > - a new option plain for only input{pstricks} > - drop support for scalebox check, it is now renamed > in pstricks.tex (hv) > - option DIA to prevent a clash with scalebox (hv) > > > pstricks.tex -------- > - spurious blank for multirput > - shift only for an absolute length > - add the missing arrows ]-[)-( > - rename otateleft | right | down to > psrotateleft | right | down to be consistant to the > other PSTricks macro names > - new fillstyle options > - move the code for arcs of an ellipse into pstricks.pro > - fix bug with multips (spurious blank) (hv) > - allow empty optional arrow argument psline[..]{}(2,2) > - redefined psarc@iv for negative loops of ccircle > - introduce new options shift and showgrid for the > main pspicture environment > - rename scalebox and scaleboxto to > psscalebox(to) to be consistant to the > other PSTricks macro names > > ---- pstricks.pro > - move the code for arcs of an ellipse from the main pstricks.tex into > this pro > - added new fillstyles thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package upgrade: pst-barcode
by CTAN Announcements 24 Oct '05

24 Oct '05

Herbert Voss writes: > I have uploaded pst-barcode.tgz to the uk mirror. > Please replace all files with the ones in > /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-barcode/ i've done that, and triggered the mirroring. > The changes in this release are as follows: > A new encoder for the bar codes used by the Australian Postal Service > was added. > > Project description: > Barcode Writer in Pure Postscript implements the printing of many > barcode formats entirely within level 2 PostScript, so that the > process of converting the input string into the printed output is > performed by the printer itself. This avoids the need to re-implement > the barcode generation process whenever your language needs change. > The project supports most major barcode formats including EAN-13, > EAN-8, UPC-A, UPC-E, ISBN, Code 128 (A, B, and C), Code 39, > Interleaved 2 of 5, Postnet, Code 2 of 5, and Codabar. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: beamer version 3.06 and pgf 1.00
by CTAN Announcements 24 Oct '05

24 Oct '05

On Sun, 23 Oct 2005, Till Tantau submitted updates to the beamer and pgf packages. PGF is a macro package for creating graphics directly in TeX and LaTeX. Its usage is similar to pstricks and the standard picture environment. Unlike pstricks, it produces both PostScript and PDF output and works together with latex, dvips, pdftex, and pdflatex. PGF is used extensively with beamer for production of presentations. The beamer LaTeX class can be used for producing slides. Its functionality is similar to Prosper but does not need any external programs and can directly produce a presentation using pdflatex. Beamer uses pgf for pdf/ps independent graphics. Frames are created using frame{...}, and a frame can build multiple slides through a simple notation for specifying material for each slide within a frame. Beamer supports bibliographies, appendicies and transitions. Short versions of title, authors, institute can also be specified as optional parameters. A plainframe{} allows a picture, for example, to fill the whole frame. Support figure and table environments, transparency effects, a ransduration command, animation commands, a pauses environment. Beamer also provides compatibility with other packages like prosper. Here are the annoucements for the packages: -- latex-beamer 3.06: This release is now the official first version for use with the new pgf 1.00. This combination is now quite stable, so users are encouraged to switch over to 3.06. However, this is not yet a real new version 3.10 since there are still too many (known) problems. I'll try to work on these during the next months. Note that you *need* pgf version 1.00 (actually, 0.95 will do, but then you will *want* 1.00 instead) to use this version of beamer. Changes since latex-beamer 3.01: - Fixed bug in drawing of buttons. - Version for use with pgf version 1.00. - Added color theme wolverine and presentation theme AnnArbor, submitted by Madhusudan Singh <madhusudan.singh(a)gmail.com>. - Added two screen options. - Added subsubsections (evil!). - Added egin{frame}{Title}{Subtitle} syntax. - setbeamercovered is now scoped. - Fixed location of navigation symbols on plain frames. - Fixed wrong frame number in conjunction with fragile option. - Fixed compatibility definitions like eamertemplateballtoc. - Fixed compatibility definitions for eamersetleftmargin. - Fixed wobbling height of frametitle in default theme. - Fixed problem with serif theme and onlymath option. - Fixed problem with >127 characters and fragile option. - Fixed problem with activation of Chinese characters - Fixed problem with spaces in semiverbatim. -- pgf 1.00: Compared to the last stable version of pgf, namely version 0.65, this is almost a new program. The changes are so broad and fundamental that it does not really make sense to list them all. However, despite all the changes, this version should be fully compatible with the version 0.65. Here is an overview of the most important changes since 0.65: - The documentation is completely new and somewhat expanded. - There is now a package called TikZ that makes using pgf really easy. - pgf is no longer a pure latex package, it now also works with plain TeX and (thereby) ConTeXt. - pgf now supports not only pdftex and latex+dvips, but also dvipdfm, tex4ht (where it produces svg output) and vtex. - pgf is now layered and new backend drivers can be added much more easily. - The power of pgf has been vastly increased. It can now has a sophisticated coordinate system management, node management, supports opacity, has a new arrow management, and more. If you have been using versions 0.95 or higher, this is just the hopefully quite bugfree version of the versions sind 0.95. Note on the installation: Since pgf is no longer a latex package, it should now be unpacked in the generic part of the texmf tree, that is, as texmf/tex/generig/pgf. You *may* need to create a link in the latex part of the texmf tree at texmf/tex/latex/pgf pointing to /texmf/tex/generic/pgf/latex/pgf. This link is necessary if TeX finds an old version of pgf instead of the current one. Changes since pgf 0.65: - Added vtex support (finally!). - Added multi part mechanism to nodes. - Added very simple pgflibraryautomata. - Changed coordinate shape such that it now never produces a text label. - Renamed pgfshapebox to pgfnodeparttextbox (made necessary by the node part mechanism). - Added transparency to PGF (quite nice...). - Added foreach option to child path operation (also nice...). - Fixed problem with \ in centered text. - Fixed problem with hyperlinks in nodes. - Fixed wrong arrows in trees. - Reorganised directory structure of documentation. - Added tree mechanism. - Added snake mechanism. - Added layer mechanism. - Added new shapes: cross out, strike out, forbidden sign. - Added some more documentation. - Added none drawing and filling colors. - Added pgflibrarytikzbackgrounds. - Changed syntax of pgfqbox. - Changed syntax of several pgfsys@xxxx commands. - Added SVG support / a tex4ht backend. (Complicated text inside svg graphics is not supported well, but that's mainly a shortcoming of the svg specification.) - Fixed spacing problem in dvips. - Changed syntax of plot and plot marks. - Changed syntax of ellipse and elliptical arc options. - Fixed baseline bug in tikz. - Fixed bug in pgfpages. - Introduced every xxxx styles, got rid of shape actions option. - Added intersection of syntax for coordinates. - Started revising the documentation. - Changed names of some pgfpages commands. - Changed syntax of parabola command. - Proof read documentation. - Introduced three layers: system, basic, frontends. - Wrote two frontends: TikZ (*most* useful!) and pgfpict2e (a demonstration). - Largely rewrote the basic layer. - Largely rewrote the system layer. - Completely rewrote the documentation. - Added two utilities: pgfpages and pgffor. - Made macro naming more consistent. - Added plain tex support. - Added dvipdfm support. - Restructured directory structure. - Zillions of small bugfixes. -- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: pst.labo
by CTAN Announcements 23 Oct '05

23 Oct '05

Herbert Voss writes: > I have uploaded pst-labo.tgz tu the UK mirror. > Please replace the files with the ones in > /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-labo/ > > > The documentation of pst-labo, a PSTricks related > package for drawing various assemblies of chemical objects, > is now available in three languages: > English, French, German i've installed the replacement files for mirroring by all CTAN sites. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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