ctan-ann February 2005

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CTAN update: pstricks-add
by CTAN Announcements 20 Feb '05

20 Feb '05

On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 Herbert Voss submitted version 2.37 of the package pstricks-add, additional macros for PSTricks Location on CTAN: /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pstricks-add License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- v 2.37 2005-02-20 drop support of tickstyle (pst-plot), fix several bugs in connection with the ticksize option minor code changes updated documentation ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: pst-3dplot
by CTAN Announcements 19 Feb '05

19 Feb '05

On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 Herbert Voss uploaded an update to the package pst-3dplot a PSTricks related package for three dimensional objects. Location on CTAN: /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-3dplot/ Summary description: Prarallel projection of three dimensional objects License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This version supports rotation around any axes and in any order of all objects. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN upload: lblchng1.sty -- fix oscillating pagebreaks
by CTAN Announcements 18 Feb '05

18 Feb '05

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 Uwe Lück submitted an addition to the ednotes package: Name of contribution: lblchng1.sty -- fix oscillating page breaks Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ednotes Summary description: Tool + discussion concerning unstable page breaks License type: LaTeX Project Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This LaTeX macro package is a (primitive) tool for fixing oscillating page breaks -- a problem that especially sometimes occurs in typesetting critical editions. Thus it addresses especially users of LaTeX packages lineno, ednotes, and ledmac (maybe even manyfoot and numline). When it has been invoked and some label(s) get an entry in .aux file differing, with respect to page number, to that of the previous run, the first such label is reported on screen (and in the .log), including the differing page numbers. This should help in finding the first unstable page -- which is vital. The file contains more detailed explanations and discussions. (For wizards: of course, it just refines LaTeX's @testdef a little.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: pst-3d
by CTAN Announcements 18 Feb '05

18 Feb '05

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 Herbert Voss submitted an update to the file pst-3d.tex. Location on CTAN: graphics/pstricks/generic/pst-3d License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- pst-3d ist a PSTricks related package with basic support for three dimensional views. It also supports titling and shading of PSTricks objects. This version is a bugfix, to make pst-3d run with the xcolor package. The original author of this package is Timothy Van Zandt. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: isodate
by CTAN Announcements 18 Feb '05

18 Feb '05

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Harald Harders uploaded an update to his isodate package. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/isodate License: LPPL >From the README: Tune the output format of dates. This package provides ten output formats of the commands oday, printdate, printdateTeX, and daterange (partly language dependent): ISO (yyyy-mm-dd), numeric (e.g. dd.,mm.~yyyy), short (e.g. dd.,mm.,yy), TeX (yyyy/mm/dd), original (e.g. dd. mmm yyyy), short original (e.g. dd. mmm yy), as well as numerical formats with Roman numerals for the month. The commands printdate and printdateTeX print any date. The date is given as an argument using the actual date format for output: printdate{yyyy-mm-dd}, printdate{dd.mm.yyyy}, or printdate{dd/mm/yyyy}, and printdateTeX{yyyy/mm/dd}. The command daterange prints a date range and leaves out unnecessary year or month entries. E.g. 2000-05-03 to 2000-05-08 leads to `2000-05-03 to 08'. ChangeLog: 2005/02/17 v2.24 Harald Harders (h.harders(a)tu-bs.de) - Add option frenchb. 2004/11/19 v2.23 Harald Harders (h.harders(a)tu-bs.de) - Avoid to use the exttt{calc} package since it causes problems with many other packages. Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN upload: Perl mathsPIC 1.00
by CTAN Announcements 18 Feb '05

18 Feb '05

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Apostolos Syropoulos submitted version 1.00 of the package mathspic-perl to CTAN. MathsPIC(Perl) is a development of the earlier <xref refid='mathspic-dos'>MathsPIC(DOS)</xref> program; implemented as a Perl script, it is much more portable than the earlier program. MathsPIC parses a plain text input file and generates a plain text output-file containing commands for drawing a diagram. Version 1.0 produces output containing PiCTeX and (La)TeX commands, which may then be processed by plain TeX or LaTeX in the usual way. MathsPIC also outputs a comprehensive log-file. MathsPIC facilitates creating figures using PiCTeX by providing an environment for manipulating named points and also allows the use of variables and maths (advance, multiply, and divide) - in short - it takes the pain out of PiCTeX. Location on CTAN: graphics/pictex/mathspic/perl (Location of older dos version: graphics/pictex/mathspic/dos) License type: dfsg Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: alnumsec
by CTAN Announcements 17 Feb '05

17 Feb '05

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 Frank Küster submitted an update of his package alnumsec to CTAN. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/alnumsec Summary description: alphanumeric sectioning numbering with standard sectioning commands License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package allows you to use alphanumeric section numbering, e.g.: A. Introduction; III. International Law. It s output is similar to alphanum.sty, but you can use the standard LaTeX sectioning commands. Thus it is possible to switch numbering schemes easily. Greek letters, double letters (bb) and different delimiters around them are supported. This version v0.02 includes one new feature: Full section numbers are always printed in references (e.g.: see A.II.3.b.), even if the section numbers do not include higher level numbers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Upload - BaKoMa TeX 7.04 - avoiding conflict with WinLyx fonts under Win 9x.
by CTAN Announcements 17 Feb '05

17 Feb '05

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Basil Malyshev uploaded bakoma 7.04 to CTAN. The update fixes one problem related with conflict of fonts used by BaKoMa TeX and WinLyx program under Windows 95/98 or with disabled OTF-fonts. For more details about changes see: <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes7.html> > -------------------- About BaKoMa TeX 7.0 ------------------ > > BaKoMa TeX 7.0 supports two coexisting IDE: > 1) BaKoMa TeX Word - True WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor [New in V 7.0]. > 2) Text Editor + DVI Viewer - Clasical IDE. > > About BaKoMa TeX Word. > > BaKoMa TeX Word is True WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor. > > The word `True' is used to highlight two following facts: > > 1) It is True WYSIWYG Editor. > It means that display shows precisely the same what will be printed. > It looks such that you edit your document immediately in DVI Viewer. > 2) It is True LaTeX Editor. > It edits LaTeX source text without any import/export procedure. > It means that you can load and edit any LaTeX 2e document. > > BaKoMa TeX Word is built on top of BaKoMa TeX graphic engine and > consequently it inherits all features of BaKoMa TeX related > with import graphics, font support, and document export. > > It imports: > EPS, PDF, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, > MSP, BMP, WMF, EMF, FIG, HPGL, and DXY. > It supports fonts: > OpenType (OTF/TTF), TrueType, PostScript Type1 (including MM), > PostScript Type 3, and TeX PK/VF. > It exports: > DVI, PDF, SVG, PS, PNG (with HTML wrapper), and HTML (TeX4HT). > > It includes built-in PostScript interpreter accessible via DVIPS > compatible special interface that supports such macro packages as: > Prosper, PSTricks, PSFrag, graphics (psfig), draftcopy, etc. > > Most important application of BaKoMa TeX Word is > final step corrections of LaTeX papers before publishing. > > Editing Prosper's slides in WYSIWYG interface > is another impressive feature of `BaKoMa TeX Word'. > > More information about `BaKoMa TeX Word' is at: > <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/texword.html> > > Some snapshots are available at: > <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/snapshots/> > > Root of BaKoMa TeX distributions is at: > <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: png2pdf 1.0.6
by CTAN Announcements 17 Feb '05

17 Feb '05

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 Dirk Krause uploaded version 1.0.6 of his png2pdf package. Location on CTAN: /support/png2pdf Summary description: Converter from PNG to PDF, Update and Bugfix License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The png2pdf program converts PNG images to PDF. An alpha channel in the PNG file can be used to mix against a specified background color and/or to create a PDF image mask or PDF alpha channel. An option -n or --interpolation was created to add an /Interpolate true entry to the image dictionary. This suggests PDF viewers to show an interpolated image on screen. Previous versions possibly crashed/dumped core when problems occured while reading PNG files. The libpng routines use the setjmp()/longjmp() mechanism on errors but png2pdf did not set up a jump buffer. This is fixed now. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: bmeps 1.2.0
by CTAN Announcements 17 Feb '05

17 Feb '05

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 Dirk Krause submitted version 1.2.0 of his bmeps package. A library and a command line tool for conversion of different bitmap graphics types to EPS. It can produce EPS levels 1, 2 and 3. Level 2 allows the use of run-length compression and ASCII-85-encoding instead of ASCII-Hex-encoding, while level 3 allows the use of flate compression. TIFF- and PNG-alpha channels can be converted into EPS level 3 image masks. Modified dvips sources are included to allow image conversion directly from dvips. Location on CTAN: /support/bmeps Summary description: Converter from PNG/JPEG/NetPBM to EPS, Upgrade and Bugfix License type: lgpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A library and a command line tool for conversion of different bitmap graphics types to EPS. It can produce EPS levels 1, 2 and 3. Level 2 allows the use of run-length compression and ASCII-85-encoding instead of ASCII-Hex-encoding, while level 3 allows the use of flate compression. PNG-alpha channels can be converted into EPS level 3 image masks. Modified dvips sources are included to allow image conversion directly from dvips. An option -V (or EPSOUTPUT character V) was added to run in verbose mode. Previous versions (without verbose mode) did not write messages on errors, only the exit code was set. Previous versions possibly crashed/dumped core on problems in PNG files. The libpng routines use the setjmp()/longjmp() mechanism on errors but libbmeps did not set up the jump buffer. This is fixed now. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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ctan-ann February 2005