ctan-ann March 2005

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CTAN update: LM fonts
by CTAN Announcements 07 Mar '05

07 Mar '05

On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Staszek Wawrykiewicz uploaded version 0.98 of the Latin Modern font family to CTAN. Authors: JNSteam License: GPL Location on CTAN: fonts/lm The Latin Modern family of fonts are based on the Computer Modern fonts in the PostScript Type 1 format, released into public domain by the American Mathematical Society. The fonts, as compared to the CM family, contain a lot of additional characters, mainly accented ones, but not only. The current package for TeX users contains: Latin Modern fonts in the PostScript Type 1 format plus all requisites for using the fonts with TeX/pdfTeX; there is one set of PostScript fonts and five sets of TeX Font Metric files, corresponding to: -- EC (Cork) encoding (ec-*.tfm), -- QX encoding (qx-*.tfm), -- TeX'n'ANSI aka LY1 encoding (texnansi-*.tfm), -- T5 (Vietnamese) encoding (t5-*.tfm), -- Text Companion for EC fonts aka TS1 (ts1-*.tfm). LaTeX *.sty and *.fd files were also added plus a few test files. Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: preview-latex 0.9
by CTAN Announcements 04 Mar '05

04 Mar '05

On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, David Kastrup submitted version 0.9 of his package preview-latex and a separate package called preview Locations on CTAN: support/preview-latex and macros/latex/contrib/preview License: GPL Release notes for version 0.9 of the preview-latex package: preview-latex makes LaTeX a tightly integrated component of your editing workflow by visualizing selected source chunks (such as single formulas or graphics) directly as images in the source buffer. You get to have your eye candy and edit it, too. The employed style file preview.sty is independently useful for extraction of selected text elements as images. EPS Graphics that were created using dvips can now be used with the tightpage option, and some new commands and options are available for selecting previews. The package is released under the GNU Public License (GPL). At the current point of time, at least GNU Emacs-21.3 under the X window system or XEmacs-21 in version 21.4.10 or later, AUCTeX (11.51 or later required for PDF support), a working LaTeX installation and GhostScript are required. dvipng (version 1.4 or later: teTeX-3.0 works, TeXlive2004 not), a very fast dvi converter, can be used to speed up the conversion. For Windows, MacOS Carbon or native GTK+ toolkit support, a developer version of GNU Emacs (to be released as 22.1) is definitely required; for other platforms, use of it is advantageous. This version finally gets rid of all 8bit issues that plagued cooperation with several TeX distributions, and supports utf-8 and other multibyte input. X-Symbol (as of 4.5.1-beta) will still require an 8bit-transparent TeX executable. As a result of a drastic overhaul in image file allocation, all known GhostScript versions should now work for PostScript and PDF in SAFER mode. Icons now come in several sizes, blending better with the text display, and have been redesigned. The installation procedure has been made more flexible and robust, more conservative in the installation choices, and the Lisp startup file will now be installed automatically. It is strongly recommended that you remove a previous installation before installing this version to avoid keeping conflicting or unnecessary files. The README file provides adequate information for firing up preinstalled distributions, and pointers how to provide feedback. The INSTALL file contains a special section with advice for package providers. There is also a file INSTALL.windows detailing instructions for users of that operating system. The home page is <URL:http://preview-latex.sourceforge.net>, the SourceForge project page that among others offers anonymous CVS access is located at <URL:http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex>. However, development and CVS access are scheduled to be folded into the AUCTeX project (located at Savannah) shortly after this release. If you can spare the time, you can also comment on or rate this project at <URL:http://freshmeat.net/projects/preview-latex>. Paypal donations to the maintainer are possible directly or via SourceForge. Additional files can be found at <URL:http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/preview-latex>: * If you don't have texinfo 4.0 or later installed, prebuilt documentation files can be found there. * Tarballs of preview-latex for all users, alternatively RPMs for RedHat Linux. For the binary RPMs, you will need the preview-latex-common RPM as well as the Emacs-flavor specific RPM. * AUCTeX is now located at <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex>. The download area should also provide you with RPM files. * dvipng is currently available via its current project page <URL:http://sourceforge.net/projects/dvipng> and from CTAN. Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: mf2pt1
by Jim Hefferon 01 Mar '05

01 Mar '05

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you for the upload, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: mf2pt1 Author's name: Scott Pakin Location on CTAN: /support/mf2pt1/ Summary description: Produce PostScript Type 1 fonts directly from Metafont source License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mf2pt1 facilitates producing PostScript Type 1 fonts directly from a Metafont source file without losing quality to autotracers. mf2pt1 is not, as the name may imply, an automatic converter of arbitrary Metafont fonts to Type 1 format. The program imposes a number of restrictions on the Metafont input. If these restrictions are met, mf2pt1 will produce valid Type 1 output with more accurate control points than can be reverse-engineered by TeXtrace, mftrace, and other programs which convert bitmaps to outline fonts. Version 2.0 sports the following improvements over the previous version: * A new --rounding option enables control points to be placed with higher precision. * Fonts are automatically run through t1asm to convert them from disassembled format to true .pfb font files. * Fonts are automatically run through FontForge, if available, to clean up curves and automatically add font-hinting information. A new --ffscript option lets the user override the default FontForge script. * mf2pt1 includes a workaround for a MetaPost turningnumber bug. * A new glyph_name command and asis encoding vector enable font programs to specify their own encodings -- useful for creating a large font out of multiple 256-character fonts. * mf2pt1 now supports an encoding vector for TeX T1 (i.e., 8-bit) encoding. * There are various bug fixes, code cleanups, and documentation improvements. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/mf2pt1/ 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 update: ebezier v4
by CTAN Announcements 01 Mar '05

01 Mar '05

On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 Gerhard A. Bachmaier submitted version 4 of his package ebezier to CTAN. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ebezier Summary description: Picture enhancement License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ebezier supports device independent bezier curves e.g. for drawing larger circles. Additionally lengths of these curves can be calculated. This is update version 4 which corrects minor deficiencies. It includes the documentation as a PDF file. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: tif2eps 0.79
by CTAN Announcements 01 Mar '05

01 Mar '05

On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Staszek Wawrykiewicz sumitted version 0.79 of the package tif2eps to CTAN. Authors: Boguslaw Jackowski, P. Pianowski and P. Strzelczyk License: GPL Location on CTAN: support/pstools/tif2eps TIF2EPS is a PostScript program for the conversion of TIFF files (ver. 6.0) to EPS ones. Compression (LZW, CCITT Fax, RLE, Flate, DCT) and ASCII85 encoding is available. The package may be used for generating colour- separated EPSes, `EPS thumbnails,' and, moreover, little header EPSes, containing only a pointer to a source TIFF file. Employing Ghostscript guarantees portability and efficient processing. News in ver. 0.79: A bug in -o2 (ovewrite if newer) option fixed. Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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