ctan-ann April 2005

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CTAN update: latexMP 1.2.1
by CTAN Announcements 08 Apr '05

08 Apr '05

On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 Jens-Uwe Morawski submitted an update for latexMP to CTAN. The MetaPost package latexMP implements a user-friendly interface to access LaTeX-based typesetting capabilities in MetaPost. The text to be typeset is given as string. This allows even dynamic text elements, for example counters, to be used in labels. Compared to other implementations it is much more flexible, since it can be used as direct replacement for btex..etex, and much faster, compared for example to the solution provided by tex.mp Location on CTAN: graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/latexmp/ Summary description: LaTeX based typesetting in MetaPost License type: pd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Update of latexMP to version 1.2.1. This update fixes the problem that two internal variables have not been grouped correctly. Additionally, the documentation is now complete. Examples are now included in the main documentation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: lm fonts ver. 0.98.3
by CTAN Announcements 07 Apr '05

07 Apr '05

On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Staszek Wawrykiewicz submitted version 0.98.3 of the lm fonts 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 distribution contains: > Latin Modern fonts in the PostScript Type 1 and OpenType formats, > source files for MetaType1 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. > Most important recent changes concerned the addition of Vietnamese > characters and the dvips support for the substitution for CM, CS, PL, > and VN fonts. The current release (version 0.98.3) was revised and corrected > after EuroTeX2005. Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN submission --- phoenician bundle
by CTAN Announcements 07 Apr '05

07 Apr '05

Peter Wilson has provided three updated bundles: > I have uploaded phoenician.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use this to > replace the current fonts/archaic/phoenician. > > >From the README: > The phoenician bundle provides Postscript Type1 (and MetaFont if you > want) fonts for the semitic script in use from about 1600BC and which formed > the basis for our modern alphabets. This is one in a series for archaic > scripts. > > Changes in version 2.1 (2005/04/04) > o Font supplied as Postscript Type1 and > I have uploaded greek6cbc.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use this to > replace the current fonts/archaic/greek6cbc. > > >From the README: > The greek6cbc bundle provides a Greek font typical of those used in the > 6th century BC. This is one of a series for archaic scripts. > > Changes in version 2.1 (2005/04/06)] > o Font supplied as Postscript Type1 and > I have uploaded greek4cbc.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use this to > replace the current fonts/archaic/greek4cbc. > > >From the README: > The greek4cbc bundle provides a Greek font typical of those used in the > 4th century BC. This is one of a series for archaic scripts. > > Changes in version 1.2 (2005/04/06) > o Font supplied as Postscript type1 i have installed all three bundles; thanks for the uploads. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: Math Design fonts
by Jim Hefferon 06 Apr '05

06 Apr '05

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its wya to your favorite mirror. Thanks for the contribution Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: Math Design fonts Author's name: Paul Pichaureau Location on CTAN: /fonts/mathdesign Summary description: Mathematical fonts that fit with Adobe Utopia, URW Garamond, etc. License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Math Design project offers free mathematical fonts that fit with existing text fonts. By now, two fonts family are available: * mdput family corresponds to Adobe Utopia text fonts * mdugm family corresponds to URW Garamond text fonts More fonts families will be available soon. The fonts provided by the Math Design project are free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/mathdesign 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: CTAN upload notification: noreinserts
by CTAN Announcements 06 Apr '05

06 Apr '05

On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 Uwe Lück submitted a new, experimental package called noreinserts Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/noreinserts/ Summary description: use holdinginserts with LaTeX floats in a simple/experimental way. License type: LaTeX Project Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LaTeX's figures, tables, and marginpar's are dangerous for footnotes (and probably enlargethispage). Here is a proposal (a patch .sty) to help using holdinginserts in a simple way. It replaces the original problem with a new one -- it is an experiment to find out whether the new problem is less bad (or it is just a contribution to the discussion, maybe just a summary of previous work). The files provide further informations. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for your upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: BaKoMa TeX 7.11 - Improvements in TeX Word - FullWYSIWYG LaTeX Editor.
by CTAN Announcements 06 Apr '05

06 Apr '05

On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Basil Malyshev submitted an update to the bakoma package. This update includes often requested improvements in BaKoMa TeX Word: + Ctrl+Tab keys switches focus between Preview and source windows. + Holding caret position in cases of TeX errors. + Keeping focus in source window in manual entering math formulas. + Adding color to frame box and color frame (fbox -> colorbox -> fcolorbox) More details about changes and another bug fixing see at: <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes7.html> > -------------------- About BaKoMa TeX 7.11 ------------------ > > BaKoMa TeX 7.11 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 supports processors: > (1) Standard TeX and (2) e-TeX. > Other processors such as Omega may be added in future. > > 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 has a new package: chessfss
by Jim Hefferon 05 Apr '05

05 Apr '05

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thank you for the contribution, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: chessfss Author's name: Ulrike Fischer Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/chessfss Summary description: a package to handle chess fonts License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package offers commands to use and switch between chess fonts. It use the LaTeX font selection scheme (nfss). The package doesn't parse, format and print PGN input like e.g. the packages skak or texmate. The aim of the package is to offer writers of chess packages a bundle of commands for fonts, so that they don't have to implement all this commands for themselves. A normal user can use the package to print e.g. single chess symbols and simple diagrams. The documentation contains also a section about installation of chess fonts. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/chessfss 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 package update: Formatting Information v3.6
by Jim Hefferon 04 Apr '05

04 Apr '05

The package described below has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks for the update, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: Formatting Information v3.6 Author's name: Peter Flynn Location on CTAN: /info/beginlatex Summary description: New edition of the document License type: gpdl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a revised edition (v3.6) of Formatting Information (the document formerly known as Beginning LaTeX) in PDF (275pp) and HTML. Source is included. License is GPDL. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/beginlatex 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: preview-latex 0.9.1
by CTAN Announcements 03 Apr '05

03 Apr '05

On Sun, 3 Apr 2005, David Kastrup uploaded a new version of preview-latex to CTAN. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/preview, support/preview-latex License: gpl Here are the release notes: > Release notes for version 0.9.1 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. > > The package is released under the GNU Public License (GPL) and can be > downloaded from <URL:ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/auctex/> as a tarball > or as RPM files. 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[1] (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[2], > MacOS Carbon[3] or native GTK+ toolkit support[4], a developer > version[5] of GNU Emacs (to be released as 22.1) is definitely > required; for other platforms, use of it is advantageous. > > The installation procedure has been further improved: more > configurations should now be detected automatically. It is strongly > recommended that you remove any previous installation before > installing this version to avoid keeping conflicting or unnecessary > files. In particular version 0.9 has been known to install into > strange (but working) places at times and will likely render later > installed versions inoperative. > > The quality of multibyte and image support in the current > implementations and the responsiveness of the developers to problem > reports does not recommend the use of XEmacs at the current point of > time. > > The encoding support of preview-latex has been refined: the run buffer > will now yield readable output again in most situations where it can > be reasonably expected to do so. > > The installation no longer requires Makeinfo or Perl as long as you > don't touch source files: precompiled documentation is included in the > distribution by default and no longer available as a separate archive. > > 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. > > preview-latex has now been moved into the AUCTeX project. As a > consequence, its web site has become > <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/#preview-latex>, the project > page (with browsable CVS repository) is that of AUCTeX at > <URL:http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/auctex>. Starting with release > 11.80, preview-latex will come bundled with AUCTeX. > > 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. > > Footnotes: > [1] dvipng is currently available via its current project page > <URL:http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/dvipng> and from CTAN. > > [2] You can get a precompiled version of CVS Emacs for Windows at > <URL:http://nqmacs.sourceforge.net>. > > [3] <URL:http://members.shaw.ca/akochoi-emacs/stories/faq.html> > contains build instructions. > > [4] For Debian, precompiled GTK+ Emacs packages can be found at > <URL:http://sadleder.de/debian/>, for Fedora at > <URL:http://people.redhat.com/petersen/emacs/>. > > [5] If making use of the precompiled variants is not an option for > you, instructions for checking out the CVS version straight from the > GNU's mouth can be found at > <URL:http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=emacs> Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN submission --- hieroglf bundle
by CTAN Announcements 03 Apr '05

03 Apr '05

Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded hieroglf.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use this to > replace the current fonts/archaic/hieroglf. > > >From the README: > The hieroglf bundle provides a Postscript Type1 version of about 80 > Egyptian Hieroglyphs, plus code for typesetting cartouches and > transliteration. The bundle is not for serious Egyptologists. > > Changes in version 1.3 (2005/04/02) > o Font supplied as Type1 instead of Metafont thanks for the upload; i've installed the files as requested. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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