ctan-ann May 2005

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CTAN update: pdfcprot
by CTAN Announcements 09 May '05

09 May '05

On Fri, 6 May 2005 Tobias Schlemmer uploaded an update to pdfcprot Author's name: Tobias Schlemmer Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/pdfcprot Summary description: pdfcprot does implement a package for the pdflatex margin kerning feature License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The new version implements access to different font encodings and provides some limited support for cyrillic encodings. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: mhchem bundle v2.01
by CTAN Announcements 09 May '05

09 May '05

On Sun, 8 May 2005 Martin Hensel submitted version 2.01 of mhchem to CTAN. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/mhchem/ Summary description: for typesetting chemical formulae, chemical equations and Risk and Safety (R and S) Phrases License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is an update to version 2.01. What's new? - rsphrase: Spanish R and S phrases. Thanks to Ignacio Fernández Galván. - mhchem: bugfix ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: movie15
by CTAN Announcements 09 May '05

09 May '05

On Wed, 4 May 2005 Alexander Grahn submitted an update to the movie15 package to CTAN. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/movie15/ Summary description: multimedia inclusion package License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This release removes a bug which occasionally produced unusable media inclusions. This issue occurred, when a TeX generated pagebreak fell in between two consecutive media inclusions and only if pdfLaTeX was used. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update:xkeyval v2.5 and extract v1.8
by CTAN Announcements 09 May '05

09 May '05

On Sat, 7 May 2005, Hendri Adriaens submitted updated versions of the packages xkeyval (v2.5) extract (v1.8) to CTAN. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/xkeyval macros/latex/contrib/extract > ------------------------------------------- > xkeyval v2.5 > ------------------------------------------- > 1) Added define@boolkeys, define@cmdkey > and define@cmdkeys > 2) Simplified setkeys internals > 3) Solved small bug in setkeys which allowed > families to take over save or preset key > settings when a key was defined in multiple > families > 4) Updated xkvview > 5) Restructured docs > 6) Some small things > ------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------------------- > extract v1.8 > ------------------------------------------- > 1) Added `copydocumentclass' option > 2) Changed option `no-header' to `header' > 3) Changed option `document-handles' to `handles' > 4) Revised docs and examples > 5) Solved a bug not extracting empty lines > ------------------------------------------- Thanks for the updates. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: Lshort Upload (note the quote)
by CTAN Announcements 08 May '05

08 May '05

Tobias Oetiker writes: > I have uploaded lshort-4.16 to ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming/lshort-4.16. note: skipping version 4.15 > If you think it is appropriate, announce it please. i think announcement is appropriate in this case. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: sketch
by Jim Hefferon 05 May '05

05 May '05

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: sketch Author's name: Eugene K. Ressler Location on CTAN: /graphics/sketch Summary description: 3d sketching in a PSTricks-like language generates PSTricks code License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sketch is a small, simple system for producing line drawings of three-dimensional objects and scenes. It began as a way to make illustrations for a textbook after we could find no suitable tool for this purpose. Existing scene processors emphasized GUIs and/or photo-realism, both un-useful to us. We wanted to produce finely wrought, mathematically-based illustrations with no extraneous detail and be able to easily overlay TeX math and text. The input language is reminiscent of PSTricks, so will be easy to learn for current PSTricks users. See http://www.frontiernet.net/~eugene.ressler . - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/sketch 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: nomencl
by Jim Hefferon 03 May '05

03 May '05

A package 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: nomencl Author's name: Lee Netherton Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/nomencl/ Summary description: Update to nomencl package License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the latest release for the nomencl package which includes an increased compatibility with other glossary packages, as well as minor updates and support requests. More information can be found at http://sarovar.org/projects/nomencl/ - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/nomencl/ 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 has a new package: fontools
by Jim Hefferon 03 May '05

03 May '05

The package described below has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: fontools Author's name: Marc Penninga Location on CTAN: /fonts/utilities/fontools/ Summary description: Tools to simplify using fonts (especially Truetype/Opentype ones) with Latex and fontinst. License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package provides a few tools to ease using fonts (especially Truetype/Opentype ones) with Latex and fontinst: AFM2AFM - reencode .afm files; designed to replace fontinst's eencodefont for big .afm files. AUTOINST - simplify the use of the LCDF TypeTools by creating a command file for otftotfm, plus .fd and .sty files. CMAP2ENC - convert glyph indices in TrueType fonts without glyph names (such as Linotype Palatino) to Adobe glyph names. FONT2AFM - create font metrics; this is just a wrapper script around tools such as pf2afm, ttf2afm, pfm2kpx and ot2kpx. OT2KPX - extract all kerning pairs from an OpenType font. PFM2KPX - extract all kerning pairs from buggy .pfm files (the ones where pf2afm complains .notdef character occurred among kern pairs). SHOWGLYPHS - create a pdf file that shows all glyphs in a font. Please see the documentation of the individual programs for further information. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/utilities/fontools 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 has a new package: Zigarettenschachtelhuellenzeichnung
by Jim Hefferon 02 May '05

02 May '05

The package described below has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon make it to your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: Zigarettenschachtelhuellenzeichnung - drawing of cigarette pack covers Author's name: Régis Lachaume Location on CTAN: /graphics/zigaretten Summary description: Allows the drawing of cigarette pack covers to hide ugly warnings and as License type: pd Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is meant to design cigarette pack covers that hide the death warnings and the advertising present on most packs. It imitates the original look of packs in the European Union by allowing the placement of fancy warnings (e.g. Caution: inflammable device) in the well-known black frames. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/zigaretten 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 Policy: Documentation of packages
by CTAN Announcements 02 May '05

02 May '05

For some time, the CTAN team has been asking those who submit to the archive to provide documentation files that can easily be read by archive browsers. We often find packages, which may be of real use to other users, for which there is little prospect of a new submission. We propose to reserve the right to generate a PDF documentation file from the author's original resources, in such cases. Note that we do not intend this to take the place of author-supplied documentation, but rather only that we may generate documentation where there is now none (notably on older packages). We remain eager to install documentation provided by authors themselves. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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