ctan-ann September 2005

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CTAN update: TeXshade v1.12
by CTAN Announcements 26 Sep '05

26 Sep '05

On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Eric Beitz submitted an update to the texshade package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/texshade/ Summary description: Update of the DNA and protein sequence alignment LaTeX package TeXshade License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is version 1.12 of TeXshade, a package for setting sophisticated DNA and protein sequence alignments in LaTeX. The update contains various bug fixes. Further, a new optional parameter has been introduced into the showconsensus command that allows one to color shade the consensus sequence according to the degree of sequence conservation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: xcolor 2.04
by CTAN Announcements 24 Sep '05

24 Sep '05

On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 Uwe Kern submitted an update to the xcolor package. xcolor provides easy driver-independent access to several kinds of color tints, shades, tones, and mixes of arbitrary colors. It allows a user to select a document-wide target color model and offers complete tools for conversion between eight color models. Additionally, there is a command for alternating row colors plus repeated non-aligned material (like horizontal lines) in tables. Colors can be mixed like color{red!30!green!40!blue}. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/xcolor/ License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2005/09/23 v2.04 * New features: - preparation for usage of additional - driver-provided - color models; - `pstricks' users may now specify explicit color parameters within psset and related commands, e.g. psset{linecolor=[rgb]{1,0,0}}; an illustrative example is given in xcolor2.tex. * Changes: - color model names sanitized (i.e., turned to catcode 12) throughout the package; - @namelet command deprecated because of name clash with `memoir' - please use XC@let@cc instead (more XC@let@.. commands are available as well); - simplified color conversion code by using the new XC@ifxcase command; - some minor changes to internal macros. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: makeplot
by CTAN Announcements 24 Sep '05

24 Sep '05

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon ===================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: makeplot Author's name: Jose-Emilio Vila-Forcen Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/makeplot Summary description: Easy plots from Matlab to LaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I'd like to announce the availability of my LaTeX2e makeplot Package. COPYRIGHT 2005 by Jose-Emilio Vila-Forcen (jemilio(a)ieee.org) This program can be redistributed and/or modified under the terms of the LaTeX Project Public License Distributed from CTAN INSTALLATION: - call 'latex makeplot.ins' and copy the makeplot.sty - file into a path searched by LaTeX. DOCUMENTATION: - execute the following list of commands to create the PDF: latex makeplot.dtx makeindex -s gind.ist -o makeplot.ind makeplot.idx makeindex -s gglo.ist -o makeplot.gls makeplot.glo latex makeplot.dtx pdflatex makeplot.dtx Writing papers, it is very normal that the result of some Matlab simulations will be displayed. Since existing approaches to create EPS files from matlab (laprint, print -eps,...) does not satisfy all my requirements of fonts, quality, portability and to be able to perform fast small changes, I decided to create this package which could be seen as an extension to the PsTricks family. This package creates easily plots taking the data from files, and allows enough configuration to fit most of the cases. In the documentation it is described the requirements of the data files and how to generate EPS files from Matlab. Files of the `makeplot' package: README This file makeplot.dtx Sourcecode, example file & documentation makeplot.ins Installation script generating the source and an example makeplot.pdf PDF Version of the documentation data1.mat data2.mat Data files for the example. They could be generated using the dtx but I don't know how to avoid 'endinput' at the end ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/makeplot . 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: The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List
by FTP archive maintainer 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

The package below has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks, Scott, for the on-going contribution, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List Author's name: Scott Pakin Location on CTAN: /tex-archive/info/symbols/comprehensive Summary description: Samples of thousands of symbols which are accessible from LaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbols List is an organized list of 3300 symbols commonly available to LaTeX users. Some of these symbols are guaranteed to be available in every TeX distribution. Others require font files that come with some, but not all, TeX distributions. The rest require font files that must be downloaded explicitly from CTAN (http://www.ctan.org) and installed. The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbols List currently showcases symbols from 83 separate typefaces. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/symbols/comprehensive . 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 . _______________________________________________ Ctan mailing list Ctan(a)dante.de https://lists.dante.de/mailman/listinfo/ctan

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CTAN upload: graphicx-psmin
by CTAN Announcements 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Hendri Adriaens submitted a new package graphicx-psmin to CTAN. This package is an extension of the standard graphics bundle and provides a way to include repeated postscript graphics (ps, eps) only once in a postscript document. This provides a way to get smaller postscript documents when having, for instance, a logo on every page. This package only works when post-processed with dvips, which should at least have version 5.95b! The difference for the pdf file is minimal (as ghostscript already includes only a single copy of graphics files). Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/graphicx-psmin License: LPPL Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN ahs a new package: powerdot-doc-vi
by CTAN Announcements 21 Sep '05

21 Sep '05

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: powerdot-doc-vi Author's name: kyanh Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/powerdot-contrib/doc-vi/ Summary description: powerdot documentation (vietnamese version) License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- powerdot documentation (vietnamese version). the main parts are translated from powerdot.dtx, powerdot's documentation ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/powerdot-contrib/doc-v… . 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: dvisvgm
by CTAN Announcements 21 Sep '05

21 Sep '05

On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 Martin Gieseking submitted a new version of the dvisvgm package. Location on CTAN: /dviware/dvisvgm Summary description: new release of dvisvgm License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dvisvgm is a command line utility for converting DVI files to SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics). The latest release 0.4.2 fixes some bugs and introduces options for SVG transformations (rotation, translation, scaling etc.) dvisvgm has been sucessfully tested on various Linux (teTeX) and Windows (MikTeX) systems. Precompiled versions for Windows/MikTeX can be downloaded from the project homepage (see README for further information). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Changebar release 3.5 available
by Johannes L. Braams 20 Sep '05

20 Sep '05

Hi, Last night I have prepared changebar release 3.5 for transfer to CTAN. This release has had a couple of long standing problems fixed by Piet van Oostrum. The major featres are: * The changebar can now be used in conjunction with pdfLaTeX * The changebar package works with both the color and xcolor pacakages * The problems with bars appearing in unexpected places have been resolved * A couple of sample files with their pdf output have been added to the distribution. The files were contributed by Piet van Oostrum. Kind regards, Johannes Braams

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CTAN has a new package: otftofd
by CTAN Announcements 19 Sep '05

19 Sep '05

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and is now making 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: otftofd Author's name: Geoffrey Washburn Location on CTAN: /fonts/utilities/otftofd Summary description: otftofd is a script to help with the task of generating a NFSS font description file and a map file from a large collection of OpenType fonts. License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- otftofd is a script I wrote to help the task of generating a NFSS font description file and a map file from a large collection of OpenType fonts. In particular, when considering Adobe Pro Optical fonts, there is almost a combinatorial nightmare when attempting to create these files by hand. This software is still probably alpha quality and mostly designed specifically for Adobe font conventions. It currently has experimental support for generating swashed versions of a font and fonts consisting of ornaments. There is some preliminary support for selecting encodings, but it is far from complete. The tool has been mostly tested with the T1 Cork encoding. For more information about using the tool, invoke it with the --help option. otftofd is written in CaSH (Caml Shell) and additionally requires Eddie Kohler's excellent LCDF Typetools. ofttofd was originally called adobe-font-tool, but at the suggestion of CTAN it was renamed to hopefully be more descriptive. otftofd is licensed under the FSF General Public License. Do not hesitate to send me bug reports or fixes, other improvements, or suggestions. Contact me via e-mail at washburn(a)acm.org. There is a public, read-only, Subversion repository for otftofd at https://svn.cis.upenn.edu/svnroot/otftofd/. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/utilities/otftofd . 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: bibhtml 1.2
by CTAN Announcements 19 Sep '05

19 Sep '05

Norman Gray writes: > Name of contribution: bibhtml 1.2 > Author's name: Norman Gray > Location on CTAN: biblio/bibtex/contrib/bibhtml/ (replacing current version) > Summary description: Perl script and .bst files for generating HTML > bibliographies from BibTeX > License type: gpl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Version 1.2 replaces beta versions; plainhtml.bst extended to support > @webpage entry type. See release notes for details. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i have installed the revised package, and updated the catalogue. thanks for the upload Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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