ctan-ann October 2006

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CTAN package update: bibhtml 1.3
by CTAN Announcements 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

Via the upload script, Norman Gray writes: ctan-upload(a)tex.ac.uk wrote: > Name of contribution: bibhtml 1.3 > Author's name: Norman Gray > Author's email: norman(a)astro.gla.ac.uk > Location on CTAN: biblio/bibtex/contrib/bibhtml/ (replacing current version) > Summary description: Generate HTML bibliographies using BibTeX > License type: gpl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ----------------------------------------------------------------… [View More]

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tug.ctan.org upload: bibtopicprefix
by CTAN Announcements 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College .................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: bibtopicprefix Author's name: Martin Schröder Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/bibtopicprefix Summary description: Provides a way to prefix references from bibliographies produced by the … [View More]

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CTAN has a new package: disser
by CTAN Announcements 30 Oct '06

30 Oct '06

A new package has been put on tug.ctan.org and should soon get to your favorite mirror. Thank you again, Jim Hefferon .......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: disser Author's name: Stanislav Kruchinin Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/disser Summary description: A document class and set of templates for typesetting dissertations in Russian. License type: lppl … [View More]

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CTAN package Update: dvdcoll
by CTAN Announcements 30 Oct '06

30 Oct '06

On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, Josef Kleber submitted an update to the dvdcoll package. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/dvdcoll Summary description: A class for typesetting DVD archives License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Having lost the overview of my DVD archives, I simply could not remember if I already recorded the documentary running on TV that day. I chose to recreate the index using LaTeX: the design aim was … [View More]

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CTAN has a new package: simplewick
by CTAN Announcements 29 Oct '06

29 Oct '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College .......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: simplewick Author's name: Jindrich Kolorenc Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/simplewick Summary description: Drawing Wick contractions above and bellow expressions in … [View More]

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CTAN has a new package: word-to-latex
by CTAN Announcements 29 Oct '06

29 Oct '06

A new package has been put up on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ............................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: word-to-latex Author's name: Michal Kebrt Location on CTAN: /tools/word-to-latex Summary description: Convert documents written in Microsoft Word into LaTeX and XML format License type: nosource … [View More]

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CTAN has a new package: recipecard
by CTAN Announcements 28 Oct '06

28 Oct '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: recipecard Author's name: Ben Reish Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/recipecard Summary description: Typesets recipes into note card sized boxes. License type: lppl … [View More]

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CTAN Update: PGF and TikZ version 1.10
by CTAN Announcements 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, Till Tantau submitted version 1.10 of his PGF/TikZ package. Location on CTAN: /graphics/pgf License: Mixed LPPL/GPL/FDL PGF is a macro package for creating graphics. It is platform- and format-independent and works together with the most important TeX backend drivers, including pdftex and dvips. It comes with a user-friedly syntax layer called TikZ. Its usage is similar to pstricks and the standard picture environment. Unlike pstricks, it can produce either … [View More]

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CTAN has a new package: Susy
by CTAN Announcements 25 Oct '06

25 Oct '06

The package below has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Susy Author's name: Emmanuel Turlay Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/susy Summary description: Commands to write supersymmetry related documents easily License type: lppl … [View More]

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CTAN package update: gellmu, version 0.8.3
by Robin Fairbairns 24 Oct '06

24 Oct '06

William F Hammond wrote: > I've uploaded version 0.8.3 (23 Oct 06) of the GELLMU tarball to > ftp.tex.ac.uk. > > GELLMU stands for Generalized Extensible LaTeX-Like MarkUp. > > The package includes software for an XML document type (which may be > written in LaTeX-like markup) that emulates much of LaTeX article > while admitting robust translation to XHTML+MathML. > > I suggest that it be placed in support/gellmu. > > License: GPL > > This … [View More]supersedes version 0.8.2.3 (25 May 06). > > It contains an important change for generating XHTML+MathML content > that has been made necessary by a mid-September (2006) revision in > Firefox and other Mozilla browsers. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > CHANGES IN GELLMU, VERSION 0.8.3 (23 Oct 2006) > > IMPORTANT change necessitated by change in Firefox and other Mozilla > browsers: > > This update is mandatory for those who wish their XHTML+MathML outputs > to function properly in Mozilla. Because of a mid-September 2006 > change in Mozilla with the handling of equations and arrays of > equations, previously generated XHTML+MathML outputs will need to be > rebuilt. > > This release also has reduced use of XML namespace switching in the > XHTML+MathML outputs for the sake of greater compatibilty with > browsers that do not recognize it. > > The XML side door: > > The largest change in this update release concerns Regular GELLMU > (the didactic production system described in the GELLMU Manual). The > standard translation pipeline leading from LaTeX-like source through > SGML and XML document types to (1) LaTeX source (hence DVI and PDF > outputs), (2) classical HTML output with pseudo-TeX math, and (3) > XHTML with MathML output has been modified to capture along the way a > variant of the XML document type that is reusable as XML source. > Subsequent pipeline processing proceeds from that point with end > results equivalent to those in earlier releases. > > The new variant of the XML document type may be regarded as a > full-featured author level XML document type. It is usable and > modifiable by authors who choose to write XML syntax rather than the > LaTeX-like equivalent. > > The new author level variant of the XML document type is a suitable > target for translation from other XML document types, and therefore, > could provide an alternative way to format other document types for > PDF, HTML, and XHTML+MathML. > > Beyond that document instances under the new author level variant of > the XML document type should usually be stand-alone instances that > are suitable for semi-formatted viewing through the web with CSS > styling. They cannot be fully formatted because, for example, > numbering has not been inserted, and cross-references have not been > resolved. > > A consequence of having the XML side door is that the automatically > formatted LaTeX files will tend to have very long lines. > > Driver Scripts: > > For the regular GELLMU main track use the driver script mmkg to > build from regular GELLMU source. One should use the new driver > script mmkgfromx to build from XML source under the document type > defined in the DTD file xml/axgellmu.dtd. (This DTD file lives > under the UTF-8 text encoding though presently only one little-used > element name is non-ASCII, and that name admits Latin-1 representation.) > > Windows XP Support: > > In the case of a recently acquired (August 2006) ``notebook'' > class computer with ``Windows XP, Home Edition'', it was found after > (1) installing Cygwin, (2) then installing Cygwin packages for GNU Emacs, > Perl, Tcsh, TeX and LaTeX, OpenSP/OpenJade, and Expat (for the important > and basic xmlwf utility), and (3) making sure that all of the > appropriate executables are in one's command path (within Cygwin), > that the GELLMU tarball drops easily into /usr/local/gellmu (Cygwin > filesystem hierarchy), and the Linux driver scripts may be used. i have indeed placed the new version in support/gellmu; thanks for the upload. users who want to view the package, or to download it, may do so via the catalogue entry http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/gellmu.html Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team [View Less]

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ctan-ann October 2006