ctan-ann March 2006

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CTAN update: BaKoMa TeX 7.50 - TeXWord improvements.
by CTAN Announcements 15 Mar '06

15 Mar '06

On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Basil K. Malyshev submitted an update to the bakoma package. Location on CTAN: systems/win32/bakoma > MOst noticeable improvements of TeXWord: > > * Ctrl+Up, Ctlr+Down keys move caret out of current TeX > group. > * Shift+Ctrl+Up, Shift+Ctrl+Down keys move caret with > selection, > that enables sequential selecting nested groups.(like > to mouse clicks). > * Ctrl+Enter key inserts a stuff depend on current > context > In itemize, enumerate environments (including short > and running variants) > it inserts `item'. In description environemnt - > `item[label]'. > In thebibliography environemnt - `ibitem[label]'. > In eqnarray, align, flalign, alignat environments - > `. > [In advance, Shift+Tab key inserts alignment point > (`&').] > * Math superscripts (`^{...}') and subscripts > (`_{...}') have > context commands for decompose and cut an object. > * `Insert|RAW TeX Code' (Ins) -- new command. > * Wasy symbols panel has been added. > * Phaistos symbols panel has been added (shown when > font is available) > > 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 7.50 > ------------------ > > BaKoMa TeX 7.50 supports two coexisting IDE: > 1) BaKoMa TeX Word - True WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor. > 2) Text Editor + DVI Viewer - Classical 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 Preview Window. > 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: > PSTricks, PSFrag, graphics (psfig), draftcopy, > PowerDot, Prosper, Beamer, etc. > > Most important application of BaKoMa TeX Word is > final step corrections of LaTeX papers before > publishing. > > Editing slides in WYSIWYG interface > (with such packages as PowerDot, Prosper, Beamer, > etc.) > is another impressive feature of `BaKoMa TeX Word'. > > Beginner users of LaTeX may consider TeXWord as > good start point for learning LaTeX together with > writing papers. > > TeXWord is transparent for cooperation. > TeXWord don't use additional macro packages. > So that documents made with TeXWord may be compiled > in any LaTeX setup without any adaptation. > In other side, TeXWord can handle arbitrary LaTeX > documents. > So, that your coleagues may even don't know that you > use > powerful WYSIWYG tool to edit your part of common > work. > > 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 distribution is at: > <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: linearA
by CTAN Announcements 15 Mar '06

15 Mar '06

On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Apostolos Syropoulos submitted the new package linearA which contains all the necessry files to replicate texts written in the Linear A script. Location on CTAN: fonts/archaic/linearA License: LPPL Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: A Classic Thesis Style
by CTAN Announcements 15 Mar '06

15 Mar '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at the mirror that you like the best. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: A Classic Thesis Style Author's name: André Miede Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/classicthesis Summary description: A Homage to The Elements of Typographic Style License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Template bundle to make thesis writing easier and to produce beautiful documents in general. (Will probably be converted into a class with proper LaTeX documentation etc. later on.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/classicthesis . 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 has a new package: cellspace
by CTAN Announcements 13 Mar '06

13 Mar '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 St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: cellspace Author's name: Josselin Noirel Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/cellspace Summary description: Ensuring a minimal spacing of table cells License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- It is well known that high or deep cells tend to touch the hlines of a tabular. This package provides a modifier S acting on usual column types so that to ensure a minimal distance that can be controlled through two parameters cellspacetoplimit and cellspacebottomlimit. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/cellspace . 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: pdftex.def v0.03p
by CTAN Announcements 12 Mar '06

12 Mar '06

On Sun, 12 Mar 2006, Heiko Oberdiek submitted an update of pdftex.def Location on CTAN: graphics/pdftex/pdftex.def Latest changes: 2006/02/23 v0.03n * Compatibility for plain-TeX: file can be loaded multiple times; colorfix is not applied for undefined macros (HO). 2006/02/24 v0.03o * Catcode protections mainly because of babel's shorthands (HO). 2006/03/02 v0.03p * pagecolor support for plain-TeX fixed (HO). ----------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: poemscol 2.44
by CTAN Announcements 11 Mar '06

11 Mar '06

On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 John Burt submitted an update to the poemscol package. Poemscol is a set of LaTeX macros for typesetting critical editions of poetry. Its features include automatic linenumbering, generation of separate endnotes sections for emendations, textual collations, and explanatory notes, special marking for cases in which page breaks occur during stanza breaks, running headers of the form ``Notes to pp. xx--yy''for the notes sections, index of titles and first lines, and automatic generation of table of contents. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/poemscol Summary description: macros for critical editions of poetry License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fixed bug which put extra white space after new kinds of endnotes in sections of line numbered prose. Improved handling of conditionals in prose sections numbered by sentence and paragraph. More flexibility in numbering prose sections by sentence and paragraph. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Sch�pf

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CTAN update: splitindex
by CTAN Announcements 11 Mar '06

11 Mar '06

On Tue, 7 Mar 2006 Markus Kohm submitted an update to the splitindex package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/splitindex Summary description: Using a unlimited number of indices with almost every LaTeX-class License type: lppl Description: ------------ SplitIndex consists of a LaTeX package, splitidx, and a small program, splitindex (available in perl, TeX, Java, C, binaries for Windows-Cygwin, OpenBSD-i386, Linux-i386). The package may be used to produce one index or several indices. Without using the program the number of indices is limited by the number of TeXs output streams. But using the program you may use even more than 16 indices. At this case, splitidx outputs only a single file jobname.idx and the program splits that file into several raw index files and calls your favorite index processor for each of it. Changes at version 0.9: ----------------------- - New option `useindex' makes index and alias for sindex. - New command ` ewprotectedindex' behaves like ` ewindex' but tries to protect the argument of `index' and `sindex' using `@onelevel@sanitize'. - New option `protected' makes all `index' and `sindex' calls use `@onelevel@sanitize' to protect the argument. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Sch�pf

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CTAN package upgrade: gellmu, version 0.8.2
by Robin Fairbairns 09 Mar '06

09 Mar '06

William F. Hammond writes: > I've uploaded version 0.8.2 of GELLMU to ftp.tex.ac.uk > > I suggest that it be placed in support/gellmu. > > License: GPL i have installed the upgrade as suggested, and updated the catalogue entry. > This is a maintenance release incorporating a number of relatively > small improvements as well as bug fixes. It supersedes previous > versions although small changes in the XML document type may affect > old documents slightly. > > GELLMU stands for Generalized Extensible LaTeX-Like MarkUp. It > provides a way to write in an XML document type of one's choice using > LaTeX-like source. In addition, for its regular track the package > provides software for reliable translation of its own article XML > document type to ordinary LaTeX, classical HTML (suitable for terminal > window browsers and palmtops), and the modern form of HTML with > support for mathematics (XHTML+MathML). More information may be found > at the website, http://www.albany.edu/~hammond/gellmu > > Changes since the last CTAN posting (which was October 2004), > as noted in the file README: > > --- > > IMPORTANT ISSUE for MathML output > > The newer versions of Perl are somewhat incompatible regarding with > less new versions regarding the UTF-8 content-encoding. This can > create problems with parsing math zones while generating XHTML+MathML > output. One of the aspects of this issue is that the meaning of use > UTF-8 has changed (as advertised by advance warnings). The specific > concern is with splitting a UTF-8 string into the array of its > characters. > > It seems to be the case with Perl 5.6 that use UTF-8 is adequate for > Gellmu's parsing, while with Perl 5.8.1 and later one wants both use > UTF-8 and use encoding. There seems to be no encoding available > by default in 5.6. Consequently, this release of gellmu provides a > dummy library encoding.pm that is intended for use when there is no > separate encoding package installed with Perl 5.6. With the newer > Perl versions simply move the small dummy encoding.pm out of (or to > another name in) the perllib directory in the Gellmu tree. > > CHANGES IN VERSION 0.8.2 (28 Feb 2006) > > 1. Tables and Tabular now have functioning p cells. Only par, > not parb, should be used to introduce a new paragraph in > a tabular p-cell. For a forced linebreak inside a p-cell use > the named form rk rather than \, which may only be used > to begin a new row. > > 2. Horizontal alignment in tables and tabular now function in > HTML, as do horizontal rules (via hline in tabular or trule > in table) and vertical rules (via '|' in table or tabular > argument). Much of the new functionality with tables in HTML > is based on assuming web browsers have CSS2 support. > > 3. Added support for the attribute style of assertion, which > plays the role of heoremstyle in LaTeX. If style is unset, > the assertion is set in italics, while if style has the value > definition, the assertion is set upright. > > 4. Bug. Finally decided to rely on CSS for HTML/XHTML handling > of assertion style. > > 5. Bug. Used the bm package in LaTeX formatting (and CSS in > XHTML+MathML) to correct the appearance of mathbf. > > 6. The elements par and parb are no longer allowed inside emph. > The element par now requires explicit closing in source. > > 7. Use of the elements mbox, regch, and text, is now restricted > to math zones. > > 8. Minor changes will be needed in order for some old documents to be > used with new DTDs. > > 9. Numerous bug fixes. > > > CHANGES IN VERSION 0.8.0.7 (01 Feb 2005) > > 1. Bug/Change. Coding for the element text inside math elements > in mathprep.pl had assumed that text had no sub-elements > (consistent with the content model of MathML's mtext). > The author is debating with himself as to whether this is too > restrictive. Meanwhile that code has been changed. > > 2. Change. Added AMSMath names ltimes, rtimes, and mp to > the article document type. > > 3. Bug/Change. Pushed handling of the element sref out to end > formatters (parallel to handling of ref) so as to use the > .xlb database. > > 4. Change. Added handling in HTML and LaTeX formatters of eqntag. > > 5. Change. Positive labelwidth in LaTeX formatting of menu and Menu. > > > CHANGES IN VERSION 0.8.0.6 (01 Dec 2004) > > 1. Bug fix. The script mathprep.pl was failing to write 'mchld=' > when a container had no actual content, thereby causing htmlgart.pl > to exit with an error message. > > 2. Bug fix. The parameter entity %opline was nonsensically > allowing %fmath content. Its model was tightend and a new version > %mopline using math|tmath instead of %fmath was created for use > with itemlabel and op0. > > 3. Bug fix. The shell script bin/linux/lmkg was revised to prevent > failure with some versions of /bin/sh. > > 4. Change. The HTML dl written by htmlgart.pl for formatting > assertion was revised to have class attribute assertion so > that CSS-controlled margins can be customized. > > 5. Change. The CSS stylesheet webstyle/mxh.css was changed to zero > left and right margins for dl.assertion and to inhibit linebreaking > inside all math containers, inline as well as block. > > 6. Bug fix. Comments were inhibited (for validation) at the top level > of thebibliography. > > 7. Change. Provided a GMT timezone option for the banner datestamp in > HTML output. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: blockdraw_mp
by CTAN Announcements 08 Mar '06

08 Mar '06

A new package has just been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon appear at the mirror that you like the best. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: blockdraw_mp Author's name: Henrik Tidefelt Location on CTAN: /graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/blockdraw_mp Summary description: MetaPost macros for the creation of block diagrams and bond graphs License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package targets the simple problem of producing block diagrams and bond graphs. In more detail, the provided functionality can be divided into o Standard elements such as labeled blocks and bond graph arrows. o Standardized way for selecting input and output points on blocks. o Means for the construction of carpented paths connecting points. o Standardized label positioning along block connections. o Higher-level macros that specialize and/or combine some of the above. An important example from the group of higher-level macros is the macro that takes two blocks as arguments and generates a path connecting them. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/blockdraw_… . 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 has a new package: icsv
by CTAN Announcements 08 Mar '06

08 Mar '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: icsv class Author's name: Will Robertson Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/conferences/icsv/ Summary description: Class for typesetting articles for the ICSV conference License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is an ad-hoc class for typesetting articles for the ICSV conference, based on the previously hacked together active-conf by the same author. Hopefully it's useful to someone. Contact me for refinements or if things don't work. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/conferences/icsv/ . 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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