ctan-ann April 2006

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CTAN has a new package: AddTeX2Eps
by CTAN Announcements 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

A new package has been put into place at tug.ctan.org and should soon appear at your favirote mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: AddTeX2Eps Author's name: Janko Slavic Location on CTAN: /graphics/AddTeX2Eps Summary description: Package for using native LaTeX syntax on eps figures directly from Mathematica License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Package for using native LaTeX syntax on eps figures directly from Mathematica AddTeX2Eps calls latex.exe and dvips.exe and makes use of psfrag package (needs to be installed). default.tex is the LaTeX template where you can add packages and define your own LaTeX commands. Copy default.tex and AddTeX2Eps.m to ..AddOnsStandardPackagesGraphics or to search path. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/AddTeX2Eps . 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: polynom v0.17
by CTAN Announcements 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Hendri Adriaens submitted an update to the polynom package by Carsten Heinz. Because Carsten Heinz could not be reached anymore for a long time, this package has been taken over according to the LPPL for maintenance by Hendri Adriaens on 2006/04/20. This package was using and redefining internals of the keyval package and hence it was incompatible with xkeyval. This problem has been solved and the processing of the vars key has been simplified. All other things are left as the original by Carsten Heinz. Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: TeXShell32
by CTAN Announcements 20 Apr '06

20 Apr '06

On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Dirk Struve submitted an update to the texshell32 package. It is a new release of the Windows TeXShell WinTeXShell32. License: GPL Noticeable new features: - Unicode support - Support for spell checking (ispell, aspell) on Win 2000 and XP ----------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: dante.ctan.org upload: dateiliste
by CTAN Announcements 20 Apr '06

20 Apr '06

On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Paul Ebermann submitted an update to the package dateiliste The package provides a file list (similar to that offered by listfiles), neatly laid out as a table. The main document can be included in the list, and a command is available for providing RCS-maintained data for printing in the file list. Location on CTAN: /macros/contrib/dateiliste License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This update (v0.2) lets mainFileToList now also work without eTeX, thanks to an entry in the UK TeX FAQ. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: aurical
by CTAN Announcements 18 Apr '06

18 Apr '06

On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Christian Gollwitzer submitted an update to the aurical package. Location on CTAN: /fonts/aurical Summary description: Update of aurical: Two additional calligraphic fonts License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a major upgrade of the package aurical. In addition to improvements of the kerning tables and some glyphs of AuriocusKalligraphicus, two new calligraphic fonts have been added: * LukasSvatba resembles a 16th century handwritten Bastarda. It has a variant with a long s for mediaeval writing. * JanaSkrivana is an elegant cursive handwriting font with strong variations of the stroke width. All three fonts cover the whole glyphset of the Cork/T1 encoding. Installation is now made easy by a single zip archive, that can be extracted directly into the TEXMFLOCAL directory. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: tug.ctan.org site will not be working for a while
by CTAN Announcements 18 Apr '06

18 Apr '06

I believe that http://tug.ctan.org is back. I would appreciate an email if someone notices a remaining problem. I will leave a small notice up on the home page for a day or two. The major reason for the outage was a software upgrade that should improve our ability to gather and maintain metadata. In particular, there is an improved upload facility that will allow contributers to directly edit package descriptions, etc. These scripts should emerge from testing in the coming weeks. Allow me, please, a thanks. Part of the upgrade -- the part I was scratching my head about -- involved putting a version 8 of the database PostgreSQL onto my Debian system (Sarge stable now has a version 7). While I was aware that magical things can be done with apt-get, dpkg, etc., I didn't personally know how to do them. Then I found Vadim Kutchin's article http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/373 and it was perfect. Of course, CTAN is built on the contibutions of many people so in some ways I am not surprised at his generosity in publishing the steps, but wow was I glad when that article title showed in Google! Jim Hefferon St Michael's College

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CTAN package update: nomentbl
by CTAN Announcements 18 Apr '06

18 Apr '06

A package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thank you Brian, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: nomentbl Author's name: Brian Elmegaard Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/nomentbl/ Summary description: package for typesetting a nomenclature in a longtable License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A new version of nomentbl, a package that typesets a nomencalture in a longtable environment. The package has been updated to be used with version 4.2 of the nomencl and a few new features have been added. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/nomentbl/ . 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: poemscol 2.48
by CTAN Announcements 18 Apr '06

18 Apr '06

On Sat, 15 Apr 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 License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fixed a bug intoduced in 2.38 which caused marginal line numbers occasionally to drift up a point. Added commands for marginal references on the same lines as poem titles. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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tug.ctan.org site will not be working for a while
by CTAN Announcements 17 Apr '06

17 Apr '06

The web scripts at http://tug.ctan.org are being upgraded and consequently aspects of the site will be non-functional, perhaps for a few days. The ftp archive will remain up. Only the web interface -- addresses that start with http -- will be affected. I apologize for this interruption. I hope people consider the end result an improvement. Jim Hefferon

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CTAN has a new package: alphabib
by CTAN Announcements 16 Apr '06

16 Apr '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: alphabib Author's name: Mael Hilléreau Location on CTAN: /biblio/bibtex/utils Summary description: Addition of alphabetical headers into BibTeX '.bbl' files. License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- alphabib is a little Bash script allowing addition of alphabetical headers into BibTEX bibliographies. This may be usefull with large bibliographies so that to find entries quickly. It takes a bibliography file produced by BibTEX (file with extension '.bbl') as an input, and creates a new file with incorporated alphabetical headers. Those headers break the bibliography into bibliographic entry sets having the same initial. Each set is entitled with a header consisting of the initial letter corresponding to entries composing it. Note that this script is mostly intended for use with alpha-like BibTEX styles (e.g. alpha.bst). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils . 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-ann April 2006