ctan-ann January 2007

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CTAN package update: attachfile
by CTAN Announcements 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College .................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: attachfile Author's name: Scott Pakin Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/attachfile Summary description: Attach arbitrary files to a PDF document License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Starting with PDF 1.3 (Adobe Acrobat 4.0), PDF files can contain file attachments -- arbitrary files that a reader can extract, just like attachments to an e-mail message. The attachfile package brings this functionality to pdfLaTeX and provides some additional features not available in Acrobat, such as the ability to use arbitrary LaTeX code for the file icon -- including things like includegraphics, tabular, and math. Settings can be made either globally or on a per-attachment basis. attachfile makes it easy to attach files and customize their appearance in the enclosing document. Version 1.3 of attachfile incorporates some patches from Ross Moore for making attachfile robust to running hyperref with Hy@unicodetrue and for supporting the Created, Modified, and Size keys in the EmbeddedFile's Params dictionary. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/attachfile . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=attachfile (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are 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: BaKoMa TeX 7.85 - TeXWord custom shortcut binding.
by CTAN Announcements 17 Jan '07

17 Jan '07

On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Basil Malyshev submitted an update to the bakoma package. Location on CTAN: systems/win32/bakoma License: shareware > Most noticeable improvement in this version is > support for customizing shortcut keys of buttons > on Text/Math tooolbar and symbol panels. > > Just clicking right mouse button over interesting button > lets to customize shortcut instantly in typesetting process. > > 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 7.85 ------------------ > > BaKoMa TeX 7.85 supports two coexisting IDE: > 1) BaKoMa TeX Word - True WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor. > 2) Text Editor + DVI Viewer - Clasical 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 DVI Viewer. > > 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'. > > TeXWord is transparent for cooperation. > TeXWord don't use additional macro packages. > It uses only standard LaTeX packages, so that documents made up > in 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. > > TeXWord dramatically simplify editing complex formulas and tables. > > Beginner users of LaTeX may consider TeXWord as > good start point for learning LaTeX together with writing papers. > > 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 distributions is at: > <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=bakoma (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are 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: epspdf
by CTAN Announcements 17 Jan '07

17 Jan '07

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: epspdf Author's name: Siep Kroonenberg Author's email: siepo(a)cybercomm.nl Location on CTAN: /support/epspdf Summary description: Multiplatform GUI- and command-line converter for PostScript, eps and pdf License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Epspdf[tk] is a Ruby script which converts between PostScript, eps and pdf. It has both a command-line- and a GUI interface. Using pdftops from the xpdf command-line utilities for round-tripping opens up several new possibilities compared to older similarly-named utilities. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/epspdf . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=epspdf (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are 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: achemso
by CTAN Announcements 17 Jan '07

17 Jan '07

The package below has been updated 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: achemso Author's name: Joseph Wright Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib Summary description: BibTeX style file for American Chemical Society journals License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The achemso package provides a BibTeX style in accordance with the requirements of the journals of the American Chemical Society, along with a supporting LaTeX package file. Also provided is a BibTeX style file to be used for bibliography database listings. This is a completely new version of the package with a new maintainer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/achemso . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=achemso (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are 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: pdfsync
by CTAN Announcements 16 Jan '07

16 Jan '07

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon appear at your favorite mirror Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: pdfsync Author's name: Laurens Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/pdfsync Summary description: LaTeX package to synchronize between source and pdf output License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- pdfsync is a LaTeX package used to synchronize between source and pdf output. With applications implementing pdfsync support, like iTeXMac2, you click on a word in the source to see where it appears in the pdf output, and vice versa. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pdfsync . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=pdfsync (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are 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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Re: CTAN submission --- update verse package
by Robin Fairbairns 15 Jan '07

15 Jan '07

Peter Wilson wrote: > I have uploaded verse.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use this to replace > the current macros/latex/contrib/verse. > > From the README > verse provides some aids for typesetting simple verse (poems). > > Changes in version 2.4 (2007/01/10) > o Can specify the number of the first verse line and the line number where > the first of the line numbers will be displayed. i have installed the update, and updated the catalogue entry for the package; thanks for the upload. users may view the catalogue page at: http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/verse.html or browse the package's directory at: http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/verse/ Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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tug.ctan.org upload: microtype
by CTAN Announcements 15 Jan '07

15 Jan '07

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and these changes should soon reach your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: microtype Author's name: R Schlicht Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/microtype Summary description: An interface to the micro-typographic extensions of pdfTeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- pdfTeX 1.40, which was released recently, introduces some new micro-typographic extensions: * robust and hyphenatable letterspacing (tracking), * adjustment of interword spacing (depending on the preceding character), * additional kerning. The microtype package had already supported these extensions in its beta version -- now, with version 2.0 of microtype, they are supported officially. Additionally, a new package `letterspace' is included, which only provides the letterspacing commands. Changes in version 2.0: ======================== * Support for the new extensions of pdfTeX version 1.40: - tracking/letterspacing (new options `tracking', `letterspace', new command SetTracking) - adjustment of interword spacing (glue) (new option `spacing', new command SetExtraSpacing) - additional kerning (new option `kerning', new command SetExtraKerning) * New commands extls and lsstyle for ad-hoc letterspacing (These two commands are alternatively also available with the new package `letterspace' -- a stripped-down version of microtype; much like the `soul' package, but entirely robust) * New option `babel’ for automatic micro-typographic adjustment to the selected language * New font sets: `smallcaps', `footnotesize', `scriptsize' ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/microtype . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=microtype (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are 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: papertex
by CTAN Announcements 15 Jan '07

15 Jan '07

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ............................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: papertex Author's name: Ignacio Llopis Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/papertex Summary description: Creating newspapers using LaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This class allows LaTeX users to create a paperTeX newspaper. The final document has a front page and as many inner pages as desired. News appear one after another and the user can choose number of columns, style and so on. This class allows users to create newsletters too. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/papertex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=papertex (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are 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: AUCTeX 11.84 released (fwd)
by CTAN Announcements 15 Jan '07

15 Jan '07

Release notes for AUCTeX 11.84 with preview-latex ================================================= AUCTeX provides by far the most wide-spread and sophisticated environment for editing LaTeX, TeX, ConTeXt and Texinfo documents with Emacs or XEmacs. Combined with packages like RefTeX, flyspell and others it is pretty much without peer as a comprehensive authoring solution for a large variety of operating system platforms and TeX distributions. It supports document-dependent completion and syntax highlighting, easily accessible menus, jumping to error locations in the source file, a number of editing shortcuts, intelligent indentation and filling of text during entry, and WYSIWYG previews of graphical elements like math formulas right in the Emacs source buffer, by virtue of its preview-latex component. One part of the preview-latex subsystem is the central `preview.sty' file that is independently useful for a number of applications and is available in unbundled form from CTAN.[1] Interfaces and installation procedures in this release remain a moving target. If you feel you need to consult third-party installation instructions for some reason, be sure that they refer to the same version of AUCTeX as you are installing. For installing AUCTeX itself, the installation instructions in the AUCTeX package should be preferred. AUCTeX needs volunteers in particular for non-programming tasks: documentation writing, tutorials, translations, reference material, sleuth work, testing. New features and fixed bugs in this release ------------------------------------------- There have been problems with the `-without-texmf-dir' option to `configure' when the value of `-with-kpathsea-sep' was set or determined for an installation system with a default different from that of the runtime system. `with-kpathsea-sep' has been removed; the setting is now usually determined at runtime. Due to this and other problems, preview-latex in the released XEmacs package failed under Windows or with anything except recent 21.5 XEmacsen. AUCTeX and preview-latex have been changed in order to accommodate file names containing spaces. preview-latex now tolerates bad PostScript code polluting the stack (like some Omega fonts). `preview.sty' had in some cases failed to emit PostScript header specials. Support for folding of comments was added. The `polish' language option of the babel LaTeX package as well as the `polski' LaTeX package are now supported. Most notably this means that AUCTeX will help to insert quotation marks as defined by polish.sty (`...') and polski.sty (,,...''). There has been quite a number of bug fixes to various features and documentation across the board, most critical probably the tool bar. IMPORTANT: Many of the new features in the 11.x series rely on special properties in the variable `TeX-command-list' and will not work if you customized this variable for a pre-11.5x release of AUCTeX. If this is the case for you, please re-initialize the variable by erasing the customization, thereby setting the variable to the new default, and re-adding your changes afterwards. Requirements ------------ It is required that you use at least GNU Emacs 21 or XEmacs 21.4. XEmacs requires at least version 1.84 of the xemacs-base package (released on 01/27/2004) or a sumo tarball dated 02/02/2004 or newer for compiling AUCTeX: please use the XEmacs package system for upgrading if necessary. Warning: release 21.4.16 of XEmacs is severely broken. This leads to crashes and hangs; don't use it. The preview-latex subsystem requires image support. This is available with GNU Emacs 21.3 under the X window system. For Windows[2], MacOS Carbon[3] or native GTK+ toolkit support[4], a developer version[5] of GNU Emacs (to be released as 22.1) is definitely required. A recent developer version of GNU Emacs appears like the best choice even on X11, however. If you prefer XEmacs-21, it will work in version 21.4.10 or later. You'll also need a working LaTeX installation and Ghostscript. dvipng[6] (version 1.4 or later: teTeX-3.0 works, TeXlive2004 not), a very fast dvi converter, can be used to speed up the conversion. Availability ------------ AUCTeX can be downloaded in various formats from <URL:ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/auctex/>. At release time, we provide the source tarball, source and binary RPMs for Emacs under Fedora and SUSE, and a platform-independent XEmacs package file (which you have to install yourself using XEmacs' own package system, after using it for removing the previous version of AUCTeX). There are also RPMs just for installing the LaTeX part of preview (AUCTeX itself does not need them, but possibly other applications). The easiest way for using AUCTeX, of course, is using versions of Emacs that already include AUCTeX (check the footnotes below). RPMs with minor version 1 are built from the spec file in the tarball which should work on both SUSE as well as Fedora. The source RPMs should also work for rebuilding RPMs on other RPM-based distributions. (We have only tested SUSE and Fedora, though.) The XEmacs package file can be discerned by `pkg' in its name. It is usually more recent and functional than what gets distributed from XEmacs servers and as part of the Sumo tarball. A separate directory for each release contains some stuff from the tarball, such as ChangeLog, printable manuals, and a reference sheet. The download area is mirrored to the directory support/auctex on CTAN. AUCTeX is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2. You'll find more information at the web site of AUCTeX <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/>, including its mailing list addresses. Future development and additional information --------------------------------------------- AUCTeX is proceeding as a GNU project with the long-term intent of merging it into Emacs. For that reason, all new contributors need to assign copyright to their contributions to the FSF (the usual procedure for Emacs contributors). The same holds for past contributors. The principal authors and maintainers have already done so, but it would require a diligent and diplomatic volunteer to find and ask the rest. Current project manager is David Kastrup. Paypal contributions to <URL:mailto:auctex@gnu.org> would be appreciated in order to compensate for time, money and hardware required for presenting AUCTeX at conferences. Extensions may be commissioned: enquire on the developer list (see above). Other than that, volunteering for tasks remains the most effective way of helping AUCTeX development. The following people contributed to this release series (in alphabetical order): Ralf Angeli, Masayuki Ataka, Thomas Baumann, Berend de Boer, Joshua Buhl, Miguel Frasson, Peter S. Galbraith, Patrick Gundlach, Yvon Hevel, Arne Jørgensen, David Kastrup, Ikumi Keita, Frank Küster, Jan-Åke Larsson, Dan Nicolaescu, Piet van Oostrum, Davide G. M. Salvetti, Mike Sperber, Reiner Steib, Christian Schlauer, Shiro Takeda, Mark Trettin (Please accept our apologies if we forgot somebody.) Footnotes: [1] <URL:ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/preview/> [2] You can get a precompiled version of CVS Emacs for Windows e.g. at <URL:http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/EmacsW32.html>. A version with AUCTeX preinstalled can be found at <URL:ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/auctex/>. [3] Precompiled versions of Emacs for Mac OS X can be found e.g. at <URL:http://yaced.sf.net/> (including AUCTeX) and <URL:http://homepage.mac.com/zenitani/emacs-e.html>. [4] Debian provides precompiled GTK+ Emacs packages in its `unstable' distribution (look for `emacs-snapshot-gtk'). Packages for Fedora can be found at <URL:http://people.redhat.com/coldwell/bugs/emacs/176171/>. [5] If making use of the precompiled variants is not an option for you, instructions for checking out the CVS version straight from the GNU's mouth can be found at <URL:http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=emacs> [6] dvipng is available via its project page <URL:http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/dvipng> and from CTAN. -- Ralf Angeli, for the AUCTeX team

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CTAN Update: preview
by CTAN Announcements 15 Jan '07

15 Jan '07

On Sat, 13 Jan 2007, Ralf Angeli submitted an update of the preview package. Here are the release notes: > > The main purpose of the preview package is the extraction of selected > elements from a LaTeX source, like formulas or images, into separate > pages of a DVI file. This works with DVI files postprocessed by > either Dvips and Ghostscript or dvipng, but it also works when you are > using PDFTeX for generating PDF files. > > Current uses of the package include the preview-latex package for > WYSIWYG functionality in the AUCTeX editing environment, generation of > previews in LyX, as part of the operation of the ps4pdf package, the > tbook XML system and some other tools. > > The preview package is being developed along and distributed with > preview-latex. With the integration of preview-latex into AUCTeX as > of version 11.81, the preview package became part of AUCTeX as well. > It can therefore be obtained as part of AUCTeX distribution files > available at <URL:ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/auctex/>. CTAN provides > the standalone preview package at <CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/preview>. > For more information about the preview package please refer to the > home page of AUCTeX at <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/>. > > Version 11.84 of the preview package is mainly a bug fix release. > Noteworthy changes include a fix for XymTeX catcodes and the addition > of chapter headings to the list of constructs previewable out of the > box. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This material is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/preview/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=preview (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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