ctan-ann November 2007

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CTAN package update: LaTeX for Malayalam
by CTAN Announcements 17 Nov '07

17 Nov '07

The package described below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ....................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: LaTeX for Malayalam Author's name: Alex A.J. Location on CTAN: /language/malayalam Summary description: A package for Typesetting Malayalam using LaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This version supports teTeX 3 and TeXLive. 16 new font families are supported (available as a separate package from Sarovar - see documentation) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/malayalam . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/malayalam-latex (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 8.15 - AcroTeX, CrossRef macros, CMYK PDF, LaTeX toolbar.
by CTAN Announcements 15 Nov '07

15 Nov '07

On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Basil Malyshev submitted an update to the bakoma package. Location on CTAN: systems/win32/bakoma License: shareware Improvement in BaKoMa TeX 8.15 are: * Compatibility with AcroTeX eDucation Bundle (Editing in TeXWord) * Support cross reference labels in user macros (TeXWord) * Text/LaTeX toolbar in TeXWord/Centaur has been redesigned. * Ctrl+O, Ctrl+F, Ctrl+S - common key binding in TeXWord/Centaur * CMYK Output in PDF Generation has been improved. > -------------------- About BaKoMa TeX 8.15 ------------------ > > BaKoMa TeX 8.15 supports two coexisting IDE: > 1) BaKoMa TeX Word - True WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor. > 2) Text Editor + DVI Viewer - Clasical IDE. > They are high compatible, so that you can choose what to use > depend on kind of a document or stage of work under a document. > > 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 dramatically simplifies editing complex formulas and tables. > > 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. > > 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/> > > New features in BaKoMa TeX 8.15 are: > * Compatibility with AcroTeX eDucation Bundle (Editing in TeXWord) > * Support cross reference labels in user macros (TeXWord) > * Text/LaTeX toolbar in TeXWord/Centaur has been redesigned. > * Ctrl+O, Ctrl+F, Ctrl+S - common key binding in TeXWord/Centaur > * CMYK Output in PDF Generation has been improved. > > More details about changes and another bug fixing see at: > < > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes7.html> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: version 6.77e of package hyperref
by CTAN Announcements 12 Nov '07

12 Nov '07

Heiko Oberdiek wrote: > Version 6.77e of package hyperref has been uploaded to the TUG server > and will make its way to CTAN and its mirror around the world at large > in the next 24 hours. > > Extract from the change log (2007-11-12): > * 6.77e > * LuaTeX: Package `pdftexcmds' for pdfescapestring. > * Default producer setting recognises XeTeX and LuaTeX. Users may read the package catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/hyperref.html and may browse the package directory at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/hyperref/ Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: errata
by CTAN Announcements 12 Nov '07

12 Nov '07

On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Michael Kohlhase submitted a new package errata to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/errata Summary description: errata.sty: Error markup for LaTeX documents License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package provides a simple infrastructure for recording errata in LaTeX documents. This allows to maintain an updated version of the document (with all errors corrected) and automatically generate an errata document highlighting the difference to the published version. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/errata . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=errata (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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CTAN has a new package: ed
by ctan-ann＠dante.de 12 Nov '07

12 Nov '07

On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Michael Kohlhase submitted the new package ed to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ed Summary description: ed.sty: Editorial Notes for LaTeX Documents License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package defines a couple of editorial notes that simplify collaboration on a LaTeX text. These allow authors to annotate status information in the source. In draft mode, the annotations are shown for communication, and in publication mode these are suppressed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/ed . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=ed (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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Re: dante.ctan.org upload: arabxetex
by CTAN Announcements 12 Nov '07

12 Nov '07

On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, François Charette submitted an update to the arabxetex package. ArabXeTeX provides a convenient ArabTeX-like user-interface for typesetting languages using the Arabic script in XeLaTeX, with flexible access to font features. Input in ArabTeX notation can be set in three different vocalization modes or in roman transliteration. Direct UTF-8 input is also supported. The parsing and converting of ArabTeX input to Unicode is done by means of TECkit mappings. Version 1.0 provides support for Arabic, Maghribi Arabic, Farsi (Persian), Urdu, Sindhi, Kashmiri, Ottoman Turkish, Kurdish, Jawi (Malay) and Uighur. The documentation (not yet complete) covers topics such as typesetting the Holy Quran, typesetting bidirectional critical editions (with ednotes), and information on various recommended OpenType fonts for the Arabic script and for transliterating Oriental languages. Location on CTAN: macros/xetex/latex/arabxetex License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 1.1.1 is a bugfix release. No new functionality was added since version 1.1. A minimal example is now under doc/examples, together with the more complex demonstration of an Arabic critical edition with ednotes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/xetex/latex/arabxetex/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=arabxetex (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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UK TeX FAQ, v3.17, released
by Robin Fairbairns 08 Nov '07

08 Nov '07

Not before time, I've installed v3.17 of the UK TeX FAQ on CTAN (help/uk-tex-faq) and on the web at http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq There has been an embarrassingly long delay since the previous version, 3.16c: various personal circumstances have conspired to make completion of the new version difficult. The fact is, I'm getting old and I'm slowing down. As a result, I've been discussing a change in the way the FAQ is delivered. An announcement will be made in due course, but in the interim I shall be updating the Web version more regularly (only announcing significant changes). I append the changes file (which is also available from the distribution). This only lists changes since the previous v3.16c, since it proved impossible to read with all the changes since v3.16 :-( Robin Fairbairns UK TeX FAQ maintainer ===================== Changes in version 3.16d This file incorporates the changes from version 3.16 that previously appeared in file CHANGES-3.16a, -3.16b and -3.16c; new changes for this release (3.16d) are marked with a plus (+) sign. New answers: +Label biblatex: discusses BibTeX replacements (amsrefs, biblatex) +Label checksum: checksum error in font message +Label figurehere: how to avoid floating figures/tables altogether +Label entercompmode: entering compatibility mode message +Label fontsize: how to program arbitrary font sizes in LaTeX +Label latexqual: assessing the quality of your LaTeX +Label mathonlyref: only referenced equations are numbered +Label run-fn-nos: running footnote numbers when class numbers per chapter Revised answers: +Label altabcr: extended examples and tidied a bit +Label BibTeXing: add reference to Shell & Hoadley's btxFAQ +Label books mention LaTeX Graphics Companion 2nd edition; use ISBN-13 +Label CD: now couched in terms of the TeX collection +Label changebar: mention changes.sty +Label commercial:update details of Textures +Label dec_comma: mention numprint as possible way to get things right +Label docpictex: mention PiCTeX summary now on CTAN +Label fonts-pln: mention pdcmac bundle +Label ftnsect: rewrite to make recommendations clearer +Label getbitmap: reworded to suggest that bitmaps aren't standard any more +Label LaTeXtoPlain: suggest ways forward for aspiring translators +Label make: mention autolatex +Label man-latex: mention Grätzer's short course +Label minxampl: editorial work, including (perhaps) clarifying web version +Label newfont*: was newfont; content rearranged between this, plninltx* and the new label fontsize +Label newfunction: expand description +Label ol-books: TeX by Topic now available from CTAN +Label papersize: mention Acrobat Reader's default scaling +Label plninltx*: was plninltx; content rearranged between this, newfont* and the new fontsize +Label protect: clarify lists of commands known to be fragile, etc +Label psfchoice: add links to papers about maths fonts in tex; add fouriernc, mathdesign/FS Garamond, kpfonts, minionpro and mnsymbol +Label running-nos: rearrange to emphasise package chngctr +Label tabcellalign: rationalised, reduced range of recommendations +Label tocbibind: mention phantomsection for when doing the job by hand +Label twooptarg: mention the xargs package +Label unkgrfextn: mention grffile package +Label wdnohyph: mention uchyph (not that it's much use)

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CTAN has a new package: ptex
by CTAN Announcements 08 Nov '07

08 Nov '07

The package below has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: ptex-src Author's name: Koji Yokota Location on CTAN: /language/japanese/ptex Summary description: pTeX, a Japanese TeX system License type: bsd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- pTeX is a TeX system by ASCII Co. Ltd. in BSD license which can handle Japanese in good quality so that the output can be used for commercial publishing purpose. It requires and conform itself to teTeX. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/japanese/ptex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/ptex (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: dot2texi
by CTAN Announcements 07 Nov '07

07 Nov '07

The package below has just been put in at 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: dot2texi Author's name: Kjell Magne Fauske Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/dot2texi Summary description: Create graphs within LaTeX using the dot2tex tool License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The dot2texi package allows you to embed graphs in the DOT graph description language in your LaTeX documents. The dot2tex[1] tool is used to invoke Graphviz[2] for graph layout, and to transform the output from Graphviz to LaTeX code. The generated code relies on the TikZ and PGF package or the PSTricks package. The process is automated if shell escape is enabled. [1] http://www.fauskes.net/code/dot2tex/ or in graphics/dot2tex on CTAN [2] http://www.graphviz.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/dot2texi . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/dot2texi (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: dot2tex
by CTAN Announcements 07 Nov '07

07 Nov '07

The package below has just gone up on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at the other nodes of CTAN. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: dot2tex Author's name: Kjell Magne Fauske Location on CTAN: /graphics/dot2tex/ Summary description: Convert graphs generated by Graphviz to LaTeX friendly formats License type: dfsg Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dot2tex is a tool for converting graphs rendered by Graphviz to formats that can be used with LaTeX. The purpose of dot2tex is to give graphs generated by Graphviz a more LaTeX friendly look and feel. This is accomplished by converting xdot output from Graphviz to a series of TikZ and PGF, or PSTricks commands. This approach allows: * Typesetting labels with LaTeX, allowing mathematical notation. * Using native PSTricks and PGF/TikZ commands for drawing arrows. * Using backend specific styles to customize the output ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/dot2tex/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/dot2tex (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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