On Tue, 15 May 2007 Paul Ebermann submitted an update for the
randbild
package, which provides environments randbild, to draw small marginal
plots (using the pstricks package pst-plot), and randbildbasis (the same,
only without the automatically drawn coordinate system).
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/randbild
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Version 0.2 contains some spacing bugfixes (both at the …
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environment is used and inside the environment, ocurring only at some
strange circumstances) and a 'name bugfix' (now you can call
the environment randbildbasis also randbild*).
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Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: sdrt
Author's name: Paul Isambert
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/sdrt
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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[View More]This package provides macros to produce the Box notation of SDRT (and
DRT, by the way), to draw trees representing discourse relations, and
finally to have an easy access to various math symbols used in that
theory, mostly with automatic math mode, so they work the same in
formulae and in text.
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Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: verbatimcopy
Author's name: Lars Madsen
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/verbatimcopy
Summary description: Small package to preform a verbatim copy of one
text file and save …
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License type: lppl (the documentation source is not available)
Announcement text:
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This package provides VerbatimCopy{in}{out} that will enable LaTeX to
take a verbatim copy of one text file, and save it under another name.
Be careful when using VerbatimCopy, it will overwrite the output
target without warning.
The package is based on an idea posted on comp.text.tex by Ulrich Diez.
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On Thu, 10 May 2007 François Charette submitted an update for the
arabxetex
package.
Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/latex/arabxetex
Summary description: An ArabTeX-like interface for XeLaTeX
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Version 1.1:
* improved documentation
* added language-specific font setup
* Kurdish mappings corrected
* extlatin changed to extroman
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http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/arabxetex
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http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=arabxetex
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On Thu, 10 May 2007 Alexander Grahn submitted an update for the
animate
package.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/animate
Summary description: creating portable PDF animations from graphics files and inline graphics
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The `
ewframe' and `
ewframe*' commands now take an optional argument
that allows to change the frame rate in the middle of an animation.
Moreover, some …
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http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/animate
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http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=animate
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A new collection of materials has been added to the AeB Pro area of tug.ctan.org
and should soon be at your favorite mirror.
Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: AeB Pro
Author's name: D. P. Story
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/aeb_pro/aeb_pro
Summary description: A package that complements AeB. Targeted primarily …
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users of Acrobat Pro 7.0 or later
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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A package that complements AeB (AcroTeX eDucation Bundle) and is targeted
at users of Acrobat Pro 7 (or later).
Features: AeB Control Central, set initial view, set document actions of
all types, set page open actions, complete full screen support, methods
for attaching and linking to files, an option to create a PDF Package,
initialize form fields using unicode, basic support for layers, rollovers
and animation.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/aeb_pro/aeb_pro
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On Wed, 9 May 2007, Heiko Oberdiek submitted an update to the
oberdiek
bundle.
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek
License: LPPL
Announcement:
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Update:
* bmpsize v1.3
* Uses package `infwarerr'.
* Image reuse algorithm fixed for dvipdfmx.
* Some support for Exif's orientation tag.
* stackrel v1.1, zref v2.0, kvoptions v2.6
* Use of package `etexcmds'.
New:
* etexcmds v1.0
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[View More]New primitive commands are introduced in eTeX. Sometimes the
names collide with existing macros. This package solves this
name clashes by adding a prefix to eTeX's commands. For example,
eTeX's unexpanded is provided as etex@unexpanded.
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This bundle is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek
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On Mon, 7 May 2007, Michael Niedermair submitted the new
linux-libertine
package.
The Linux-Libertine project offers a font family with a wide range of
shapes, and support of several alphabets (including Latin, Cyrillic, Greek
and Hebrew).
This is the first package (alpha version) to use the font LinLibertine with LaTeX.
Documentation is in german.
Homepage: http://linuxlibertine.sourceforge.net/
Location on CTAN: /fonts/linuxlibertine
Summary description: The font LinLibertine and …
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License type: gpl
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http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/linuxlibertine
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http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=linux-libertine
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On Wed, 9 May 2007, Heiko Oberdiek submitted a new version of his
mkjobtexmf
package.
The progam mkjobtexmf runs a program and tries to find the used file
names. Two methods are available, option -recorder of TeX (Web2C) or the
program strace.
Then it generates a directory with a texmf tree. It checks the found files
and tries sort them in this texmf tree.
It can be used for archiving purposes or to speed up following TeX runs.
Location on CTAN: support/mkjobtexmf
License: artistic
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[View More]Changes of version 0.2:
* Typo in option name fixed.
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http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/mkjobtexmf
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Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: dlfltxbcodetips
Author's name: Lars Madsen
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/dlfltxbcodetips
Summary description: Various (possibly) usefull macros for math
License type: lppl
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The dlfltxbcodetips package contains some 'home made' macros that are
presented as code tips (i.e. macros that the reader might find useful)
in my LaTeX book. This package just brings these macros out to a wider
audience.
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