ctan-ann March 2008

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CTAN Update: The floatrow package 0.2c
by CTAN Announcements 31 Mar '08

31 Mar '08

On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Olga Lapko submitted an update to the floatrow package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/floatrow Summary description: Modifying the layout of floats. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The floatrow package provides many ways to customize layouts of floating environments and has code cooperation with caption 3.x package. Package offers possibilities to put floats side by side, to put caption beside float. The floatrow settings could be expanded to the floats created by packages rotating, wrapfig, subfig (in the case of rows of subfloats), and longtable. Changes: 1) Some bug corrections and redefinitions for caption--floatrow co-operation. 2) Support for the row of parts with subtype settings of caption package. 3) Corrected bug for beside captions in oneside documents. 4) Corrections in documentation. 5) The stuff for colored frame moved to main package. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/floatrow . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=floatrow (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 hazs a new package: stringstrings
by CTAN Announcements 31 Mar '08

31 Mar '08

A new package has been installed on 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: stringstrings Author's name: Steven B. Segletes Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/stringstrings Summary description: String manipulation for cosmetic and programming application License type: lgpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package provides a large and sundry array of routines for the manipulation of strings. The routines are developed not only for cosmetic application, such as the changing of letter cases, selective removal of character classes, and string substitution, but also for programming application, such as character look-ahead applications, argument parsing, if-tests for various string conditions, etc. A key tenet employed during the development of this package (unlike, for comparison, the uppercase and lowercase routines) was to have resultant strings be ``expanded'' (i.e., the product of an edef), so that the stringstrings routines could be strung together sequentially and nested (after a fashion) to achieve very complex manipulations. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/stringstrings . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/stringstrings (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: A Compact List of Symbols
by CTAN Announcements 31 Mar '08

31 Mar '08

The package below has been put up on 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: A Compact List of Symbols Author's name: Emre Sermutlu Location on CTAN: /info/symbols/compact Summary description: A user-friendly list of LaTeX and AMS LaTeX symbols License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This upload includes two lists of LaTeX symbols. One of them includes standard LaTeX+AMS+several packages. The other includes everything in the first+Txfonts. As Txfonts package redefine many symbols and fonts, they look different. These lists are not rivals to Scott Pakin's admirable and comprehensive list of symbols, as mine include much smaller sets. Yet, they were written in Beamer class, and therefore easier to view on a computer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/symbols/compact . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/compact (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: constants
by CTAN Announcements 30 Mar '08

30 Mar '08

The package below has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ....................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: constants Author's name: Antoine Lejay Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/constants Summary description: a package for automatic numbering of constants with a label/ref mechanism License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This set of macros aims to provide a way to number automatically constants in a mathematical proof with a system for labelling/referencing. In addition, several families of constants (with different symbols) may be defined. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/constants . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/constants (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: fouridx
by CTAN Announcements 30 Mar '08

30 Mar '08

The package below 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: fouridx Author's name: Stefan Karrmann Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/fouridx Summary description: An alternative to sideset and leftidx. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package enables left subscripts and superscripts in math mode. These subscripts and superscripts are automatically raised for better fitting to the symbol they belong to. This is done in such a way that the left and right subscripts and superscripts are set on the same line, respectivly. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/fouridx . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/fouridx (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: futurans v1.3
by CTAN Announcements 28 Mar '08

28 Mar '08

The package 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: futurans v1.3 Author's name: Boris Veytsman Location on CTAN: /fonts/psfonts/adobe/futurans/ Summary description: LaTeX Support For Futura Fonts From Adobe As Used By No Starch Press License type: bsd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LaTeX Support For Futura Fonts From Adobe As Used By No Starch Press Version 1.3 2008/03/20 This package provides metric files and LaTeX support for Futura fonts from Adobe. It has everything you need to typeset in this font - except the font itself, of course. There are several versions of the fonts available, different by the version year. This package provides support for fonts as used by No Starch Press, http://www.nostarch.com. To prevent a clash with support of a newer version by W. A. Schmidt, the fontname |pfv| is used instead of the standard |pfu|. INSTALLATION First, you need to purchase the fonts themselves: the pfb files are not included in the package. If you got the fonts from No Starch Press, do not rename the pfb files. However, if there are uppercase letters in your file names, downcase them. If you obtained the fonts from another source, rename the files according to the documentation (futurans.pdf). If your TeX system is TDS-compliant, install the files into $TEXMF/fonts/type1/adobe/futurans. Then download http://ctan.tug.org/install/fonts/psfonts/adobe/futurans.tds.zip and unzip this file in $TEXMF. Add +pfv.map to the configuration files of dvips, pdftex and your dvi previewer. Run updmap and texhash programs to update the configuration files and file names database. The included style futurans.sty makes your default Sans Serif family. NOTE The files were generated using fontinst 1.927. CHANGES v1.1 Added light letterspaced, bold compressed and heavy compressed fonts heavy compressed fonts v1.2 Changed scales for letterspaced and compressed fonts v1.3 Added medium, bold and heavy letterspaced fonts ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/psfonts/adobe/futurans/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/futurans (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: dogma v1.3
by CTAN Announcements 28 Mar '08

28 Mar '08

The package 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: dogma v1.3 Author's name: Boris Veytsman Location on CTAN: /fonts/psfonts/emigre/dogma/ Summary description: LaTeX Support For Dogma Font From Emigre Graphics License type: bsd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LaTeX Support For Dogma Font From Emigre Graphics Version 1.3 2008/03/20 This package provides metric files and LaTeX support for Dogma font family from Emigre Graphics designed by Zuzana Licko, 1994. It has everything you need to typeset in this font - except the font itself, of course. INSTALLATION First, you need to purchase the fonts themselves: the pfb files are not included in the package. If you got the fonts from No Starch Press, do not rename the pfb files. However, if there are uppercase letters in your file names, downcase them. If you obtained the fonts from another source, rename the files according to the documentation (dogma.pdf). If your TeX system is TDS-compliant, install the files into $TEXMF/fonts/type1/public/dogma. Download http://ctan.tug.org/install/fonts/psfonts/emigre/dogma.tds.zip and unzip this file in $TEXMF. Add +fdg.map to the configuration files of dvips, pdftex and your dvi previewer. Run updmap and texhash programs to update the configuration files and file names database. The included style dogma.sty adds commands to use the font from LaTeX. NOTE The files were generated using fontinst 1.927. CHANGES v1.1 Added bold letterspaced font v1.2 Changed letterspacing v1.3 Added several letterspaced fonts ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/psfonts/emigre/dogma/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/dogma (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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New CTAN package: changepage.sty
by CTAN Announcements 27 Mar '08

27 Mar '08

Peter Wilson wrote: > I have just uploaded changepage.sty to UK incoming. Please add > this to CTAN (under the misc directory?). It is under the LPPL. > > The changepage package is an extract of code from the memoir class > for checking odd/even pages and locally changing the textwidth or page > layout. It is intended that it will eventually replace the chngpage > package (which does the same thing but whose user interface is not the > same as memoir's). i've installed the file at macros/latex/contrib/misc/changepage.sty and made an entry for it in the catalogue. thanks for the upload. (i've also added it to my preparations for a new version of the uk faq.) Potential users may view the catalogue entry at: http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/changepage.html (when it's been created in the nightly run, between 0000 and 0100 gmt), the may view the file itself at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/misc/changepage.sty (or corresponding addresses at the other main ctan sites, by now). Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: txfonts & pxfonts small cap fonts update
by CTAN Announcements 27 Mar '08

27 Mar '08

The packages below have been updated 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: txfonts & pxfonts small cap fonts update Author's name: Young Ryu Location on CTAN: /fonts/txfonts and fonts/pxfonts Summary description: txfonts & pxfonts small cap fonts update License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The uploaded txpxfonts.zip contains pxfonts/afm/rpxbsc.afm pxfonts/afm/rpxsc.afm pxfonts/pfb/rpxbsc.pfb pxfonts/pfb/rpxsc.pfb txfonts/afm/rtxsc.afm txfonts/afm/rtxsssc.afm txfonts/afm/rtxbsssc.afm txfonts/afm/rtxbsc.afm txfonts/pfb/rtxsc.pfb txfonts/pfb/rtxsssc.pfb txfonts/pfb/rtxbsssc.pfb txfonts/pfb/rtxbsc.pfb Adobe Reader 8 often does not properly display/print small cap letters. The above updates correct this issue. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/txfonts http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/pxfonts . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/txfonts http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pxfonts (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: MemoirChapStyles
by CTAN Announcements 25 Mar '08

25 Mar '08

The package below has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon work its way through the system. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: MemoirChapStyles Author's name: Lars Madsen Location on CTAN: /info/latex-samples/MemoirChapStyles Summary description: Showcase for memoir chapter styles License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A much delayed update to the showcase document. New since last CTAN update: * some of the styles shown in an older version of the document, is now a part of the officiel memoir dist., so the document have been changed accordingly. * added the jenor style If you have any memoir chapterstyle examples you would like to share, please send it to daleif+memoir(a)imf.au.dk. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/latex-samples/MemoirChapStyles . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/MemoirChapStyles (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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