Peter Wilson writes:
> I have just uploaded ledmac.tar.gz to UK /incoming. Please use
> this to replace the current macros/latex/contrib/ledmac.
>
> There are no technical changes to any part of the distribution but
> in the LPPL licenses I have changed author-maintained to
> unmaintained. I have noted the change in the README and that there
> is an opportunity for someone to take over.
>
> I tried before to find someone willing to take over the
> maintenance of the packages but there were no takers. I can no longer
> maintain them and would be happy for someone else to take over.
I have updated the bundle as suggested, and updated the catalogue to
reflect the new situation.
Users may view the catalogue entries for the packages involved (ledmac,
ledpar and ledarab) at:
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/ledmac.htmlhttp://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/ledpar.htmlhttp://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/ledarab.html
or they may browse the distribution directory at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ledmac/
The catalogue entries will be updated overnight.
Thank you, Peter, for the upload.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
The package below has been updated on tug.ctan.org and will soon be near
you.
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: bib2ml 6.2
Author's name: Stephane GALLAND
Location on CTAN: /
Summary description: Major bug fix in bib2ml
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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Bib2ML fixes a major bug on the BibTeX field name parsing. Indeed,
several third-party tools (eg, BibDesk) create field names with unrecognized
characters.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bib2ml
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/bib2ml
(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 .
On Tue, 27 May 2008, Basil K. Malyshev submitted an update to the
bakoma
package.
Location on CTAN: systems/win32/bakoma
License: shareware
> Improvement in BaKoMa TeX 8.23 are:
> * Genrates PDF file version 1.4
> * Support for HyperRef specification of hyperlink border color.
> 'Options/Document Properties/HyperLinks' provides more control.
> * Measuring tool in TeXWord works like to DVIEW.
> * Fixed openning file from network drives (\ServerResourceDirectory...)
> * Fixed problem with clearing file at creating from template with UTF8
> encoding.
>
> More details about changes and another bug fixing see at:
> <http://www.bakoma-tex.com/menu/changes.php> or
> <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes7.html>
>
> -------------------- About BaKoMa TeX 8.23 ------------------
>
> BaKoMa TeX 8.23 supports two coexisting IDE:
> 1) BaKoMa TeX Word - True WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor.
> 2) Text Editor + DVI Viewer - Classical 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 screenshots are available at:
> <http://www.bakoma-tex.com/menu/screenshots.php>
>
> Root of BaKoMa TeX distributions is at:
> <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/>
>
> New features in BaKoMa TeX 8.23 are:
> * Genrates PDF file version 1.4
> * Support for HyperRef specification of hyperlink border color.
> 'Options/Document Properties/HyperLinks' provides more control.
> * Measuring tool in TeXWord works like to DVIEW.
> * Fixed openning file from network drives (\ServerResourceDirectory...)
> * Fixed problem with clearing file at creating from template with UTF8
> encoding.
>
> More details about changes and another bug fixing see at:
> <http://www.bakoma-tex.com/menu/changes.php> or
> <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes7.html>
Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
On Tue, 27 May 2008, Staszek Wawrykiewicz submitted an update to the
cyklop
package.
Location on CTAN: fonts/cyklop
> Font: Cyklop
> Author: Janusz Marian Nowacki, Grudziadz, Poland
> Version: 0.91
> Date: May 2008
> Licence: GUST Font License
> Downloads: http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry
> Location on CTAN: fonts/cyklop
>
> The Cyclop typeface was designed in the 1920s at the workshop of Warsaw
> type foundry Odlewnia Czcionek J. Idzkowski i S-ka. This sans serif
> typeface has a highly modulated stroke so it has high typographic
> contrast. The vertical stems are much heavier then horizontal ones.
> Most characters have thin rectangles as additional counters giving the
> unique shape of the characters.
>
> The font was generated using the Metatype1 package. Then the original
> set of characters was completed by adding the full set of accented
> letters and characters of the modern Latin alphabets (including
> Vietnamese).
>
> The fonts are distributed in the Type1 and OpenType formats along with the
> files necessary for use these fonts in TeX and LaTeX including
> encoding definition files: T1 (ec), T5 (Vietnamese), OT4, QX, texnansi
> and nonstandard ones (IL2 for Czech fonts).
>
> In the ver. 0.91 metric .tfm files were corrected and also .fd files for
> LaTeX.
Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
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
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: kpfonts
Author's name: Caignaert Christophe
Location on CTAN: /fonts/kpfonts
Summary description: full ste of fonts for text and math typesetting
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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Kpfonts is a very full set of fonts for typesetting text and math.
It includes real small caps, all current math symbols (TeX, AMS and
more), in normal and bold version.
The kepler's project is to provide a large set of options to customize
your typesetting.
The major release 2.0 gets a 'light' option, with lighter roman
fonts and same metrics...
The 2.1 release gets:
- a new option 'oldstylenums' with oldstyle numbers as default
(and nothing else),
- a full support of 'textcomp' package.
This 2.2 release gets:
- a new option 'largesmallcaps' with real larger smallcaps,
- a new option 'narrowiints' with narrower multiple integrals.
Read the .pdf doc file available in english and in french!
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/kpfonts
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/kpfonts
(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 .
This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org.
Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: siunitx
Author's name: Joseph Wright
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/exptl/siunitx
Summary description: A comprehensive (SI) units package
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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v0.8b:
- alsoload option extended to work in body of file
- Option to switch handling of display maths
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/siunitx
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/siunitx
(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 .
Herbert Voss wrote:
> PSTricks is a bundle of packages for drawing graphics
> with PostScript.
>
> This update for the core package pstricks has the changes:
>
> - new files pst-news2008.tex|pdf
> pst-news.sty for the news-doc
>
> ---- pstricks.pro
> 1.04 2008-05-11 - added Rand for a real random 0<=Rand<=1
>
> ---- pstricks.tex
> 1.23 2008-05-23 - add octogon symbol (hv)
> - fix bug with D>-<D (hv)
I have installed the changes to the package and update the catalogue
entry. Thanks for the upload.
Users may view the catalogue entry at:
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pstricks.html
or browse the package itself at:
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/base/
Thanks for the upload.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
I have added a mirror into ctan from the repository for:
> Name of contribution: dviasm
> Author's name: Jin-Hwan Cho
> Location on CTAN: /dviware/dviasm/
> Summary description: utility for editing DVI files
> License type: gpl
>
> Announcement text:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> DVIasm is a script by Jin-Hwan Cho to support changing or creating DVI
> files via disassembling into text, editing, and then reassembling into
> binary format. It supports advanced features such as adding a
> preprint number or watermarks.
>
> It is more fully documented at http://tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb28-2/tb89cho.pdf.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> The catalogue entry may be viewed at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/dviasm.html
> Or users may browse the package on-line at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/dviware/dviasm/
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
This package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at
your local mirror.
Thanks again,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: Javadoc
Author's name: Matthias Jolle Kiesel
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/javadoc
Summary description: Package for documentation of source code.
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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The javadoc package provides an easy way to document source code. It
is related to the javadoc system for java source code. But, of course,
source code of other languages can be documented using this package.
The bundle contains also a doclet to generate the Tex-files out of
java-source-code.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/javadoc
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/javadoc
(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 .
On Thu, 22 May 2008 at 12:16 +0200, Werner LEMBERG submitted an update to the
wadalab
package.
These are font bundles for the Japanese Wadalab fonts which work with the CJK
package.
All subfonts now have glyph names compliant to the Adobe Glyph List, making
ToUnicode CMaps in PDF documents (created automatically by dvipdfmx) work
correctly.
All font bundles now contain virtual Unicode subfonts.
Location on CTAN: /fonts/wadalab
License: unknown
Announcement text:
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This version incorporates the hwkatakana bundle of Gernot Hassenpflug
(which now becomes obsolete). The main reason for this merge was that
some files of Gernot's package replace files from the Wadalab fonts,
causing nasty dependency issues.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/wadalab
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=wadalab
(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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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf