ctan-ann April 2009

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CTAN update: chapterbib.sty
by Robin Fairbairns 13 Apr '09

13 Apr '09

quoth my upload thingummy: > Name of contribution: chapterbib.sty > Author's name: Donald Arseneau > Author's email: asnd(a)triumf.ca > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/cite > Summary description: Chapterbib updates version 1.14 > License type: other-free > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Updated chapterbib.sty, version 1.14. > Changes since 1.11: > License statement (Simple MIT/BSD-like) > New CitationPrefix declaration for chapter.cite numbering > No warning from ocite* in chapters > Rewrite final-bibs titling > Update @citex with fseries > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/chapterbib.sty.html (slightly update due overnight tonight) > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/cite thanks for the upload; i have installed the new version and updated the catalogue repository. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: pkfix-helper
by CTAN Announcements 13 Apr '09

13 Apr '09

the cambridge upload daemon's moving finger wrote: > ====================================================================== > > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: pkfix-helper > Author's name: Scott Pakin > Location on CTAN: support/pkfix-helper > Summary description: Make PostScript files produced by older dvips versions accessible to pkfix > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > pkfix is a useful utility for replacing resolution-dependent bitmapped > fonts in a dvips-produced PostScript file with the corresponding > resolution-independent vector fonts. Unfortunately, pkfix needs to > parse certain PostScript comments that appear only in files produced > by dvips versions later than 5.58 (ca. 1996); it fails to work on > PostScript files produced by older versions of dvips. > > pkfix-helper is a program that attempts to insert newer-dvips comments > into an older-dvips PostScript file, thereby making the file suitable > for processing by pkfix. pkfix-helper can sometimes process documents > fully autonomously but does require the user to verify and, if needed, > correct its decisions. > > CHANGES IN VERSION 1.1: When producing font samples (TeX and > PostScript), pkfix-helper now knows how to break pages -- useful for > documents containing a large number of fonts. Thanks to RogÃ©rio Brito > for suggesting this feature. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pkfix-helper.html (it will change minutely overnight tonight.) > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/pkfix-helper i have installed the update, and updated the catalogue repository. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: sseq
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 10 Apr '09

10 Apr '09

This package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College .......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: sseq Author's name: Tilman Bauer Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/sseq Summary description: drawing spectral sequence charts License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Update of the sseq package for drawing spectral sequence charts to version 2.0. It now uses pgf graphics instead of xypic, resulting in nicer output and less inexplicable behavior. Many new options and features; consult the manual. Compatible to previous versions 1.0x ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/sseq . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/sseq (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: accfonts
by CTAN Announcements 08 Apr '09

08 Apr '09

On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 John Smith submitted an update to the accfonts package. Location on CTAN: /fonts/utilities/accfonts Summary description: Utilities to derive new fonts from existing ones License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The accfonts package contains three utilities to permit easy manipulation of fonts, in particular the creation of unusual accented characters. Mkt1font works on Adobe Type 1 fonts, vpl2vpl works on TeX virtual fonts and vpl2ovp transforms a TeX font to an Omega one. All three programs read in a font (either the font itself or a property list), together with a simple definition file containing lines such as ‘128 z acute’; they then write out a new version of the font with the requested new characters in the numerical slots specified. Great care is taken over the positioning of accents, and over the provision of kerning information for new characters; mkt1font also generates suitable “hints” to enhance quality at small sizes or poor resolutions. The programs are written in Perl. See the file CHANGES for information about this update. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/utilities/accfonts . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=accfonts (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 update: IEEEconf
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 05 Apr '09

05 Apr '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: IEEEconf Author's name: Scott Pakin Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/IEEEconf Summary description: Class file for IEEE Computer Society conference proceedings License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The IEEEconf class implements the formatting dictated by the IEEE Computer Society Press for conference proceedings (ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/instruct8.5x11.pdf). IEEEconf.cls replaces latex8.sty and is compatible with any BibTeX style, not just latex8.bst. The goal was to produce a more faithful implementation of the formatting rules and to do so with cleaner LaTeX code than that provided by the latex8.* files. Version 1.4 of IEEEconf.cls includes a few changes to better match the IEEE Computer Society Press's latest formatting requirements, a latex8 class option that retains latex8.sty's incorrect but more space-efficient title formatting, and support for the onecolumn class option in case an author wants to use the multicolumn package along with the IEEEconf class. Thanks to Oliver Kopp for proposing latex8 and onecolumn support and for helping with testing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/IEEEconf . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/ieeeconf (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: Frontespizio
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ....................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Frontespizio Author's name: Enrico Gregorio Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib Summary description: This package provides an environment to typeset a frontispiece to theses in Italian style License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The frontespizio package lets you typeset a frontispiece (suitable for Italian university style) independently of the page layout of the main document. This is version 1.1 of the package; the only change from version 1.0 is the addition of the option `swapnames', to exchange the position of candidate and advisor names. A bug with option `onlyinclude' has been corrected. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/frontespizio (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: dozenal
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

This package has been updated on tug.ctan.or and should within a day be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: dozenal Author's name: Donald P. Goodman Location on CTAN: /fonts/dozenal Summary description: Typeset documents using base twelve numbering (also called dozenal). License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package supports typesetting documents whose counters are represented in base twelve, also called “dozenal”. It includes a macro by David Kastrup for converting positive whole numbers to dozenal from decimal (base ten) representation. The package also also includes a few other macros and redefines all the standard counters to produce dozenal output. Bugs in the original redefinition of these standards counters have been resolved. Fonts, in Roman, italic, slanted, and boldface versions, provide ten and eleven (the Pitman characters preferred by the Dozenal Society of Great Britain). The fonts were designed to blend well with the Computer Modern fonts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/dozenal . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/dozenal (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: jeopardy
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ....................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: jeopardy.sty - fixed example with babel/pdfscreen issue Author's name: Robert Marik Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/jeopardy/ Summary description: Fix for two of the examples - babel is not compatible with pdfscreen License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This update fixes problem reported on comp.text.tex in January. The package pdfscreen (I use 1.5) is not compatible with babel and it has to be modified slightly to work well (there are problems with catcode of @ when creating table of contents in panel). I've removed babel from example files written in English and these files (game2.tex, game2a.tex) should compile fine now. For two remaining czech demo files (game3.tex, jeopardy-CZ.tex) you still need the fixed pdfscreen. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/jeopardy/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/jeopardy (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: dvisvgm 0.7.2
by CTAN Announcements 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 Martin Gieseking submitted an update to the dvisvgm package. Location on CTAN: /dviware/dvisvgm License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dvisvgm is a command-line utility that converts DVI files to SVG. The latest release introduces a caching mechanism for vectorized bitmap fonts. The slowest part during a DVI to SVG conversion using dvisvgm is the call of Metafont and the following vectorization of its bitmap output. To increase the conversion speed in this area, dvisvgm now keeps information about the vectorized glyphs in cache files for future usage. This avoids multiple Metafont calls for the same fonts as well as repeated vectorizations of the same glyphs. To reduce the length of font path description a bit, dvisvgm now generates SVG shorthand path commands if possible. For further information including a list of recent changes and pre-compiled binaries for Windows/MiKTeX see the project page http://dvisvgm.sourceforge.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/dviware/dvisvgm . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=dvisvgm (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 Update: pdfcomment
by CTAN Announcements 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 Josef Kleber submitted an update to the pdfcomment package. For a long time pdflatex has offered the command pdfannot for inserting arbitrary PDF annotations. However, the command is presented in a form where additional knowledge of the definition of the PDF format is indispensable. This package is an answer to the – occasional – questions in newsgroups, about how one could use the comment function of Adobe Reader. At least for the writer of LATEX code, the package offers a convenient and user-friendly means of using pdfannot to provide comments in PDF files. Since version v1.1, pdfcomment.sty also supports: LaTeX -> dvips -> ps2pdf, LaTeX -> dvipdfmx and XeLaTeX. Unfortunately, support of PDF annotations by PDF viewers is sparse to nonexistent. The reference viewer for the development of this package is Adobe Reader. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/pdfcomment Summary description: A user-friendly interface to pdf annotations License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- New in v1.4: - new annotation type: PDF sideline, line, polyline, polygon, square and circle annotation -> pdfsidelinecomment, pdflinecomment (type=line|polyline|polygon), pdfsquarecomment, pdfcirclecomment - new options: font, fontsize, fontcolor, borderstyle, dashstyle, bse, bsei, line, type, lineend, linebegin, icolor, caption, captionhoffset, captionvoffset ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/pdfcomment . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=pdfcomment (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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