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CTAN has a new package umtypewriter
by CTAN Announcements 15 Feb '08

15 Feb '08

On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Apostolos Syropoulos submitted the new package umtypewriter to CTAN. It contains four OpenType fonts released under the Open Font License which are necessary support for the Latin, the Greek and the Cyrillic scripts. Location on CTAN: fonts/umtypewriter License: ofl Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: BaKoMa TeX 8.20 - New face, Common Settings.
by CTAN Announcements 14 Feb '08

14 Feb '08

On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Basil Malyshev submitted an update to the bakoma package. Location on CTAN: systems/win32/bakoma License: shareware > Improvement in BaKoMa TeX 8.20 are: > > * New face: icons and toolbars. > Icons are redesigned for 24x24 size, with XP styled colors. > (More then 300 icons - math symbols of symbol panels are not counted). > Toolbars are automatically sized and wrapped as needed. > Improved default scaling of Symbol Panels and Symbol Bars. > > Screenshots of new face are available at: > <http://www.bakoma-tex.com/menu/screenshots.php> > > * Common Settings - new program integrates important global settings. > It is accessible from 'Start/Programs' system menu > and from 'Options/Common Settings' menu command of every program. > > * VAR directory is moved to 'Local Settings' > > 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> > > Bye. > Basil K. Malyshev > 12-Feb-2008 > > PS: Please send announce to appropriate mailing lists. > > -------------------- About BaKoMa TeX 8.20 ------------------ > > BaKoMa TeX 8.20 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 8.20 are: > * New face: icons and toolbars. > Icons are redesigned for 24x24 size, with XP styled colors. > (More then 300 icons - math symbols of symbol panels are not counted). > Toolbars are automatically sized and wrapped as needed. > Improved default scaling of Symbol Panels and Symbol Bars. > * Common Settings - new program integrates important global settings. > It is accessible from 'Start/Programs' system menu > and from 'Options/Common Settings' menu command of every program. > * VAR directory is moved to 'Local Settings' > > 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

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CTAN package update: prerex-4.0
by CTAN Announcements 13 Feb '08

13 Feb '08

The package below has been updated 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: prerex-4.0 Author's name: Bob Tennent Location on CTAN: /graphics/prerex Summary description: Interactive editor for prerequisite charts with macro support License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This release adds support in the style file and the editor for a command that places a line of text (hbox) at any place in the chart. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/prerex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/prerex (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: biblatex 0.7d
by CTAN Announcements 13 Feb '08

13 Feb '08

Philipp Lehman wrote: > I've uploaded `biblatex.tar.gz' to the incoming directory of the UK > node. This is a maintenance update for macros/latex/exptl/biblatex/. > > Please use the contents of the archive to replace the corresponding > files in macros/latex/exptl/biblatex/. Note that the archive only > contains the files which have actually been modified. > > Thank you very much. > > RELEASE NOTES > > This is a maintenance update for biblatex 0.7. The following files > have been modified: > > latex/biblatex.sty > > The updated files are tagged 0.7d 2008/02/11. > > CHANGES > > * Fixed nasty bug related to bibencoding option thanks for the upload. the update has been installed and catalogued, and should by now have propagated around the world. users may view the catalogue entry at http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/biblatex.html or browse the package directory at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex/ Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: DotArrow
by CTAN Announcements 11 Feb '08

11 Feb '08

A new package has been put up 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: DotArrow Author's name: Sven Schneider Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/dotarrow Summary description: extendable dotted arrows License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the first release. This package can draw dotted arrows that are extendable just like xrightarrow. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/dotarrow . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/dotarrow (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: nag
by CTAN Announcements 11 Feb '08

11 Feb '08

On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, Ulrich M. Schwarz submitted an update to the nag package. Old habits die hard. All the same, there are commands, classes and packages which are outdated and superseded. The nag package provides routines to warn the user about the use of such obsolete things. As an example, we provide an extension that detects many of the sins described in l2tabu. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/nag License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 0.61 fixes numerous robustness and compatibility issues, you are strongly advised to update. nag-experimental now warns about failed includes and informs about floats that are too large for their position. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/nag . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=nag (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 package update: biblatex-dw
by Jim Hefferon 10 Feb '08

10 Feb '08

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and will 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: biblatex-dw Author's name: Dominik Wassenhoven Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-dw/ Summary description: Humanities styles for biblatex. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- v1.1a - BUGFIX: When using the commands 'mancite' or 'citereset', the 'idem' functionality was not reset. This is now fixed. - New option 'edsuper'. If set to 'true', the edition is printed as superscript number (not as ordinal number) straight ahead of the year. The default is 'false'. - New option 'firstfull' (only in 'authortitle-dw'). If set to 'true', the first citation is a fullcite. The default is 'false'. - Option 'citedas' is now also available for 'authortitle-dw' and used when 'firstfull' is set to 'true'. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblate… . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/biblatex-dw (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: biblatex-mla
by CTAN Announcements 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

ctan-upload(a)tex.ac.uk wrote: > ====================================================================== > > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: biblatex-mla > Author's name: James Clawson > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/ > Summary description: MLA style files for biblatex > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The biblatex-mla style files have been updated to version 0.4 and been > made available on CTAN. The files provide MLA-style parenthetical > citations and Works Cited lists (bibliographies) for use with > Biblatex. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i have installed the files as requested, and updated the catalogue. thanks for the upload. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/biblatex-mla.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-mla/ Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: pdf-forms-tutorial-0.9.5
by CTAN Announcements 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Dirk Krause submitted an update to the pdf-forms-tutorial package. This package contains a tutorial and examples showing how to create PDF forms using pdfLaTeX with the hyperref and insdljs packages. Location on CTAN: /info/pdf-forms-tutorial License type: fdl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A section was added to show how to add online help to forms using PDF annotations and tooltips. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/info/pdf-forms-tutorial . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=pdf-forms-tutorial (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 package update: euenc
by CTAN Announcements 05 Feb '08

05 Feb '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: euenc Author's name: Will Robertson Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/latex/euenc/ Summary description: Unicode font definitions for XeLaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Update to support the latest release of the LM fonts (v1.106) and fix a small bug with French support in babel. See the included readme and documentation for more information. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/euenc/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/euenc (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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