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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: trlshort
Author's name: Bekir Karaoglu
Location on CTAN: /info/lshort/turkish
Summary description: Turkish translation of The not so short introduction
to LaTeX2e of Tobias Oetiker
License type: lppl
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Turkish translation of The not so short introduction to LaTeX2e of
Tobias Oetiker.
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: purifyeps
Author's name: Scott Pakin
Location on CTAN: /support/purifyeps
Summary description: Convert an ordinary Encapsulated PostScript file
into one that works with both LaTeX+dvips and pdfLaTeX
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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While pdfLaTeX has a number of nice features, its primary shortcoming
relative to standard LaTeX+dvips is that it is unable to read ordinary
Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) files, the most common graphics format
in the LaTeX world. purifyeps converts EPS files into a purified
form that can be read by *both* LaTeX+dvips and pdfLaTeX. The trick
is that the standard LaTeX2e graphics packages can parse
MetaPost-produced EPS directly. Hence, purifyeps need only convert an
arbitrary EPS file into the same stylized format that MetaPost
outputs.
This release updates the documentation according to some corrections
sent to me by Heiko Oberdiek.
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: mafr
Author's name: Christian Obrecht
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/mafr
Summary description: The 'mafr' package provides settings and macros for
typesetting mathematics with LaTeX in compliance with French usage.
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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The 'mafr' package provides settings and macros for typesetting
mathematics with LaTeX in compliance with French usage. It comes with
two document classes, 'fiche' and 'cours', useful to create short high
school documents such as tests or lessons. The documentation is in
French.
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: forloop
Author's name: N Setzer
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/forloop
Summary description: provides forloop command
License type: lgpl
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The forloop package provides the command forloop for the user.
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: coolstr
Author's name: N Setzer
Author's email: nsetzer(a)umd.edu
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/coolstr
Summary description: Deals with manipulation of strings
License type: lgpl
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The coolstr package is a subpackage of the cool package that deals with
the manipulation of strings. A string is defined as a sequence of
characters (not tokens).
The package provides the ability to access a specific character of a
string, as well as determine if the string contains numeric or INT
data.
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Name of contribution: pst-asr
Author's name: John Frampton
Location on CTAN: /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-asr
Summary description: Macros for use by linguists to typeset autosegmental
representations
License type: lppl
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The pst-asr package is based on PSTricks and is intended to be used by
linguists to typeset autosegmental representations. It consists of
three files: pst-asr.tex, pst-asr.sty, and pst-asr-doc.pdf. It requires
the PSTricks package and the XKeyVal package.
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: variations
Author's name: Christian Obrecht
Location on CTAN: /macros/generic/variations
Summary description: A package for typesetting tables showing variations of
functions according to French usage.
License type: gpl
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The 'variations' package provides macros for typesetting tables showing
variations of functions according to French usage. These macros may be
used by both LaTeX and plain TeX users. The documentation is in French.
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: Screenplay
Author's name: John Pate
Author's email: johnny(a)dvc.org.uk
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/screenplay
Summary description: LaTeX .cls file to provide formatting as recommended by
the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
License type: gpl
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I'm uploading this .cls file in the hope more experienced LaTeX users
can improve it. However, it currently produces what I consider useful
results. For more information, see http://dvc.org.uk/sacrific.txt/
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The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
Name of contribution: Stellenbosch thesis and other utilities 5.0
Author's name: Danie Els
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/stellenbosch
Summary description: Typesetting dissertations, theses and reports of
the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.
License type: lppl
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The usthesis class/style files are provided to typeset reports, theses
and dissertations that conform to the requirements of the Engineering
Faculty of the University of Stellenbosch.
The class file usthesis.cls is based on the standard LaTeX book class,
while usthesis.sty is a style file to be loaded on top of the very
powerful memoir class. Both options give identical output, but the
benefit of the using memoir is that it has many additional command
and environments for formatting and processing of a document.
Usthesis is primarily concerned with the formatting of the front matter
such as the title page, abstract, etc. and a decent page layout on A4
paper. It also works together with the babel package to provide language
options to typeset documents in Afrikaans or in English.
Additional packages are provided for bibliographic matter, note title
pages, lists of symbols, as well as various graphic files for logos.
CHANGES FROM 4.0:
a) Add to USthesis docs and to templates:
- user defined layouts with memoir or geometry.
- parskip package if spacing is required between paragraphs.
b) Bugfix in usmeg-n.bst in FUNCTION{remove.spaces}
c) Change default BIBand from & to and for usbib.sty with
usmeg-a and usmeg-n options.
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Jean-Pierre Drucbert writes:
> I have uploaded a new version (#48) of the minitoc package in
> the /incoming directory of ftp.tex.ac.uk . The file is named
>
> minitoc.zip (5871882 bytes)
>
> This package should completely replace its previous version in
>
> tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/minitoc/
>
> The licence is LPPL.
>
> This package allows the creation of mini-tables of contents,
> lists of figures or lists of tables per part, chapter or
> section, with language dependent titles.
>
> This new version has the following changes or improvements:
>
> _______________________________________________________________________
> Minitoc version #48
> --- updated the bibliography and its formatting;
> --- fixed and updated add.bib;
> --- correction of the preamble problem in add.bib and all generated
> files;
> --- added devanagari.mld, hindi.mld, and hindi-modern.mld;
> --- added error E0036 if english.mld is not found to set the default
> titles;
> --- the bibliographic styles plainurl.bst and frplain1.bst are
> renamed en-mtc.bst and fr-mtc.bst;
> --- renamed all examples files with names beginning with ``mtc-'';
> --- add.bib renamed mtc-add.bib;
> --- the ``listfiles'' package option is now active by default;
> --- added mtc-syn.tex example document file.
> _______________________________________________________________________
>
> The administravive trivia are in the `catalog' file in the
> distribution.
>
> Note that the documentation is mainly available in PDF form,
> -- in english (not perfect): minitoc.pdf
> -- in french: fminitoc.pdf
>
> The INSTALL file (and, better, the ``Installation'' chapter in the
> documentation) describes the files of this package (the list
> of files is in minitoc.l).
thanks for the upload: i've installed the files as requested.
users may examine the package via the catalogue entry:
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/minitoc.html
that has online links to the latest documentation as well as download
links.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team