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New CTAN package: MnTTeX- Tools for Typesetting the Secret History of the Mongols
by CTAN Announcements 27 Dec '04

27 Dec '04

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 Oliver Corff submitted his new package MNTTeX to CTAN. Name of contribution: MnTTeX- Tools for Typesetting the Secret History of the Mongols Author's name: Oliver Corff Location on CTAN: /language/mongolian/MNT Summary description: The Package assists in typing the special Chinese characters used in the Secret History of the Mongols License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Secret History of the Mongols (Monggol-un niguca tobciyan -> MNT) is the oldest work of Mongolian literature surviving today. Though the language of the text is Middle Mongolian, the text was written entirely in Chinese characters which were used to render Mongolian phonetically. Modern tools for typing, editing and typesetting Chinese do not easily lend themselves for preparing research documentation due to pecularities of the historical source. The MNTTeX package assists the scholar typesetting the complex Chinese material by accessing all characters either by number or pronounciation as well as offering convenient access to small or combined characters. The MNTTeX package relies on an existing environment for processing Chinese characters and assumes that the package CJK is installed. Furthermore it is required to use the font zysong.ttf or a similar font in Song style.Since not all characters used in the MNT are provided by modern fonts they had to be made for this package. Being closely modelled according to Song style, these especially made characters would stand out in stark contrast from e.g. Kaiti style character sets. Limited in number, these individual characters were coded as scalable vector images, rather than as font. No difference between these characters and ordinary characters can be perceived in print even though the on-screen display may appear hardly intelligible. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: wallpaper
by Jim Hefferon 24 Dec '04

24 Dec '04

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon -- unless the holidy rush slows it down -- be at your favorite mirror. Thanks for the contribution, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: wallpaper Author's name: Michael H.F. Wilkinson Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/wallpaper Summary description: Easy addition of wallpapers (background images) to LaTeX documents, including tiling. License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This collection contains files to add wallpapers (background images) to LaTeX documents. It uses the eso-pic.sty package, but provides simple commands to include effects such as tiling. An example is provided, which works under both LaTeX and pdfLaTeX. A (pdf) manual is provided as well. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/wallpaper although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror of CTAN that is near to you; see http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors

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CTAN upgrade: msg package update V 0.08
by CTAN Announcements 23 Dec '04

23 Dec '04

Bernard Gaulle writes: > I upload on ftp.tex.ac.uk an update (V 0.08) of the msg package > for LaTeX. > > The msg package is a LaTeX package designed to localize any > document class or package. Very usefull for end-users which could > obtain messages in their own prefered language. It is really easy to > use by class/package writers. File names and syntax are still under > consideration; this is the main reason why it is still a beta version > which can be improved. Volunteers are welcome to test it, report, > and even localize the messages file in their own language. > Documentation is provided in... English (-like). > > It is localized itself in French, Englisk, Norsk and now German. > > The upload on ftp.tex.ac.uk is: msg.tar.gz > Ctan directory: macros/latex/contrib/msg > > % This file may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of > % the LaTeX Project Public License as of http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt > % > % This file has the LPPL maintenance status maintained. > % The current maintainer is Bernard.Gaulle at idris.fr > > V 0.08 mods: added German messages file; added input encoding > facility (msgencoding); test file stronger; > documentation changed. good to see the contributions taking off. i've installed the files as requested -- thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: C.D.P. Bundle
by CTAN Announcements 23 Dec '04

23 Dec '04

On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 Gustavo Mezzetti uploaded version 0.33 of the C.D.P. bundle. The C.D.P. Bundle can be used to typeset high-quality business letters formatted according to Italian style conventions. It is highly configurable, and its modular structure provides you with building blocks of increasing level, by means of which you can compose a large variety of letters. It is also possible to write letters divided into sections and paragraphs, to include floating figures and tables, and to have the relevant indexes compiled automatically. A single input file can contain several letters, and each letter will have its own table of contents, etc., independant from the other ones. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/cdpbundl Summary description: Business letters in the Italian style License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Release of version 0.33, which provides a better interaction with the hyperref package. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: pdftex 1.20b
by CTAN Announcements 23 Dec '04

23 Dec '04

On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 Martin Schröder uploaded the new version 1.20b of pdftex to CTAN. pdftex is an extension of TeX which directly generates PDF documents instead of DVI. Most TeX distributions, including teTeX, fpTeX and miktex include pdftex and pdflatex. Location on CTAN: /systems/pdftex/ Summary description: A bug fixing release of pdfTeX License type: gpl Announcement text: ------------------------------------------------ pdfTeX 3.141592-1.20b was released on 2004-12-22 ------------------------------------------------ - Fixed some minor bugs, mostly with hz - The info line output format initialized to PDF/DVI isn't shown anymore, as this info wasn't reliable (bug 112). - Now the PDF-related statistics (PDF objects...) in the .log file is only shown in PDF output mode. It start with a line PDF statistics:. - pdfimageresolution is not limited to 2400 [dpi] anymore, can now be between 0 and 65535 [dpi]. - pdfTeX uses xpdf 3.00pl2 - pdfTeX uses libpng 1.2.8, which fixes some png-related bugs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package revision: tensor
by CTAN Announcements 22 Dec '04

22 Dec '04

Philip G. Ratcliffe writes: > I've just uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk a slightly improved version of the > tensor package: a small problem in conjunction with the color package > has been eliminated and I've added a some minor extra capabilities. All > covered in the updated documentation. i have updated the version in macros/latex/contrib/tensor thanks for the upload. > One small point: the original package by Mike Piff should possibly be > (re)moved since it actually takes precedence in the TDS. Note that the new > package is perfectly backward compatible. distribution managers should note this. for my part, i've simply moved mike's original to the ctan obsolete/ tree Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN submission: Ibycus 4, release 4.5
by CTAN Announcements 21 Dec '04

21 Dec '04

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Walter Schmidt uploaded the new release 4.5 of the Ibycus 4 system, a collection of fonts and macros to typeset ancient Greek. This upload occurs in agreement with the original author if Ibycus, Pierre MacKay. Location on CTAN: fonts/greek/ibygrk Main news (see also the file NEWS in the distribution): The bold Ibycus font is now available in Postscript format. It was converted from Metafont to Type1 by Harald Harders. The regular Ibycus Type1 font should work flawlessly with Acrobat Reader 5 now; special thanks to Peter Heslin and Ralf Stubner, who succeeded to find and fix a long-standing bug. Virtual fonts and related font metrics are no longer needed. Fixed definition of the macro greek, so as to work also with default font encodings other than OT1. New text-generating command extgreek as a counterpart to the declaration greek. Improved installation intructions which should suit recent TeX systems. Ibycus 4.5 is released under the GNU General Public License. Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: leaflet v1.0c
by CTAN Announcements 21 Dec '04

21 Dec '04

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 Rolf Niepraschk uploaded version 1.0c of his package leaflet leaflet is a document class to create small hand-outs (flyers) that fit on a single sheet of paper which is then folded twice. Pages are rearranged by LaTeX so that they print correctly on a single sheet -- no external script is necessary. (Works with PostScript and PDF.) Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/leaflet/ License type: LaTeX Project (lppl) Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Some bug fixes and improvements. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: minitoc package, version 40
by CTAN Announcements 21 Dec '04

21 Dec '04

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Jean-Pierre Drucbert uploaded version 40 of his package minitoc Location on CTAN : macros/latex/contrib/minitoc/ Licence: LPPL minitoc.sty is useful to add mini-tables-of-contents (minitocs) at the beginning of every chapter. They are also minilofs and minilots. At the part level, they are parttocs, partlofs and partlots. If the type of document does not use chapters, they are section level secttocs, sectlofs and sectlots. updates versus version 39: ======================================================================= Version #40 Added the japanese language (japanese.mld) Added the castillan language (castillan.mld) Removed the test on the presence of the multicol package in minitoc.tex, because multicol is a required package. Added a figure in minitoc.tex about the need of 3 compilations. Added some infos in minitoc.bug. Added a paragraph about problem with the appendix package. Updated minitoc.bib Added the hints option. This option is still experimental; you advice is welcome. Added fminitoc.pdf (french documentation in PDF format). ======================================================================= Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: xkeyval and pst-xkey packages
by CTAN Announcements 21 Dec '04

21 Dec '04

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Hendri Adriaens uploaded an update to his packages xkeyval (1.8a) and pst-xkey (1.2a) xkeyval is an extension of the keyval package and offers additional macros for setting keys and declaring and setting class or package options. The package allows the programmer to specify a prefix to the name of the macros it defines for keys, and to define families of key definitions; these all help use in documents where several packages define their own sets of keys. pst-xkey is an adaptation of the techniques of xkeyval to the needs of the family of packages associated with pstricks, so that those packages can safely, and with relative ease, use key-value syntax in their commands. License is lppl. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/xkeyval Announcement text: ----------------------------------------------- The updates are related to three small bugs that were discovered on 2004/12/20. Two are related to the support of the empty family (eg, for pstricks). The previous update avoided removing spaces from key and familynames and some macros were adjusted. I overlooked the fact that one of those macros removed the empty family from the list of families. The last bug that was solved was in reusing a macro that was redefined intermediately in case presets were used. I hope no more bugs will show up now. ------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the update For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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