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CTAN update: LaTeX for Word Processor Users
by Jim Hefferon 05 Feb '02

05 Feb '02

An update of a CTAN package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should by now have made it through the mirroring system. Thanks for the update, Jim Hefferon ftpmaint(a)tug.ctan.org ========================================================== The following information was provided by our fellow contributor. Name of contribution: LaTeX for Word Processor Users (update) Author's name: Guido Gonzato, Ph.D. Location on CTAN: info/latex4wp Summary description: This is a LaTeX guide specifically designed for word processor users. License type: gpl Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LaTeX for Word Processor Users is a guide that helps converting knowledge and techniques of word processing into the LaTeX typesetting environment. It aims at helping WP users use LaTeX instead. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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CTAN update: ncctools
by Jim Hefferon 04 Feb '02

04 Feb '02

The ncctools package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should have made its way throught the mirroring process. Jim Hefferon ftpmaint(a)tug.ctan.org ================================================ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor. Name of contribution: ncctools Author's name: Alexander I Rozhenko Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/ncctools Summary description: A new release of the NCCTOOLS bungle for LaTeX Project License type: lppl Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - ------------------------------------------------------------------- % % NCCTOOLS, Release 2.0 %====================== % % HISTORICAL NOTES % ================ The `ncctools' bundle consists of a number of packages extracted from NCC style (developed by A. Rozhenko in 1992-1996 for LaTeX-2.09) while reimplementation it for LaTeX-2e. This job is not completed yet. So, some packages will be added to the bundle later. Four of the packages, namely dcounter, extdash, manyfoot, and nccfoots, are documented in corresponding `.dtx' files. Others are partially documented just inside `.sty' files. % % CONTENTS OF THE NCCTOOLS BUNDLE % =============================== cropbox.sty Implements the cropbox command which prepares a box with crop marks at its corners looking like angles. Angle parameters are customizable. cropmark.sty Implements the cropmark command producing crop box around page text area (header area, footer area and marginal notes are optionally taken into consideration). The cropmark command is used inside watermark commands. It accurately interprets current state of two-column, two-side, and reverse-margin modes. dcounter.dtx Dynamic counters. The counter declared as dynamic is really created at the first use and receives at that moment the count style which was established by the countstyle command. The special use of counstyle command with optional parameter allows modifying of subordination of existing counter. For example, while using the book class you can reject the subordination of the section counter to the chapter counter and resubordinate figures, tables and equations to sections. desclist.sty Implements the desclist environment. It is considered as an improvement of the description environment. The appearance of item markers is easy customizable on the fly. An optional parameter allows set a marker prototype for calculation of hang indentation skip. The description environment is redefined to use an optional parameter also. extdash.dtx The package implements the commands, Hyphdash, Endash, Emdash, and their *-forms, to control hyphenation of compound words and ordinary words dashed by em-dash. You can also use the shortcuts -/ =/ -- == --- === instead. On contrary to germanb style of the Babel package no active symbols added. You can also decrease the length of em-dash by the option `cyremdash' to satisfy the russian typesetting rules. manyfoot.dtx The package implements a command, ewfootnote, that adds footnote levels to the standard LaTeX's footnote mechanism. Footnotes of every additional level are automatically grouped together on a LaTeX-2e output page and are separated from another levels by the special vertical space and (maybe) rule. You can customize the typesetting style of additional footnotes choosing between ordinary footnotes and run-in paragraph footnotes (useful for critical editions). nccbbb.sty Implementation of poor Black Board Bold symbols. Ported from old NCC-LaTeX. It is useless in modern LaTeX but kept just in case. nccboxes.sty Additional boxes from NCC-LaTeX. The jhbox and jvbox can horizontally and vertically align a body with respect to a prototype. The addbox adjusts the height and depth of the box body (it is alternative to using the `calc' package). The pbox is a simple version of one-column table. It is independent on arraystretch value. The cbox is intended for design of fancy headers in tables. nccfancyhdr.sty Absolutely new implementation of functionality of the fancyhdr package. It is more transparent, simple, non-aggressive (redefining of standard page styles is optional), and bug-free (I hope :). Header width control is improved with two commands, namely extendedheaders (extended upon marginal notes) and ormalheaders. The command hispagestyle correctly works with fancy page styles (in fancyhdr, it didn't work because of use of global definitions). nccfoots.dtx The package implements commands for generating footnotes with manual marks. For example, to mark footnote by star you can write Footnote{*}{Footnote text}. nccmath.sty Extension of the `amsmath' package. Its main aim is to combine AMS's typesetting of display equations and NCC-LaTeX's one. In amsmath, the `eqnarray' environment leaves unchanged. This package redefines `eqnarray' to allow using of amsmath tag control features and display breaks. Intercolumn distance is reduced to the distance typical for relation operations. All columns are prepared in the displaystyle. A new `darray' environment is a mix of the AMS's `aligned' environment and LaTeX's `array' environment. It is typed out in the same way as `aligned' environment but has columns definition parameter as `array' environment. The use of column specifications is restricted to the necessary commands only: l,c,r,@, and * are allowed. The implementation is compatible with the array package. Some additional commands are introduced also. nccpic.sty Envelop for the `graphicx' package. It customizes graphics extensions list for most popular drivers, namely dvips, dvidpf, and dvipdfm, and for use with pdftex also. Extension list now contains extensions of graphics files which are processed on the fly without additional efforts. Using this feature simplifies typesetting. You need not specify a graphics file extension when use the includegraphics command. Depending on a dvi driver specified, a graphics file with an appropriate extension is searched. So, you only need to create a number of versions of a graphics file in different formats (for example, `.bmp' for dvips or Yap and `.png' for pdftex). After that you can produce resulting `.ps' and `.pdf' file without any changes in the source file. The recommended storage for graphics files is the graphics/ subdirectory of the directory the `.tex' file is translated. Some additional commands are introduced also. nccsect.sty Extension of LaTeX's section, caption, and toc-entries generation technique. The package contains many improvements. More interesting of them are: * simple declaring of sections of any level (including sections of 0th level and captions for floats); * user-controlled typeout for display sections (user can select one of the following typeout styles: hangindent, parindent, center); * customizing of section or caption tag by the manner similar to AMS equation tag; * simple declaring of toc-entries using prototypes for calculation of hang indentations; * umberline command newer overlaps the text going after; * PnumPrototype{} is used for calculation of right margin in table of contents; * different captions for different float types; * simple handle of new types of floats (after registration of a new float in the package you can declare a caption and toc-entry for it; be sure that the chapter command will automatically produce a vertical skip in a toc for the new float also). nccthm.sty Yet another extension to the ewtheorem command. Four orthogonal properties of theorems are used: numbering mode - standard or APAR (a number before header); theorem type - defines an appearance of a theorem (what fonts are used for header, comment, and body). The `theorem' and `remark' types a predefined; indent style - margin, nomargin, indent, noindent (selected in package options); break mode - do break after header or not? Hardcoded when a new theorem is declared. Can be overridden on the fly for concrete math statement. Easy customization of spacing and commands inserted after headers. Two types of QED symbol (white and black). The proof command is introduced. The ewtheoremtype command allows create new theorem types. The likeTYPE command is automatically created for every new type. It simplifies typeout of rare math statements. Instead of creation of a new theorem environment you can use liketheorem{Header}{Number}[Comment] for it, or likeremark, or ... Every theorem environment and theorem type can be redefined with enewtheorem and enewtheoremtype. Counters of all theorem-like environments are dynamic. So, they are created at the first use. This is very helpful for package writer. A number of theorem-like environments can be created in a package or class, and a user only selects the count style for them (in simple case this can be done with only one countstyle command in the document preamble). parskip.sty Useful for documents with non-zero skips between paragraphs. In this case, the additional vertical space inserted by lists is unlikely. The package provides identical distance between all paragraphs except section markups. It redefines control list commands and suppress opskip, partopskip, and itemsep in lists. As a result, the distance between ordinary paragraphs and paragraphs prepared by lists is the same. The command SetParskip{distance} is described to control this distance. tocenter.sty Provides two commands, namely ToCenter and FromMargins, which simplify the customization of page layout. It is now easy to change text width and height and center the text area on the page (the header, footer, and marginal note fields are optionally taken into consideration). Other way is like-Word declaring of paper layout: you set margins from the left, right, top, and bottom. watermark.sty Provides watermarks on output pages. A watermark is some text or picture printed at the background of paper. A watermark is usually stored in the page header. This way is inconvenient: it needs redefinition of page style commands. We use another method that is orthogonal to page mark commands and needs no redefinition of page marks. The left and right watermarks are allowed. Temporary hiswatermark acts on the current page only. Using this way it is easy to substitute a page header by your own page header with the hispageheading command.

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Re: Uploaded new labels.sty
by Robin Fairbairns 03 Feb '02

03 Feb '02

Julian Gilbey writes: > I've uploaded labels.tar.gz to ftp.tex.ac.uk. > > This tarball contains a replacement for the files in > macros/latex/contrib/supported/labels, and I have the permission of > Sebastian Rahtz to do this. > > It provides a new package option `newdimens' which allows a much more > flexible specification of the label layout. Without the option, the > package functions identically to the way it used to. > > No change in licensing conditions. i've installed the new version as requested. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN upload notification: DCpic
by Robin Fairbairns 02 Feb '02

02 Feb '02

Pedro Quaresma writes: > A submission was uploaded to /anfs/ctan-inc/upload-20020131.001/. > > The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: > > Name of contribution: DCpic > Suggested location on CTAN: tex-archive/macros/generic/diagrams/dcpic/ > Summary description: Commutative diagrams in a LaTeX or TeX document. > License type: Generic DFSG > > Announcement text: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > DCpic is a package of TeX macros for drawing Commutative Diagrams > in a (La)TeX or ConTeX t document. Its distinguishing features > are: the use of PiCTeX a powerful graphical engine, and a simple > specification syntax. A commutative diagram is described in terms of > its objects and its arrows. The objects are textual elements and the > arrows can have various straight or curved forms. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i've installed the files in the submission, replacing the old version. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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VTeX/Free 7.530 for Linux and OS/2
by Reinhard Zierke 30 Jan '02

30 Jan '02

Release 7.530 of VTeX/Free is now mirrored in the CTAN directory sytems/vtex/ . VTeX/Free is a free TeX system, which is available for the Linux-x86 and OS/2 platforms. Unlike traditional TeX systems, VTeX/Free can generate PDF and PostScript output immediately from the TeX source. No intermediate DVI files are generated, no dvi driver programs are required, and there is no need to care for their -- sometimes problematic -- setup. Common PostScript and PDF viewers such as Ghostscript and Acrobat Reader can be used for (pre)viewing and printing. VTeX/Free includes a PostScript distiller, thus inclusion of PostScript graphics as well as inline PostScript programming (PSTricks, psfrag etc.) are supported, even when generating PDF output. VTeX/Free comes with a comprehensive LaTeX systen and many additional packages and fonts, now including also the full collection of the EC/TC fonts in Type 1 format. See the file CTAN:systems/vtex/NEWS for a list of all additions, changes and fixes with this release. VTeX/Free is a partial port of the commercial TeX system VTeX/Win by MicroPress Inc.

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Re: CTAN Submission -- cd-cover
by Rainer Schoepf 29 Jan '02

29 Jan '02

On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Christian Holm Christensen wrote: > * I've uploaded an update (now version 1.4) of the cd-cover class > > * cd-cover resided in > > macros/latex/contrib/other/cd-cover > > though Robin Fairbanks has suggested to put it in > > macros/latex/contrib/supported/cd-cover > > * The lisence of cd-cover is GPL > > * Typesetting CD covers for various case formats > > Changes: > > Automatic detection of the grpahics driver (if any) and automatic > emmision of |special| (or similar) so that the document will be > printed in landscape mode. Only supported for DVIPS, PDFLaTeX, and > VTeX. Some minor documentation changes. Thanks for the update. I removed the old version and installed your new version in macros/latex/contrib/supported/cd-cover For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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new packages from GUST on CTAN
by Reinhard Zierke 27 Jan '02

27 Jan '02

----- Forwarded message from Stanis/law Wawrykiewicz ----- I've just downloaded to dante://incoming/ 1. qfnt.zip -- it contains all set of the new qfonts families, generated by metapost; gpl Please remove first all stuff from fonts/psfonts/polish/qfonts/ even pl-qx.zip (obsolete) *except* of fonts/psfonts/polish/qfonts/qxcm/ Then unzip qfn.zip in fonts/psfonts/polish/qfonts/ Do not unpack zip files which are in qfnt.zip 2. antt.zip -- contains some files added; pd to be concise with all distributions like teTeX, TL, etc. it should go rather to fonts/psfonts/polish/antt/ so please unpack it in fonts/psfonts/polish/ Please *remove* fonts/psfonts/polish/antyktor 3. tap077.zip, 0README.TAP updated, pd; please replace the old contents of macros/generic/tables/ oops, and unpack 0README.TAP, as before (cannot upload) 4. tex-ps.zip contains 2 files updated: epsfx.tex and trans.tex please unpack it in macros/generic/TeX-PS 5. tiff2ps.zip updated, pd please unpack it in support/pstools/tiff2ps/ Updated xml files will go soon to Graham's Catalogue. ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the upload. I installed all these files on CTAN as suggested. BTW, pl-qx.zip was in fonts/psfonts/polish/ not in fonts/psfonts/polish/qfonts/. I hope it was OK to remove it anyway. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN submission -- pdfpages v0.2d
by Reinhard Zierke 27 Jan '02

27 Jan '02

----- Forwarded message from Andreas Matthias ----- I have uploaded the archive file `pdfpages.zip' to ftp.dante.de/incoming. Please, extract this archive and replace the files in /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/pdfpages/ The `pdfpages' package makes it easy to insert pages of external PDF documents. Several logical pages can be arranged onto each sheet of paper. (Like psnup.) The package provides hypertext operations like hyperlinks and article threads. This version provides a new option `fitpaper', which adjusts the paper size to the one of the inserted document. It is distributed under the LPPL. ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the upload. I installed the new version as suggested in CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/pdfpages/ Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN upload: Makor, version 1.0
by Jim Hefferon 25 Jan '02

25 Jan '02

An update of the Makor package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should make its way through the mirroring process in the next few days. Thanks for the material, Jim Hefferon ============================================================= The following information was provided by our fellow contributor. Name of contribution: Makor, version 1.0 Author's name: Alan Hoenig Location on CTAN: language/hebrew/makor Summary description: A system for typesetting Hebrew with TeX License type: lppl Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Makor is my system for typesetting Hebrew with TeX. It uses an intuitive interface---that is, you type characters on the English keyboard according to more-or-less what they sound like, and Makor renders them in proper Hebrew, both with and without vowels (nekudot). The vowels are properly centered on their letters, and final letters are selected automatically by Makor+TeX. This package works with both plain TeX and LaTeX. This new version is formally version~1.0. In addition to many bug fixes, the new version includes: * support of many more fonts: -- OmegaSerifHebrew, which is like David or David light; -- Ezra (in regular, italic, bold, bold italic, and outline variants); -- Rashi (regular and bold); and -- Hadassah (regular, italic, bold, and bold italic); * ability to typeset numbers properly amid Hebrew text; * special typesetting treatment of the defective cholem; * Hebrew table macros---you enter the columns left-to-right, and Makor typesets them right-to-left; and * much, much more! The package is documented in the file makorman.tex. Please check out the file makorman.pdf which is replete with examples to see if this package might be of interest to you.

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Re: memfixa
by Robin Fairbairns 25 Jan '02

25 Jan '02

Peter Wilson has provided another copy of his memfixa.sty, which patches memoir.cls. he writes: > I think that it does need another announcement > as the person who tested the fix has distributed it to some others, so an > announcement would make it official. > > The fix now covers the memoir showtrims and oneside options and the calc > package. i've installed the replacement file as macros/latex/contrib/supported/memoir/memfixa.sty Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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