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New CTAN package: dvipng
by Jim Hefferon 17 Mar '03

17 Mar '03

A new packge has been installed on tug.ctan.org and it should make its way to your favorite mirror in the next day or two. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ftpmaint(a)tug.ctan.org ======================================================================== The following information was provided by our fellow contributor. Name of contribution: dvipng Author's name: Jan-Åke Larsson Location on CTAN: dviware/dvipng Summary description: A fast DVI to PNG converter License type: gpl Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This program makes PNG graphics from DVI files as obtained from TeX and its relatives. Its benefits include * Speed. It is the fastest bitmap-rendering code for DVI files known to the author. On a fairly low-end laptop, it takes less than a second to generate 150 one-formula images. * It does not read the postamble, so it can be started before TeX finishes. There is a -follow switch that makes dvipng wait at EOF for further output, unless it finds the POST marker that indicates the end of the DVI. * It supports PK and VF fonts, color specials, and more. The motivation for this project is preview-latex, a previewing tool for LaTeX in emacs, but since dvipng can be independently useful, a separate package is provided. - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [Omega] Omega stuff for Hindi
by Robin Fairbairns 17 Mar '03

17 Mar '03

Yannis Haralambous writes: > Omega stuff for Hindi has been submitted to CTAN: > > >-- mail the administrators (ctan(a)dante.de) to report: > > + what you've uploaded > > omega-hindi.tgz > > > + which CTAN node you've uploaded to > > ftp.tex.ac.uk > > > + where you want the files to go > > language/devanagari/omega > > > + what licensing conditions you apply to your software (see list > > below). > > free (same status as Omega distribution) > > > + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do. > > (please note that the mail should be in english for speedy processing) > > These are the files described in our TUGboat paper at TUG India. With > them you can typeset Devanagari texts with omega. More info in Low-level > Devanagari Support for Omega--Adapting devnag, TUGboat, Volume 23 (2002), > No. 3--Proceedings of the 2002 Annual Meeting, pp. 49--55. i've installed the files as requested (at cambridge). they'll take some time to get to the other two ctan nodes, but will probably be at every ctan mirror within a small number of days. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN Sumbission -- cmap package: create searchable PDF files
by Robin Fairbairns 16 Mar '03

16 Mar '03

Vladimir Volovich writes: > I've uploaded the file cmap.tar.gz into the incoming directory of > ftp.tex.ac.uk. It is a new (version 1.0a) cmap package. > The license is LPPL. > > The cmap package is to be used with pdf(e)latex and provides CMap > files for various LaTeX font encodings (currently, T1, T2A, T2B, T2C, > T5; this list will grow in the future) and a latex package which adds > the /ToUnicode entries into the font dictionaries of fonts used in the > document on the fly, making the resulting PDF files searchable and > cut-and-pasteable in Acrobat Reader and other PDF previewers. > > Thus, when the document uses Type 1 fonts like cm-super or other fonts > in standard font encodings, teh PDF files will contain the additional > information in the form of CMap entries which will define the mappings > from LaTeX font encodings to Unicode, making functions like search in > PDF and cut-and-paste from PDF to other applications work properly. > > Please install it in the CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/cmap > directory. > > Contributions and/or requests for other font encodings support, as > well as user feedback/bug reports are welcome. > > P.S. currently, this package is mirrored to > macros/latex/contrib/supported/t2/etc/cmap; i think that a more > generic location in macros/latex/contrib/supported/cmap is better, > since the package is of general use. i'll remove it from the T2 > package once it will be installed on > macros/latex/contrib/supported/cmap i've installed the package as requested: thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: excludeonly
by Robin Fairbairns 15 Mar '03

15 Mar '03

Donald Arseneau writes: > I have just uploaded excludeonly.sty to ctan/uk. > > What: excludeonly.sty and excludeonly.xml > Why: Provides excludeonly which is the opposite to includeonly > How: PD > Who: Donald Arseneau and Dan Luecking > Where: macros/latex/contrib/other/misc installed: as reqested. xml-file: going off to catalogue maintainer thanks: yeah. responder: rf for: ctan team

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new CTAN package: RST
by Jim Hefferon 14 Mar '03

14 Mar '03

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org. It shoud make its way to your favorite mirror in the next day or two. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ftpmaint(a)tug.ctan.org ===================================================================== The following information was provided by our fellow contributor. Name of contribution: RST Author's name: David Reitter Location on CTAN: nonfree/macros/latex/contrib/supported/rst Summary description: Drawing rhetorical structure analysis diagrams in LaTeX License type: nocommercial Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is of interest for people working in linguistics and language technology. Drawing rhetorical analyses is no fun when you need to change and update diagrams as you refine your work, or, more importantly, if a lot of analyses are to be drawn. Voila, there we go: This package enables us to typeset beautiful diagrams with no hassle. It is oriented towards the style of the diagrams shown in Mann&Thompson's Rhetorical Structure Theory and subsequent works. This package works perfectly with (LaTeX) and pdfLaTeX and does not require any special postscript capabilities in the output side. - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: CTAN submission --- tocbibind package
by Robin Fairbairns 13 Mar '03

13 Mar '03

Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded tocbibind.tar to UK incoming. Please use this to > replace the contents of > macros/latex/contrib/supported/tocbibind. The distribtion is under > the LPPL. > > From the README: > > The tocbibind package can be used to add the ToC and/or > Bibliography and/or Index, etc., to the Table of Contents listing. > > Changes in version 1.5g (2003/03/13) > o Fixed Bibliography page headings in twocolumn book class i've install the files as requested. thanks for the upload. From: Robin Fairbairns <ctan(a)dante.de>

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CTAN submission: updated font metrics for Lucida Bright and LuxiMono
by Reinhard Zierke 13 Mar '03

13 Mar '03

Walter Schmidt asked us to update two packages: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have uploaded the file lucida-20030312.zip to the /incoming directory at dante.ctan.org. Please, unpack it to the CTAN directory fonts/metrics/bh/lucida thus replacing the current files and adding some new ones. These are updated fonts metrics and VFs for Y&Y's commercial LucidaBright fonts. Recent improvements to the fontinst tool and changes to the TeXBase1 encoding made it possible to fix some long-standing deficiencies: * all typewriter fonts have got vertically centered asterisks now; * all textcompanion fonts have got vertically centered extaskeriskcented symbols now; * the Omega symbol extohm is made available in all textcompanion fonts. See the file readme.lucida for further minor changes, which affect the layout of the distribution. I am fully aware, that these font metrics were updated only recently. Thus, it may seem as if an important piece of software has become unstable as soon as I started touching it ;-) However, I think that the Lucida font metrics should profit as soon as possible from the above-mentioned improvements. Note that the character widths are unchanged, as compared with the previous release, so there should be no compatibility problems. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have uploaded the files README.luximono and ul9.zip to the /incoming directory at dante.ctan.org. Please, move them to the directory fonts/LuxiMono thus replacing the current ones. These are updated fonts metrics and VFs for the LuxiMono typewriter fonts. Recent improvements to the fontinst tool made it possible to fix a long-standing deficiency of many typewriter fonts (incl. Luxi): the asterisk symbols are now vertically centered, as required for typical applications. The Type1 font files on CTAN remain, of course, unchanged. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I installed the new and changed files as suggested in the directories CTAN:/fonts/metrics/bh/lucida/ and CTAN:fonts/LuxiMono/. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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patch of yesterday's release of uk faq
by Robin Fairbairns 12 Mar '03

12 Mar '03

i've installed v3.5.1 of the faq on ctan and on http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq this version mends a significant number of stupid typos that tim love (of c.u.engineering dept) spotted and told me about yesterday afternoon. my apologies for the rapid re-issue. distributors' version building as i type. Robin Fairbairns UK TeX FAQ maintainer http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=maillists+askquestion

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CTAN submission -- altepakete.pdf (obsolete but often used old stuff)
by Reinhard Zierke 11 Mar '03

11 Mar '03

----- Forwarded message from Mark Trettin ----- I have uploaded `altepakete.tar.gz' to ftp.dante.de/incoming/ Name of contribution: Das LaTeX-Sündenregister (sins of LaTeX users) Suggested location on CTAN: info/german/altepakete/ Summary description: Obsolete commands, packages and other common mistakes License type: Free Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A small list of obsoleted commands and packages that are constantly posted in minimal examples to de.comp.text.tex. I further listed common mistakes (e.g. egin{appendix}...end{appendix} instead of appendix ...). This file should be considered an add-on to the available documentation like l2kurz and FAQs. This document is written in German. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- End forwarded message ----- Thank you very much for your informative documentation. I installed it as suggested in CTAN:info/german/altepakete/ Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN submission -- initials fonts
by Reinhard Zierke 11 Mar '03

11 Mar '03

----- Forwarded message from Maurizio Loreti ----- + what you've uploaded incoming/initials.tar.gz + which CTAN node you've uploaded to ftp.dante.de + where you want the files to go tex-archive/fonts/initials/ + what licensing conditions you apply to your software non-commercial (for the fonts; the macros are public domain) + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do From the README file: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This archive contains PostScript binary files for a few decorative initials (also called dropped initials) fonts, and the service files needed in order to use these fonts with [La]TeX. The fonts are freely usable for non-commercial use, and are a (small) subset of the ones designed and crafted by: Dieter Steffmann Marburger Straße 93a D-57223 Kreuztal (Germany) and available under his Web page http://www.steffmann.de/english/index.htm (follow the link to Fonts). That URL states: You may download [the fonts] for free and use them for personal purposes.; my own files (all but the .pfb and .afm from the following list) are public domain. The files included in the distribution are: .pfb files: PostScript Font Binary files; .afm files: Adobe Font Metric files; .tfm files: TeX Font Metric files, for LaTeX; .fd files: Font Description files, for LaTeX; config files: configuration files, for dvips; .map files: font mapping files, for dvips; .tex files: example files; .pdf files: Portable Document Format output from the above example files. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- End forwarded message ----- Thank you very much for the upload. I installed the package in the directory CTAN:/tex-archive/nonfree/fonts/initials/ with a symbolic link from tex-archive/fonts/initials/ Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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