On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Basil Malyshev submitted an update to the
bakoma
package.
Location on CTAN: systems/win32/bakoma
> Most important improvements:
>
> * BaKoMa TeX 7.92 is running under VISTA
> Final tests were passed. All known problems were solved.
> So, we declare that BaKoMa TeX is ready for running under VISTA.
>
> * TeX Word Improvements:
> + 'Insert/Nomenclature Entry...' - new command.
> This command inserts LaTeX command
omenclature.
> Also, it automatically includes nomencl or nomentbl package
> with proper configuration of MakeIndex program.
> + Added automatical launching of BiBTeX for gloss package.
> + Fixed eventual crashing of TeXWord at View/Refresh (F5)
>
> * Centaur Improvements:
> + 'Options/TeX Running Parameters ...' - improved dialog.
> It is made more consistent with TeXWord.
> Set of utilities launched after every TeXing is associated with
> document.
> Flexible configuration of files for sorting by MakeIndex program.
> is associated with document and is shared between TeXWord and Centaur.
> + Online manual includes (click [?] in 'TeX Running Parameter' dialog)
> examples of MakeIndex configuration for most popular packages.
>
> * More Updates:
> + LaTeX is updated.
> + eTeX is updated to V 2.2
>
> More details about changes and another bug fixing see at:
> <
> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes7.html>
>
> Bye.
> Basil K. Malyshev
> 16-Apr-2007
>
>
> -------------------- About BaKoMa TeX 7.92 ------------------
>
> BaKoMa TeX 7.92 supports two coexisting IDE:
> 1) BaKoMa TeX Word - True WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor.
> 2) Text Editor + DVI Viewer - Clasical IDE.
>
> 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 snapshots are available at:
> <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/snapshots/>
>
> Root of BaKoMa TeX distributions is at:
> <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Achim D. Brucker submitted an update to the
svninfo
package for incorporating the values of Subversion keywords into typeset
documents.
Location on CTAN: /tex/macros/latex/contrib/svninfo/
Summary description: A LaTeX package for accessing svn keywords
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The svninfo package is used to extract the revision and file information
provided by the subversion (svn) and svk revision control systems and provides
commands for accessign them within LaTeX documents. Also support files for
the latex2html converter is provided. Note, that this is an adaption of
the rcsinfo package for rcs. So, if you know rcsinfo, you will also be
familar with svninfo.
Fixed the behavior of svnMaxToday and introduced svnInfoMaxToday as an alternative name for svnMaxToday.
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This package is located at
http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/tex/macros/latex/contrib/svninfo/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=svninfo 0.7.1
(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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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
On Sat, 14 Apr 2007, François Charette submitted the new package
bidi
to CTAN.
Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/latex/bidi
Summary description: Support for bidirectional typesetting with XeLaTeX
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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A convenient interface for typesetting bidirectional texts with XeLaTeX.
(Also works with pdfLaTeX, though in this case its usefulness is
doubtful).
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This package is located at
http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/bidi
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=bidi
(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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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
On Apr 11, 2007 Heiko Oberdiek submitted a new version of the
oberdiek
bundle.
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek/
License: LPPL
Updates:
* inputenx v1.1
* Some Cyrillic encodings added:
cp855, cp866, cp1251, koi8-r, mac-cyrillic
* x-mac-ce renamed to x-mac-centeuro.
* iflang v1.2
* Initialization of cs{languagename} in case of xfile{etex.src}.
* Some sanity tests added.
* Documentation improved.
* pagesel v1.7
* Hard coded box number 255 replaced by macro @cclv.
* most other packages:
* Line ends are sanitized.
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This bundle is located at
http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=oberdiek
(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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For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be
at your favorite mirror.
Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: colorwav
Author's name: Nick
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/colorwav
Summary description: Get and RGB set for a wavelength of visible light
License type: lgpl
Announcement text:
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This package allows the user to obtain an RGB value (suitable for use
in the color package) from a wavelength of light. The default unit
is nanometers, but other units may be used.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/colorwav
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=colorwav
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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 .
A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon make
it to your favorite mirror.
Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: bookest
Author's name: Riccardo Bresciani
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/bookest
Summary description: provides an extension for the book class.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The bookest class is an extension of the standard book class - which
is loaded with the default options - involving:
# color handling;
# document layout;
# headings and footers;
# front page layout;
# ...
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/bookest
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=bookest
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to
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The pstricks distribution on CTAN has long looked somewhat anomalous;
a coherent set of contributed packages has built up, under
graphics/pstricks/contrib, but the rest of the distribution was dotted
around a number of sub-directories of graphics/pstricks.
This structure was error-prone (as far as we archivists were concerned),
but also, we believed, somewhat confusing to the user.
We have therefore, with Herbert Voss' help, rearranged things so that
the basic structure is
graphics/pstricks/base -- containing the pstricks system itself, in
subdirectories generic/, latex/, dvips/ and doc/
graphics/pstricks/contrib -- containing the many contributed pstricks packages
(Note, this represents no change to the contrib/ structure.)
Users may consult the (not very different) pstricks catalogue entry at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pstricks.html
or browse the new directory structure of the base/ distribution at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/base/
We hope that pstricks users will find the new structure satisfactory.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your
favorite mirror.
Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: doi
Author's name: Maarten Sneep
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/doi
Summary description: Ensure correct hyperlinks to dx.doi.org
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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You can hyperling DOI numbers to dx.doi.org. Some publishers have
elected to use some nasty characters in their doi numbering scheme
(<, >, ; have all been spotted). This will either upset (La)TeX, or
your pdf reader. This style file contains a single user-level command
doi{}, which takes a doi number, and creates a hyperlink from it.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/doi
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=doi
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to
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Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
The package described below has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should
soon be at your favorite mirror.
Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: pst-qtree
Author's name: Dan Gildea, David Chiang
Location on CTAN: /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-qtree
Summary description: easy syntax for trees: wrapper around pstricks
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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easy syntax for trees: wrapper around pstricks
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-qtree
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=pst-qtree
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to
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Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Martin Hensel submitted an update to the
mhchem
package.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/mhchem/
Summary description: for typesetting chemical formulae, chemical equations and Risk and Safety (R and S) Phrases
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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mhchem: fixed: font size for superscript above <=>
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This package is located at
http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mhchem/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=mhchem
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Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
_______________________________________________
Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
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