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UK TeX FAQ, version 3.14
by CTAN Announcements 07 Jul '05

07 Jul '05

I have just installed at Cambridge this version of the UK FAQ; I have update both the web entry (http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq) and the CTAN directory help/uk-tex-faq. This is mostly a consolidation release, but see CHANGES-3.14, below. Note, I do not intend that the next release should be 3.141; I entertain some hopes that the next release will incorporate a new Web-access mechanism that I have in sketch form ... in which case the release will be called 4.0. Robin Fairbairns UK TeX FAQ maintainer, for the CTAN team CHANGES-3.14 Changes in version 3.14 New answers: Label breaklinks: why hyperlinks don't break under dvips Label cmdstar: defining a LaTeX command with an optional * Label errmissitem: what to do about perhaps a missing item Label minxampl: how to write a minimal example of a problem Label plninltx: pros and cons about using non-LaTeX commands in LaTeX Label wrongpn: the unreliability of hepage Revised answers: Label archives: edited out things we no longer do, removed fine detail of archive locations (has been wrong for some time)... Label bibtranscinit: another trick from Philip Ratcliffe Label codelist: while recommending listings, explain alternatives Label conditional: changes to cope with new release of extract package Label commercial: mention the self-help group for users of Y&Y TeX Label drawing: describe pgf Label dtx: describe makedtx Label findfiles: rewritten, striving for clarity Label ftncapt: rewritten in an attempt at greater clarity Label RCS: extend to cover subversion (packages svn and svninfo) Label spell: slightly restructured for CTAN changes Label tabcellalign: ghastly error corrected New or revised packages (or just ones never before mentioned): breakurl (mentioned in label breaklinks) c2latex (mentioned in label codelist) checkend (mentioned in label endingroup) makedtx (mentioned in label dtx) pgf (mentioned in label drawing) pseudocode (mentioned in label algorithms) splitbib (mentioned in label multbib) suffix (mentioned in label cmdstar) svn (mentioned in label RCS) svninfo (mentioned in label RCS) tgrind (mentioned in label codelist) Presentation: The subsection LaTeX macros has been split into two: LaTeX macro tools (generally stuff for programmers) and LaTeX macro techniques (generally stuff for users who just want a simple job done). zip and tar.gz retrieval have been switched in HTML generation; since many directories have pre-created zip archives, this reduces the danger of hitting the retrieving unknown file effect in some browsers.

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CTAN package update: algorithms
by Jim Hefferon 06 Jul '05

06 Jul '05

The package described below has been updated. The new material shoul have already reached your favorite mirror. Thank you for the update. Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: algorithms Author's name: Rogério Brito Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/algorithms License type: lgpl Summary description: New line references and line numbering features. Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The new version of algorithms incorporates two frequently requested features: * The ability of using label's and ef's for making references to specific lines of a given algorithm; * The ability of changing both the size and delimiters of line numbering. You can specify any size you wish and use (almost) any string as the delimiter of the line numbering generated by the package. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can look at this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/algorithms . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is 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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CTAN package update: subfig
by Jim Hefferon 05 Jul '05

05 Jul '05

The package described below has bee updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: subfig.sty Author's name: Steven Douglas Cochran Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/subfig License type: lppl Summary description: LaTeX package for providing support for the inclusion of small, `sub', figures and tables. It simplifies the positioning, captioning and labeling of them within a single figure or table environment. In addition, this package allows such subcaptions to be written to the List of Figures or List of tables if desired. Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Several bug fixes, software and documentation updates: o Added lofdepth and lotdepth keywords (default value is 2). Just adding one of these to the keyword list, when loading the subfig package will setup the associated List-Of page to display the sub-captions. In addition, if new sub-floats are created with the ewsubfloat command, than an appropriate keyword is also produced for use with the captionsetup command. o Generalized the input of boolean values (i.e. made similar to the caption package). Boolean keywords may use any of the following synonyms: - For true: on, yes, or 1. - For false: off, no,or 0. o Changed the included configuration filename from subfig.cfg to altsf.cfg so that it will not be automatically included, as this configuration file modifies the subfig package to be mostly backward compatible with the (obsolete) subfigure package. Note, however, that the default configuration name remains the same: subfig.cfg. o Fixed problem with the loose and tight options in the altsf.cfg configuration file. o Added 'debug' setting to select which sort of skips or rules are used in laying out the subfigures. This puts the debug version of the package under ltxdoc control rather than requiring hand-editing. o Added caption keyword (for easy, caption=false) to allow the use of the subfig package without loading all of the caption package. This is needed for use with classes that have special caption formatting. o Added check for classes or packages that use let rather than def to modify the endfloat and enddblfloat commands. o Extended the subref* command to allow alternative formats using the (new) DeclareSubrefFormat command and subrefformat keyword. o Added compatibility with the FloatRow package. o Fixed some incompatibilities with the hyperref package references and a problem in the interaction of the hyperref package and the subfig package when continued floats are desired. o Many documentation changes, including discussion of new features, repair of reported typo's and other requested changes to clarify the package. o Fixed bug that required new float types to have their corresponding sub-floats defined in order to use the ContinuedFloat command. It is necessary to define the associated sub-floats only if they are to be used. In the process of these changes, a major bug was found in the internals of the subfig package. This bug could cause whitespace (e.g. spaces) between subfloats to allow a line break. Such whitespace is now ignored. However, if this 'feature' was used to format subfloats, than the formatting of such papers will change. If subfloats become mis-alligned when using this version of subfig, than the user will need to add an explicit linebreak, \ where needed. See the README file for more details. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can look at this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/subfig . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is 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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CTAN update: movie15
by CTAN Announcements 03 Jul '05

03 Jul '05

On Fri, 1 Jul 2005 Alexander Grahn submitted an update to the movie15 package. This package defines includemovie with PDF-1.5 compatibility. Option 'autoplay' causes the media clip to be started right after the page has loaded. This is useful for side by side movie clips to be played back synchronously. Location on CTAN: /CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/movie15/ Summary description: multimedia inclusion package License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This update adds the new PDF-1.6 feature of embedding 3D content into PDF. Have a look at the example file http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/movie15/example/exampl… ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: Herbert Voss's Mathmode
by CTAN Announcements 30 Jun '05

30 Jun '05

Herbert Voss writes: > I am just uploading mathmode.tgz to the uk mirror. > Please delete the file > /info/math/voss/Voss-Mathmode.pdf > and put the new ones in there. I deleted the prefix > Voss, because it makes no sense here, the directory > has the same. Too many Voss is not good ... :-) > > The version 2.00 of Mathmode comes with the sorce files. with Herbert's agreement, i have installed this version of mathmode in a directory of its own. users may browse the directory via http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/math/voss/mathmode/ and the document itself is at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/math/voss/mathmode/Mathmode.pdf the files were installed a while ago, and will probably be available via other ctan sites by now. thanks, Herbert, for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: tex2tok
by Jim Hefferon 30 Jun '05

30 Jun '05

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: tex2tok Author's name: Jonathan Fine Location on CTAN: /support/tex2tok Summary description: tex2tok: convert a TeX source file into token License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- tex2tok: convert a TeX source file into tokens usage: $ tex '&tex2tok' 'LEX{story}' This will create a file story.tok. This file will contain one line for each token. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/tex2tok 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 update --- trajan bundle
by CTAN Announcements 30 Jun '05

30 Jun '05

Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded trajan.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use this to replace > the current fonts/trajan. > > The trajan bundle provides fonts (both METAFONT and PostScript Type 1) > based on the capitals caved on the Trajan column in Rome in 114 AD, plus a > package to access them. i've installed the updated version as requested. users may inspect the fonts, etc, at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/trajan or at other ctan sites as the installation propagates. thanks for the upload Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: xkeyval v2.5c
by CTAN Announcements 30 Jun '05

30 Jun '05

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Hendri Adriaens submitted an update to the xkeyval package. This package 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. ------------------------------------------------ xkeyval v2.5c ------------------------------------------------ Bug solution: avoid initializing control sequences used in define@cmdkey(s) to elax ------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: LFB
by Jim Hefferon 30 Jun '05

30 Jun '05

The package described below has been installed on tug.ctan.org and through the magic of Rainer's mirroring process, will soon propagate to your favorite mirror. Thanks for the contribution, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: LFB Author's name: Laurie Field Location on CTAN: /fonts/greek/lfb Summary description: Greek font, written in METAFONT, with normal and bold variants. License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a Greek font I wrote in METAFONT several years ago after being inspired by the Bodoni typefaces I had seen in the old books in my school library. It is stylistically a little more exotic than the standard textbook greek fonts, particularly in glyphs like the lowercase rho and kappa. It aims for a rather calligraphic feel, but I also think it blends well with Computer Modern. I included a ligature scheme which automatically inserts the breathings required for ancient texts, making the input text more readable than in some schemes. Since it is now de rigueur to use outline fonts, I have largely abandoned this project, but I hope someone finds it useful. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/greek/lfb/ 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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RE: CTAN has a new package: sudoku
by Jim Hefferon 29 Jun '05

29 Jun '05

I apologize; I misspelled the name of the package in the prior announcment, giving in an incorrect URL. The material is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/sudoku . A corrected announcement is below. Sorry, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: sudoku Author's name: Paul Abraham Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/sudoku Summary description: Sudoku environment for creating sudoku grids License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sudoku is an environment for typesetting sudoku grids. A sudoku puzzle is a 9x9 grid where some of the squares in the grid contain numbers. The rules are simple: every column can only contain the digits 1 to 9, every row can only contain the digits 1 to 9 and every 3x3 box can only contain the digits 1 to 9. More information, including help and example puzzles, can be found at http://www.sudoku.org.uk. This site also has blank sudoku grids (or worksheets), but you will not need to print them from there if you have this package installed. - - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/sudoku 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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