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CTAN has a new package: LXfonts
by CTAN Announcements 08 Jan '08

08 Jan '08

The package below has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College (License note: the source to the slide show PDF is not provided.) ...................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: LXfonts Author's name: Claudio Beccari Location on CTAN: /fonts/lxfonts/ Summary description: Revived slide fonts License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This bundle contains the traditional slides fonts revived so as to be completely usable both as text fonts and math fonts; they are fully integrate with the new operators, letters, symbols and extensible delimiter fonts, as well as with the AMS fonts, all redone with the same stylistic parameters. They can be a valid alternative to many PS fonts used in the new presentation bundles. Their type1 versions are included together with their map file. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/lxfonts/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/lxfonts (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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CTAN Update: The makecell package 0.1e and tablists package 0.0c
by CTAN Announcements 08 Jan '08

08 Jan '08

On Sun, 6 Jan 2008, Olga Lapko submitted updates to the makecell and tablists packages. Locations on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/makecell and /macros/latex/contrib/tablists License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- makecell: This package offers a command, based on one-column tabular, which at the top of everything allows to support a common layout for tabular column heads in whole document. There are also: 1) a macro, which changes vertical spaces around all cells in tabular (like in tabls package) based on array package; 3) macros numbered rows of cells or skipping cells in tabulars; 4) diagonally divided cells; 5) horizonral lines in tabulars with defined thickness. tablists: tabulated lists of short items (useful for exersizes in textbooks) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- These packages are located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/makecell http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/tablists . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=makecell http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=tablists (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 . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: biblatex 0.7b
by CTAN Announcements 06 Jan '08

06 Jan '08

Philipp Lehman wrote: > I've uploaded `biblatex.tar.gz' to the incoming directory of the UK > node. This is a maintenance update for macros/latex/exptl/biblatex/. > > Please use the contents of the archive to replace the corresponding > files in macros/latex/exptl/biblatex/. Note that the archive only > contains the files which have actually been modified. > > Thank you very much. > > RELEASE NOTES > > This is a minor maintenance update for biblatex 0.7. The following > files have been modified: > > latex/biblatex.sty > latex/lbx/naustrian.lbx > latex/lbx/danish.lbx > latex/lbx/ngerman.lbx > latex/lbx/austrian.lbx > latex/lbx/german.lbx > > The updated files are tagged 0.7b 2008/01/05. > > CHANGES > > * Improved hyphenation of bibstrings when babel option is active > * Workaround for bug in babel's 'hyphenrules' environment > * New command DeclareHyphenationExceptions for use in lbx files. > This is a wrapper around hyphenation which automatically > selects the language of the lbx file. > * New user (preamble) command DefineHyphenationExceptions. > This is also a wrapper around hyphenation but takes the > language as its first argument, e.g.: > -------------------- %< -------------------- > DefineHyphenationExceptions{american}{% > hy-phen-ation > ex-cep-tion > } > -------------------- %< -------------------- > (Something like that should have been provided by babel a > long time ago.) > * Added hyphenation exceptions for German bibliography strings > * Updated danish.lbx file contributed by Danish > comp.text.tex readers. I've installed the update to the package, and (minutely) updated the catalogue repository. Thanks for the upload. Users may view the catalogue entry at: http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/biblatex.html or browse the package directory at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex/ The catalogue entry will be updated overnight, but the revised package is already on its way around the world. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: csquotes 3.8
by CTAN Announcements 06 Jan '08

06 Jan '08

Philipp Lehman wrote: > I've uploaded `csquotes.tar.gz' to the incoming directory of the UK > node. This is an update for macros/latex/contrib/csquotes. Please > purge the old files, install the new ones, and announce the upload as > usual. Thank you very much. > > ABOUT > > The csquotes package provides advanced facilities for inline and > display quotations. It is designed for a wide range of tasks ranging > from the most simple applications to the more complex demands of > formal quotations. > > CHANGES > > * Added variant 'guillemets*' to style 'swedish' > * Added language alias 'australian' > * Added language alias 'newzealand' > * Internal improvements i've installed the update as requested, and updated the catalogue (minutely). thanks for the upload. Users may view the catalogue entry at: http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/csquotes.html or browse the package directory at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/csquotes/ The catalogue entry will be updated overnight, but the revised package is already on its way around the world. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: Ecclesiastic Latin Typesetting
by CTAN Announcements 06 Jan '08

06 Jan '08

The package below has been entered in tug.ctan.org and should soon work its way through the mirroring system. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College .................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Ecclesiastic Latin Typesetting Author's name: Claudio Beccari Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ecclesiastic Summary description: A file style for typesetting latin according to the ecclesiastic document style License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This style file is for modifying the way the latin option to the babel package operates when typesetting Latin. The style is in some way frenchizied for what concerns punctuation spacings and footnote style, and shortcuts are available in order to set accents on all vowels, including y and the diphthongs ae and oe. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ecclesiastic . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/ecclesiastic (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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CTAN package update: lshort v4.23
by CTAN Announcements 03 Jan '08

03 Jan '08

Tobi Oetiker has uploaded the latest version of his short introduction to LaTeX 2e, and I've installed it as requested, and updated the catalogue repository. This new version of the introduction features a rework of the mathematics chapter (done by Lan Thuy Pham), which (among other things) assumes amsmath is loaded, in all its advice. Thanks Tobi (and Pham) for the update. Users may browse the catalogue entry (for what it's worth) at http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/lshort-english.html or browse the package directory at http://mirror.ctan.org/info/lshort/english/ Those who only want the document itself may retrieve http://mirror.ctan.org/info/lshort/english/lshort.pdf The catalogue entry will be updated overnight, the package itself already being on its way around the world. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: mfpic4ode
by CTAN Announcements 03 Jan '08

03 Jan '08

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way through the mirroring system. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: mfpic4ode Author's name: Robert Marik Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/mfpic4ode Summary description: A small set of macros to draw direction fields and solutions of ODE's with mfpic License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The mfpic4ode is a set of macros for drawing direction fields, phase portraits and trajectories of differential equations and two dimensional autonomous systems. The Euler, Runge-Kutta and 4th order Runge-Kutta algorithms are available to solve the ODE's. The picture is translated into mfpic macros and MetaPost is used to create the final drawing. The package is intended for LaTeX, but it can be used in plainTeX as well. Online demonstration of the mfpic4ode macros is available on http://wood.mendelu.cz/math/mfpicpreviewer/ as Example 6. You can get the documentation but compiling mfpic4ode.dtx file and the files for installation by compiling mfpic4ode.ins by LaTeX. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mfpic4ode . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/mfpic4ode (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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New CTAN package: GFS Baskerville
by CTAN Announcements 02 Jan '08

02 Jan '08

my ctan-upload daemon wrote: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: GFS Baskerville > Author's name: Antonis Tsolomitis > Location on CTAN: fonts/greek/GFS/gfsbaskerville > Summary description: Classic Greek Baskerville by GFS > License type: other-free (OFL for the font, LPPL for the macros) > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The classic Baskerville Greek by GFS (www.greekfontsociety.org). > LaTeX support by Antonis Tsolomitis, Laboratory of Digital Typography > and Mathematical Applications, University of the Aegean > (http://myria.math.aegean.gr/labs/dt/). > The package only supports Greek (the fonts themselves contain only > greek glyphs). This is the first release for LaTeX. Thanks for the very welcome upload. I have installed the font, and created a catalogue entry in the repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/gfsbaskerville.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/greek/GFS/gfsbaskerville/ (the bundle itself is well on its way around the world; the catalogue entry won't appear on the web anywhere until tonight some time.) Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: VenturisADF fonts collection V1.002
by CTAN Announcements 29 Dec '07

29 Dec '07

On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 Hirwen Harendal submitted an update to the venturisadf package. Location on CTAN: fonts/venturisadf License: other-free (utopia font) Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Serif and sans serif, old and titling, complete font families, in both Adobe Type 1 and OpenType formats for publication. The families are based on Utopia family, modified and developed by the Arkandis Digital foundry. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/venturisadf . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=venturisadf (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 . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: BaKoMa TeX 8.17 - MetaPost, MetaFont, ImageCache.
by CTAN Announcements 27 Dec '07

27 Dec '07

On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 at 15:12 +0300, Basil Malyshev submitted an update to the bakoma package. Location on CTAN: systems/win32/bakoma License: shareware Announcement text: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Improvement in BaKoMa TeX 8.17 are: > * MetaPost is updated to version 1.002. Fixed some issues. > * Improved Image cache to handle graphics generated by MetaPost. > * Compatibility with Animate package (only Editing in TeXWord) > * MetaFont is updated to version 2.7182. > Fixed displaying some PK fonts in DVIEW/TeXWord (PKDecode filter). > * www.BaKoMa-TeX.com <http://www.bakoma-tex.com/> - provides more robust > communication methods. > > 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 > 27-Dec-2007 > > PS: Please send announce to appropriate mailing lists. > > -------------------- About BaKoMa TeX 8.17 ------------------ > > BaKoMa TeX 8.17 supports two coexisting IDE: > 1) BaKoMa TeX Word - True WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor. > 2) Text Editor + DVI Viewer - Clasical IDE. > They are high compatible, so that you can choose what to use > depend on kind of a document or stage of work under a document. > > 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/> > > New features in BaKoMa TeX 8.17 are: > * MetaPost is updated to version 1.002. Fixed some issues. > * Improved Image cache to handle graphics generated by MetaPost. > * Compatibility with Animate package (only Editing in TeXWord) > * MetaFont is updated to version 2.7182. > Fixed displaying some PK fonts in DVIEW/TeXWord (PKDecode filter). > * www.BaKoMa-TeX.com <http://www.bakoma-tex.com/> - provides more robust > communication methods. > > More details about changes and another bug fixing see at: > < > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes7.html> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update --- memoir patches
by CTAN Announcements 27 Dec '07

27 Dec '07

Peter Wilson <herries.press(a)earthlink.net> wrote: > I have just uploaded memfixesDec07b.tar.gz to UK incoming. Can you > please use this to update the relevant files in > /macros/latex/contrib/memoir. > > The upload is mempatch v4.9a, which fixes bugs introduced in mempatch > v4.9, which fixes bugs in the memoir class. i've installed the files as requested and updated the catalogue. users may view the memoir catalogue page at: http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/memoir.html or visit the package directory at: http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/memoir/ > Best wishes to all for 2008 and to you, and to all our contributors and readers. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: The mh bundle
by CTAN Announcements 27 Dec '07

27 Dec '07

On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, Morten Høgholm submitted an update to the mh bundle. The mh bundle is a series of packages designed to enhance the appearance of documents containing a lot of math. The main backbone is amsmath, so those unfamiliar with this required part of the LaTeX system will probably not find the packages very useful. Component parts of the bundle are empheq, flexisym, mathtools, mhsetup, breqn and mathstyle; an obsolete version of empheq (empheq07) is also maintained with the package, for the benefit of older documents. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/mh Summary description: breqn v0.97a, flexisym v0.96, mathstyle v0.84, technotes License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- breqn-technotes.tex ================ * New document containing technical notes on breqn. * First inclusion is the text from eqbreaks.pdf (original source was lost). eqbreaks.pdf is now removed from the distribution (name was misleading anyway). Changes in breqn ================ * Fixed bug with after environment punctuation. No default action was specified if no punctuation or space was found such as could occur if you had a percent sign after the dmath environment. * Spacing above a display preceeded by a blank line is now abovedisplayskip. * New option shortskiplimit=<dimen> to control when to use abovedisplayshortskip or abovedisplayskip. * Spacing above dgroup environment fixed. * Tag placement for single-line equations now always align baselines of tag and equation. In all previous versions, C tag placement meant vertically center, even for single-line equations. * Left tag vertical positioning fixed (bug introduced in breqn v0.96). * debug option gone, available as trace option during docstrip. Changes in mathstyle =================== * Added option mathactivechars. Changes in flexisym =================== * Fix option handling. * Make flexisym load cmbase by default. Additional options now just overwrite old definitions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/mh . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=mh (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 . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: Asana-Math
by CTAN Announcements 27 Dec '07

27 Dec '07

On Sun, 23 Dec 2007, Apostolos Syropoulos submitted an update to the asana-math package. The Asana-Math font is an OpenType font that includes almost all mathematical Unicode symbols and it can be used to typeset mathematical text with any software that can understand the MATH OpenType table (e.g., XeTeX 0.997 and Microsoft Word 2007). This version contains many new glyphs and various parameters have been adjustd to produce optimum output. Location on CTAN: /fonts/Asana-Math License: ofl Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: KOMA-Script
by CTAN Announcements 27 Dec '07

27 Dec '07

On Mon, 24 Dec 2007, Markus Kohm submitted an update to the koma-script package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/koma-script Summary description: Release 2.98 of the versatile LaTeX bundle KOMA-Script License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- KOMA-Script 2007/12/24 v2.98 Copyright (c) Markus Kohm , 1994-2007 KOMA-Script is a versatile bundle of LaTeX2e document classes and packages. It aims to be a replacement to the standard LaTeX2e classes. KOMA-Script does not stop with the features known from the standard classes, but it extends the possibilities in order to provide the user an almost complete working environment. For installation see INSTALL.txt (english) or INSTALLD.txt (german, UTF-8). Changes: - typearea fix: isopaper does work with option landscape - scrlttr2 feature: new pseudo-length for the location field - scrlltr2 feature: new horizontal and vertical fold marks and new pseudo-length to customize fold marks - scrlttr2 feature: new options to customize fold marks - scrlttr2 feature: new options for possition of sender information - scrlttr2 feature: new lco-files for Japanese letters - scrlttr2 feature: new options for letter head and letter foot - typearea feature: new option "paper=<height>:<width>" - scrbook feature: no chapter numbers at front or back matter - scrlttr2 feature: new font element backaddress - scrlttr2 feature: new pseudo length "fromrulewidth" - general feature: new font elements "subject", "subtilte", "partentry", "partentrypagenumber", "chapterentry", "chapterentrypagenumber", "sectionentry", "sectionentrypagenumber" - scrlttr2 feature: new values for option "subject" - scrlfile changed: errors in if-nesting of loaded packages are not reported inside of scrlfile ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/koma-script . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=koma-script (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 . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: The caption package v3.1f
by CTAN Announcements 27 Dec '07

27 Dec '07

On Sun, 23 Dec 2007, Axel Sommerfeldt submitted an update to the caption package. The caption package provides many ways to customise the captions in floating environments like figure and table, and cooperates with many other packages. Includes rotating captions, sideways captions, continued captions (for tables or figures that come in several parts). A list of compatibility notes, for other packages, is provided in the documentation. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/caption/ Summary description: Customizing captions in floating environments License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a bugfix release of the caption package 3.1: - English documentation is completely done! - Bugfix: Space hack added to captionsetup etc. - Bugfix: Works with LaTeX2e prior 2004/01/23 again - `subcaption' demo package added ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/caption/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=caption (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 . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: microtype
by CTAN Announcements 24 Dec '07

24 Dec '07

The package below have been updated at tug.ctan.org and those changes should get to your favorite mirror within a day. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College .......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: microtype Author's name: R Schlicht Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/microtype Summary description: An interface to the micro-typographic extensions of pdfTeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes in version 2.3 * New key `outer kerning' for SetTracking to customise outer kerning of letterspaced fonts * Always adjust protrusion settings for tracking * New option `verbose=silent' to turn all warnings into mere messages * The `letterspace' package also works with plain tex (eplain or miniltx) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/microtype . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/microtype (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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CTAN package update: PSTricks documentation
by CTAN admin (Robin Fairbairns) 23 Dec '07

23 Dec '07

Herbert Voss wrote: > I uploaded pst-user.tgz to the uk mirror. Please replace the > two files with the ones in the directory > /graphics/pstricks/base/doc/ > > pst-user.pdf is the original documentation of the PSTricks core > files. The source files are in pst-user.tgz, which can be > compiled with the current pdftex in dvi mode. There is also > a Makefile. > > This version comes with hyperref support, the toc and the > index pagenumbers are now hyperlinks. i have reinstalled the base PSTricks distribution to update the documentation; thanks for the upload. Users may view PSTricks' catalogue entry at http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/pstricks.html and visit the updated document itself at http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pstricks/base/doc/pst-user.pdf Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: pst-3dplot
by CTAN Announcements 23 Dec '07

23 Dec '07

Herbert Voss <Herbert.Voss(a)FU-Berlin.DE> wrote: > I uploaded pst-3dplot.tgz to the uk mirror. Please delete _all_ > files in the directory > /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-3dplot/ > > and put the new ones in there. > > pst-3dplot is a PSTricks related package for drawing > 3-D objects in parallel projection. > > This update has some bug fixes and new options > for rotating objects > > pst-3dplot.pro -------- > 0.25 2007-12-22 - add code for special rotating (Darrell Lamm) > > pst-3dplot.tex -------- > 1.78 2007-10-11 - fix bug in parametricPlotThreeD > - add option Debug=false|true for addtional > comments written into the log file > - add extended rotation stuff (Darrell Lamm) i have installed the new version and updated the catalogue repository. thanks for the upload. users may view the catalogue entry at http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/pst-3dplot.html or browse the package directory at http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-3dplot/ the package itself should be well on its way around the world; the catalogue entry was only updated a few minutes ago in cambridge. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: polski package
by CTAN Announcements 22 Dec '07

22 Dec '07

On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 at 09:37 +0100, Staszek Wawrykiewicz submitted an update to the polski package. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/polski License: LPPL Announcement Text: > --------- > Package: polski > Authors: Mariusz Olko, Marcin Woliski > Version: 1.3.2 > Date: 18 XII 2007 > License: LPPL > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/polski > > Bundle `Polski' provides tools to typeset documents in Polish using > LaTeX2e. Documented source code is in *.dtx and *.fdd files. > > `Polski' is free software redistributable in according to LaTeX > Project Public License version 1.2 or above (see lppl.txt in base LaTeX > distribution). > > In the current version (1.3.2) all remaining stuff from the previous > 'platex' package was cleaned out. > > ------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: text2bib
by CTAN Announcements 22 Dec '07

22 Dec '07

A new package has gone up at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: text2bib Author's name: Martin J. Osborne Location on CTAN: /biblio/bibtex/utils/text2bib Summary description: PHP script to convert references to BibTeX License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- text2bib is a PHP script for converting references to BibTeX format. (It is currently implemented at http://theory.economics.utoronto.ca/text2bib.) It aims to convert accurately references in any reasonable format. Here are three examples of references that it converts correctly: Arrow, K. J., L. Hurwicz, and H. Uzawa (1961), Constraint qualifications in maximization problems, Naval Research Logistics Quarterly 8, 175-191. Arrow, K. J., L. Hurwicz, and H. Uzawa [1961], ``Constraint qualifications in maximization problems,'' {it Naval Research Logistics Quarterly}, 8(2), 175-191. Arrow, K. J., L. Hurwicz, & H. Uzawa. Constraint qualifications in maximization problems. extit{Naval Research Logistics Quarterly}, 8(2): 175--191. 1961. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/text2bib . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/text2bib (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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CTAN package update: The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List
by CTAN Announcements 22 Dec '07

22 Dec '07

The material below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local mirror. Have a nice holidays, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ...................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List Author's name: Scott Pakin Location on CTAN: /info/symbols/comprehensive Summary description: Tables of symbols that are accessible from LaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List is an organized list of almost 5000 symbols that are available to LaTeX users. Some of these symbols are guaranteed to be available in every TeX distribution. Others require font files that come with some, but not all, TeX distributions. The rest require font files that must be downloaded explicitly from CTAN (http://www.ctan.org) and installed. The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbols List currently showcases symbols from 111 separate typefaces. Weighing in at 4948 symbols, this version of the symbol list documents over 1600 more symbols than the previous (September 2005) version. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/symbols/comprehensive . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/comprehensive (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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CTAN has a new package: xskak
by CTAN Announcements 20 Dec '07

20 Dec '07

The package below has been put up on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: xskak v.1 Author's name: Ulrike Fischer Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/xskak/ Summary description: xskak --- An extension to the package skak for chess typesetting License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The main point of xskak is to save informations about a chess game for later use e.g. to loop through a game to make an animated board. It also extends the input that the parsing commands can handle and offers an interface to define and switch between indefinite levels of styles. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xskak/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/xskak (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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CTAN package update: chessboard v1.5
by CTAN Announcements 20 Dec '07

20 Dec '07

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College .................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: chessboard v1.5 Author's name: Ulrike Fischer Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/chessboard/ Summary description: This package offers commands to print chessboards. It can print partial boards, hide pieces and fields, color the boards and put various marks on the board. It has a lot of options to place pieces on the board. Using exotic pieces (e.g., for fairy chess) is possible. The documentation includes an example of an animated chessboard, for those whose PDF viewer can display animations. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The most important changes are some internal adaptions to the new package xskak (which I will upload soon). Apart from this, I corrected some bugs and added key getpiecelists. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/chessboard/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/chessboard (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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CTAN has a new package: aichej
by CTAN Announcements 20 Dec '07

20 Dec '07

The material below has been put up at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: aichej Author's name: Spencer D. Schaber Location on CTAN: /tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/misc/ Summary description: bibliography style file for the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Jounal (AIChE Journal) License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- bibliography style file for the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Journal (or AIChE Journal or AIChE J or AIChEJ). Generated using custom-bib package using docstrip utility. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/misc/aichej.bst . 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: ant
by CTAN Announcements 18 Dec '07

18 Dec '07

On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Achim Blumensath submitted an update to the ant package. Location on CTAN: /systems/ant Summary description: ant is not TeX License type: pd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm pleased to announce the release of ant version 0.8. The archive can be found at http://ant.berlios.de ant is a typesetting system inspired by TeX. It does not aim at complete compatibility with TeX but focuses instead on a flexible, clean, and modular design. ant is public domain. New in this release are: o support for margin kerning o many improvements of the built in scripting language o various bug fixes and minor improvements ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/ant . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=ant (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 . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: bpolynomial
by CTAN Announcements 18 Dec '07

18 Dec '07

The package below has had an update. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College .................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: bpolynomial Author's name: Stephan Hennig Location on CTAN: /graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/bpolynomial/ Summary description: Drawing polynomials with MetaPost. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- bpolynomial v0.5, released on 2007-12-12 Description ----------- The MetaPost package bpolynomial helps plotting polynomial and root functions. It provides macros to calculate one-segment Bezier curves exactly matching a given cubic polynomial or square or cubic root function. Additionally, tangents on all functions and derivatives of polynomials can be calculated. Changes in v0.5: * New: + The package can now compute paths of square and cubic roots. + Added a plain interface. * Changes: + Improved documentation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/bpolynomia… . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/bpolynomial (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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CTAN package update: biblatex 0.7a
by CTAN Announcements 17 Dec '07

17 Dec '07

Philipp Lehman writes: > I've uploaded `biblatex.tar.gz' to the incoming directory of the UK > node. This is a maintenance update for macros/latex/exptl/biblatex/. > > Please use the contents of the archive to replace the corresponding > files in macros/latex/exptl/biblatex/. Note that the archive only > contains the files which have actually been modified. > > Thank you very much. > > RELEASE NOTES > > This is a minor maintenance update in response to the first wave of > feedback to version 0.7. > > Only biblatex.sty and biblatex.bst have been modified. > The updated files are tagged 0.7a 2007/12/16. > > CHANGES > > Internal tweaks and bug fixes only. This release fixes compatibility > issues with some other packages. i have installed the changes to the package and updated the catalogue. thanks for the upload. users may view the catalogue entry at: http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/biblatex.html or browse the package directory at: http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex/ the update was installed yesterday, so it should be at almost all CTAN mirrors by now. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: VenturisADF fonts collection
by CTAN Announcements 16 Dec '07

16 Dec '07

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: VenturisADF fonts collection Author's name: HARENDAL Hirwen Location on CTAN: /fonts/venturisadf Summary description: Fonts collection for publication License type: other Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Serif and sans serif, old and titling, complete font families, in both Adobe Type 1 and OpenType formats for publication. The family is based on Utopia family, and has been modified and developed by the Arkandis Digital foundry. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/venturisadf . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/venturisadf (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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CTAN has a new package: newspaper
by CTAN Announcements 16 Dec '07

16 Dec '07

A new package has been upt in at tug.ctan.org and it should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ............................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: newspaper Author's name: matthew allen Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contib/newspaper Summary description: package to aid in typesetting newsletters to resemble newspapers License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The newspaper package redefines the page style and maketitle command to produce a typeset page similar to that off a newspaper. It also provides several commands that (when used with other packages) allow the ease of writing articles in a newspaper-style column format. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/newspaper . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/newspaper (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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CTAN update: framed.sty
by CTAN Announcements 16 Dec '07

16 Dec '07

The material below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Regards, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ....................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: framed.sty Author's name: Donald Arseneau Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/misc Summary description: Some updates to framed.sty. License type: bsd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Although there are still things that need implementing, here is an update to framed.sty that handles lists better and supports different frame format depending on the breaks, as used for continued labels and such. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/misc . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/ltxmisc (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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CTAN package update: memoir patches
by CTAN Announcements 16 Dec '07

16 Dec '07

Peter Wilson wrote: > I have just uploaded memfixesDec07a.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use the > contents to replace the corresponding files in macros/latex/contib/memoir > > This release includes mempatch.sty v4.9 (2007/12/14) and a new Addendum. > All known bugs are fixed and some minor new functionality is introduced. > There is no change to the User Manual. > > From the README: > > The memoir class is for typesetting poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and > mathematical works. > > The normal font sizes range from 9pt to 17pt. There is a range of page > styles and well over a dozen chapter-styles to choose from and methods for > specifying your own layouts and designs. The class encompasses over thirty > of the more popular packages. > > NOTE: I hope that this is the last set of patches to the class. The next > release will include a new manual, all patch code incorprated into the class > file, and mempatch.sty and the Addendum to be empty. i have installed the new patch, and an update to the catalogue is making its way around the world. thanks for the update. Users may view the catalogue entry for memoir at: http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/memoir.html or visit the package directory (which includes the patch files) at: http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/memoir/ The new version is on its way around the world as i write; the catalogue entry will be updated overnight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: oberdiek bundle -- luacolor v1.0, luatex v1.0, ifluatex v1.0, magicnum v1.0 pdfcolparallel v1.1
by CTAN Announcements 14 Dec '07

14 Dec '07

On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 at 17:57 +0100, Heiko Oberdiek submitted an update of the oberdiek bundle. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek/ License: LPPL New packages: * ifluatex v1.0 This package looks for LuaTeX regardless of its mode and provides the switch ifluatex. It works with plain-TeX or LaTeX. * luacolor v1.0 Package `luacolor' implements color support based on LuaTeX's node attributes. * luatex v0.1 This package manages the new and extended features and resources that LuaTeX provides. Examples are attributes and catcode tables. * magicnum v1.0 This packages allows to access magic numbers by a hierarchical name system. Updates: * pdfcol v1.2: * pdfcolSetCurrentColor added. * Detection for package `luacolor' added. * pdfcolparallel v1.1: * Adds patch for setting linewidth to fix bug in package `parallel'. * Package `parallel' is also fixed if color stacks are not available. * Bug fix, switched stacks now initialized with current color. * Fix for package `parallel': aggedbottom is respected. * pdftexcmds v0.3: * Organization of Lua code as module. Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: Omega/Aleph for Tamil
by CTAN Announcements 12 Dec '07

12 Dec '07

The package below has been put up at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Omega/Aleph for Tamil Author's name: Alex A.J. Location on CTAN: /macros/omega/latex/contrib/tamil-omega Summary description: A package for typesetting Tamil using Omega/Aleph License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Omega for Tamil is a package for typesetting Tamil using the Omega system developed by John Plaice and Yannis Haralambous. It is also compatible with Aleph. The package includes only one font family, the Washington Tamil by Thomas Ridgeway et.al. Additional fonts can be downloaded from: http://sarovar.org/projects/tamil This package also includes supporting files for using the Tamil fonts from `ISM Publisher' by C-DAC India. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/omega/latex/contrib/tamil-omega . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/tamil-omega (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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CTAN has a new package: ted
by CTAN Announcements 12 Dec '07

12 Dec '07

The packge below has been put up to tug.ctan.org and will soon be at your local mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ............................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: ted Author's name: Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ted Summary description: a (primitive) token list editor License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Just like sed is a stream editor, ted is a token list editor. Actually, it is not as powerfull as sed, but its main feature is that it really works with tokens, not only characters. The ted package provides two user macros: Substitute and ShowTokens. The first one is maybe the most useful: it performs substitutions in token lists (even inside braces). The second displays each token of the list (one per line) with its catcode (in the list, not just the current one), and can be useful for debugging or for TeX learners. The ted package is designed to work well even if strange tokens (that is, unusual (charcode, catcode) pairs or tokens with a confusing meaning) occur in the list. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ted . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/ted (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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Re: CTAN has a new package: pgf-soroban
by CTAN Announcements 11 Dec '07

11 Dec '07

I apologize. I put the wrong CTAN path in the announcement. The correction is below. Jim ......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: pgf-soroban Author's name: Alain Delmotte Location on CTAN: /graphics/pgf/contrib/pgf-soroban Summary description: creates images of the Japanese abacus using TikZ/PGF License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Allows to create the Japanese soroban (abacus) using TikZ/PGF ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pgf/contrib/pgf-soroban . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pgf-soroban (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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CTAN has a new package: pgf-soroban
by CTAN Announcements 11 Dec '07

11 Dec '07

The material below has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be in place at your local mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: pgf-soroban Author's name: Alain Delmotte Location on CTAN: /graphics/pgf/latex/ Summary description: creates images of the Japanese abacus using TikZ/PGF License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Allows to create the Japanese soroban (abacus) using TikZ/PGF ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pgf/latex/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pgf-soroban (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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CTAN package update: mh
by CTAN Announcements 11 Dec '07

11 Dec '07

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: mh Author's name: Morten Høgholm Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/mh Summary description: Update of the mh bundle: breqn, flexisym, mathstyle License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes in flexisym =================== * Fix problem with std@minus and std@equal which had to be removed from AtBeginDocument hook. Also fixed problem with std@equal which occured when operators had been defined with DeclareMathOperator. * Support for mathpazo and mathptmx added. * Source code comments by Michael J. Downes added. Changes in breqn ================ * Fixed catcode settings and package loading of flexisym. * Cleaned up some parts of the code. * Source code comments by Michael J. Downes added. Changes in mathstyle =================== * Documentation written (original sources unfortunately lost). * Use @saveprimitive from breqn. * New command currentmathstyle + example of usage A special note on the source code comments: The original sources of breqn and related files exist in a non-dtx format devised by Michael Downes. Lars Madsen has kindly written a Perl script for transforming the original source files into near-perfect dtx state, requiring only very little hand tuning. Without his help it would have been nigh impossible to incorporate the original sources with Michael's comments. A big, big thank you to him. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mh . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/mh (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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tug.ctan.org upload: PerlTeX
by CTAN Announcements 11 Dec '07

11 Dec '07

The package below has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College .............................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: PerlTeX Author's name: Scott Pakin Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/perltex Summary description: Define LaTeX macros in terms of Perl code License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PerlTeX is a combination Perl script (perltex.pl) and LaTeX2e style file (perltex.sty) that, together, give the user the ability to define LaTeX macros in terms of Perl code. Once defined, a Perl macro becomes indistinguishable from any other LaTeX macro. PerlTeX thereby combines LaTeX's typesetting power with Perl's programmability. This new release (v1.7) fixes a compatibility problem with xelatex. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/perltex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/perltex (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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CTAN package update: dot2texi
by CTAN Announcements 10 Dec '07

10 Dec '07

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should make it to your favorite mirror real soon. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: dot2texi Author's name: Kjell Magne Fauske Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/dot2texi Summary description: Create graphs within LaTeX using Graphviz and the dot2tex tool License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The dot2texi package allows you to embed graphs in the DOT graph description language in your LaTeX documents. The dot2tex[1] tool is used to invoke Graphviz[2] for graph layout, and to transform the output from Graphviz to LaTeX code. The generated code relies on the TikZ and PGF package or the PSTricks package. The process is automated if shell escape is enabled. New in version 2.0: - Improved platform detection. Windows users no longer need to specify the miktex option. - Added forceshell package option. - Added codeonly, styleonly and autosize environment options. [1] http://www.fauskes.net/code/dot2tex/ or in graphics/dot2tex on CTAN [2] http://www.graphviz.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/dot2texi . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/dot2texi (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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CTAN package update: dot2tex
by CTAN Announcements 10 Dec '07

10 Dec '07

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at a mirror near you. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ....................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: dot2tex Author's name: Kjell Magne Fauske Location on CTAN: /graphics/dot2tex/ Summary description: Convert graphs generated by Graphviz to LaTeX friendly formats License type: dfsg Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dot2tex is a tool for converting graphs rendered by Graphviz to formats that can be used with LaTeX. The purpose of dot2tex is to give graphs generated by Graphviz a more LaTeX friendly look and feel. This is accomplished by converting xdot output from Graphviz to a series of TikZ and PGF, or PSTricks commands. This approach allows: * Typesetting labels with LaTeX, allowing mathematical notation. * Using native PSTricks and PGF/TikZ commands for drawing arrows. * Using backend specific styles to customize the output New in version 2.7.0 is the --codeonly option for tighter integration with the dot2texi.sty LaTeX package ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/dot2tex/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/dot2tex (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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CTAN package update: mla-paper
by CTAN Announcements 09 Dec '07

09 Dec '07

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon work its way through our mirror system. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College .................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: mla-paper Author's name: Ryan Aycock Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/mla-paper Summary description: Proper MLA formatting License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I've updated the mla-paper package with contributions from other authors. This new version is made to create PDF's and DVI's properly under MiKTeX 2.5. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mla-paper . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/mla-paper (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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CTAN package update: biblatex
by CTAN Announcements 09 Dec '07

09 Dec '07

The package update below is now working its way through the CTAN mirror system. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ......................................................................... I've uploaded an update for macros/latex/exptl/biblatex. RELEASE NOTES See the file `RELEASE' for release notes. CHANGES With about 225 entries, the changelog of this release is too long to be quoted here. Please refer to the full list at the end of biblatex.pdf and to the release notes. ALSO NOTE I've uploaded a README file intended for macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib. The idea is to provide a staging area for contributed biblatex styles. -- Philipp Lehman

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CTAN has a new package: l2tabues
by CTAN Announcements 08 Dec '07

08 Dec '07

A new package has been placed on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon ....................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: l2tabues Author's name: Gonzalo Medina Location on CTAN: /info/l2tabu/spanish/ Summary description: Spanish version of l2tabu License type: pd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This directory contains the Spanish version of l2tabu. The files l2tabues.tex and l2tabues.pdf are included. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/l2tabu/spanish/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/l2tabu-spanish (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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CTAN has a new package: jsclasses
by CTAN Announcements 06 Dec '07

06 Dec '07

The package below has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: jsclasses Author's name: Koji Yokota Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/jsclasses Summary description: New Japanese classes written by Okumura License type: bsd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Japanese classes written by Haruhiko Okumura (okumura(a)edu.mie-u.ac.jp). jsarticle and jsbook classes are provided. In addition, okumacro.sty, okuverb.sty and morisawa.sty are included. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/jsclasses . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/jsclasses (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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CTAN Update the minitoc package; version 56
by CTAN Announcements 05 Dec '07

05 Dec '07

On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Jean-Pierre Drucbert submitted a new version of the minitoc package. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/minitoc/ License: LPPL > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Minitoc version #56 > -- Added swahili.mld. > -- Added the bengali language as synonym of bangla. > -- Updated lithuanian2.mld, czech.mld, galician.mld, lsorbian.mld, > ukraineb.mld, and usorbian.mld. > -- Added malayalam-b.mld, malayalam-keli2.mld, malayalam-mr.mld, > and malayalam-rachana3.mld. > -- Updated malayalam-omega.mlo. > * -- Added stuff (files) for figures (maps) for many language areas. > * -- Added a specific directory for image files in the TDS hierarchy. > -- Graphic files are indexed separately. > -- Removed the .eps files. > -- Darker colors for hyperlinks. > -- Updated and corrected the bibliography. > -- Added a hint (warning W0099) about the titlesec package. > -- Complete indexing of the messages. > -- Improved the index and removed spurious entries. > ** -- Corrected a typo in the ptc@verse environment. > ** -- Corrections of typos in the mtchideinmainlof and mtchideinmainlot > environments. > ** -- Replaced the .mtc1 extension by .mtc0 in the auto-configuration > test (to avoid erasing the jobname.mtc1 file). > ** -- Corrected a problem with ofiles. > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Notes: > * These files are the main cause of the increased size of the package; > there are needed only to compile the documentation. > It is not necessary to install them if you do not need to recompile > the documentation. > ** Bug fixes. > > The administravive trivia are in the `CATALOG' file in the > distribution. > > Note that the documentation is mainly available in PDF form, > -- in (not perfect) english: minitoc.pdf > -- in french: fminitoc.pdf > The ``cmk'' script may be used to convert the PDF documentation > into PostScript. > > The INSTALL file (and, better, the ``Installation'' chapter in the > documentation) describes the files of this package (the list > of files is in minitoc.l). > > A minitoc-tds.zip file is also available in the distribution. > > PS: this package is intended to be my Christmas gift to CTAN > (both team and users). Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: thinsp
by CTAN Announcements 04 Dec '07

04 Dec '07

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: thinsp Author's name: Palle Jorgensen Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/thinsp Summary description: A stretchable hinspace for LaTeX. License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The thinsp package provides a stretchable hinspace to replace LaTeX's normal hinspace. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/thinsp . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/thinsp (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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CTAN package update: mh
by CTAN Announcements 04 Dec '07

04 Dec '07

The materials below have been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: mh Author's name: Morten Høgholm Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/mh Summary description: mh bundle update License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is an update of the mh bundle. The maintainer email address has changed and some bugs have been fixed in mathtools. More importantly, the mh bundle now also contains the breqn package originally developed by the late Michael J. Downes of the American Mathematical Society. I wish to thank the American Mathematical Society for making this possible. See the breqn documentation for more information. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mh . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/mh (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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CTAN package update: Synapsen
by CTAN Announcements 04 Dec '07

04 Dec '07

The package below has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College .......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Synapsen Author's name: Markus Krajewski Location on CTAN: /biblio/bibtex/utils/Synapsen Summary description: Synapsen, new version 3.0 License type: shareware Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- New features since Synapsen 3.0: * New categories for movies, music, and proceedings * Printing of cards with many user settings, extensive printing interface * Improved editing functions for cards * Direct export of the bibliography into a pdf file * Enhancements of the OPAC interface (including articles and papers, new catalogues like bnf.fr) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/Synapsen/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/synapsen (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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CTAN package update: SIunits
by CTAN Announcements 02 Dec '07

02 Dec '07

>From the Cambridge upload daemon: > Name of contribution: SIunits > Author's name: Joseph Wright > Author's email: joseph.wright(a)morningstar2.co.uk > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/SIunits > Summary description: Typeset physical units following the rules of the International System of Units (SI) > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v1.36: > * Now uses real minus sign in text mode > * Requires amstext (due to the above) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i have installed the new version and updated the catalogue repository; thanks for the upload. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/SIunits.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/SIunits the catalogue entry (only slightly changed) will be updated overnight; the package itself is already on its way around the world. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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by jlbraams＠cistron.nl 01 Dec '07

01 Dec '07

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CTAN package update: Mathmode
by CTAN Announcements 30 Nov '07

30 Nov '07

Herbert Voss has provided an update for his Mathmode tutorial document. He writes: Herbert Voss <Herbert.Voss(a)fu-berlin.de> wrote: > This new version 2.29 has the following changes: > > 2.29 2007-11-30 > - added two special symbols Let and eL > - typo with BlueSky > - package fixltx2e with command MakeRobust > - small example for limits > - www.yandy.com -> www.pctex.com > - added an example for aligned vertical dots > - typos > - added an appendix for the package file list of the pdflatex run I have installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository. Thanks for the upload. Users may view the catalogue entry at http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/voss-mathmode.html or browse the package directory at http://mirror.ctan.org/info/math/voss/mathmode/ (The minor change to the catalogue will propagate overnight; the updated package is on its way already.) Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: animate
by CTAN Announcements 30 Nov '07

30 Nov '07

On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, Alexander Grahn submitted an update to the animate package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/animate Summary description: creating portable PDF animations from graphics files and inline graphics License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This update comes with - support for multipage PDF inclusion with animategraphics - new options bb, viewport and trim to manipulate the graphics bounding box (borrowed from the `graphicx' package) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/animate . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=animate (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 . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: bpolynomial
by CTAN Announcements 29 Nov '07

29 Nov '07

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: bpolynomial Author's name: Stephan Hennig Location on CTAN: /graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/bpolynomial/ Summary description: Drawing polynomials with MetaPost. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- bpolynomial v0.4, 2007-11-28 The MetaPost package bpolynomial helps drawing polynomial functions of up to degree three. It provides macros to calculate Bezier curves exactly matching a given constant, linear, quadratic or cubic polynomial. Additionally, paths of derivatives and tangents can be calculated. Changes to v0.3: * New: + The package can now compute paths of derivatives and tangents. + Improved documentation. Please update the catalogue entry with the new package description. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/bpolynomia… . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/bpolynomial (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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CTAN has a new package: Scientific Author 1.0
by CTAN Announcements 29 Nov '07

29 Nov '07

The package below has been put into place at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ...................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Scientific Author 1.0 Author's name: Danilo Stélio Manhiça Location on CTAN: /support/scientificauthor Summary description: Visual LaTeX Editor License type: shareware Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Scientific Author is a visual LaTeX editor for mathematicians, scientists and engineers, supporting industry standards like LaTeX 2e. It is a visual document editor, which exports LaTeX for rendering by tools such as MiKTeX. Scientific Author also supports editing of mathematical notation through tool palettes and templates. LaTeX symbols are also supported, including American Mathematical Society symbols. It also enables easy editing of tables, footnotes, and margin notes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/scientificauthor . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/scientificauthor (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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CTAN package update: Eplain 3.2 release
by CTAN Announcements 28 Nov '07

28 Nov '07

Oleg Katsitadze has provided a package which has been mirrored, automatically, to CTAN. He writes: I'm happy to announce a new release of Eplain (3.2), a set of TeX macros that expands on and extends the definitions in plain TeX in a style-neutral fashion. Eplain's home page is http://tug.org/eplain Location on CTAN is /macros/eplain The manual is available on-line from Eplain's home, or as a hard-copy from http://www.lulu.com/content/113810 (Royalties are donated to the TeX Users Group.) Here's an excerpt from the NEWS file. * Fixed a bug which caused silent indexing macros to output spurious space in vertical mode. * Added a switch to disable index file input/output. * Fixed xref and bibliography label definition macros so that reading in a .aux file with a large number of label definitions does not overflow the save stack. * Fixed double-column macros -- they were occasionally losing material and producing columns too high to fit on a page. Also improved appearance of the last column, which often came out spaced out. ============== I've updated the catalogue, and the new version should be widely available by now. Users may view the catalogue entry at http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/eplain.html or browse the distribution at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/eplain/ Thanks for the continuing support of the package, Oleg. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: FiXme
by CTAN Announcements 28 Nov '07

28 Nov '07

The package below has bee updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: FiXme version 3.3 Author's name: Didier Verna Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/fixme Summary description: A LaTeX2e package for inserting fixme and meta-notes in your documents License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm happy to announce the next edition of FiXme: version 3.3 New in this release: * Document incompatibility between marginal layout and the ACM SIG classes * Honor twoside option in marginal layout * Support KOMA-Script classes version 2006/07/30 v2.95b * Documentation improvements * Fix incompatibility with AMS-Art * Fix bug in fixme@footnotetrue FiXme provides you with a way of inserting fixme notes in your documents. Such notes can appear inline, as marginal notes, footnotes, index entries, in the log file and as warnings on stdout. It is also possible to summarize them in a list. When you switch from draft to final mode, any remaining fixme note will be logged, but removed from the document's body. Additionally, critical notes will abort compilation with an informative message. FiXme also comes with support for AUC-TeX. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/fixme . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/FiXme (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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CTAN Update: Arphic font packages
by CTAN Announcements 28 Nov '07

28 Nov '07

On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Werner Lemberg submitted an update to the arphic package. These are font bundles for the Chinese Arphic fonts which work with the CJK package. Arphic is actually the name of the company that which created the fonts (and put them under a GPL-like licence). Location on CTAN: /fonts/arphic License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The four bundles contain revised versions of the four Arphic fonts bundles for simplified and traditional Chinese, as used in the CJK package for LaTeX. It fixes omissions of some vertical glyph representation forms, improves the TFM metrics (however, the widths stay unchanged), and provides smaller PFB subfont files due to a newer version of FontForge used in the conversion process. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/arphic . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=arphic (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 . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: bpolynomial
by CTAN Announcements 27 Nov '07

27 Nov '07

The package below has been put on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: bpolynomial Author's name: Stephan Hennig Location on CTAN: /graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/bpolynomial/ Summary description: Drawing polynomials with MetaPost. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- bpolynomial.mp version 0.3 released on 2007-11-26: The MetaPost package bpolynomial.mp helps drawing polynomial functions of up to degree three. It provides macros to calculate Bézier curves exactly matching a given constant, linear, quadratic or cubic polynomial. Changes to v0.2 pre-released 2007-11-25: + Improved documentation. + Slightly improved numeric stability. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/bpolynomia… . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/bpolynomial (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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CTAN package update: CurVe
by CTAN Announcements 27 Nov '07

27 Nov '07

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: CurVe Author's name: Didier Verna Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/curve Summary description: A curriculum vitae class for LaTeX2e License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm happy to annouce the next edition of CurVe, version 1.14. New in this release: - an option to reverse-count bibliographic entries - localization to Polish CurVe is a class package that hopefully will make your life easier when you want to write your CV. It provides you with a set of commands to create rubrics, entries in these rubrics etc. CurVe will then properly format your CV for you (possibly splitting it onto multiple pages, repeating the titles etc), which is usually the most painful part of CV writing. Another nice feature of CurVe is its ability to manage different CV flavors simultaneously. It is in fact often the case that you want to maintain slightly divergent versions of your CV at the same time, in order to emphasize on different aspects of your background. CurVe also comes with support for AUC-TeX. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/curve . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/CurVe (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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CTAN Update: juramisc
by CTAN Announcements 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

On Fri, 23 Nov 2007, Axel Sodtalbers submitted an update of the juramisc package. Juramisc is a collection of classes for typesetting court sentences, legal opinions, and dissertations for German lawyers. The package is still under development. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/juramisc License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Updated versions of jurabase and jurabook, documentation revised. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/juramisc . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=juramisc (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 . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: SQLTeX
by CTAN Announcements 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

On Fri, 23 Nov 2007, Oscar van Eijk submitted an update to the sqltex package. SQLTeX is a well documented preprocessor to enable the use of SQL statements in LaTeX. It is a perl script that reads an input file containing the LaTeX source with SQL commands, and writes a LaTeX file that can be processed with your LaTeX package. The SQL commands will be replaced by their values. It's possible to select a single field for substitution substitution in your LaTeX document, or to be used as input in another SQL command. When an SQL command returns multiple fields and or rows, the values can only be used for substitution in the document. This version only supports MySQL databases. It has been tested on Linux, but should work an all platforms where Perl is installed. Location on CTAN: /support/SQLTeX Summary description: An SQL Preprocessor for LaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- After 5 years, there's finally a reason to update SQLTeX. SQLTeX is a well documented preprocessor to enable the use of SQL statements in LaTeX. It is a perl script that reads an input file containing the LaTeX source with SQL commands, and writes a LaTeX file that can be processed with your LaTeX package. The SQL commands will be replaced by their values. It's possible to select a single field for substitution substitution in your LaTeX document, or to be used as input in another SQL command. When an SQL command returns multiple fields and or rows, the values can only be used for substitution in the document. New in this version: --- Updates are now possible --- Support for multiple databases --- Multiple documents can be created ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/support/SQLTeX . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=sqltex (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 . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: pst-user documentation for pstricks
by CTAN Announcements 25 Nov '07

25 Nov '07

Herbert Voss <Herbert.Voss(a)fu-berlin.de> wrote: > I uploaded pst-user.tgz to the uk mirror. Please put > the two new files of the tarzip into the directory > /graphics/pstricks/base/doc/ > > pst-user.pdf is the original documentation of PSTricks > pst-user.tgz is the tarzip of the source files, which can > now be run with the current LaTeX and the current > PSTricks packages. Linux user can run the makefile > to build the documentation and the quick reference thank you very much for the upload. i've installed the files, and updated the pstricks catalogue entry. users may view the new (i.e., updated) pdf file at http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pstricks/base/doc/pst-user.pdf or browse the pstricks base as a whole at http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pstricks/base/ the catalogue entry may be found at http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/pstricks.html the catalogue entry will be updated overnight tonight, and the document itself will make its way around the world in its own sweet way (24 hours or so for full propagation). Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: SIunits (again)
by Robin Fairbairns 24 Nov '07

24 Nov '07

joseph wright wrote (in a sort of sense): > ====================================================================== > > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: SIunits > Author's name: Joseph Wright > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/SIunits > Summary description: Consistent application of SI units > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v1.35: > * Bug fix for handling powers in textstyle mode > * Improved appearance of electronvolt > * Added using dalton and atomicmassunit > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i've installed this new version, and updated the catalogue repository. thanks for the upload. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/siunits.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/SIunits the package itself is well on its way around the world; the catalogue entry will change (slightly) overnight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: animate
by CTAN Announcements 23 Nov '07

23 Nov '07

On Fri, 23 Nov 2007, Alexander Grahn submitted an update to the animate package. The package provides an interface to create portable, JavaScript driven PDF animations from sets of graphics files or from inline graphics, such as LaTeX picture environment, PSTricks or pgf/TikZ generated pictures, or just from typeset text. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/animate License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This update comes with improved timeline capabilities: - detection of multiple inclusion of the same object into the same animation frame - grouping objects into layers for better depth level control ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/animate . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=animate (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 . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: anyfontsize package update for LaTeX
by CTAN Announcements 23 Nov '07

23 Nov '07

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 at 13:09 +0100, Péter Szabó submitted a bugfix to the anyfontsize package. The package allows the to user select any font size (via e.g. <tt>fontsize{...}{...}selectfont</tt>), even those sizes that are not listed in the .fd file. If such a size is requested, LaTeX will search for and select the nearest listed size; anyfontsize will then scale the font to the size actually requested. Similar functionality is available for the CM family, for the EC family, or for either computer modern encoding the present package generalises the facility. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/anyfontsize Summary description: anyfontsize lets the author use any font in any size License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- a small bugfix ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/anyfontsize . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=anyfontsize (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 . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: SIunits
by CTAN Announcements 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

> ====================================================================== > > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: SIunits > Author's name: Joseph Wright > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/SIunits > Summary description: Support for the International System of Units > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > v1.34: > * Change of maintainer. The package is now maintained by Joseph > Wright (joseph.wright(a)morningstar2.co.uk) > * License update to LPPL 1.3 > * Bug fix for negative signs when using the textstyle option > > Important note > -------------- > This is a bug release, with a change of maintainer. The new > maintainer intents to carry out a detailed review of the package, but > *this* release is a big-fix only. The other changes made are to add > the new maintainer to the documentation. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i have installed the new version of the package, and updated the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/siunits.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://mirror.ctan.org//macros/latex/contrib/SIunits the catalogue entry will be updated overnight; the new version of the package is already on its way around the world. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: cleveref
by CTAN Announcements 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

ctan-upload(a)tex.ac.uk wrote: > ====================================================================== > > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: cleveref > Author's name: Toby Cubitt > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/cleveref/ > Summary description: Automatic cross-reference formatting. > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This release is now aware of appendices, i.e. the format for > references to appendices is now independent of that for references to > top-level sections. It also (finally!) includes all the previously > missing default format definitions for tables, and is a better TeX > citizen in that it doesn't leave as many temporary macro definitions > lying around. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I have installed the package and updated the catalogue repository (in a minuscule fashion). Thanks for the upload. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/cleveref.html (this entry will change ... slightly ... overnight.) > or they may browse the package directory at > http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/cleveref/ Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: ijmart
by CTAN Announcements 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon appear at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon ..................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: ijmart Author's name: Boris Veytsman Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ijmart Summary description: LaTeX class for the Israel Journal of Mathematics License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Israel Journal of Mathematics is published by The Hebrew University Magnes Press. This class provides LaTeX support for its authors and editors. It strives to achieve the distinct ``look and feel'' of the journal, while having the interface similar to the one of the amsart document class. This will help the authors already familiar with amsart to easily submit manuscripts for The Israel Journal of Mathematics or to put the preprints in http://www.arxiv.org with minimal changes in the LaTeX source. Changes: Version 1.1: Added environments namedprop and namedprop* for special named propositions. Version 1.1a: Minor documentation updates. Version 1.2: New table of contents formatting. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ijmart . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/ijmart (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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CTAN package update: auto-pst-pdf
by CTAN Announcements 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

The package below has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ..................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: auto-pst-pdf Author's name: Will Robertson Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/auto-pst-pdf Summary description: Automatic pst-pdf processing License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package uses -shell-escape to execute pst-pdf. This makes it especially easy to integrate into the workflow of an editor with just LaTeX and pdfLaTeX buttons. Wrappers are provided for various psfrag-related features so that Matlab figures via laprint, Mathematica figures via MathPSfrag, and regular psfrag figures can all be input consistently and easily. v0.4 adds options to change the commandline flags passed to the auxiliary programs, improves robustness and flexibility, and simplifies the output from using the package. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/auto-pst-pdf . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/auto-pst-pdf (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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CTAN has a new package: ifplatform
by CTAN Announcements 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

A new package has been put on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: ifplatform Author's name: Will Robertson Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ifplatform Summary description: Conditionals for testing the operating system being used License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package uses -shell-escape to establish whether the document is being processed on Windows or a *NIX platform (Mac OS X, Linux, etc.). Booleans provided are: - ifwindows - iflinux - ifmacosx ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ifplatform . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/ifplatform (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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CTAN package update: LaTeX for Malayalam
by CTAN Announcements 17 Nov '07

17 Nov '07

The package described below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ....................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: LaTeX for Malayalam Author's name: Alex A.J. Location on CTAN: /language/malayalam Summary description: A package for Typesetting Malayalam using LaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This version supports teTeX 3 and TeXLive. 16 new font families are supported (available as a separate package from Sarovar - see documentation) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/malayalam . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/malayalam-latex (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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CTAN update: BaKoMa TeX 8.15 - AcroTeX, CrossRef macros, CMYK PDF, LaTeX toolbar.
by CTAN Announcements 15 Nov '07

15 Nov '07

On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Basil Malyshev submitted an update to the bakoma package. Location on CTAN: systems/win32/bakoma License: shareware Improvement in BaKoMa TeX 8.15 are: * Compatibility with AcroTeX eDucation Bundle (Editing in TeXWord) * Support cross reference labels in user macros (TeXWord) * Text/LaTeX toolbar in TeXWord/Centaur has been redesigned. * Ctrl+O, Ctrl+F, Ctrl+S - common key binding in TeXWord/Centaur * CMYK Output in PDF Generation has been improved. > -------------------- About BaKoMa TeX 8.15 ------------------ > > BaKoMa TeX 8.15 supports two coexisting IDE: > 1) BaKoMa TeX Word - True WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor. > 2) Text Editor + DVI Viewer - Clasical IDE. > They are high compatible, so that you can choose what to use > depend on kind of a document or stage of work under a document. > > 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/> > > New features in BaKoMa TeX 8.15 are: > * Compatibility with AcroTeX eDucation Bundle (Editing in TeXWord) > * Support cross reference labels in user macros (TeXWord) > * Text/LaTeX toolbar in TeXWord/Centaur has been redesigned. > * Ctrl+O, Ctrl+F, Ctrl+S - common key binding in TeXWord/Centaur > * CMYK Output in PDF Generation has been improved. > > More details about changes and another bug fixing see at: > < > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes7.html> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: version 6.77e of package hyperref
by CTAN Announcements 12 Nov '07

12 Nov '07

Heiko Oberdiek wrote: > Version 6.77e of package hyperref has been uploaded to the TUG server > and will make its way to CTAN and its mirror around the world at large > in the next 24 hours. > > Extract from the change log (2007-11-12): > * 6.77e > * LuaTeX: Package `pdftexcmds' for pdfescapestring. > * Default producer setting recognises XeTeX and LuaTeX. Users may read the package catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/hyperref.html and may browse the package directory at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/hyperref/ Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: errata
by CTAN Announcements 12 Nov '07

12 Nov '07

On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Michael Kohlhase submitted a new package errata to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/errata Summary description: errata.sty: Error markup for LaTeX documents License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package provides a simple infrastructure for recording errata in LaTeX documents. This allows to maintain an updated version of the document (with all errors corrected) and automatically generate an errata document highlighting the difference to the published version. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/errata . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=errata (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 . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: ed
by ctan-ann＠dante.de 12 Nov '07

12 Nov '07

On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Michael Kohlhase submitted the new package ed to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ed Summary description: ed.sty: Editorial Notes for LaTeX Documents License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package defines a couple of editorial notes that simplify collaboration on a LaTeX text. These allow authors to annotate status information in the source. In draft mode, the annotations are shown for communication, and in publication mode these are suppressed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/ed . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=ed (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 . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: dante.ctan.org upload: arabxetex
by CTAN Announcements 12 Nov '07

12 Nov '07

On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, François Charette submitted an update to the arabxetex package. ArabXeTeX provides a convenient ArabTeX-like user-interface for typesetting languages using the Arabic script in XeLaTeX, with flexible access to font features. Input in ArabTeX notation can be set in three different vocalization modes or in roman transliteration. Direct UTF-8 input is also supported. The parsing and converting of ArabTeX input to Unicode is done by means of TECkit mappings. Version 1.0 provides support for Arabic, Maghribi Arabic, Farsi (Persian), Urdu, Sindhi, Kashmiri, Ottoman Turkish, Kurdish, Jawi (Malay) and Uighur. The documentation (not yet complete) covers topics such as typesetting the Holy Quran, typesetting bidirectional critical editions (with ednotes), and information on various recommended OpenType fonts for the Arabic script and for transliterating Oriental languages. Location on CTAN: macros/xetex/latex/arabxetex License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 1.1.1 is a bugfix release. No new functionality was added since version 1.1. A minimal example is now under doc/examples, together with the more complex demonstration of an Arabic critical edition with ednotes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/xetex/latex/arabxetex/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=arabxetex (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 . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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UK TeX FAQ, v3.17, released
by Robin Fairbairns 08 Nov '07

08 Nov '07

Not before time, I've installed v3.17 of the UK TeX FAQ on CTAN (help/uk-tex-faq) and on the web at http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq There has been an embarrassingly long delay since the previous version, 3.16c: various personal circumstances have conspired to make completion of the new version difficult. The fact is, I'm getting old and I'm slowing down. As a result, I've been discussing a change in the way the FAQ is delivered. An announcement will be made in due course, but in the interim I shall be updating the Web version more regularly (only announcing significant changes). I append the changes file (which is also available from the distribution). This only lists changes since the previous v3.16c, since it proved impossible to read with all the changes since v3.16 :-( Robin Fairbairns UK TeX FAQ maintainer ===================== Changes in version 3.16d This file incorporates the changes from version 3.16 that previously appeared in file CHANGES-3.16a, -3.16b and -3.16c; new changes for this release (3.16d) are marked with a plus (+) sign. New answers: +Label biblatex: discusses BibTeX replacements (amsrefs, biblatex) +Label checksum: checksum error in font message +Label figurehere: how to avoid floating figures/tables altogether +Label entercompmode: entering compatibility mode message +Label fontsize: how to program arbitrary font sizes in LaTeX +Label latexqual: assessing the quality of your LaTeX +Label mathonlyref: only referenced equations are numbered +Label run-fn-nos: running footnote numbers when class numbers per chapter Revised answers: +Label altabcr: extended examples and tidied a bit +Label BibTeXing: add reference to Shell & Hoadley's btxFAQ +Label books mention LaTeX Graphics Companion 2nd edition; use ISBN-13 +Label CD: now couched in terms of the TeX collection +Label changebar: mention changes.sty +Label commercial:update details of Textures +Label dec_comma: mention numprint as possible way to get things right +Label docpictex: mention PiCTeX summary now on CTAN +Label fonts-pln: mention pdcmac bundle +Label ftnsect: rewrite to make recommendations clearer +Label getbitmap: reworded to suggest that bitmaps aren't standard any more +Label LaTeXtoPlain: suggest ways forward for aspiring translators +Label make: mention autolatex +Label man-latex: mention Grätzer's short course +Label minxampl: editorial work, including (perhaps) clarifying web version +Label newfont*: was newfont; content rearranged between this, plninltx* and the new label fontsize +Label newfunction: expand description +Label ol-books: TeX by Topic now available from CTAN +Label papersize: mention Acrobat Reader's default scaling +Label plninltx*: was plninltx; content rearranged between this, newfont* and the new fontsize +Label protect: clarify lists of commands known to be fragile, etc +Label psfchoice: add links to papers about maths fonts in tex; add fouriernc, mathdesign/FS Garamond, kpfonts, minionpro and mnsymbol +Label running-nos: rearrange to emphasise package chngctr +Label tabcellalign: rationalised, reduced range of recommendations +Label tocbibind: mention phantomsection for when doing the job by hand +Label twooptarg: mention the xargs package +Label unkgrfextn: mention grffile package +Label wdnohyph: mention uchyph (not that it's much use)

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CTAN has a new package: ptex
by CTAN Announcements 08 Nov '07

08 Nov '07

The package below has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: ptex-src Author's name: Koji Yokota Location on CTAN: /language/japanese/ptex Summary description: pTeX, a Japanese TeX system License type: bsd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- pTeX is a TeX system by ASCII Co. Ltd. in BSD license which can handle Japanese in good quality so that the output can be used for commercial publishing purpose. It requires and conform itself to teTeX. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/japanese/ptex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/ptex (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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CTAN has a new package: dot2texi
by CTAN Announcements 07 Nov '07

07 Nov '07

The package below has just been put in at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: dot2texi Author's name: Kjell Magne Fauske Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/dot2texi Summary description: Create graphs within LaTeX using the dot2tex tool License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The dot2texi package allows you to embed graphs in the DOT graph description language in your LaTeX documents. The dot2tex[1] tool is used to invoke Graphviz[2] for graph layout, and to transform the output from Graphviz to LaTeX code. The generated code relies on the TikZ and PGF package or the PSTricks package. The process is automated if shell escape is enabled. [1] http://www.fauskes.net/code/dot2tex/ or in graphics/dot2tex on CTAN [2] http://www.graphviz.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/dot2texi . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/dot2texi (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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CTAN has a new package: dot2tex
by CTAN Announcements 07 Nov '07

07 Nov '07

The package below has just gone up on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at the other nodes of CTAN. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: dot2tex Author's name: Kjell Magne Fauske Location on CTAN: /graphics/dot2tex/ Summary description: Convert graphs generated by Graphviz to LaTeX friendly formats License type: dfsg Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dot2tex is a tool for converting graphs rendered by Graphviz to formats that can be used with LaTeX. The purpose of dot2tex is to give graphs generated by Graphviz a more LaTeX friendly look and feel. This is accomplished by converting xdot output from Graphviz to a series of TikZ and PGF, or PSTricks commands. This approach allows: * Typesetting labels with LaTeX, allowing mathematical notation. * Using native PSTricks and PGF/TikZ commands for drawing arrows. * Using backend specific styles to customize the output ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/dot2tex/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/dot2tex (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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CTAN has a new package: errata
by CTAN Announcements 05 Nov '07

05 Nov '07

I've just put up the package below on tug.ctan.org and it should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: errata Author's name: Michael Kohlhase Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/errata Summary description: errata.sty: Error markup for LaTeX documents License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package provides a simple infrastructure for recording errata in LaTeX documents. This allows to maintain an updated version of the document (with all errors corrected) and automatically generate an errata document highlighting the difference to the published version. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/errata . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/errata (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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CTAN has a new package: Asana-Math
by CTAN Announcements 04 Nov '07

04 Nov '07

On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 at 11:00 -0700, Apostolos Syropoulos submitted the new package asana-math to CTAN. It contains the file Asana-Math.otf and README.1ST. The font is an OpenType font that includes almost all mathematical Unicode symbols and it can be used to typeset mathematical text with any software that can understand the MATH OpenType table (e.g., XeTeX 0.997 and Microsoft Word 2007). The font is beta software and it is released under the SIL Open Font License. Location on CTAN: fonts/Asana-Math License: ofl This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/Asana-Math/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=Asana-Math (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 . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: oberdiek bundle
by CTAN Announcements 04 Nov '07

04 Nov '07

On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 at 22:19 +0100, Heiko Oberdiek submitted an update to the oberdiek bundle. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek/ License: lppl Updates: * embedfile v2.1 * Collection support added (PDF 1.7). * Export of object references by adding new option `id' and new macros embedefileifobjectexists and embedfilegetobject. * pdfescape v1.7 * More efficient EdefSanitize. New package: * hypgotoe v0.1 Experimental package for links to embedded files. Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: The caption package v3.1e
by CTAN Announcements 04 Nov '07

04 Nov '07

On Sun, 4 Nov 2007 at 15:25 +0100, Axel Sommerfeldt submitted an update to the caption package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/caption/ Summary description: Customising captions in floating environments License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a bugfix release of the caption package 3.1: - Bugfix in hypcap package support - hypcap package support adapted to hyperref v6.77 - usepackage{caption,capt-of}does not result in an error anymore ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/caption/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=caption (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 . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: euproposal
by CTAN Announcements 04 Nov '07

04 Nov '07

The package below has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint MIchael's College ....................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: euproposal Author's name: Michael Kohlhase Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/euproposal Summary description: euproposal.cls: A class for preparing FP7 proposals for collaborative projects License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The euproposal class supports many of the specific elements of a Framework 7 Proposal. It is optimized towards collaborative projects. The package comes with an extensive example (a fake EU proposal; see the file propB.tex) that shows all elements in action. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/euproposal . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/euproposal (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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CTAN package update: classicthesis
by CTAN Announcements 04 Nov '07

04 Nov '07

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College .............................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: classicthesis Author's name: Andre Miede Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/classicthesis Summary description: version 2.3 License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Emergency fix so classicthesis works with MiKTeX 2.6 and the latest KOMA release. Thanks for the upload! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/classicthesis . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/classicthesis (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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CTAN package update: visualtex 3.32
by CTAN Announcements 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

The package below has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: visualtex 3.32 Author's name: Alex Romanenko Location on CTAN: / systems/ win32/ visualtex Summary description: update vx 3.30 to 3.32 License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [*] Win32 interface is optimized, options became more suitable; [*] new TeX lexer; [*] many corrections and optimizations; [*] new spellcheck scheme; [+] BiBTeX support, BiBTeX lexer; [+] partial unicode support ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/visualtex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/visualtex (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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CTAN package update: cleveref
by CTAN Announcements 01 Nov '07

01 Nov '07

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: cleveref Author's name: Toby Cubitt Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/cleveref/ Summary description: Automatic cross-reference formatting. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This version makes customising the reference formats far simpler and less tedious. It also adds a new conjunction and format part, used in lists containing just a pair of items. This makes certain frequently requested comma styles possible. The label command can now take an optional argument that overrides the automatically determined reference style, allowing the format of references to individual labels to be customised separately if so desired. Finally, this version removes the need to explicitly pass options to enable support for the hyperref, ntheorem and amsmath packages. Instead, it enables the support automatically if these packages are loaded. (As ever, cleveref must be loaded last to work properly.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/cleveref/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/cleveref (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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CTAN has a new package: xargs
by CTAN Announcements 01 Nov '07

01 Nov '07

A new package has gone up at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ....................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: xargs Author's name: Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/xargs Summary description: Easily defining commands with many optional arguments License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The xargs package provides extended versions of ewcommand and other LaTeX commands, allowing easy and robust definition of macros with many optional arguments, with a nice xkeyval-style syntax. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xargs . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/xargs (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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CTAN package update: natbib
by CTAN Announcements 30 Oct '07

30 Oct '07

The package below has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College .................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: natbib Author's name: Patrick Daly Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/natbib Summary description: Update to natbib and bibentry License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- It seems that the use of edef in natbib was causing some other packages not to function correctly. This has now been replaced by protected@edef which hopefully will work better. In the bibentry companion, a global definition for the doi macro is included; this appears in many of the modern bibtex styles. Normally, this is used only within thebibliography where a local definition is provided. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/natbib . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/natbib (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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CTAN has a new package: frletter
by CTAN Announcements 27 Oct '07

27 Oct '07

A new package has been put up on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: frletter Author's name: Liviu Andronic Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/frletter Summary description: Typeset French letters. License type: pd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A small class for typesetting letters in France; no assumption is made about the language used. It represents a cosmetically modified beletter class, which itself is based on the letter class. Corresponding layout files were contributed on the Lyx Wiki. The authors of the original beletter class are James Kilfiger and Frank Lenaerts. The contributor of frletter is Liviu Andronic. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/frletter . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/frletter (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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CTAN Update: The caption package v3.1d
by CTAN Announcements 26 Oct '07

26 Oct '07

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Axel Sommerfeldt submitted a bugfix release of the caption package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/caption/ Summary description: Customising captions in floating environments License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a bugfix release of the caption package 3.1: - The v1.x/2.x package options 'normal', 'center', 'centerlast', 'flushleft', and 'flushright' were broken, fixed - Error message for captionof outside box/environment revised ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/caption/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=caption (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 . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: TeX Gyre Chorus (new font)
by CTAN Announcements 26 Oct '07

26 Oct '07

On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Staszek Wawrykiewicz submitted an update to the tex-gyre font package. Location on CTAN: fonts/tex-gyre License: gfsl With this update, the font collection fonts/psfonts/polish/qfonts has become obsolete and been moved to obsolete/fonts/psfonts/polish/qfonts > --------- > Font: TeX Gyre Chorus > Design: Hermann Zapf > Authors: Bogusl{}aw Jackowski and Janusz M. Nowacki > Version: 1.000 > Date: 25 IX 2007 > Downloads: http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre/chorus > License: GUST Font License > Location on CTAN: fonts/tex-gyre > > TeX Gyre Chorus is a font derived from handwritten letterforms of the > Italian Renaissance. It was designed by Hermann Zapf (ITC Zapf Chancery, > 1979; currently, other variants of this typeface are available). > TeX Gyre Chorus is based on the URW Chancery L Medium Italic font, but > heavily extended. The Vietnamese and Cyrillic characters were added by > Han The Thanh and Valek Filippov, respectively. > The font contains nearly 900 glyphs. Unlike for other fonts > from the TeX Gyre collection, Greek letters are missing and so are small > caps (using capital forms of chancery characters for typesetting whole > words should be forbidden by law). The font is available in Postscript, > TeX and Open Type formats. Please note that with the release of TeX Gyre > Chorus the QuasiChancery font becames obsolete. Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: latex-tds 2007/10/24
by CTAN Announcements 26 Oct '07

26 Oct '07

On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Heiko Oberdiek submitted a new version of the latex-tds bundle. This bundle provides a set of zip files containing TDS-compliant trees for items of the LaTeX distribution (both the base system and required packages), together with user-friendly documentation (PDF files with navigation support using bookmarks and links). Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/latex-tds > Changes: > 2007/10/24 > * Update of babel. > * Update of amsrefs (TDS:tex/latex/amscls -> TDS:tex/latex/amsrefs). _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: AcroWeb
by CTAN Announcements 25 Oct '07

25 Oct '07

The package below has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ...................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: AcroWeb Author's name: Robert Marik Location on CTAN: /support/acroweb Summary description: A collection of scripts which allow to create interactive tests in AcroTeX from a simple database on web. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The AcroWeb scripts collection is a tool for creation of interactive PDF tests on the fly on the Internet with AcroTeX eDucation bundle and pdfLaTeX without too much knowledge of LaTeX. The questions are stored in a plain text database used for example in the eLearning system at Mendel University in Brno. The demo site is http://www.mendelu.cz/user/marik/acroweb. See also http://wood.mendelu.cz/math/acroweb/demo.html. For description/installation/usage see the file acroweb.pdf ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/acroweb . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/acroweb (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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CTAN Update: oberdiek bundle
by CTAN Announcements 24 Oct '07

24 Oct '07

On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 at 08:36 +0200, Heiko Oberdiek submitted a new version of the oberdiek bundle. New/updates: * askinclude v2.0 * Version 2 of askinclude from Pablo Straub. * License: LPPL * Reimplementation with new features: * Single asking mode. * Regular expressions. * ... * kvoptions v3.0 * New package `kvoptions-patch' that contains the code of option `patch'. * pdflscape v0.9 * Driver detection for XeTeX added. * Fix for rotation angles <=-360 or >=360. * listingsutf8 v1.0 Package `listings' does not support files with multi-byte encodings such as UTF-8. In case of lstinputlisting a simple workaround is possible if an one-byte encoding exists that the file can be converted to. Also e-TeX and pdfTeX regardless of its mode are required. * stringenc v1.3 * StringEncodingList added. * Safer encoding file loading by ensuring all used catcodes. * TDS:doc/latex/oberdiek/test/ New directory where the test files go into. Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: philex
by CTAN Announcements 21 Oct '07

21 Oct '07

A new package has just been put up at tug.ctan.org and it should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: philex Author's name: Peter Pagin Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/philex Summary description: Provides the capacity to dynamically cross-reference to names and contents of environments. Builds on Wolfgang Sternefeld's linguex package. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- philex is a package for creating and cross-referencing named or numbered environments, such as equations, example sentences as in linguistics or philosophy, and named principles. philex offers dynamic cross-references not only the numbers of labeled environments, but also to short names of environments, and to the contents of those environment. Cross-referencing works forward as well as backward in the text. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/philex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/philex (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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CTAN update -- latex-tds 2007/10/18
by CTAN Announcements 19 Oct '07

19 Oct '07

On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 at 17:24 +0200, Heiko Oberdiek submitted a new version of the latex-tds bundle. This bundle provides a set of zip files containing TDS-compliant trees for items of the LaTeX distribution (both the base system and required packages), together with user-friendly documentation (PDF files with navigation support using bookmarks and links). Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/latex-tds > Changes: > 2007/03/19 > * Patch for babel/latin.dtx added (babel/3922). > 2007/09/04 > * A minor update on CTAN regarding babel: > iahyphen.tex, icehyph.tex, and lahyph.tex are now symbolic links > to their location in CTAN:language/hyphenation/. Therefore also > lahyph.tex is now installed in TDS:tex/generic/hyphen/. > 2007/10/18 > * Update of module amslatex because of updated package amsrefs. > * Fix in latin.dtx.diff. Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: The caption package v3.1c
by CTAN Announcements 18 Oct '07

18 Oct '07

On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Axel Sommerfeldt submitted an update to the caption package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/caption/ Summary description: Customising captions in floating environments License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a bugfix release of the caption package 3.1: - README added - Improved compatibility to v3.0 - All warnings include the same hint to the documentation as the errors now - Workaround for "LaTeX Warning: Float too large for page by 1.0pt" in sideways floats ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/caption/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=caption (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 . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: BaKoMa TeX 8.12 - TeXWord improvements and fixes.
by CTAN Announcements 17 Oct '07

17 Oct '07

On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Basil Malyshev submitted an update to the bakoma package. > -------------------- About BaKoMa TeX 8.12 ------------------ > > BaKoMa TeX 8.12 supports two coexisting IDE: > 1) BaKoMa TeX Word - True WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor. > 2) Text Editor + DVI Viewer - Clasical IDE. > They are high compatible, so that you can choose what to use > depend on kind of a document or stage of work under a document. > > 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://mirror.ctan.org/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/texword.html> > > Some snapshots are available at: > <http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/win32/bakoma/snapshots/> > > Root of BaKoMa TeX distributions is at: > <http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/win32/bakoma/> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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