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CTAN update: juramisc
by CTAN Announcements 22 Jun '06

22 Jun '06

On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Axel Sodtalbers submitted an update to the juramisc package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/juramisc Summary description: typesetting juridicial dissertations and documents (german only) License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- jurabook 0.90 (beta) (2006/05/28) new: jbook.dtx commented example file ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: hrlatex
by CTAN Announcements 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: hrlatex Author's name: Marcel Maretic Location on CTAN: /language/croatian/hrlatex Summary description: LaTeX package for typical setup for croatian users License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Package HRLaTeX is meant to help creating new LaTeX documents/classes for the (average) croatian user. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/croatian/hrlatex . 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 has a new package: pkfix-helper
by CTAN Announcements 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to the mirror that you like best. Thank you, Scott. Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: pkfix-helper Author's name: Scott Pakin Location on CTAN: /support/pkfix-helper Summary description: Help pkfix process PostScript files produced by ancient versions of dvips License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- pkfix is a useful utility for replacing resolution-dependent bitmapped fonts in a dvips-produced PostScript file with the corresponding resolution-independent vector fonts. Unfortunately, pkfix needs to parse certain PostScript comments that appear only in files produced by dvips versions later than 5.58 (ca. 1996); it fails to work on PostScript files produced by older versions of dvips. pkfix-helper is a program that attempts to insert newer-dvips comments into an older-dvips PostScript file, thereby making the file suitable for processing by pkfix. pkfix-helper can sometimes process documents fully autonomously but does require the user to verify and, if needed, correct its decisions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/pkfix-helper . 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: ednotes for scholarly critical editions -- upgrade, bug fixes
by CTAN Announcements 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Uwe Lück submitted an update to the ednotes bundle. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ednotes/ Summary description: New features, bug fixes License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The ednotes package/bundle supports scholarly critical editions with LaTeX -- cf. http://ednotes.sty.de.vu . The present update deals with includeonly, counting of small possible lemmas in a line, oscillating page breaks, ... Namely: 1. ednotes now works with includeonly. This may be helpful with editing a work consisting of books (libri) or a collection of rather large single works. 2. The mechanism for identifying a word in a lemma when it occurs multiply in a line (option `countoccurrences') didn't work when the first countword appeared in a lemma tag -- fixed. 3. Additional screen (.log) messages concerning not-yet- working (properly) (line/place number) references. 4. Concerning oscillating page breaks (also certain effects of marginpar on footnotes), a variant warningpagebreak of pagebreak has been added for reminding you of checking whether your manual page breaks are still appropriate when preceding page breaks have changed. 5. I have changed the algorithm of displaying page numbers when a lemma crosses a page break. The difference anyway should show up only when, due to some LaTeX bug, a footnote doesn't start on the page where the lemma starts to which it refers. (In this case the page number of the lemma end is displayed in any case. This aims at a future feature of referring to edited passages from comments.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: pstricks-add
by CTAN Announcements 18 Jun '06

18 Jun '06

Herbert Voss writes: > I uploaded pstricks-add.tgz and pstricks-add-doc.pdf > to the UK mirror. Please replace the files with the > existing ones in > /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pstricks-add/ pstricks-add is a collection of bugfixes and minor improvements to pstricks. > The changes are as follows > > pstricks-add.pro ----------- > v 0.08 2006-06-17 more improvements to the code (hv) > v 0.07 2006-04-03 remove whitespace (dr) > v 0.06 2006-01-16 EXP -> Exp, to prevent missmatch with pst-math (hv) > > pstricks-add.tex ----------- > v 2.75 2006-06-17 - plot a derivative of a function by the > equation or numerical > (psplot and paramericplot) > - delete macro psLineIII and the two > special options > - add macro psMatrixPlot > - option trigLabelBase for advanced > setting of trogonometrical > x-axis labels > - option labelFontSize > - fix introduced bug with Hook arrow and (-) > - fix bug for Hook arrow with ArrowInside option > - fix bug with readdata > - revert all changes > - fix a bug with lines and psgraph > v 2.74 2006-01-02 - add psdice thanks for the upload: i've installed the new version and updated the catalogue. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: dvdcoll
by CTAN Announcements 18 Jun '06

18 Jun '06

On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 Josef Kleber submitted a new pacakge called dvdcoll to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/dvdcoll/ Summary description: A new class dvdcoll.cls for typesetting DVD archives License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- One day i lost the overview over my DVD archives. I simply could not remember, if i already recorded the documentary running on TV that day. This had to be changed and why not use LaTeX. So, i was dreaming of a hyperlinked and full searchable PDF-document listing my DVDs with all titles, lengths and so on. And the icing on the cake would be a list with all faulty or missing programs for rerecording. That’s exactly what dvdcoll.cls is providing. dvdcoll.cls is following the structure <number><title><length>. Therefore dvdcoll.cls is not limited to DVDs. You can of course typeset archives of CD-ROMs, Audio-CDs and so on. Supported languages at the moment: english, german. Some help is needed for other languages! ;-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Sch�pf

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CTAN has a new package: thailatex
by CTAN Announcements 16 Jun '06

16 Jun '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: thailatex Author's name: Theppitak Karoonboonyanan Location on CTAN: /language/thai/thailatex Summary description: Babel-based Thai support with fonts License type: bsd Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thailatex is a Thai package which enables typesetting Thai with LaTeX's standard document classes. It is meant to become a part of babel, a multilingual package for LaTeX which supports a lot of non-American languages. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/thai/thailatex . 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 has a new package: thaifonts-scalable
by CTAN Announcements 16 Jun '06

16 Jun '06

A new package has been put into place at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you again for the contribution. Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: thaifonts-scalable Author's name: Theppitak Karoonboonyanan Location on CTAN: /fonts/thai/thaifonts-scalable Summary description: Make scalable Thai fonts License type: dfsg Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thaifonts-scalable is a collection of Thai scalable fonts available in free licenses. Its goal is to provide fonts that conform to existing standards and recommendations, so that it can be a reference implementation. This package provides fontforge files for producing fonts shipped in the thailatex package. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/thai/thaifonts-scalable . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN package update: sciposter.cls v1.17
by CTAN Announcements 15 Jun '06

15 Jun '06

The package described below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: sciposter.cls v1.17 Author's name: Michael H.F. Wilkinson Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/sciposter/ Summary description: Make posters of ISO A3 size and larger (new version: babel aware) License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- New version of sciposter.cls, now correctly changes captions labels of figures and tables if language is set to other than English using babel. Hook for algorithm caption label provided. Some formatting errors of figures and captions removed. page margin setting made easier. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/sciposter/ . 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 has a new package: orderer
by CTAN Announcements 15 Jun '06

15 Jun '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: Orderer Author's name: M. Siddikov Location on CTAN: /support/orderer Summary description: Order references in TeX file License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The script re-orders references in the .tex file (in the order as they appear in the text). This is REQUIRED by most of the journals, this is TEDIOUS to do manually (in average each article contains ~50 citations) and unfortunately none of the LateXs which I know can do this job. The script is written in Perl (pre-installed on most Linux OS), but can be easily rewritten in other languages. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/orderer . 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 has a new package: ifxetex
by CTAN Announcements 12 Jun '06

12 Jun '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: ifxetex Author's name: Will Robertson Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/latex/ifxetex Summary description: Provides the ifxetex conditional License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Provides an analogue to ifpdf for XeTeX; this package works for either LaTeX or Plain using eTeX extensions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/ifxetex . 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: l2tabuen
by CTAN Announcements 12 Jun '06

12 Jun '06

On Sun, 11 Jun 2006, Juergen Fenn submitted an update to the l2tabuen package, containing v1.8.5.5 of his English translation of Mark Trettin's guide to LaTeX called `l2tabu' v1.8, giving a lot of practical advice about how to avoid the most common mistakes a user is prone to make (i.e., obsolete commands and packages). Location on CTAN: info/l2tabu/english Changes: - Minor fix in the section on graphicspath as to the correct notation regarding Mac OS~X. Thanks to Stephen Eglen. - Adapted to the UK TeX FAQ v3.15a. Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: dante.ctan.org upload: devanagari
by CTAN Announcements 12 Jun '06

12 Jun '06

On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Zdenek Wagner submitted an update to the velthuis package. Location on CTAN: /language/devanagari Summary description: Update to Velthuis devanagari, version 2.14 License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Release 2.14 with enhancements in the preprocessor and better Type 1 fonts ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: sanhyph
by CTAN Announcements 09 Jun '06

09 Jun '06

A new package has been put up on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: sanhyph Author's name: Yves Codet Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/hyphenation/sanhyph Summary description: Sanskrit hyphenation License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Unicode hyphenation patterns for Sanskrit and Prakrit in Devanagari, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam and Telugu scripts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/hyphenation/sanhyph . 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: preview
by CTAN Announcements 09 Jun '06

09 Jun '06

On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, David Kastrup submitted version 11.83 of the preview package. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/preview License: gpl Thanks for the update. > > Release notes for AUCTeX 11.83 with preview-latex > ================================================= > > AUCTeX provides by far the most wide-spread and sophisticated > environment for editing LaTeX, TeX, ConTeXt and Texinfo documents with > Emacs or XEmacs. Combined with packages like RefTeX, flyspell and > others it is pretty much without peer as a comprehensive authoring > solution for a large variety of operating system platforms and TeX > distributions. It supports document-dependent completion and syntax > highlighting, easily accessible menus, jumping to error locations in > the source file, a number of editing shortcuts, intelligent > indentation and filling of text during entry, and WYSIWYG previews of > graphical elements like math formulas right in the Emacs source > buffer, by virtue of its preview-latex component. > > One part of the preview-latex subsystem is the central `preview.sty' > file that is independently useful for a number of applications and is > available in unbundled form from CTAN.[1] > > Interfaces and installation procedures in this release remain a moving > target. If you feel you need to consult third-party installation > instructions for some reason, be sure that they refer to the same > version of AUCTeX as you are installing. For installing AUCTeX > itself, the installation instructions in the AUCTeX package should be > preferred. > > AUCTeX needs volunteers in particular for non-programming tasks: > documentation writing, tutorials, translations, reference material, > sleuth work, testing. > > > New features and fixed bugs in this release > ------------------------------------------- > > The new function `TeX-doc' provides easy access to documentation about > commands and packages or information related to TeX and friends in > general. It is accessible with the key binding `C-c ?' or the `Find > Documentation...' entry in the mode menus. > > You can now get rid of generated intermediate and output files by > means of the new `Clean' and `Clean All' entries in `TeX-command-list' > accessible with `C-c C-c' or the Command menu. > > Support for forward search with PDF files was added. That means you > can jump to a place in the output file corresponding to the position > in the source file. Currently this only works if you use the pdfsync > LaTeX package and xpdf as your PDF viewer. The accuracy is in the > range of +/-1 page. > > Adding support for this feature required the default value of the > variable `TeX-output-view-style' to be changed. Please make sure you > either remove any customizations overriding the new default or > incorporate the changes into your customizations if you want to use > this feature. > > The error parsing of AUCTeX as well as preview-latex now deals with > -file-line-error type messages from newer web2c versions (earlier > versions would omit the traditional error context, which will not > work). > > The LaTeX tool bar is now enabled by default. > > A problem in preview-latex in connection with XyMTeX has been fixed. > > IMPORTANT: Many of the new features in the 11.x series rely on special > properties in the variable `TeX-command-list' and will not work if you > customized this variable for a pre-11.5x release of AUCTeX. If this > is the case for you, please re-initialize the variable by erasing the > customization, thereby setting the variable to the new default, and > re-adding your changes afterwards. > > > Requirements > ------------ > > It is required that you use at least GNU Emacs 21 or XEmacs 21.4. > XEmacs requires at least version 1.84 of the xemacs-base package > (released on 01/27/2004) or a sumo tarball dated 02/02/2004 or newer > for compiling AUCTeX: please use the XEmacs package system for > upgrading if necessary. Warning: release 21.4.16 of XEmacs is > severely broken. This leads to crashes and hangs; don't use it. > > The preview-latex subsystem requires image support. This is available > with GNU Emacs 21.3 under the X window system. For Windows[2], MacOS > Carbon[3] or native GTK+ toolkit support[4], a developer version[5] of > GNU Emacs (to be released as 22.1) is definitely required. A recent > developer version of GNU Emacs appears like the best choice even on > X11, however. If you prefer XEmacs-21, it will work in version > 21.4.10 or later. > > You'll also need a working LaTeX installation and Ghostscript. > dvipng[6] (version 1.4 or later: teTeX-3.0 works, TeXlive2004 not), a > very fast dvi converter, can be used to speed up the conversion. > > Availability > ------------ > > AUCTeX can be downloaded in various formats from > <URL:ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/auctex/>. At release time, we provide > the source tarball, source and binary RPMs for Emacs under Fedora > and SUSE, and a platform-independent XEmacs package file (which you > have to install yourself using XEmacs' own package system, after using > it for removing the previous version of AUCTeX). There are also RPMs > just for installing the LaTeX part of preview (AUCTeX itself does not > need them, but possibly other applications). The easiest way for > using AUCTeX, of course, is using versions of Emacs that already > include AUCTeX (check the footnotes below). > > RPMs with minor version 1 are built from the spec file in the tarball which > should work on both SUSE as well as Fedora. The source RPMs should also work > for rebuilding RPMs on other RPM-based distributions. (We have only tested > SUSE and Fedora, though.) > > The XEmacs package file can be discerned by `pkg' in its name. It is > usually more recent and functional than what gets distributed from > XEmacs servers and as part of the Sumo tarball. > > A separate directory for each release contains some stuff from the > tarball, such as ChangeLog, printable manuals, and a reference sheet. > The download area is mirrored to the directory support/auctex on CTAN. > AUCTeX is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2. > > You'll find more information at the web site of AUCTeX > <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/>, including its mailing list > addresses. > > > Future development and additional information > --------------------------------------------- > > AUCTeX is proceeding as a GNU project with the long-term intent of > merging it into Emacs. For that reason, all new contributors need to > assign copyright to their contributions to the FSF (the usual > procedure for Emacs contributors). The same holds for past > contributors. The principal authors and maintainers have already done > so, but it would require a diligent and diplomatic volunteer to find > and ask the rest. > > Current project manager is David Kastrup. Paypal contributions to > <URL:mailto:auctex@gnu.org> would be appreciated in order to > compensate for time, money and hardware required for presenting AUCTeX > at conferences. Extensions may be commissioned: enquire on the > developer list (see above). Other than that, volunteering for tasks > remains the most effective way of helping AUCTeX development. > > The following people contributed to this release series (in > alphabetical order): Ralf Angeli, Masayuki Ataka, Thomas Baumann, > Berend de Boer, Miguel Frasson, Peter S. Galbraith, Patrick Gundlach, > Yvon Hevel, Arne Jørgensen, David Kastrup, Ikumi Keita, Frank Küster, > Jan-Åke Larsson, Dan Nicolaescu, Piet van Oostrum, Davide > G. M. Salvetti, Mike Sperber, Reiner Steib, Christian Schlauer, Shiro > Takeda, Mark Trettin (Please accept our apologies if we forgot > somebody.) > > Footnotes: > > [1] <URL:ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/preview/> > > [2] You can get a precompiled version of CVS Emacs for Windows e.g. at > <URL:http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/EmacsW32.html>. A version with > AUCTeX preinstalled can be found at > <URL:ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/auctex/>. > > [3] Precompiled versions of Emacs for Mac OS X can be found e.g. at > <URL:http://yaced.sf.net/> (including AUCTeX) and > <URL:http://homepage.mac.com/zenitani/emacs-e.html>. > > [4] Debian provides precompiled GTK+ Emacs packages in its `unstable' > distribution (look for `emacs-snapshot-gtk'). Packages for Fedora can > be found at <URL:http://people.redhat.com/petersen/emacs/>. > > [5] If making use of the precompiled variants is not an option for > you, instructions for checking out the CVS version straight from the > GNU's mouth can be found at > <URL:http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=emacs> > > [6] dvipng is available via its project page > <URL:http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/dvipng> and from CTAN. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package upgrade: minitoc package v45
by CTAN Announcements 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

Jean-Pierre Drucbert writes: > I have uploaded a new version (#45) of the minitoc package in > the /incoming directory of ftp.tex.ac.uk . The file is named > > minitoc.zip (3576583 bytes) > > This package should completely replace its previous version in > > tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/minitoc/ > > The licence is LPPL. > > This package allows the creation of mini-tables of contents, > lists of figures or lists of tables per part, chapter or > section, with language dependent titles. > > This new version has the following changes or improvements: > > ======================================================================= > Minitoc version #45 > Suppression of the PostScript versions of the documentation, because > the CTAN archives have depreciated this format (but I disagree, IMHO). > You can prepare them from the source files or request them to me. > Added arab2.mld, bicig3.mld, buryat2.mld, swedish2.mld, xalx2.mld, > xalx3.mld, uighur.mld, uighur2.mld, and uighur3.mld. These > are minor variants for some languages. > Fixes in the `insection' package option. > The chapters of the ``Users'Manual'' (first part of the > documentation) are re-ordered. > Fixes in the mtchideinmaintoc environment (and siblings). > Added hints about compatibility with some packages. > Added FAQ 44 and the mtcgapbeforeheads and mtcgapafterheads commands. > Added some new example files. > Spacing correction in french2.mld. > Corrections and updates in the documentation and the > bibliography. > ======================================================================= > > The admistravive trivia are in the `catalog' file in the > distribution. > > Note that the documentation is mainly available in PDF form, > -- in english (not perfect): minitoc.pdf > -- in french: fminitoc.pdf > > 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). i've installed the new version, and pushed it out to the other archives; i've also updated the catalogue. thanks for the upload Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: xltxtra
by CTAN Announcements 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: xltxtra Author's name: Will Robertson Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/latex/xltxtra Summary description: Extras and fixes for the LaTeX/XeTeX format License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The xltxtra package provides a few small features that are useful for LaTeX on XeTeX, which has recently been released for Linux (and possibly already ported to Windows). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/xltxtra . 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 has a new package: grchyph
by CTAN Announcements 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: grchyph Author's name: Yves Codet Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/hyphenation/grchyph Summary description: Unicode hyphenation patterns for ancient Greek License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ancient Greek hyphenation patterns for XeTeX, a Unicode implementation of TeX running on Mac OS X and Linux. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/hyphenation/grchyph . 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: pdftex.def v0.03r
by CTAN Announcements 07 Jun '06

07 Jun '06

On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Heiko Oberdiek submitted v0.03r of pdftex.def Location on CTAN: graphics/pdftex/pdftex.def Latest changes: % 2006/06/06 v0.03r % * opagecolor/ o@page@color added. opagecolor disables the effect of pagecolor. Use pagecolor again to turn page coloring on. Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: pst-lens
by CTAN Announcements 07 Jun '06

07 Jun '06

Herbert Voss writes: > I have uploaded pst-lens.tgz to the uk mirror. > Please replace all files with the existing ones in > /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-lens > > pst-lens is package for drawing a lens which is > like a magnifier for the underlying text/math or any > image. > > This new version 1.02 fixes the mismatch with > the graphicx package. It now uses the psscalebox > macro instead of scalebox. i've installed the new version and pushed it out to the other ctan sites (and the mirrors). i've also updated the catalogue. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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tug.ctan.org upload: enpassant
by CTAN Announcements 06 Jun '06

06 Jun '06

Ulrike Fischer has contributed a package hat has been installed at tug.ctan.org and which should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: enpassant Author's name: Ulrike Fischer Location on CTAN: /fonts/chess/enpassant Summary description: Chess fonts License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package contains the necessary files to use free chess fonts from www.enpassant.dk with LaTeX/TeX. For some of the fonts the needed pfb-file is also part of the package. For others the pfb must be made from the original ttf. Instructions about the conversion and the use of the font can be found in the documentation of chessfss. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/chess/enpassant . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN package update: algorithms
by CTAN Announcements 05 Jun '06

05 Jun '06

The package bescribed below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: algorithms Author's name: Rogério Brito Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/algorithms Summary description: A suite of tools for typesetting algorithms in pseudo-code License type: pd Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Major bugfix release. * progress on bad interactions with pdflatex; * included new commands for boolean values; * documented lesser-known options; * reworked/restructured the manual. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive//macros/latex/contrib/algorithms . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN package update: mfpic
by CTAN Announcements 02 Jun '06

02 Jun '06

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should already be at your favorite mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: mfpic Author's name: Daniel Luecking Location on CTAN: /graphics/mfpic/ Summary description: Macros to generate Metafont/Metapost for drawing pictures License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is version 0.9 of mfpic. MFpic defines a command group mfpic...endmfpic (in LaTeX an environment, mfpic) and drawing commands to be used inside this group. When TeX (or LaTeX) is run on a file containing those commands, a Metafont (or MetaPost) source file is created. When that file is orrectly processed by Metafont (or MetaPost), and LaTeX or TeX is run again, the result is a figure in the TeX document at the location of each environment. The main new features are more flexible arrow creation macros and a few new path rendering commands: zigzag, sinewave and coil. There has also been an internal reorganization to make the code a little more efficient. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/mfpic/ . 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 has a new package: svn-multi
by CTAN Announcements 02 Jun '06

02 Jun '06

On Mon, 29 May 2006, Martin Scharrer submitted the new package svn-multi to CTAN. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/svn-multi Summary description: Subversion keywords in multi-file LaTeX documents License type: dfsg Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package lets you typeset keywords of the version control system Subversion inside your LaTeX files anywhere you like. Unlike the very similar package svn the usage of multiple files for one LaTeX document is well supported. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package upgrade: TeXmate
by CTAN Announcements 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon appear at your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: TeXmate2 Author's name: Federico Garcia Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/texmate Summary description: Comprehensive chess annotation. Version 2 License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the second version of TeXmate. Many refinements and new tools. Now it works in conjunction with skak and thus follows the game as it is typeset. That makes it able to diagram the current position automatically. For chess fonts it uses the chessfss system. (The original version is still available in /obsolete/macros/latex/contrib/texmate.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/texmate . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN package update: Lshort Portuguese Version upload
by CTAN Announcements 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

Alberto Sim~oes writes: > I have (am) uploaded ptlshort 4.20 to > ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming/ptlshort-4.20 Thanks: I've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue. I know there's not much difference between the English original 4.20 (installed today) and 4.19 (installed yesterday), but I find yours an impressive performance! Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: mrcheckbib
by CTAN Announcements 31 May '06

31 May '06

A package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: mrcheckbib Author's name: John Cagnol Location on CTAN: /biblio/bibtex/utils/mrcheckbib Summary description: a bibtex file verification tool using the AMS MRef database License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mrcheckbib is a bibtex file verification tool using the AMS MRef database, it takes every entry in a bibtex file (.bib) and checks it against the database. If it finds a unique MRef entry, then your entry will be replaced by the MRef one. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/mrcheckbib . 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: ascii package version 2.0
by CTAN Announcements 31 May '06

31 May '06

On Tue, 30 May 2006, Apostolos Syropoulos submitted version 2.0 of the ascii package. This package makes available the graphical reprensentation of the ASCII characters as defined in the IBM PC Code Page 437 C0 Graphics. The new package comes with a new Type 1 fonts and some other goodies. Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: Free Math Font Survey
by CTAN Announcements 31 May '06

31 May '06

The package below has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: Free Math Font Survey Author's name: Stephen G. Hartke Location on CTAN: /info/Free_Math_Font_Survey Summary description: A survey of the free math fonts that are available for use with TeX and LaTeX. License type: dfsg Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This document is a survey of the free math fonts that are available for use with TeX and LaTeX. Examples are provided for each font, links to where to obtain the font, and the commands for loading the associated LaTeX package. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/Free_Math_Font_Survey . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN package update: lshort/english
by CTAN Announcements 31 May '06

31 May '06

Tobias Oetiker has provided updates to the english version of the lshort short introduction to latex; after a couple of false starts between us, the version is now 4.20 the changes file shows: * section headings should be leftaligned * added notes on amsthm suggested by Daniel Flipo * improved explanation ifpdf package * use extasciigrave for ` and extquotesingle for ' by Tahir Hassan * Reworde the mentioning of the preamble where I introduce the comment command. * updated eurofonts again based on Daniel Flipo's work for the french lshort * we should use utf8x for inputenc * mention unicode option for hyperref * mention active language after calling usepackage bable with multiple languages * Added section on writing greek text by Nikolaos Pothitos thanks for the upload, tobi; the package is on its way around the globe, and i've updated the catalogue. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: mf2pt1
by CTAN Announcements 31 May '06

31 May '06

A package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks, as usual, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: mf2pt1 Author's name: Scott Pakin Location on CTAN: /support/mf2pt1 Summary description: Produce PostScript Type 1 fonts from Metafont source License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mf2pt1 facilitates producing PostScript Type 1 fonts from a Metafont source file. mf2pt1's advantage over tools such as TeXtrace and mftrace is that it does not rely on bitmap tracing and therefore can produce higher-quality Type 1 fonts than trace-based tools. The catch is that mf2pt1 imposes a number of restrictions on the Metafont input so it is not, as the name may imply, an automatic converter of arbitrary Metafont fonts to Type 1 format. Version 2.2 fixes some bugs involving the processing of command-line options. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/mf2pt1 . 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: BaKoMa TeX 7.60 - TeXWord AutoSave and Graphics improvements.
by CTAN Announcements 30 May '06

30 May '06

On Mon, 29 May 2006, Basil K. Malyshev submitted an updte to the bakoma package. Location on CTAN: systems/win32/bakoma > Most noticeable improvements are: > > * TeXWord AutoSave feature has been added. > At restarting TeXWord after crashing it automatically > detects autosaved files and prompts user to recover them. > * Resolved conflict of displaying fonts with non-zero t-components > of FontMatrix. Some, Windows drivers use these components to change base > line. > * Refined handling imagemask in PDF generation. [Corel Draw 12 pattern > filling]. > > 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 update. > -------------------- About BaKoMa TeX 7.60 ------------------ > > BaKoMa TeX 7.60 supports two coexisting IDE: > 1) BaKoMa TeX Word - True WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor. > 2) Text Editor + DVI Viewer - Clasical IDE. > > About BaKoMa TeX Word. > > BaKoMa TeX Word is True WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor. > > The word `True' is used to highlight two following facts: > > 1) It is True WYSIWYG Editor. > It means that display shows precisely the same what will be printed. > It looks such that you edit your document immediately in DVI Viewer. > 2) It is True LaTeX Editor. > It edits LaTeX source text without any import/export procedure. > It means that you can load and edit any LaTeX 2e document. > > BaKoMa TeX Word is built on top of BaKoMa TeX graphic engine and > consequently it inherits all features of BaKoMa TeX related > with import graphics, font support, and document export. > > It supports processors: > (1) Standard TeX and (2) e-TeX. > Other processors such as Omega may be added in future. > > It imports: > EPS, PDF, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, > MSP, BMP, WMF, EMF, FIG, HPGL, and DXY. > It supports fonts: > OpenType (OTF/TTF), TrueType, PostScript Type1 (including MM), > PostScript Type 3, and TeX PK/VF. > It exports: > DVI, PDF, SVG, PS, PNG (with HTML wrapper), and HTML (TeX4HT). > > It includes built-in PostScript interpreter accessible via DVIPS > compatible special interface that supports such macro packages as: > Prosper, PSTricks, PSFrag, graphics (psfig), draftcopy, etc. > > Most important application of BaKoMa TeX Word is > final step corrections of LaTeX papers before publishing. > > Editing Prosper's slides in WYSIWYG interface > is another impressive feature of `BaKoMa TeX Word'. > 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/> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: spotcolor
by CTAN Announcements 29 May '06

29 May '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: spotcolor Author's name: Jens Elstner Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/spotcolor Summary description: Include spot colors in pdfLaTeX output License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- spotcolor is a small package for using spot colors in pdfLaTeX output. Predefined colors from the pantone and hks color charts are included but new ones can easily be created. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/spotcolor . 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: The lhfonts package 3.5b
by CTAN Announcements 29 May '06

29 May '06

On Sun, 28 May 2006, Olga Lapko submitted an update to the lh package. The LH fonts address the problem of the wide variety of alphabets that are written with Cyrillic-style characters. The fonts are the original basis of the set of T2* and X2 encodings that are now used when LaTeX users need to write in Cyrillic languages. The fonts are available in Adobe Type 1 format, in the CM-Super family of fonts. Location on CTAN: fonts/cyrillic/lh Summary description: Cyrillic fonts with support of LaTeX standard encodings License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes: - Corrected the width of letters ZHE_dsc and K_dsc (file lgt2upu.mf) (to restore 3.4 widths): the font metric of fonts (of already existing letters) are going to be stable. - Small changes in documentations ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: Word2LaTeX
by CTAN Announcements 29 May '06

29 May '06

On Thu, 25 May 2006, Ingo H. de Boer submitted verison 1.1 of the word2latex package. He writes: > I am happy to announce the wsW2LTX 1.1 Release. > I have uploaded the complete files to > > ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/word2latex/ > > please replace all the files in > > ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/support/word2latex/ > > The licence is 'nosource' > > thanks & greets > Ingo > > ####################################### > > The wsW2LTX library is an application programming interface (API) > designed to translate a MS Word document to LaTeX. > The library is based on libwv and on several other -- mostly Unix based -- > libraries. > > ####################################### > > The update from 1.0 to 1.1 contains minor bug fixes. > _______________________________________________ Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: WinShell 3.1
by CTAN Announcements 29 May '06

29 May '06

On Thu, 25 May 2006, Ingo H. de Boer submitted version 3.1 of the winshell package. He writes: > I am happy to announce the WinShell 3.1 Release. > I have uploaded the complete files to > > ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/winshell/ > > please replace all the files in > > ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/systems/win32/winshell/ > > The licence is 'nosource' > > thanks & greets > Ingo > > ####################################### > > WinShell is a free multilingual integrated development environment (IDE) for > LaTeX and TeX. The program includes a text editor, syntax highlighting, > project management, spell checking, a table wizard, BibTeX support, different > toolbars and user configuration options. It is not a LaTeX system; an > additional LaTeX package is required. > > ####################################### > WinShell 3.1 major BugFixes/Features to version 3.0 > > - Brazilian-Portuguese, Catalan, Hungarian, Mexican-Spanish > and Turkish language support > - The log window couldn't handle huge log files > - Fix of brace matching in DBCS files (due to new Scintilla library) > - Search in files dialog > - Activation of last active project on WinShell start up > - Unicode support; Automatic conversion of UTF-8 files > - Jumping to error line by double clicking in Output Window > or automatic jumping > - <sel> tag in macro to replace a selected text > - Redesign of the menu and toolbars > - Redesign of the Project Window > - Redesign of the Output Window > - Redesign of the log file parsing > - Redesign of the Fonts dialog > - Redesign of the Syntax highlighting dialog Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: showlabels 1.6
by CTAN Announcements 26 May '06

26 May '06

digested by my upload daemon, Norman Gray writes: > Name of contribution: showlabels 1.6 > Author's name: Norman Gray > Author's email: ... > Location on CTAN: latex/contrib/showlabels (replacing current version) > Summary description: put the names of labels and other commands > into the margins of a draft document > License type: gpl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This package helps you keep track of all the labels you define, by > putting the name of new labels into the margin whenever the > label command is used. > > The package allows you to do the same thing for other commands, such as > the ef or egin commands. > > (1.6 is an enhancement release: the package will now work for alternative > commands which have optional arguments) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i have installed the new version and triggered mirroring, and i have updated the catalogue entry. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: tugboat macros
by CTAN Announcements 26 May '06

26 May '06

The package described below has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon appear at your favorite mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: tugboat Author's name: karl berry Location on CTAN: /macros/plain/contrib/tugboat Summary description: tugboat and ltugboat macro updates License type: dfsg Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Small updates to both the plain and LaTeX style files for TUGboat: additional abbreviations, hyphenation exceptions, assorted compatibility, licensing, and other bug fixes. Please email tugboat(a)tug.org if questions about the macros, or especially if you have ideas for articles! http://tug.org/TUGboat ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/plain/contrib/tugboat . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN package update: visualtex
by CTAN Announcements 25 May '06

25 May '06

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: visualtex Author's name: Alex Romanenko Location on CTAN: /systems/win32/visualtex Summary description: Major update for visualtex License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Project functions are added for usual file management. Some interface features are changed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/visualtex . 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: guit
by CTAN Announcements 24 May '06

24 May '06

On Wed, 24 May 2006, Emanuele Vicentini submitted an update for the guit package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/GuIT Summary description: Macros for typesetting the GuIT logo License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Guit provides some commands useful to correctly write the logo of Gruppo Utilizzatori Italiani di TeX (Italian TeX User Group), using the default document color or any other color the user may ever choose, in conformity with logo's scheme as seen on the Group site (http://www.guit.sssup.it). Likewise, commands are available that simplify the writing of GuIT acronym's complete expansion, of the addresses of Group's internet site and public forum, the meeting GuITmeeting and magazine Ars TeXnica's logo. Optionally, using hyperref, the outputs of the above cited commands can become hyperlinks to Group's site (http://www.guit.sssup.it). Documentation available in Italian only. Changes in this version 0.8.2 (2005/04/08) o New configuration file o New command: DeclareGuITLogoCommand o Changed default logo's color Changes in this version 0.9 (2006/05/24) o Commands can now use keys defined with xkeyval and have some new features o New command: setupGuIT o Removed command swapGuITcommands o xcolor is now required o New command: GuITtextEn o GuIT now works also with fseries for most of the supported fonts o Ars TeXnica's logo commands have been incorporated ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: poemscol 2.51
by CTAN Announcements 23 May '06

23 May '06

On Tue, 23 May 2006, John Burt submitted an update to the poemscol package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/poemscol Summary description: macros for critical editions of poetry License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 2.51 adds commands to support multiple indices and compatibility with splitindex. Better multilingual support (e.g. titles of sections such as Table of Contents and Textual Notes can be easily changed), new commands for marginal references, new title commands that include marginal references, many small bug fixes ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: lewis
by CTAN Announcements 23 May '06

23 May '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: lewis Author's name: Kent Horvath Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/lewis Summary description: Lewis Structures Package License type: pd Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Provides rudimentary support for drawing Lewis Structures. Limited to elements that obey the octet rule. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/lewis . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN package update: TpX
by CTAN Announcements 22 May '06

22 May '06

The package described below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: TpX Author's name: Alexander Tsyplakov Location on CTAN: /graphics/tpx Summary description: TpX 1.3 License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TpX 1.3 is on CTAN TpX is a lightweight, easy-to-use graphical editor for Windows platform for creation of drawings and inclusion them into LaTeX files in publication-ready form. It can also be used as a stand-alone editor for vector graphics. The output is a file (with extension .TpX) containing the drawing as LaTeX code or as an includegraphics link to an external file created by the program. User can choose between several output formats. TpX saves its own data in TeX file comments so that the drawing could be loaded into TpX and edited again. This internal TpX format is based on XML and could be understood and edited easily. TpX can import EMF/WMF pictures created by other Windows applications, including many applications producing scientific graphs. It also can import simple SVG pictures. In most cases the result is nice, though sometimes imported picture needs some manual editing. So TpX can be used as a EMF-to-any and SVG-to-any converter. Homepage: http://tpx.sourceforge.net/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/tpx . 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 has a new package: pedigree-perl
by CTAN Announcements 22 May '06

22 May '06

The package described below has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should by now be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: Pedigree-perl Author's name: Boris Veytsman Location on CTAN: graphics/pstricks/contrib/pedigree/pedigree-perl Summary description: A Program for Generation of TeX Pedigrees From CSV Files License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This program generates TeX commands to typeset pedigrees - either TeX fragments of full LaTeX files. It has support for multilanguage pedigrees (at the present moment English and Russian languages are supported). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pedigree/pedigree… . 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 has a new package: pst-pdgr
by CTAN Announcements 22 May '06

22 May '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should be at your favorite mirror by now. Thanks, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: pst-pdgr Author's name: Boris Veytsman Location on CTAN: /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pedigree/pst-pdgr Summary description: Package for Creating Medical Pedigree with PSTricks and LaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is a set of macros based on PSTricks to draw medical pedigrees according to the recommendations for standardized human pedigree nomenclature. The drawing commands place the symbols on a pspicture canvas. An interface for making trees is also provided. The package can be used both with LaTeX and PlainTeX. A separate Perl program for generating TeX files from spreadsheets is provided in the sibling directory on CTAN. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pedigree/pst-pdgr . 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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New CTAN package: bghyphen
by Robin Fairbairns 21 May '06

21 May '06

my upload daemon quoth: > An upload to cam.ctan.org is in /anfs/ctan-inc/upload-20060521-132811/ > > ====================================================================== > > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: bghyphen > Author's name: Georgi Boshnakov > Author's email: ... > Location on CTAN: /tex-archive/language/hyphenation/ > Summary description: Bulgarian hyphenation patterns for LaTeX > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > These files provide support for hyphenation of text written in > Bulgarian. To use with Babel, simply drop the .tex files in an > appropriate place, tell babel that bghyphen.tex is the hyphenation > file for Bulgarian, and produce new format files. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i've installed the files as suggested (in ctan directory language/hyphenation/bghyphen), and pushed the mirrors. the upload will be available at the other ctan sites in a few hours, and will appear at mirrors later. i've catalogued the submission: the catalogue entry will appear overnight. thanks for the upload, georgi! note: there are earlier versions of bghypen.tex and bghyphsi.tex already on ctan (in macros/latex/required/babel); for various tedious technical reasons we shan't be able to remove those files for a few days. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: RFIL - Ruby font installer library
by CTAN Announcements 19 May '06

19 May '06

On Tue, 16 May 2006, Patrick Gundlach submitted a new package rfil to CTAN. Name of contribution: RFIL - Ruby font installer library Author's name: Patrick Gundlach Location on CTAN: support/rfil Summary description: Experimental initial release of a new font installer library License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Ruby font installer library (RFIL) is another attempt on font installation for TeX fonts. It consists of a set of example programs and several libraries for doing font related tasks, such as read/write tfm, afm, vf and enc files, creating font metrics, doing calculations and alike. The software is all written in Ruby. It is hosted at https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/rfil/ where it is documented. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: pdftex.def v0.03q
by CTAN Announcements 18 May '06

18 May '06

On Wed, 17 May 2006, Heiko Oberdiek submitted an update to the pdftex.def file. Location on CTAN: graphics/pdftex/pdftex.def > Latest changes: > > % 2006/05/17 v0.03q > % * Error message if ConTeXt's supp-pdf.tex is missing and > % support of MPS files is not available (Markus Kohm, HO). Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: SkakNew fonts
by CTAN Announcements 17 May '06

17 May '06

On Tue, 16 May 2006, Ulrich Dirr submitted an update to the skaknew package. This package contains the fonts from the skak package (metafont) as Postscript fonts. Location on CTAN: fonts/chess/skaknew License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is version 1.3 of SkakNew-Diagram and SkakNew-DiagramT. I have added some character 'masks' for use with the new version of chessfss and chessboard by Ulrike Fischer. Their main task is for separately colouring borders, fields, character outlines, and character inlines. For more information see the documentation of the resp. styles. PDFs showing the font layout are supplied. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: References v4.3
by CTAN Announcements 16 May '06

16 May '06

On Sun, 14 May 2006, Volker Kiefel submitted an update to the references package. Location on CTAN: support/references License: gpl Summary: REFERENCES is bibliographic software for authors of scientific manuscripts and for management of bibliographic data of ARTICLES IN JOURNALS, of BOOKS, of CHAPTERS IN BOOKS and other document types including notes and electronic documents. REFERENCES supports LaTeX including BibTeX. Bibliographic records in MEDLINE format are easily imported. Retrieval of references is possible by keywords, authors' or editors' names, date of publication, title of article, book title, journal name and other data fields. Lists of references and formatted citations in the text can be compiled in any bibliographic style required by the publishers of scientific journals. REFERENCES is provided with a text based console interface compiled for win32-systems and as Linux port. An external text editor is required for editing data. Changes: Beginning with v4.3, References is provided as win32 application and it comprises a Linux port. Encoding of the internal data representation and of .arr, .fd and text files has been changed. Minor bugs have been removed. Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: hyperxmp
by CTAN Announcements 16 May '06

16 May '06

The package described below has just been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Scott, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: hyperxmp Author's name: Scott Pakin Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/hyperxmp Summary description: Embed XMP metadata within a LaTeX document License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- XMP (eXtensible Metadata Platform) is a mechanism proposed by Adobe for embedding document metadata within the document itself. The metadata is designed to be easy to extract, even by programs that are oblivious to the document's file format. Most of Adobe's applications store XMP metadata when saving files. Now, with the hyperxmp package, it is trivial for LaTeX document authors to store XMP metadata in their documents as well. hyperxmp integrates seamlessly with hyperref and requires virtually no modifications to documents that already exploit hyperref's mechanisms for specifying PDF metadata. The current version of hyperxmp can embed the following metadata as XMP: author, title, subject, keywords, copyright, and license URL. hyperxmp currently embeds XMP only within PDF documents but is compatible with pdflatex, latex+dvipdfm, and latex+dvips+ps2pdf. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/hyperxmp . 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 has a new package: CMS4talks
by CTAN Announcements 15 May '06

15 May '06

On Wed, 10 May 2006, Olle Nebendahl submitted a new package called cms4talks to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /support/cms4talks Summary description: Content Management System for Talks License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a small tool written in Java enhancing the searching within and rearanging of bigger collections of talks (and slides) written in LaTeX. It requires Java 1.5 (tested) but should work with older versions and requires MySQL. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: The caption package v3.0j
by CTAN Announcements 14 May '06

14 May '06

On Sat, 13 May 2006 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The caption package provides many ways to customise the captions in floating environments like figure and table and cooperates with many other packages. This is a bugfix release of the caption package 3.0: - piccaption from the picins package now produces a non-empty entry in the list of figures - Bugfix in ProcessOptionsWithKV: Only those global options which have a default value will be processed now - Bugfix in captionabove+below: Will not be overwritten by captionsetup[...]{position=...} anymore (See changelog for details.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Sch�pf

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CTAN package update: alphabib
by CTAN Announcements 14 May '06

14 May '06

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: alphabib Author's name: Mael Hilléreau Location on CTAN: /biblio/bibtex/utils/alphabib Summary description: Add alphabetical headers into citations License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a major release. ibitem commands are now handled much more cleanly. All standard styles as well as other styles which produce ibitem commands in a specific way (such as frplainnat.bst) should now be supported. Fixed a bug occurring while using an input file without BibTeX entries. Names with a von part such as Ludwig van Beethoven are now handled properly, and the two sorting policies regarding relevant entries are supported through the -s option. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/alphabib . 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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dante.ctan.org out of service 2006-05-16/17
by ctan-ann＠dante.de 12 May '06

12 May '06

The main CTAN node dante.ctan.org (a.k.a. ftp.dante.de) will be out of service between 2006-05-16 19:00 and 2006-05-17 07:00 UTC, due to changes to the technical infrastructure. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: A Classic Thesis Style
by CTAN Announcements 12 May '06

12 May '06

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should already be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: A Classic Thesis Style Author's name: André Miede Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/classicthesis Summary description: Update of classicthesis License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Update of classicthesis: fixes many little bugs and annoyances (please see prodvided CHANGES file). Most important change: the look-and-feel can now be used without the bundle and works for both LaTeX and PDFLaTeX. :-) Thanks to all the folks who already sent me a postcard! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/classicthesis . 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 .

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CTAN update: svninfo
by CTAN Announcements 12 May '06

12 May '06

On Thu, 11 May 2006, Achim D. Brucker submitted an update to the svninfo package, a package for incorporating the values of Subversion keywords into typeset documents. Information about Subversion (a replacement for CVS) is available from http://subversion.tigris.org/'>http://subversion.tigris.org/ Location on CTAN: /tex/macros/latex/contrib/svninfo/ Summary description: A package for accessing svn revision information License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This release adds special support for multi-file documents, i.e., svnInfoMinRevision and svnMaxRevision allows one to access the minimum and maximum revision numbers of such a document. Using the new package option revrange a short revision overview similar to the svnversion command of svn is generated. Furhter, are now allowed in expaned svn keywords. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: ConTeXt
by CTAN Announcements 11 May '06

11 May '06

The ConTeXt package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: ConTeXt Author's name: Taco Hoekwater Location on CTAN: /macros/context/current Summary description: ConTeXt 2006.05.11 released License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I am pleased to announce that the new ConTeXt release from Hans Hagen can be downloaded as of now from the Pragma ADE website or one of its mirrors, as well as a CTAN node near you. The current release has version 2006.05.11 A very short list of changes is given below. As usual, there is an html page with more detailed release notes available on the Wiki, see: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Release_Notes Most important New features (since April, 24): * Integrated support for XeTeX on Linux * The Ruby scripts are now preferred over the perl ones * The included pattern files now use UTF-8 encoding * Automatic handling of UTF-8 Byte Order Marks ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/context/current . 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 has a new package: opteng
by CTAN Announcements 11 May '06

11 May '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: opteng Author's name: Patrick Egan Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/opteng Summary description: SPIE Optical Engineering and OE Letters manuscript template License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- With this template, and associated style and LaTeX packages, it is possible to estimate the page length of manuscripts for submission to the SPIE journals extit{Optical Engineering} and extit{Optical Engineering Letters}. With a strict three-page limit, this is particularly important for the latter. This template gives simple instructions on how to prepare the manuscript. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/opteng . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN package update: listings
by CTAN Announcements 10 May '06

10 May '06

A package update has been installed at tug.ctan.org and it should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: listings Author's name: Brooks Moses Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/listings Summary description: Typeset source code listings using LaTeX. License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Typeset programs (programming code) within LaTeX. The source code is read directly by TeX. Keywords, comments and strings can be typeset using different styles (default is bold for keywords, italic for comments and no special style for strings). Includes support for hyperref. To use, simply usepackage{listings}, identify the language with lstset{language=Python}, then employ the egin{lstlisting} ... end{lstlisting} environment or the lstinputlisting{filename.py} command. NOTE: The original author of this package, Carsten Heinz, became inactive sometime in late 2004. Hendri Adriaens took over maintenance of the package in accordance with the LPPL's procedure for abandoned packages. He then passed the maintainership of the package to Brooks Moses, who had volunteered for the position while this procedure was going through. This release, version 1.3c, is not yet the long awaited bugfix release, as the new maintainer (Brooks Moses) has neither a list of reported bugs nor a good test suite to use to check to make sure that the fixes don't break other things. Thus, he asks that users email him reports of any outstanding bugs that they are aware of, as well as examples of interesting uses of listings that should go into the test suite. Thanks! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/listings/ . 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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New CTAN package: tabto.sty
by Robin Fairbairns 10 May '06

10 May '06

Donald Arseneau writes: > I've uploaded tabto.sty to ac.uk. > > It is a new package, sort of a merger of tabto.tex and > varindent.tex providing: > > Tabbing to fixed positions in a paragraph. > Commands abto ( abto*) and ab. > > It is LPPL. It could go in macros/latex/contrib/misc or have > its own directory created. i've installed the files (tabto.sty and tabto.txt) in a new directory macros/latex/contrib/tabto thanks for the upload: i'll update the catalogue for the overnight run. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: exceltex
by CTAN Announcements 09 May '06

09 May '06

A package has been (after some bumbling on my part) updated at tug.ctan.org and by now has likely made it to your favorite mirror. Thank you for the upload, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: exceltex Author's name: Hans-Peter Doerr Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/exceltex Summary description: get data from Excel files into LaTeX License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Exceltex is a LaTeX package combined with a helper program written in Perl. It provides a easy to use yet powerfull and flexible way to get data from Spreadsheets into LaTeX. In difference to other existing solutions, exceltex does not seek for making the creation of tables in LaTeX easier, but to get data from Spreadsheets into LaTeX as easy as possible. The excel fileformat only acts as an interface between the spreadsheet application and exceltex beacause it is easily accessible via the Spreadsheet::ParseExcel Perl module and because most spreadsheet applications are able to read and write excel files. * changes since last ctan-upload - changed commandline interface - support for configuration files - support for some character encodings, currently latin1 latin9 and utf8 - experimental support for the EURP currency symbol * homepage http://www.physik.uni-freiburg.de/~doerr/exceltex ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/exceltex . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN package update: microtype
by CTAN Announcements 06 May '06

06 May '06

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thank you for the update, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's 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 given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes in version 1.9d ======================== * Support for the Central European QX encoding (inheritance, generic protrusion settings, contributed by Maciej Eder; protrusion settings for Times) * Protrusion settings for various Euro symbol fonts (Adobe, ITC, Marvosym) * Compatibility with the tex4ht package * Support for Unicode input in the configuration (inputenc/utf8) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/microtype . 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 has a new package: Beamer LaTeX class tutorial (in portuguese)
by CTAN Announcements 06 May '06

06 May '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: Beamer LaTeX class tutorial (in portuguese) Author's name: Carlos Campani Location on CTAN: /info/portuguese/beamer Summary description: Beamer tutorial License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A short introduction to Beamer class for LaTeX2e. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/portuguese/beamer . 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 has a new package: titlepage-uni-dortmund
by CTAN Announcements 30 Apr '06

30 Apr '06

On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 Gerd Sebastiani submitted a new package titlepage-uni-dortmund to CTAN. Locatoin on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/titlepage-uni-dortmund Summary description: Titlepage for University of Dortmund License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package introduces a titlepage layout to be used at the University of Dortmund (UDO). The implementation involves a usual LATEX-document in addition to the general setup of the package. Please note that this is the first version of the UDO title, thus errors unknown to the developer may occur. Therefore the use of this package is at your own risk. The author rejects any responsibility for loss of code, data, or unexpected results. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Sch�pf

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CTAN has a new package: cursolatex
by CTAN Announcements 28 Apr '06

28 Apr '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: LaTeX slides (in portuguese) Author's name: Carlos Campani Location on CTAN: /info/portuguese/cursolatex Summary description: LaTeX slides License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A set of slides for a short course about LaTeX (in portuguese). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/portuguese/cursolatex . 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 has a new package: Xy-pic tutorial
by CTAN Announcements 28 Apr '06

28 Apr '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: Xy-pic tutorial (in portuguese) Author's name: Carlos Campani Location on CTAN: /info/xypic-tutorial Summary description: Xy-pic tutorial License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A tutorial of the Xy-pic graphics package for LaTeX. Xy-pic provides a powerful graphics language for technical diagrams. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/xypic-tutorial . 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 has a new package: mkbangtex
by CTAN Announcements 28 Apr '06

28 Apr '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: mkbangtex Author's name: Koushik Ray Location on CTAN: /language/bengali/mkbangtex Summary description: mkbangtex --- preprocessor for BangTeX License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mkbangtex (Version 1.0) is a Python code that creates a BangTeX file from a Bengali document written phonetically in Roman script. It has been tested with Python 2.4.1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/bengali/mkbangtex . 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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re: CTAN next week
by CTAN Announcements 27 Apr '06

27 Apr '06

With two central members of the CTAN team absent and the third extremely busy, response to requests in the period from 1 to 5 May (in particular) is likely to be even more than usually sluggish. The Cambridge server will shut down its upload mechanisms, but will continue to serve files by ftp or http. We apologise in advance for any difficulties users may experience: we will restore service as quickly as possible. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: thuthesis
by CTAN Announcements 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at the mirror that you like the best. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: thuthesis Author's name: Ruini Xue Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/thuthesis Summary description: Thesis template for Tsinghua University. License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ThuThesis is a LaTeX thesis template package for Tsinghua University in order to make it easy to write thesises for either bachelor, master or doctor. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive//macros/latex/contrib/thuthesis . 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 has a new package: sort-by-letters
by CTAN Announcements 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

The package described below has been installed on tug.ctn.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: sort-by-letters.zip Author's name: Thomas van Oudenhove Location on CTAN: /biblio/bibtex/contrib/sort-by-letters Summary description: some bibliography styles for a sorting by letter License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This archive contains several bibliography styles for separating the references by the first letter of the first author/editor in the bibliography. These styles are adapted from standard ones or natbib ones. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/sort-by-letters . 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 has a new package: chessboard
by CTAN Announcements 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: chessboard Author's name: Ulrike Fischer Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/chessboard Summary description: A package to print chessboards. License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. It can be used together with the skak package which you can find at http://sourceforge.net/projects/latex-skak/. REQUIREMENTS chessboard uses some primitives of eTeX. It needs a recent version of chessfss and xkeyval. It also needs the packages pgfcore and pgfbaseshapes (from the pgf bundle), and pst-node (from pstricks). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/chessboard . 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 has a new package: boxhandler
by CTAN Announcements 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 Steven B. Segletes submitted the new package boxhandler to CTAN. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/boxhandler Summary description: Flexible Captioning and Deferred Box/List Printing License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package provides a powerful, yet simple, interface for managing and manipulating the captions of boxed objects (e.g., tables and figures). In addition to providing wide flexibility in the presentation style of the captions, this package, when used in combination with conditionally compiled LaTeX source codes, provides the ability to defer or preempt the presentation of figures, tables, and their associated lists. In this way, one can, for example, by changing a single line of source code in the .tex file, change the output of LaTeX from a technical report with tables and figures interspersed in the text, to a journal-manuscript submission, with figures collected at the end of document, as well as lof and lot deferred or preempted. Run `boxhandler.ins' through LaTeX to produce boxhandler.sty from boxhandler.dtx. Run `boxhandler.dtx' through LaTeX to produce the documentation. This program can be redistributed and/or modified, with attribution. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Sch�pf

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CTAN update: pst-func package
by Robin Fairbairns 22 Apr '06

22 Apr '06

Herbert Voss writes: > I have uploaded pst-func.tgz to the uk mirror. > Please delete _all_ files in > /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-func/ > and put the new ones in there. > > This new version has: > ..... pst-func.tex > 0.45 2006-04-22 added psplotImp for plotting implicit > defined functions (experimental), > the options algebraic (pstricks-add) > and polarplot can be used > accept plotstyle curve for psBinomialN > new option barwidth for psBinomial > new macros psBinomial and psBinomialN > for the (normalized) binomial distribution > new macros psCumIntegral, psIntegral > psConv > > ..... pst-func.sty > 2004-10-18 first version > 2006-04-22 add pst-func.pro to the filelist > > > ..... pst-func.pro > 0.06 2006-04-16 new subroutine MoverN (binomial coefficient) i have installed the new version. thanks for the upload. >From the catalogue: Pst-func is a package built for use with PSTricks. It provides macros for plotting various mathematical functions. Polynomials and their derivatives $f(x)=an*x^n+an-1*x^(n-1)+...+a0$ defined by the coefficients a0 a1 a2 ... and the derivative order; the Fourier sum $f(x) = a0/2+a1cos(omega x)+...+b1sin(omega x)+...$ defined by the coefficients a0 a1 a2 ... b1 b2 b3 ...; the Bessel function defined by its order; and the Gauss function defined by sigma. i need to add more to the catalogue: that will happen later today, in time for nightly updates. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: AddTeX2Eps
by CTAN Announcements 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

A new package has been put into place at tug.ctan.org and should soon appear at your favirote mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: AddTeX2Eps Author's name: Janko Slavic Location on CTAN: /graphics/AddTeX2Eps Summary description: Package for using native LaTeX syntax on eps figures directly from Mathematica License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Package for using native LaTeX syntax on eps figures directly from Mathematica AddTeX2Eps calls latex.exe and dvips.exe and makes use of psfrag package (needs to be installed). default.tex is the LaTeX template where you can add packages and define your own LaTeX commands. Copy default.tex and AddTeX2Eps.m to ..AddOnsStandardPackagesGraphics or to search path. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/AddTeX2Eps . 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: polynom v0.17
by CTAN Announcements 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Hendri Adriaens submitted an update to the polynom package by Carsten Heinz. Because Carsten Heinz could not be reached anymore for a long time, this package has been taken over according to the LPPL for maintenance by Hendri Adriaens on 2006/04/20. This package was using and redefining internals of the keyval package and hence it was incompatible with xkeyval. This problem has been solved and the processing of the vars key has been simplified. All other things are left as the original by Carsten Heinz. Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: TeXShell32
by CTAN Announcements 20 Apr '06

20 Apr '06

On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Dirk Struve submitted an update to the texshell32 package. It is a new release of the Windows TeXShell WinTeXShell32. License: GPL Noticeable new features: - Unicode support - Support for spell checking (ispell, aspell) on Win 2000 and XP ----------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: dante.ctan.org upload: dateiliste
by CTAN Announcements 20 Apr '06

20 Apr '06

On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Paul Ebermann submitted an update to the package dateiliste The package provides a file list (similar to that offered by listfiles), neatly laid out as a table. The main document can be included in the list, and a command is available for providing RCS-maintained data for printing in the file list. Location on CTAN: /macros/contrib/dateiliste License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This update (v0.2) lets mainFileToList now also work without eTeX, thanks to an entry in the UK TeX FAQ. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: aurical
by CTAN Announcements 18 Apr '06

18 Apr '06

On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Christian Gollwitzer submitted an update to the aurical package. Location on CTAN: /fonts/aurical Summary description: Update of aurical: Two additional calligraphic fonts License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a major upgrade of the package aurical. In addition to improvements of the kerning tables and some glyphs of AuriocusKalligraphicus, two new calligraphic fonts have been added: * LukasSvatba resembles a 16th century handwritten Bastarda. It has a variant with a long s for mediaeval writing. * JanaSkrivana is an elegant cursive handwriting font with strong variations of the stroke width. All three fonts cover the whole glyphset of the Cork/T1 encoding. Installation is now made easy by a single zip archive, that can be extracted directly into the TEXMFLOCAL directory. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: tug.ctan.org site will not be working for a while
by CTAN Announcements 18 Apr '06

18 Apr '06

I believe that http://tug.ctan.org is back. I would appreciate an email if someone notices a remaining problem. I will leave a small notice up on the home page for a day or two. The major reason for the outage was a software upgrade that should improve our ability to gather and maintain metadata. In particular, there is an improved upload facility that will allow contributers to directly edit package descriptions, etc. These scripts should emerge from testing in the coming weeks. Allow me, please, a thanks. Part of the upgrade -- the part I was scratching my head about -- involved putting a version 8 of the database PostgreSQL onto my Debian system (Sarge stable now has a version 7). While I was aware that magical things can be done with apt-get, dpkg, etc., I didn't personally know how to do them. Then I found Vadim Kutchin's article http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/373 and it was perfect. Of course, CTAN is built on the contibutions of many people so in some ways I am not surprised at his generosity in publishing the steps, but wow was I glad when that article title showed in Google! Jim Hefferon St Michael's College

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CTAN package update: nomentbl
by CTAN Announcements 18 Apr '06

18 Apr '06

A package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thank you Brian, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: nomentbl Author's name: Brian Elmegaard Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/nomentbl/ Summary description: package for typesetting a nomenclature in a longtable License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A new version of nomentbl, a package that typesets a nomencalture in a longtable environment. The package has been updated to be used with version 4.2 of the nomencl and a few new features have been added. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/nomentbl/ . 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: poemscol 2.48
by CTAN Announcements 18 Apr '06

18 Apr '06

On Sat, 15 Apr 2006, John Burt submitted an update to the poemscol package. Poemscol is a set of LaTeX macros for typesetting critical editions of poetry. Its features include automatic linenumbering, generation of separate endnotes sections for emendations, textual collations, and explanatory notes, special marking for cases in which page breaks occur during stanza breaks, running headers of the form ``Notes to pp. xx--yy''for the notes sections, index of titles and first lines, and automatic generation of table of contents. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/poemscol License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fixed a bug intoduced in 2.38 which caused marginal line numbers occasionally to drift up a point. Added commands for marginal references on the same lines as poem titles. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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tug.ctan.org site will not be working for a while
by CTAN Announcements 17 Apr '06

17 Apr '06

The web scripts at http://tug.ctan.org are being upgraded and consequently aspects of the site will be non-functional, perhaps for a few days. The ftp archive will remain up. Only the web interface -- addresses that start with http -- will be affected. I apologize for this interruption. I hope people consider the end result an improvement. Jim Hefferon

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CTAN has a new package: alphabib
by CTAN Announcements 16 Apr '06

16 Apr '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: alphabib Author's name: Mael Hilléreau Location on CTAN: /biblio/bibtex/utils Summary description: Addition of alphabetical headers into BibTeX '.bbl' files. License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- alphabib is a little Bash script allowing addition of alphabetical headers into BibTEX bibliographies. This may be usefull with large bibliographies so that to find entries quickly. It takes a bibliography file produced by BibTEX (file with extension '.bbl') as an input, and creates a new file with incorporated alphabetical headers. Those headers break the bibliography into bibliographic entry sets having the same initial. Each set is entitled with a header consisting of the initial letter corresponding to entries composing it. Note that this script is mostly intended for use with alpha-like BibTEX styles (e.g. alpha.bst). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN package update: FiXme version 3.2
by CTAN Announcements 12 Apr '06

12 Apr '06

A package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon make it to your favorite mirror. Thanks for the update, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: FiXme version 3.2 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 given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm happy to announce the release of FiXme version 3.2. What's new: =========== ** Added the marginclue layout option which only signals a fixme in the margin, withtout the actual contents. ** Fix incompatibility with AMS-Book reported by Claude Lacoursière: @starttoc takes 2 arguments. ** Support for Croatian thanks to Marcel Maretic <marcel(at) fsb.hr>. ** Fix incompatibility with Beamer reported by Akim Demaille: protect contents of lox file.ug in environments. Description: ============ This package 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/fixme . 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 has a new package: noitcrul
by CTAN Announcements 12 Apr '06

12 Apr '06

One more from Paul Ebermann that I somehow contrived to overlook yesterday has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: noitcrul Author's name: Paul Ebermann Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/noitcrul Summary description: noitcrul - underline without italics correction (in math) License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The LaTeX package 'noitcrul' provides an underline-variant without italics correction at the end, for math. This sometimes gives better-looking formulas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/noitcrul . 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 has a new package: randbild
by CTAN Announcements 11 Apr '06

11 Apr '06

The package described below has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon get to your favirote mirror. Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: randbild Author's name: Paul Ebermann Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/randbild Summary description: randbild - put little plots of curves on the margin. License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LaTeX-package 'randbild' - put little plots of curves on the margin. To create the plots, use pst-plot-commands. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/randbild . 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 has a new package: faktor
by CTAN Announcements 11 Apr '06

11 Apr '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: faktor Author's name: Paul Ebermann Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/faktor Summary description: faktor - typeset quotient structures with LaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LaTeX-package 'faktor' - typeset quotient structures. Use factor{A}{B} to typeset a quotient structure A modulo B: A / / B ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/faktor . 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 has a new package: extpfeil
by CTAN Announcements 11 Apr '06

11 Apr '06

Another in this series of packages has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should be at your favorite mirror soon. Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: extpfeil Author's name: Paul Ebermann Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/extpfeil Summary description: extpfeil - extensible arrows, and a command to create new ones License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LaTeX-package 'extpfeil'. Some more extensible arrows (useable like xleftarrow from amsmath), and a command to simply create new ones (which was missing in amsmath, mathtools, etc.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/extpfeil . 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 has a new package: dateiliste
by CTAN Announcements 11 Apr '06

11 Apr '06

This package has been put on tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: dateiliste Author's name: Paul Ebermann Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/dateiliste Summary description: dateiliste - include list of used files (like listfiles) in the document, and related features. License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LaTeX-package 'dateiliste' - Include list of all used LaTeX files in the document, pretty formatted as a table. - add the main file to the file list. - get file version infos (for filelist and the included list) from CVS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/dateiliste . 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 has a new package: pauldoc
by CTAN Announcements 11 Apr '06

11 Apr '06

This package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make its way to your favorite mirror soon. Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: pauldoc Author's name: Paul Ebermann Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/pauldoc Summary description: pauldoc - helpers for german language LaTeX package documentation License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LaTeX-package 'pauldoc' - some macros to facilate the creation of LaTeX package documentation in german language. (Has also a command to include the LPPL in the documentation.) This package is used by the documentation of other packages from Paul Ebermann (noitcrul, robustcommand, randbild, dateiliste, faktor, extpfeil), so you'll need it :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pauldoc . 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 has a new package: robustcommand
by CTAN Announcements 11 Apr '06

11 Apr '06

Paul Ebermann has uploaded a number of new packages of which this is the first. It has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: robustcommand Author's name: Paul Ebermann Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/robustcommand Summary description: robustcommand - DeclareRobustCommand-variant with error checking License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LaTeX-package 'robustcommand' - a variation of DeclareRobustCommand, which checks that the command is not yet defined. So you don't mistakenly redefine already defined commands. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/robustcommand . 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 has a new package: thesis-titlepage-fhac: Titlepage for diploma thesis at Fachschule Aachen (Standort Juelich)
by CTAN Announcements 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 Jürgen A. Lamers submitted the new package thesis-titlepage-fhac to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/thesis-titlepage-fhAC Summary description: Little style to create a standard titlepage for diploma thesis License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yet another thesis titlpage style: Support of Fachhochschule Aachen (Standort Juelich) Happy TeXing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: language/french (frenchle)
by Robin Fairbairns 06 Apr '06

06 Apr '06

Bernard Gaulle writes > I just upload frenchCTAN.tar.gz to ftp.tex.ac.uk. > This is the free material to replace language/french (but not > the nonfree language/french/frenchpro). The contents are > the contrib and the frenchle directories which are LPPL. > I upgraded the LaTeX package frenchle to V5,996. I recall > that frenchle is a package which can bee loaded alone or as > an alternate French option of Babel for typesetting French documents. i have installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package upgrade of FrenchPro to V5,996
by Robin Fairbairns 06 Apr '06

06 Apr '06

Bernard Gaulle writes: > I just upload to ftp.tex.ac.uk the archive frenchpro.tar.gz which > is the updated version V5,996 of FrenchPro. This is all the material > to replace the nonfree language/french/frenchpro. > FrenchPro is distributed as shareware with all source files ; it > is designed for typesetting professional French documents and can > work alone as a LaTeX package as well as an option of Babel or MLP. > This distribution is using the keyboard package along with the msg > package for localization. i-installers are included for all > platforms: Windows, Unix, macOs X, Linux and co. > The FrenchPro web site is at http://frenchpro6.com/french/ i have installed the new version at nonfree/language/french/frenchpro, and i have updated the catalogue. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: rsc.bst
by CTAN Announcements 06 Apr '06

06 Apr '06

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thank you again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: rsc.bst Author's name: Joseph Wright Location on CTAN: /biblio/bibtex/contrib/misc/rsc.bst Summary description: RSC Journals BibTex file License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Minor modification of pccp.bst, to conform to most RSC journals (e.g. Dalton Trans.). Issue number removed from output, and minor improvements to incolletion. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/misc/rsc.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 package update: LaTexMng
by CTAN Announcements 05 Apr '06

05 Apr '06

A package has been updated on 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: LaTexMng (version 2.0) Author's name: Petr Vabishchevich Location on CTAN: /systems/win32/latexmng Summary description: Upgrade of LaTexMng License type: shareware Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LaTexMng Version 2.0 LaTeX is a high-quality typesetting system, with features designed for the production of technical and scientific documentation. LaTeX is the de facto standard for the communication and publication of scientific documents. LaTexMng is easy to use product of integrated development environment software for Windows. This application integrates all the tools, needed to the creation of LaTeX documents. LaTexMng requires Windows 2000 or XP, or later editions of MS Windows. We do not warrant that the software is error free. This is not free software. Subject to the terms below, you are hereby. Licensed to use Shareware Version of this software for evaluation purposes without charge for a period of 30 days. The free evaluation period starts at the moment of installation of the software. New features in version 2.0: * Support of work with BibTeX files; * Insertion of TeX-objects (commands, symbols) with new toolbox; * Preparation ibitem elements for thebibliography environments of your LaTeX document with Bibliography template. Installation LaTexMng is distributed as LaTexMngSetup.exe. Run LaTexMngSetup.exe and simply follow the on-screen instructions to install LaTexMng. LaTexMng is copyright (C) 2004-2006, by VNP Comp. Contact: Home Page: http://www.latexsoft.com e-mail: latexmng(a)latexsoft.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/nonfree/systems/win32/latexmng . 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 has a new package: jneurosci
by CTAN Announcements 05 Apr '06

05 Apr '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: jneurosci Author's name: Matthias H Hennig Location on CTAN: /biblio/bibtex/contrib/jneurosci Summary description: Journal of Neuroscience Bibtex Style License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a slightly modified version of the namedplus style, which fully conforms with the Journal of Neuroscience citation style. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/jneurosci . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN package upgrade: dvipng
by CTAN Announcements 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

A package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: dvipng Author's name: Jan-Åke Larsson Location on CTAN: /dviware/dvipng Summary description: A fast DVI to PNG/GIF converter. License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This program makes PNG graphics from DVI files as obtained from TeX and its relatives. The 1.8 release adds the possibility to include bitmapped images (PNG, JPEG, and GIF), and changes PostScript inclusion so that the image is not cropped to the boundingbox (unless requested) and has a transparent background. From now on, for performance reasons, the output image will be truecolor if an image is included. The output quality is substantially improved when using the Freetype font library. Freetype hinting has previously been disabled in dvipng (because of substandard output from the Computer Modern font), but from the 1.8 release onwards, hinting will be enabled in a mode that prefers shape over contrast (which works well with the Computer Modern font). In short, the output quality is visibly better when Freetype is available than when it isn't. The release also fixes a few bugs and enhances the internal color cache for better performance. Report any bugs you find, see README for instructions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/dviware/dvipng . 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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