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CTAN package update: pst.labo
by CTAN Announcements 23 Oct '05

23 Oct '05

Herbert Voss writes: > I have uploaded pst-labo.tgz tu the UK mirror. > Please replace the files with the ones in > /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-labo/ > > > The documentation of pst-labo, a PSTricks related > package for drawing various assemblies of chemical objects, > is now available in three languages: > English, French, German i've installed the replacement files for mirroring by all CTAN sites. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: lineno.sty/ednotes.sty (critical editions, revising submittings)
by CTAN Announcements 20 Oct '05

20 Oct '05

On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Uwe Lück submitted an update to the lineno and ednotes packages. The lineno package adds line numbers to selected paragraphs with reference possible through the LaTeX ef and pageref cross reference mechanism. Ednotes is a macro package for typesetting scholarly critical editions. It provides macros for critical edition typesetting with LaTeX, including support for line numbers and layers of footnotes. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ednotes macros/latex/contrib/lineno Summary description: lineno.sty v4.32: bug fix License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mainly, a bug in vertical spacing has been fixed -- when a math display or a list meets a heading, or a heading meets a sub-heading [addvspace had been disabled]. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: pstricks-add
by CTAN Announcements 20 Oct '05

20 Oct '05

Herbert Voss writes: > I uploaded pstricks-add.tgz to the uk mirror. > Please replace all files with the ones in > /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pstricks-add/ > > this new version has > - use def instead of edef for X|YAxisLabel > - make psgraph correct use of the origin values > - added a new macro psLNode and lput for a > node label with absolute position > - moving the basic arrows into pstricks.tex )-(,]-[ > bugfix for hook arrow > - fix a bug with trigLabels and showorigin i've installed the file and updated the catalogue. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package updated: pst-barcode
by CTAN Announcements 20 Oct '05

20 Oct '05

Herbert Voss writes: > I uploaded pst-barcode.tgz to the uk mirror. > Please replace all files in > /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-barcode/ > > this new version has > - A checksum was added to the Code 2 of 5 encoder. > - A checksum was added to the Code 11 encoder. > - adding a PS-option width for the codes i've installed the new version and updated the catalogue. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: amsldoc-vi
by CTAN Announcements 19 Oct '05

19 Oct '05

On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Reinhard Kotucha submitted an update for the AMSLaTeX Manual v2.0, Vietnamese edition. to CTAN. Location on CTAN: info/amslatex/vietnamese. Description: AMSLaTeX Manual v2.0, Vietnamese edition. Original Author: American Mathematical Society Translator: Ky Anh <kyanh(a)o2.pl> License of the translation: LPPL, version 1.3 or newer, according to http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: dante.ctan.org upload: pdftex 1.30.4
by CTAN Announcements 18 Oct '05

18 Oct '05

On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 Martin Schröder submitted a new version of pdftex Location on CTAN: /systems/pdftex Summary description: fixed some bugs License type: gpl > Announcement text: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The pdfTeX team is happy to announce the release of a new stable version: > > =========================================================================== > pdfTeX 1.30.4 > =========================================================================== > > This is the announcement of pdfTeX 1.30.4, an extended version of TeX that > can create PDF directly from TeX source files and enhance the result of TeX > typesetting with the help of PDF. > > =========================================================================== > Main changes of pdfTeX 1.30.4 > =========================================================================== > > - bugfix: whitespaces in filenames didn't work on Unix anymore (bug 377) > - bugfix: two immediates cancel themselves (bug 437) > - bugfix: wrong file name in error messages of image inclusion (bug 435) > > For complete release notes see http://www.pdftex.org/NEWS > > =========================================================================== > Legal notice / license > =========================================================================== > > pdfTeX is copyright (c) 1996-2005 Han The Thanh, <thanh(a)pdftex.org> > > pdfTeX is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the > terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software > Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later > version. > > For a complete README (with a full discussion of the license) > please look at http://www.pdftex.org/README > > =========================================================================== > The files / installation > =========================================================================== > > You should first try to get a new version of pdfTeX through your > distribution. > > If you want to compile it yourself, have a look at http://www.pdftex.org -- > there you can find links to the pdfTeX sources on CTAN. And some useful > documentation. > > =========================================================================== > Mailing lists / web pages: > =========================================================================== > > Mailing list: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdftex > > Related web pages: > http://www.pdftex.org > http://sarovar.org/projects/pdftex/ > http://www.tug.org/tex-live/ > http://www.tug.org/tetex/ > http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes > http://www.dante.de/ > http://tug.org/ > http://www.pragma-ade.com/ > > Have fun! > > Martin Schröder (martin(a)pdftex.org) for the pdfTeX team, October 2005 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: fonts from GUST on dante/incoming
by CTAN Announcements 17 Oct '05

17 Oct '05

On Sat, 8 Oct 2005, Staszek Wawrykiewicz submitted a number of font files to CTAN: > ------ > Package: antt > Version: 2.04 > Author: Janusz Marian Nowacki > License: GFNL (GUST-FONT-NOSOURCE-LICENSE based on LPPL) > Location on CTAN: fonts/antt/ > > The current release (v. 2.04) corrected some glyphs, > normalized again .map end .enc files names, and also added the support > for mathematical typeseting in LaTeX. > > ------ > Package: iwona > Version: 0.92 > Author: Janusz Marian Nowacki > License: GFNL (GUST-FONT-NOSOURCE-LICENSE based on LPPL) > Location on CTAN: fonts/iwona/ > > Iwona is a two-element sans-serif typeface. It was created as an alternative > version of the Kurier typeface, which was designed in 1975 for a diploma > in typeface design at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts under the supervision > of Roman Tomaszewski. > > Kurier was designed for linotype typesetting of newspapers and similar > periodicals. The Iwona fonts are an alternative version of the Kurier fonts. > The difference lies in the absence of ink traps which typify the Kurier font. > > This distribution contains a significantly extended set of characters covering > the following modern alphabets: latin (including Vietnamese), cyrillic and > greek as well as a number of additional symbols (including mathematical > symbols). The fonts are prepared in Type 1 and OpenType formats. For use > with TeX the following encoding files have been prepared: T1 (ec), T2 (abc), > and OT2 -- cirilic, T5 (Vietnamese), OT4, QX, texansi and nonstandard (IL2 > for the Czech fonts), as well as supporting macros and files defining fonts > for LaTeX. The doc/fonts/iwona folder contains examples for plain TeX as well > as for LaTeX and an example of typesetting mathematics. > > > ------ > Package: kurier > Version: 0.92 > Author: Janusz Marian Nowacki > License: GFNL (GUST-FONT-NOSOURCE-LICENSE based on LPPL) > Location on CTAN: fonts/kurier/ > > Kurier is a two-element sans-serif typeface. It was designed for a diploma > in typeface design at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts under the supervision > of Roman Tomaszewski. The result was presented with other Polish typefaces > at the ATypI conference in Warsaw in 1975. > > Kurier was intended for linotype typesetting of newspapers and similar > periodicals. The design goals included resistance to technological processes > destructive to the letter shapes. As a result, amongst others, the typeface > distinguishes itself through intra- and extra-letter white spaces as well > as ink traps at cross-sections of some elements constituting the characters. > > This distribution contains a significantly extended set of characters covering > the following modern alphabets: latin (including Vietnamese), cyrillic and > greek as well as a number of additional symbols (including mathematical > symbols). The fonts are prepared in Type 1 and OpenType formats. For use with > TeX the following encoding files have been prepared: T1 (ec), T2 (abc), and > OT2 -- cirilic, T5 (Vietnamese), OT4, QX, texansi and nonstandard (IL2 for > the Czech fonts), as well as supporting macros and files defining fonts for > LaTeX. The doc/fonts/kurier folder contains examples for plain TeX as well > as for LaTeX and an example of typesetting mathematics. Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: tabularht v2.0
by CTAN Announcements 17 Oct '05

17 Oct '05

On Sun, 16 Oct 2005, Heiko Oberdiek submitted an update to his tabularht package. The tabularht package defines some environments that add a height specification to tabular and array environments. The default set of new environments take a value for their height in the first argument: defined environments are: tabularht, tabularht* and arrayht. If package <xref refid='tabularx'>tabularx</xref> is also loaded, the package also defines environments tabularxht and tabularxht*. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek/ License remains LPPL 1.3. > Changes: > * New option vlines with drives pdftex and dvips. > It tries to solve the problem of interrupted vertical > lines in tabularht environments, if the space between > the rows is inserted, e.g. by oalign{vspace{...}}. > * New commands for interrow space with support for > option vlines: > interrowspace, interrowfill, interrowstart ...interrowstop > * The height of the table can also be given by spread. Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: dante.ctan.org upload: xcolor 2.06
by CTAN Announcements 17 Oct '05

17 Oct '05

On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Uwe Kern submitted an update to the xcolor package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/xcolor/ Summary description: Driver-independent color extensions for LaTeX and pdfLaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 2005/10/15 v2.06 > * New features: > - color model `wave' for (approximate) visualisation of light > wavelengths, still somewhat experimental; > - pseudo-model `ps' for colors defined by literal PostScript code > in conjunction with `pstricks and `dvips'; an illustrative > example for a gamma-correction approach is given in xcolor2.tex; > - substitutecolormodel command for replacement of missing or > faulty driver-specific color models; > - improved detection and handling of driver-specific color models; > - `dvipdfmx' and `xetex' options to support these drivers; > - generic driver test file xcolor4.tex. > * Changes: > - XC@strip@comma doesn't generate a trailing space anymore, which > improves also the output of the `testcolors' environment. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN submission: Word2LaTeX
by CTAN Announcements 14 Oct '05

14 Oct '05

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Ingo H. de Boer submitted the new package word2latex to CTAN. The wsW2LTX library is an application programming interface (API) designed to translate a MS Word document to LaTeX and converts MS Word documents up to version 9, which is MS Word 2000. The library is based on libwv and on several other - mostly Unix based - libraries. Location on CTAN: support/word2latex License type: nosource Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: WinShell 3.0
by CTAN Announcements 14 Oct '05

14 Oct '05

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Ingo H. de Boer submitted version 3.0 of the winshell package. Location on CTAN: systems/win32/winshell Summary description: WinShell is a free integrated development environment (IDE) for easy working with LaTeX or TeX. License type: nosource Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WinShell is a free integrated development environment (IDE) for easy working with LaTeX or TeX. It includes a text editor, different tool bars and user configuration options. It is NOT a LaTeX system. An additional LaTeX package for Windows is needed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: movie15
by CTAN Announcements 14 Oct '05

14 Oct '05

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Alexander Grahn submitted an update to the movie15 package. This package defines includemovie with PDF-1.5 compatibility. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/movie15/ Summary description: multimedia inclusion package License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.) The image file argument of the `poster' option has become optional with this update. This new variant of the `poster' option causes the player plugin of Adobe Reader to show the very first frame of the movie or to show the frame at the beginning of a movie segment, which has been specified with the `startat' and `endat' options. 2.) A new user macro has been added: movieref It allows embedded movies and sounds to be referenced from any location within the document. `movieref' creates a hyperlink to either stop, pause or resume the media, or to restart it at different settings, such as frame rate, volume and start/end positions. Furthermore, clicking the hyperlink opens the page containing the media it is pointing to. 3.) Compatibility commands `movie' and `hyperlinkmovie' have been added such that `movie15' can be used as a replacement for Till Tantau's `multimedia' package, which is part of his Beamer-Class. The benefits are fully embeddable media files and more accepted media formats. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: outerhbox
by CTAN Announcements 10 Oct '05

10 Oct '05

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: outerhbox Author's name: Jonathan Fine Location on CTAN: /macros/generic/misc/outerhbox.sty Summary description: outerhbox.sty - collect horizontal material for contributing to a paragraph License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Collects horizontal mode material into an hbox, suitable for later unhbox'ing into a paragraph. For use with plain, LaTeX, ConTeXt, etc. Provides outerhbox, which is roughly similar to hbox, except that material is set in outer horizontal mode. This prevents TeX from optimising away math penalties and the like, that are needed when the material is unhbox'ed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/generic/misc/outerhbox.sty . 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: pst-labo
by Robin Fairbairns 10 Oct '05

10 Oct '05

Herbert Voss writes: > I uploaded a new package pst-labo.tgz to the uk mirror. > Please create a new directory and put all files in there > > /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-labo/ > > pst-labo is a PSTricks related package for > drawing basic and complex chemical objects. > The documentation is in german, but all examples > with the source code are self explanatory. > > the authors are Denis Girou, Manuel Luque, > Christophe Jorssen and Herbert Voss I've installed the package as requested, and updated the catalogue. Thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: pdf-trans 2.1
by CTAN Announcements 10 Oct '05

10 Oct '05

On Sat, 8 Oct 2005, Staszek Wawrykiewicz submitted an update to the pdf-trans package. Version: 2.1 Author: Pawe{l} Jackowski License: Public Domain Location on CTAN: macros/generic/pdf-trans/ A set of macros for various transformations of TeX boxes (based on plain and pdfeTeX primitives). It was initially inspired by trans.tex (BOP, bop(a)bop.com.pl), remade to work with pdfTeX. News: Version 2.1 added some new macros: - ransround <0..4> sets pdf dimen rounding precision - oxgobble <box> macro swallows <box> and returns hbox{} Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: powerdot v1.2
by CTAN Announcements 10 Oct '05

10 Oct '05

On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Hendri Adriaens submiited an uüpdate to the powerdot package. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/powerdot > powerdot v1.2: > 1) Added upen and bframe styles > 2) Simplified coding of most styles > 3) Solved some small bugs > 4) Speeded up compilations Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN submission --- mempatch v4.1 (patches for memoir class)
by Robin Fairbairns 07 Oct '05

07 Oct '05

Peter Wilson writes: > Dear Robin/CTAN, > > I have uploaded mempatch.sty and memmanadd.pdf to UK incoming. Please > put these as replacements in macros/latex/contrib/memoir. > > mempatch.sty v4.1 (2005/10/06) provides minor fixes to the memoir class, > and also new macros for typesetting captions, legends, etc., at the side of > a float in addition to the regular top and bottom positions. > > memmandadd.pdf is an addendum to the manual (memman) for memoir and > includes descriptions of the latest macros. i've installed the files as requested, and updated the catalogue with the new patch number. Peter adds (for the benefit of his users): > In a few days I will be offline, not returning until early November, so > put any questions to the comp.text.tex newsgroup rather than directly to me. thanks for the upload -- have a good time away! Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: pst-eucl
by CTAN Announcements 07 Oct '05

07 Oct '05

The package described here was installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon appear at your favorite mirror. Again, thanks, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: pst-eucl Author's name: RODRIGUEZ Dominique Location on CTAN: /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-eucl Summary description: euclidian geometry with pstricks License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The pst-eucl package allow the drawing of Euclidean geometric figures using TeX pstricks macros for specifying mathematical constraints. It is thus possible to build point using common transformations or intersections. The use of coordinates is limited to points which controlled the figure. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-eucl . 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: pst-slpe
by CTAN Announcements 05 Oct '05

05 Oct '05

Herbert Voss writes: > I have uploaded pst-slpe.tgz to the UK mirror. > Please replace all files with the ones in > /graphics/pstricks/pst-slpe/ > > > PSTricks contains the pst-grad package, which provides a gradient > fill style for arbitrary shapes but it has some deficiencies. > pst-slpe instead has some more features: > 1. permitts the user to specify an arbitrary number of colours, > along with the points at which these are to be reached. > 2. conversion between RGB and HSV is done behind the > scene. > 3. provides concentric and radial gradients. > 4. with version 1.1 pst-slpe uses the xkeyval package for the > extended key handling. i've installed the new files as requested, and updated the catalogue. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package submission: ifdraft v1.0
by CTAN Announcements 05 Oct '05

05 Oct '05

On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Heiko Oberdiek submitted a new package called ifdraft to CTAN. > License: LPPL 1.3. > > Excerpt from the doc part inside the file: > > % Function: Switch for option draft. > % > % Use: usepackage{ifdraft} > % ifdraft{<draft case>}{<final case>} > % ifoptiondraft{<option draft is given}% > % {<option draft is not given} > % ifoptionfinal{<option final is given}% > % {<option final is not given} > % > % If none of the options draft or final is used, > % then this package assumes final as default setting > % for ifdraft. [...] > % > % If either draft or final is used, ifdraft is > % enough to distinguish between these cases. > % [...] Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update --- mempatch.sty v4.0a
by CTAN Announcements 04 Oct '05

04 Oct '05

Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded mempatch.sty to UK incoming. Please use this to replace > the current macros/latex/contrib/memoir/mempatch.sty. > > mempatch v4.0a fixes a problem with the starred section commands in the > memoir class. I will shortly be issuing a further mempatch with added > functions, so if you don't use section*, etc, you could wait for the next > patch. i've installed the package; thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: svninfo
by CTAN Announcements 04 Oct '05

04 Oct '05

On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Achim D. Brucker submitted an update to the svninfo package. Location on CTAN: /tex/macros/latex/contrib/svninfo/ Summary description: A LaTeX package for accessing svn keywords License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The svninfo package is used to extract the revision and file information provided by the subversion (svn) revision control system and provides commands for accessign them within LaTeX documents. Also support files for the latex2html converter is provided. Note, that this is an adaption of the rcsinfo package for rcs. So, if you know rcsinfo, you will also be familar with svninfo. This version adds support for short $ID:$ keywords with missing owner information, i.e, generated by an anonymous commit. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: algorithm2e
by CTAN Announcements 04 Oct '05

04 Oct '05

This package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: algorithm2e Author's name: Christophe Fiorio Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/algorithm2e Summary description: Floating algorithm environment with algorithmic keywords (re)definition feature License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Algorithm2e is an environment for writing algorithms. Release 3.9 fixes all the known bugs, references problem with hyperref and add several new features as sidecomment. An algorithm is defined as a floating object like figures. It provides macros that allow you to create different sorts of key words, thus a set of predefined key words is given. You can also change the typography of the keywords. The environment allows you to have vertical lines delimiting block of instructions. It defines also different sort of algorithms such as Procedure or Function allowing name of this functions to be reused in common text or other algorithms. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/algorithm2e . 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 7.40 - TeXWord and DVIEW improvements, LaTeX update.
by CTAN Announcements 03 Oct '05

03 Oct '05

On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Basil K. Malyshev submitted an update to the bakoma package. Location on CTAN: systems/win32/bakoma Most noticeable improvements are: * Updated most of LaTeX packages. * Added new templates for: PowerDot, Beamer, LLNCS. * `Window|Docking Source/Console Windows' (new TeXWord option) defines way to split (vertical/horizontal) main window between page window and source text windows. * Fixing problem with loading many dictionaries in TeXWord. * Fixed problems with some PSTricks packages (PST-light3d, PST-math, etc.) * Fixed problems in importing some GIF and TIFF files. * Refined key binding in TeXWord. More details about changes and another bug fixing see at: <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes7.html> > -------------------- About BaKoMa TeX 7.40 > ------------------ > > BaKoMa TeX 7.40 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/> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: ednotes/lineno (critical editions)
by CTAN Announcements 03 Oct '05

03 Oct '05

On Sun, 2 Oct 2005 Uwe Lück submitted updates to the lineno and ednotes packages. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ednotes/ macros/latex/contrib/lineno/ Summary description: Updates: apparatus hook, modulo refinement ... License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Major achievements: 1. ednotes.sty offers PrecedeLevelWith for visually identifying apparatuses (think of pages where only one of them appears) or for controlling the shape of one or another apparatus paragraph (maybe depending on apparatus). (Requires manyfoot.sty v1.9!) 2. lineno.sty offers modulolinenumbers* and a package option `modulo*' for printing first line number after interrupting editor's text, regardless of the modulo. 3. To prevent lemma code from working in the apparatus (`fol...', e.g.), ednotes.sty now offers otinnote (replacing otthislemma, now without `undefined c...'). lineno.sty v4.31: documenting lineno.tex/pdf have been debugged. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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New CTAN package: bibleref
by CTAN Announcements 01 Oct '05

01 Oct '05

Nicola Talbot writes: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: bibleref > Author's name: Nicola Talbot > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/bibleref > Summary description: Format bible citations > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The bibleref package can be used to ensure consistent formatting of > bible citations. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i've installed the package, and catalogued it. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: xcolor 2.05
by CTAN Announcements 01 Oct '05

01 Oct '05

On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 Uwe Kern submitted an update to the xcolor package, which implements driver-independent color extensions for LaTeX and pdfLaTeX. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/xcolor/ Summary description: Driver-independent color extensions for LaTeX and pdfLaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2005/09/30 v2.05 * New features: - `testcolors' environment helps to test colors in different models, showing both the visual result and the model-specific parameters; - extractcolorspecs puts model/color specification into two separate commands, as opposed to extractcolorspec; - color names `pink' and `olive' added to the set of predefined colors. * Bugfixes: - definecolor{foo}{named}{bar} did not work in v2.04. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: cam.ctan.org upload: mcaption package
by CTAN Announcements 01 Oct '05

01 Oct '05

Stephan Hennig writes: > Name of contribution: mcaption package > Author's name: Stephan Hennig > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/mcaption > Summary description: Put captions in margin > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This package provides a margincap environment to put figure > or table captions in the margin. See the documentation to > learn more about this package. > > v2.2 Changes: > * Provide package options bottom and top. > * Fixed bug with one sided documents. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i've installed the package and pushed it out to the other sites, and i've updated the catalogue. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package upgrade: mcaption
by CTAN Announcements 29 Sep '05

29 Sep '05

Stephan Hennig writes: > Name of contribution: mcaption package > Author's name: Stephan Hennig > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/mcaption > Summary description: Put captions in margin > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This package provides a margincap environment to put figure > or table captions in the margin. See the documentation to > learn more about this package. > > v2.1 > Changes: * Now works with standard classes. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i've installed the new version and updated the catalogue. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN location movements
by CTAN Announcements 29 Sep '05

29 Sep '05

In response to various problems we (or users) have encountered, the following changes of location have taken place: macros/latex/contrib/powerdot -> macros/latex/contrib/powerdot/distrib macros/latex/contrib/powerdot-contrib -> macros/latex/contrib/powerdot/contrib macros/latex/contrib/carlisle/textcase.* -> macros/latex/contrib/textcase Also, _files_ (not directories) macros/generic/* have moved to macros/generic/misc/*, except where the package has gained a directory of its own. (For example, there is a new directory macros/generic/tables.) A start has been made on similar moves in macros/plain/contrib and biblio/bibtex/contrib; there's one file in macros/latex209/contrib that needs to move to ./misc, too. The catalogue is updated as each move is made. Catalogue changes will propagate (at worst) on a daily timescale (according to the time zones in which individual copies are held). Note: not everything that's moved appears in the catalogue: there's just too much of it. It may well be that the whole of CTAN is properly catalogued by the end of this century... Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: vntex-3
by CTAN Announcements 28 Sep '05

28 Sep '05

On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Reinhard Kotucha submitted a new version of the vntex package. Author's name: Han The Thanh Location on CTAN: /language/vietnamese/vntex Summary description: Macros and fonts for typesetting Vietnamese License type: LPPL/GPL VnTeX is a package which supports typesetting Vietnamese. It provides macro packages for LaTeX and plain TeX as well as fonts. Support is also provided for tex4ht. Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: endheads 1.15
by CTAN Announcements 28 Sep '05

28 Sep '05

On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 John Burt submitted an update to the endheads package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/endheads Summary description: Provides running headers of the form Notes to pp. xx--yy'' for endnotes License type: dfsg Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- When you reset the endnotes by chapter, endheads 1.15 adds a centered line reading Chapter <number> <title> to the notes at the point where a new chapter begins. Endheads 1.15 also tests to see whether such a line is too close to the bottom margin. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: preview 11.81
by CTAN Announcements 28 Sep '05

28 Sep '05

On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Ralf Angeli submitted an update to the preview package. License: GPL Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/preview/ Here are the release notes: The main purpose of the preview package is the extraction of selected elements from a LaTeX source, like formulas or images, into separate pages of a DVI file. This works with DVI files postprocessed by either Dvips and Ghostscript or dvipng, but it also works when you are using PDFTeX for generating PDF files. Current uses of the package include the preview-latex package for WYSIWYG functionality in the AUCTeX editing environment, generation of previews in LyX, as part of the operation of the ps4pdf package, the tbook XML system and some other tools. The preview package is being developed along and distributed with preview-latex. With the integration of preview-latex into AUCTeX as of version 11.81, the preview package became part of AUCTeX as well. It can therefore be obtained as part of AUCTeX distribution files available at <URL:ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/auctex/>. CTAN provides the standalone preview package at <CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/preview>. For more information about the preview package please refer to the home page of AUCTeX at <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/>. Version 11.81 of the preview package is mainly a bug fix release accompanying the new version of AUCTeX and adopting its versioning scheme. Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update --- memoir class
by CTAN Announcements 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded memoir.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please put the contents > into macros/latex/contrib/memoir. The distribution is under the LPPL. > > Memoir is a comprehensive class supporting technical books, novels, > poetry, articles...Body font sizes are 9, 10, 11, 12 14 and 17pt. The class > provides many convenient methods for designing your own document layout. > > Changes in version 1.618 (2005/09/25) > o All patches from mempatch.sty v3.12 have been included > o Various minor new facilities > o ofiles now works properly > o Now supports making a glossary (or several if needed) > o New edition of memmanadd.pdf --- the addendum to the user manual > o New version of mempatch.sty (v4.0) which includes no code as it's not > needed > o NO CHANGE TO THE MANUAL (memman.pdf) i've installed the new/replaced files, and updated the catalogue. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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A new package on CTAN: mcaption
by CTAN Announcements 26 Sep '05

26 Sep '05

Stephan Hennig writes: > Name of contribution: mcaption package > Author's name: Stephan Hennig > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/mcaption > Summary description: Put captions in margin > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This package provides an mcaption environment which puts > figure or table captions in the margin. The package only > works with one of the great KOMA-Script document classes > scrartcl, scrreprt or scrbook. See the documentation to > learn more about this package. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i've installed the package and pushed it out to the rest of the world; i've also made a catalogue entry for it. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: BibTexMng, version 5.0
by CTAN Announcements 26 Sep '05

26 Sep '05

The package described below has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: BibTexMng, version 5.0 Author's name: Petr Vabishchevich Location on CTAN: /nonfree/biblio/bibtex/utils/BibTexMng/ Summary description: BibTexMng is a very easy to use product of bibliographic software for Windows. License type: shareware Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- New features in version 5.0: * Dialogue Find Files is added * Printing all references in an existing BibTeX database is possible with standard Windows commands * You can use clipboard in any Windows application and insert separate fragments into BibTeX record * The contextual menu for a choice of BibTeX fields * Various types of the interface * Small color syntax highlighting ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/nonfree/biblio/bibtex/utils/BibTexMng/ . 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 upload: tabularht v1.0 and tabularkv v1.0
by CTAN Announcements 26 Sep '05

26 Sep '05

On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Heiko Oberdiek submitted two new packages to CTAN: tabularht v1.0 tabularkv v1.0 Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek/ License: LPPL 1.3 >From the README of tabularht: % Function: This package defines some environments that adds % a height specification to tabular and array. % % Use: usepackage{tabularht} % % The package provides the following environments % that extend the tabular/array environment by % a height specification as first argument: % * tabularht, tabularht* % * arrayht % * tabularxht, tabularxht* % (if package tabularx is loaded) % % Example: % documentclass{article} % usepackage{tabularht} % % egin{document} % fbox{% % egin{tabularht*}{1in}{4in}{@{}l@{extracolsep{fill}}r@{}} % upper left corner & upper right corner\% % oalign{vfill}% % multicolumn{2}{@{}c@{}}{bounding box}\ % oalign{vfill}% % lower left corner & lower right corner\ % end{tabularht*}% % } % end{document} >From the README of tabularkv: % Function: This package adds a key value interface for tabular % by the new environment tabularkv. Thus the TeX % source code looks better by named parameters, % especially if package tabularht is used. % % Use: usepackage{tabularkv} % % The package provides the environment tabularkv % that takes an optional argument with tabular % parameters: % * width (width specification, tabular* is used) % * x (width specification, tabularx is used, % package tabularx must be loaded) % * height (height specification, see package tabularht) % * valign (vertical positioning, this option is optional) % values: top, bottom, center % % Parameter valign optional, the following are % equivalent: % egin{tabularkv}[..., valign=top]{l}...end{tabularkv} % egin{tabularkv}[...][t]{l}...end{tabularkv} % % Example: % documentclass{article} % usepackage{tabularkv} % % egin{document} % fbox{% % egin{tabularkv}[ % width=4in, % height=1in, % valign=center % ]{@{}l@{extracolsep{fill}}r@{}} % upper left corner & upper right corner\% % oalign{vfill}% % multicolumn{2}{@{}c@{}}{bounding box}\ % oalign{vfill}% % lower left corner & lower right corner\ % end{tabularkv}% % } % end{document} Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: TeXshade v1.12
by CTAN Announcements 26 Sep '05

26 Sep '05

On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Eric Beitz submitted an update to the texshade package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/texshade/ Summary description: Update of the DNA and protein sequence alignment LaTeX package TeXshade License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is version 1.12 of TeXshade, a package for setting sophisticated DNA and protein sequence alignments in LaTeX. The update contains various bug fixes. Further, a new optional parameter has been introduced into the showconsensus command that allows one to color shade the consensus sequence according to the degree of sequence conservation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: xcolor 2.04
by CTAN Announcements 24 Sep '05

24 Sep '05

On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 Uwe Kern submitted an update to the xcolor package. xcolor provides easy driver-independent access to several kinds of color tints, shades, tones, and mixes of arbitrary colors. It allows a user to select a document-wide target color model and offers complete tools for conversion between eight color models. Additionally, there is a command for alternating row colors plus repeated non-aligned material (like horizontal lines) in tables. Colors can be mixed like color{red!30!green!40!blue}. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/xcolor/ License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2005/09/23 v2.04 * New features: - preparation for usage of additional - driver-provided - color models; - `pstricks' users may now specify explicit color parameters within psset and related commands, e.g. psset{linecolor=[rgb]{1,0,0}}; an illustrative example is given in xcolor2.tex. * Changes: - color model names sanitized (i.e., turned to catcode 12) throughout the package; - @namelet command deprecated because of name clash with `memoir' - please use XC@let@cc instead (more XC@let@.. commands are available as well); - simplified color conversion code by using the new XC@ifxcase command; - some minor changes to internal macros. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: makeplot
by CTAN Announcements 24 Sep '05

24 Sep '05

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon ===================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: makeplot Author's name: Jose-Emilio Vila-Forcen Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/makeplot Summary description: Easy plots from Matlab to LaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I'd like to announce the availability of my LaTeX2e makeplot Package. COPYRIGHT 2005 by Jose-Emilio Vila-Forcen (jemilio(a)ieee.org) This program can be redistributed and/or modified under the terms of the LaTeX Project Public License Distributed from CTAN INSTALLATION: - call 'latex makeplot.ins' and copy the makeplot.sty - file into a path searched by LaTeX. DOCUMENTATION: - execute the following list of commands to create the PDF: latex makeplot.dtx makeindex -s gind.ist -o makeplot.ind makeplot.idx makeindex -s gglo.ist -o makeplot.gls makeplot.glo latex makeplot.dtx pdflatex makeplot.dtx Writing papers, it is very normal that the result of some Matlab simulations will be displayed. Since existing approaches to create EPS files from matlab (laprint, print -eps,...) does not satisfy all my requirements of fonts, quality, portability and to be able to perform fast small changes, I decided to create this package which could be seen as an extension to the PsTricks family. This package creates easily plots taking the data from files, and allows enough configuration to fit most of the cases. In the documentation it is described the requirements of the data files and how to generate EPS files from Matlab. Files of the `makeplot' package: README This file makeplot.dtx Sourcecode, example file & documentation makeplot.ins Installation script generating the source and an example makeplot.pdf PDF Version of the documentation data1.mat data2.mat Data files for the example. They could be generated using the dtx but I don't know how to avoid 'endinput' at the end ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/makeplot . 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: The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List
by FTP archive maintainer 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

The package below has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks, Scott, for the on-going contribution, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List Author's name: Scott Pakin Location on CTAN: /tex-archive/info/symbols/comprehensive Summary description: Samples of thousands of symbols which are accessible from LaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbols List is an organized list of 3300 symbols commonly available to LaTeX users. Some of these symbols are guaranteed to be available in every TeX distribution. Others require font files that come with some, but not all, TeX distributions. The rest require font files that must be downloaded explicitly from CTAN (http://www.ctan.org) and installed. The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbols List currently showcases symbols from 83 separate typefaces. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/symbols/comprehensive . 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 . _______________________________________________ Ctan mailing list Ctan(a)dante.de https://lists.dante.de/mailman/listinfo/ctan

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CTAN upload: graphicx-psmin
by CTAN Announcements 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Hendri Adriaens submitted a new package graphicx-psmin to CTAN. This package is an extension of the standard graphics bundle and provides a way to include repeated postscript graphics (ps, eps) only once in a postscript document. This provides a way to get smaller postscript documents when having, for instance, a logo on every page. This package only works when post-processed with dvips, which should at least have version 5.95b! The difference for the pdf file is minimal (as ghostscript already includes only a single copy of graphics files). Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/graphicx-psmin License: LPPL Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN ahs a new package: powerdot-doc-vi
by CTAN Announcements 21 Sep '05

21 Sep '05

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: powerdot-doc-vi Author's name: kyanh Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/powerdot-contrib/doc-vi/ Summary description: powerdot documentation (vietnamese version) License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- powerdot documentation (vietnamese version). the main parts are translated from powerdot.dtx, powerdot's documentation ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/powerdot-contrib/doc-v… . 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: dvisvgm
by CTAN Announcements 21 Sep '05

21 Sep '05

On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 Martin Gieseking submitted a new version of the dvisvgm package. Location on CTAN: /dviware/dvisvgm Summary description: new release of dvisvgm License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dvisvgm is a command line utility for converting DVI files to SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics). The latest release 0.4.2 fixes some bugs and introduces options for SVG transformations (rotation, translation, scaling etc.) dvisvgm has been sucessfully tested on various Linux (teTeX) and Windows (MikTeX) systems. Precompiled versions for Windows/MikTeX can be downloaded from the project homepage (see README for further information). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Changebar release 3.5 available
by Johannes L. Braams 20 Sep '05

20 Sep '05

Hi, Last night I have prepared changebar release 3.5 for transfer to CTAN. This release has had a couple of long standing problems fixed by Piet van Oostrum. The major featres are: * The changebar can now be used in conjunction with pdfLaTeX * The changebar package works with both the color and xcolor pacakages * The problems with bars appearing in unexpected places have been resolved * A couple of sample files with their pdf output have been added to the distribution. The files were contributed by Piet van Oostrum. Kind regards, Johannes Braams

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CTAN has a new package: otftofd
by CTAN Announcements 19 Sep '05

19 Sep '05

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and is now making its way to your favorite mirror. Thank you for the contribution, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: otftofd Author's name: Geoffrey Washburn Location on CTAN: /fonts/utilities/otftofd Summary description: otftofd is a script to help with the task of generating a NFSS font description file and a map file from a large collection of OpenType fonts. License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- otftofd is a script I wrote to help the task of generating a NFSS font description file and a map file from a large collection of OpenType fonts. In particular, when considering Adobe Pro Optical fonts, there is almost a combinatorial nightmare when attempting to create these files by hand. This software is still probably alpha quality and mostly designed specifically for Adobe font conventions. It currently has experimental support for generating swashed versions of a font and fonts consisting of ornaments. There is some preliminary support for selecting encodings, but it is far from complete. The tool has been mostly tested with the T1 Cork encoding. For more information about using the tool, invoke it with the --help option. otftofd is written in CaSH (Caml Shell) and additionally requires Eddie Kohler's excellent LCDF Typetools. ofttofd was originally called adobe-font-tool, but at the suggestion of CTAN it was renamed to hopefully be more descriptive. otftofd is licensed under the FSF General Public License. Do not hesitate to send me bug reports or fixes, other improvements, or suggestions. Contact me via e-mail at washburn(a)acm.org. There is a public, read-only, Subversion repository for otftofd at https://svn.cis.upenn.edu/svnroot/otftofd/. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/utilities/otftofd . 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: bibhtml 1.2
by CTAN Announcements 19 Sep '05

19 Sep '05

Norman Gray writes: > Name of contribution: bibhtml 1.2 > Author's name: Norman Gray > Location on CTAN: biblio/bibtex/contrib/bibhtml/ (replacing current version) > Summary description: Perl script and .bst files for generating HTML > bibliographies from BibTeX > License type: gpl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Version 1.2 replaces beta versions; plainhtml.bst extended to support > @webpage entry type. See release notes for details. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i have installed the revised package, and updated the catalogue. thanks for the upload Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: powerdot v1.1
by CTAN Announcements 19 Sep '05

19 Sep '05

On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Hendri Adriaens submitted a new version of the powerdot package. Powerdot is a presentation class for LaTeX that allows for the quick and easy development of professional presentations. It comes with many tools that enhance presentations and aid the presenter. Summary of features: - portrait and landscape slides; - screen ratio, a4 paper and letter paper; - simple interface for making presentations fast; - DVI, PS or PDF output can be used for viewing; - powerful template system to easily develop new styles; - easy overlays creations; - personal notes; - handout mode; - black slides. The class currently comes with 6 different styles, but work is being done to add more styles. Changes for version 1.1: powerdot v1.1, important: We have switched from `size=10' to `size=10pt'. Don't forget to update your presentation(s) after installing the new class. Short overview of changes: 1) blackslide options adds hyperlink to slide and section titles 2) Added elcolors, aggie, husky and sailor styles 3) Added tocsecindent and tocslideindent options 4) Added graphical examples of styles to documentation 5) Added LyX layout, description and example 6) Changed size=10 to size=10pt 7) Extended FAQ 8) Fixed some small bugs 9) Improved tycja, ciment and fyma styles 10) Improved section title handling --- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: pstricks-add
by Robin Fairbairns 18 Sep '05

18 Sep '05

Herbert Voss writes: > I've uploaded pstricks-add.tgz to the UK mirror. > please replace all files with the ones in > /CTAN/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pstricks/ > > v 2.61 2005-09-08 fix bug in psbrace > v 2.60 2005-08-28 added some more line fill styles with > increasing linesep and linewidth i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: pst-barcode
by CTAN Announcements 16 Sep '05

16 Sep '05

Herbert Voss writes: > I have uploaded pst-barcode.tgz to the UK mirror. Please > replace all files with the ones in > /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-barcode/ > > - Placement problems with the border of EAN-2 and EAN-5 > symbols have been fixed by amending the baseline of the bars. > - Options were added that allow precise adjustments to be > made to the ratio of bar widths and space widths. > - added Kix barcode for Dutch mail i've installed the package as requested (no catalogue update). thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: minitoc
by CTAN Announcements 16 Sep '05

16 Sep '05

Jean-Pierre F. Drucbert writes: > Name of contribution: minitoc > Author's name: Jean-Pierre F. Drucbert > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/minitoc > Summary description: mini-tables of contents (figure, tables) for > each chapter, part or section > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Update of the minitoc package to version 43. > First version in .ins/.dtx format. > Added new commands. > Added new language files (.mld). > Fixed several bugs. > Improved the hints option. > Improved documentation.view m*.dtx. > Added scripts to make build the package and its documentation. Added > INSTALL and a chapter about installation. > > The administrative trivia are in the `catalog' file. I've installed the new version and updated the catalogue. Thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update --- ledparpatch.sty v0.4
by CTAN Announcements 16 Sep '05

16 Sep '05

Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded ledparpatch.sty to UK incoming. Please use this to > replace the current macros/latex/contrib/ledmac/ledparpatch.sty. > > ledparpatch.sty provides patches for the ledpar package for typesetting > parallel versions of critical texts. > > Changes in ledparpatch v0.4 (2005/09/15) > o Fixed v0.3 problem with line numbers on right-hand pages messing up the > text alignment i've installed the file as requested: thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: CurVe
by CTAN Announcements 15 Sep '05

15 Sep '05

The package described below has been updated on tug.ctan.org and likely has already been updated at your favorite mirror. Thank you for the contribution, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: CurVe Author's name: Didier Verna Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib Summary description: A curriculum vitae class for LaTeX2e License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CurVe version 1.10 is out. New in this release: - automatic skipping of identical keys - fix alignment problem with empty prefix CurVe is a class package that hopefully will make your life easier when you want to write your CV. It provides you with a set of commands to create rubrics, entries in these rubrics etc. CurVe will then properly format your CV for you (possibly splitting it onto multiple pages, repeating the titles etc), which is usually the most painful part of CV writing. Another nice feature of CurVe is its ability to manage different CV flavors simultaneously. It is in fact often the case that you want to maintain slightly divergent versions of your CV at the same time, in order to emphasize on different aspects of your background. CurVe also comes with support for AUC-TeX. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive//macros/latex/contrib . 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: pst-gr3d
by CTAN Announcements 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

Herbert Voss writes: > I uploaded pst-gr3d.tgz to the uk ctan node. > Please replace all files with the ones in > > /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-gr3d > > `pst-gr3d' is a PSTricks package to draw three dimensional grids > with various customization > > > pst-gr3d.tex -------- > 1.34 2005/09/12 - using the extended pst-xkey instead of the > old pst-key package (hv) i've installed the new version and updated the catalogue. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: hoffset-voffset
by CTAN Announcements 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: hoffset-voffset Author's name: Anatoly A. Zabelin Location on CTAN: /support/hoffset-voffset Summary description: Hoffset-Voffset Calculator License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- How to calculate hoffset and voffset to center textbody, header and footer on a page? Your must set up some initial parameters and, of course, the extwidth. This program will compute such parameters as hoffset, voffset and extheight. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/hoffset-voffset . 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: latex2man
by CTAN Announcements 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 Jürgen Vollmer submitted an update to the latex2man package. Location on CTAN: /support/latex2man Summary description: Latex2man is a tool to translate UNIX manual pages written with LaTeX into a format understood by the UNIX man(1)-command License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Latex2man is a tool to translate UNIX manual pages written with LaTeX into a format understood by the UNIX man(1)-command. Alternatively HTML, TexInfo, or LaTeX code can be produced too. Output of parts of the text may be supressed using the conditional text feature (for this, LaTeX generation may be used). There is LaTeX package (latex2man.sty) used for writing the Man-page and a PERL script (latex2man) doing the actual translation. Changes from version 1.18 A minor bugfix: Fixed generation of verb+.foo+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN EOL announcement: ttf2tex
by Robin Fairbairns 11 Sep '05

11 Sep '05

Philipp Lehman writes: > I've placed `ttf2tex.tar.gz' in the incoming directory of the CTAN UK > node. This is my final update for obsolete/support/ttf2tex. Please > purge the old files and install the new ones. Thank you. > > END-OF-LIFE ANNOUNCEMENT > > As of September 30, 2004, ttf2tex is no longer maintained or in any > way supported by its original author. Active development of the > script has in fact already stopped in September 2002. Be advised > that, even though ttf2tex may still work, there is no support in > case of a problem and there will be no further updates. > > This is my farewell to ttf2tex. I hope it has been useful. > > ttf2tex is free software released under the GNU GPL. If anyone is > interested in working on the script, feel free to do so. It may be a > good idea to notify the CTAN staff in this case in order to avoid > conflicting efforts. > > ABOUT > > ttf2tex is a script for the Bash shell which generates all files > required to use TrueType fonts from a set of .ttf files. In short, > it will do for TrueType fonts what fontinst's latinfamily command > does for Type 1 Postscript fonts. In addition to that, it creates > map files and installs all files according to the TeX Directory > Structure. > > CHANGES > > This release includes all previously unreleased patches until the > latest one from September 30, 2004; hence the release date and the > retroactive EOL announcement. There have been some minor updates to > the user manual as well. The LaTeX source of the manual is included > in this release and there is now a configuration file. thank you very much for this upload: i've updated the catalogue to make the status of the package entirely clear, and installed the replacement files as you requested. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package upgrade: pst-3d
by CTAN Announcements 11 Sep '05

11 Sep '05

Herbert Voss writes: > I uploaded pst-3d.tgz to the UK mirror. Please _delete_ > the files > > /graphics/pstricks/generic/pst-3d.tex > /graphics/pstricks/latex/pst-3d.sty those files are no more. > and create a new directory > > /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-3d/ > > and put all files in there. that directory now created. > pst-3d.tex -------- > 1.00 2005/09/08 - using the extended pst-xkey instead of the old > pst-key package; > - creating a dtx file > - new LaTeX wrapper file to load pstricks.sty first (hv) > - new documentation (PDF) i have made the required changes to the archive, and i have entered the package in the tex catalogue (it hadn't previously been catalogued). thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN upload -- lmodern-wishlist
by CTAN Announcements 10 Sep '05

10 Sep '05

On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Harald Harders wrote: > Due to a strong increase in workload, I will not be able to maintain > the Latin Modern Wishlist anymore. I believe that the best way to > continue the existence of this list is to put it on CTAN. What we need > is one or more persons who will maintain the list in future. I installed the files as info/lmodern The copyright is totally free. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: Pitkänpuoleinen johdanto LaTeX2e:n käyttöön (lshort-finnish)
by CTAN Announcements 10 Sep '05

10 Sep '05

On Fri, 9 Sep 2005 Timo Hellgren submitted an update to the lshort-finnish package. Location on CTAN: /CTAN:info/lshort/finnish (old contents to be replaced by the new one) Summary description: Finnish Edition of the Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is an update of the Finnish translation of Tobias Oetiker's Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX. This update brings the Finnish edition up to the current version of the English text, i.e. version 1.16. I also corrected some mistakes in the Finnish text and possibly introduced some new ones. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: pst-blur
by CTAN Announcements 10 Sep '05

10 Sep '05

Herbert Voss writes: > I uploaded pst-blur.tgz to the UK-mirror. Please replace all > files in /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-blur/ > graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-blur > thanks > > pst-blur.tex -------- > 2.00 2005-09-08 - switch to pst-xkey (hv) > - new pst-blur.sty (hv) > - added a pdf documentation i've installed the new version, and documented the changes in the catalogue. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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New CTAN package: doipubmed
by Robin Fairbairns 09 Sep '05

09 Sep '05

Nicola Talbot writes: > Name of contribution: doipubmed > Author's name: Nicola Talbot > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/doipubmed > Summary description: Provides doi, pubmed and citeurl for use in bibliographies > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The package doipubmed.sty provides the commands > doi, pubmed and citeurl. These commands are > primarily designed for use in bibliographies. > A LaTeX2HTML style file is also provided. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i've installed the package as indicated, and entered it in the catalogue. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: pst-barcode
by CTAN Announcements 08 Sep '05

08 Sep '05

Herbert Voss writes: > I uploaded a new version of pst-barcode to the UK mirror. > Please delete all files in /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-barcode > and put the new ones in there. > > The changes in this release are: > > - An options parser was added to the PostScript renderer. > - Each renderer was modified to pass a copy of its > user-defined options to the renderer. > - A new user-definable PS-option called inkspread that > reduces the width of the bars was added to the renderer. i've installed the new version. (there seems no change needed, to the catalogue.) thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: antt fonts (v.2.03)
by CTAN Announcements 07 Sep '05

07 Sep '05

On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Staszek Wawrykiewicz submitted a new version of the antt font package. Antykwa Torunska is a serif font designed by the late Polish typographer Zygfryd Gardzielewski, reconstructed and digitized as as Type 1. Version: 2.03 Author: Janusz Marian Nowacki License: GPL Location on CTAN: fonts/antt/ The current release (v. 2.03) has corrected many glyphs, added OpenType, normalized .map end .enc files names, and also added (experimental) support for mathematical typeseting. _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN upload: pdf-trans
by CTAN Announcements 07 Sep '05

07 Sep '05

On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Staszek Wawrykiewicz submitted the new package pdf-trans (2.0) to CTAN. Author: Pawe{l} Jackowski License: Public Domain Location on CTAN: macros/generic/pdf-trans/ A set of macros for various transformations of TeX boxes (based on plain and pdfeTeX primitives). It was initially inspired by trans.tex (BOP, bop(a)bop.com.pl), remade to work with pdfTeX. News: Version 2.0 was generally reworked, e.g. added: - fraction-based trigonometry - pdfliteral dimensions rounding - some other small changes _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: Latin Modern lm0992
by CTAN Announcements 06 Sep '05

06 Sep '05

On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Staszek Wawrykiewicz submitted an update to the Latin Modern fonts (lm) package. Authors: JNSteam License: GPL Location on CTAN: fonts/lm Note that the directory contains an extra file lm0.99.2mt1.zip, containing fonts sources for MetaType1. The Latin Modern family of fonts is based on the Computer Modern fonts in the PostScript Type 1 format, released into public domain by the American Mathematical Society. The fonts, as compared to the CM family, contain a lot of additional characters, mainly accented ones, but not only. The current distribution contains: Latin Modern fonts in the PostScript Type 1 and OpenType formats, source files for MetaType1 plus all requisites for using the fonts with TeX/pdfTeX; there is one set of PostScript fonts and five sets of TeX Font Metric files, corresponding to: -- EC (Cork) encoding (ec-*.tfm), -- QX encoding (qx-*.tfm), -- TeX'n'ANSI aka LY1 encoding (texnansi-*.tfm), -- T5 (Vietnamese) encoding (t5-*.tfm), -- Text Companion for EC fonts aka TS1 (ts1-*.tfm). LaTeX *.sty and *.fd files were also added plus a few test files. Most important recent changes: 1. corrected some bugs in kerning (introduced incidentally in ver. 0.99.1) 2. .map and .enc files were uniformized. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: sectionbox
by CTAN Announcements 06 Sep '05

06 Sep '05

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: sectionbox Author's name: Michael H.F. Wilkinson Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/sectionbox/ Summary description: create fancy boxed ((sub)sub)sections, primarily for posters License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LaTeX style file for putting fancy colored boxes around sections, subsections, and subsubsections, especially for use in posters, etc. Tested with IWIposter.cls, sciposter.cls, and article.cls. A manual and an example are provided. Current version 1.00, August 24, 2005. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/sectionbox/ . 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: pdftex 1.30.3
by CTAN Announcements 05 Sep '05

05 Sep '05

A package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks for the update, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: pdftex 1.30.3 Author's name: Martin Schröder Location on CTAN: /systems/pdftex Summary description: fixed a bug in write18 License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The pdfTeX team is happy to announce the release of a new stable version: =========================================================================== pdfTeX 1.30.3 =========================================================================== This is the announcement of pdfTeX 1.30.3, an extended version of TeX that can create PDF directly from TeX source files and enhance the result of TeX typesetting with the help of PDF. =========================================================================== Main changes of pdfTeX 1.30.3 =========================================================================== - fixed a bug in write18 For complete release notes see http://www.pdftex.org/NEWS =========================================================================== Legal notice / license =========================================================================== pdfTeX is copyright (c) 1996-2005 Han The Thanh, <thanh(a)pdftex.org> pdfTeX is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. For a complete README (with a full discussion of the license) please look at http://www.pdftex.org/README =========================================================================== The files / installation =========================================================================== You should first try to get a new version of pdfTeX through your distribution. If you want to compile it yourself, have a look at http://www.pdftex.org -- there you can find links to the pdfTeX sources on CTAN. And some useful documentation. =========================================================================== Mailing lists / web pages: =========================================================================== Mailing list: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdftex Related web pages: http://www.pdftex.org http://sarovar.org/projects/pdftex/ http://www.tug.org/tex-live/ http://www.tug.org/tetex/ http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes http://www.dante.de/ http://tug.org/ http://www.pragma-ade.com/ Have fun! Martin Schröder (martin(a)pdftex.org) for the pdfTeX team, September 2005 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/pdftex . 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 2.38
by CTAN Announcements 05 Sep '05

05 Sep '05

On Mon, 5 Sep 2005 John Burt submitted an update to the poemscol package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/poemscol Summary description: macros for typesetting critical editions of poetry License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Checked cases where macros might introduce extra white space. Made sure that line numbers for verse, prose, and paragraph-sentence prose line up. Fixed overlapping of paragraph and line numbers for paragraph-sentence mode. Up to four sentences can appear on a line in paragraph-line mode without having their marginal line numbers overlap. Fixed a bug that added an extra colon in footnotes in paragraph-sentence format. Changed ``gutter'' and ``outer'' line numbering in verse and paragraph-sentence prose to use Peter Wilson's sidepars rather than marginpars. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: csquotes 3.1
by CTAN Announcements 05 Sep '05

05 Sep '05

Philipp Lehman writes: > I've placed `csquotes.tar.gz' in the incoming directory of the CTAN UK > node. This is an update for macros/latex/contrib/csquotes. Please > purge the old files, install the new ones, and announce the upload as > usual. i've installed the new version as requested, and updated the catalogue entry. thanks for the upload. package details: > ABOUT > > This package provides advanced facilities for inline and display > quotations. It is designed for a wide range of tasks ranging from > the most simple applications to the more complex demands of formal > quotations. The facilities include commands, environments, and > user-definable `smart quotes' which dynamically adjust to their > context. Quotation marks are switched automatically if quotations > are nested and they can be adjusted to the current language. There > are additional facilities designed to cope with the more specific > demands of academic writing, especially in the humanities and the > social sciences. All quote styles as well as the optional active > quotes are freely configurable. > > CHANGES > > * Added extquote > * Added foreigntextquote > * Added hyphentextquote > * Renamed cquote to extcquote > * Renamed foreigncquote to foreigntextcquote > * Renamed hyphencquote to hyphentextcquote > * Extended extcquote > * Extended foreigntextcquote > * Extended hyphentextcquote > * Modified environment `displayquote' > * Modified environment `foreigndisplayquote' > * Modified environment `hyphendisplayquote' > * Extended environment `displaycquote' > * Extended environment `foreigndisplaycquote' > * Extended environment `hyphendisplaycquote' > * Added mkmidtextpunct > * Added mkfintextpunct > * Added mkmiddisppunct > * Added mkfindisppunct > * Added auxiliary environment `quotetext' > * Added detection of paragraphs to all block quotation > facilities > * ifquote... now generally usable in mkcitation and > mkccitation > * Terminal punctuation now generally evaluated by all > quotation facilities > * Prevent undesirable ?` and !` ligatures in T1 encoding > * Always adjust space factor codes of backend quotes > * Make ExecuteOptions process key/value options in > configuration file > * Updated manual > * Updated tutorial Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: HA-prosper update
by Robin Fairbairns 05 Sep '05

05 Sep '05

Hendri Adriaens writes: > I uploaded an update of HA-prosper to cam.ctan.org. Please install it > in the existing directory macros/latex/contrib/ha-prosper > > Announcement text: > The documentation of HA-prosper has been updated to include > information on the new class powerdot that should considered a > replacement for the prosper plus HA-prosper combination. Current > HA-prosper users are adviced to use the new class for new > presentations as it is more robust, easier to use and gives better > output. i've installed the new version. note that this announcement aims to _lose_ users of ha-prosper (in favour of powerdot), which isn't exactly what announcements are usually for... anyway, thanks, hendri, for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: ppr-prv class (v0.13c)
by CTAN Announcements 04 Sep '05

04 Sep '05

On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Mathieu Goutelle submitted a new version of his ppr-prv package. This class is used with LaTeX presentations using the prosper class. ppr-prv stands for Prosper Preview. The aim of this class is to produce a printable version of the slides written with Prosper, with two slides per page. Changes since previous version are: * (0.13c) Bugfix: some (still!) missing prosper declarations (thanks to Pauli A Miettinen for reporting it) ; Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ppr-prv/ License: lppl Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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New CTAN package: powerdot - a presentation class
by CTAN Announcements 04 Sep '05

04 Sep '05

Hendri Adriaens writes: > powerdot is a new presentation class for LaTeX that > allows for the quick and easy development of professional > presentations. It comes with many tools that enhance > presentations and aid the presenter. > > The class is fully functional, tested and well documented. > A short overview of features: > > 1) portrait and landscape slides > 2) screen ratio, a4 paper and letter paper > 3) simple interface for making presentations fast > 4) DVI, PS or PDF output can be used for viewing > 5) powerful template system to easily develop new styles > 6) easy overlays creations > 7) personal notes > 8) handout mode > 9) black slide > etcetera > > The class currently comes with 6 different styles, but work > is being done to add more styles. Furthermore, also a layout > file for LyX users is currently being developed. A mailinglist > is available for asking questions or providing feedback. > > See for more information the PDF documentation that comes > with the class. > > Background > ========== > > While working on HA-prosper, it was found that some problems > with the prosper class could not be solved by a package. A > new class, called TeXciting, was announced to solve these > issues. Over time, the class changed name to powerdot. > > This class should be considered as a replacement for the > prosper plus HA-prosper combination and can do everything that > HA-prosper did and more. The class is a fully new implementation > of the ideas behind HA-prosper, but in a totally new fashion, so > that both simplification of the user interface and simplification > of the designer interface could be accomplished. However, changes > necessary to convert presentations from HA-prosper to powerdot > will be minimal. > > In that respect, support for HA-prosper will be decreased over > time and users are adviced to use powerdot for new presentations. > > We hope that you will enjoy the new class. > > -Hendri Adriaens > -Christopher Ellison i've installed the new class in ctan:macros/latex/contrib/powerdot (as hendri suggested), and made a new entry in the catalogue. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: dvisvgm
by CTAN Announcements 04 Sep '05

04 Sep '05

On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 Martin Gieseking submitted an update to the dvisvgm package. dvisvgm is a command line utility for converting DVI to SVG files. The new release 0.4.1 provides an option to specify the bounding box size/format. Furthermore a manual page with a brief description of all options has been added. dvisvgm has been sucessfully tested on various Linux (teTeX) and Windows (MikTeX) systems. Precompiled versions for Windows/MikTeX can be downloaded from the project homepage (see README for further information). Location on CTAN: /dviware/dvisvgm Summary description: new minor release of dvisvgm License type: gpl Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: LaTeXPiX
by CTAN Announcements 03 Sep '05

03 Sep '05

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks for the update, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: LaTeXPiX Author's name: N.J.H.M. van Beurden Location on CTAN: /systems/win32/latexpix Summary description: As Is License type: nosource Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The eighteenth CTAN release has the following improvements: * Save file as didn't work properly. * Reduced the install size by stripping the language file and language editor, and remove the example. * Added PGF support for image inclusion. * Possibility to fix the aspect ratio when resizing. This can be toggled on or off by pressing F11. Default is no fixed aspect ratio ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/latexpix . 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: pst-lens
by CTAN Announcements 03 Sep '05

03 Sep '05

Herbert Voss writes: > I am just uploading pst-lens.tgz to the uk mirror. > Please delete _all_ files in the dir > > /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-lens > > and put the new ones in there. > > `pst-lens' is a PSTricks package to define a generic lens, which > can be used to magnify parts of a text or a graphic. > > v 1.01 using the extended pst-xkey instead of pst-key (hv) i've installed the package as requested, and catalogued the new version. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: babelbib
by CTAN Announcements 02 Sep '05

02 Sep '05

On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Harald Harders submitted an update to the babelbib pacakge. > >From the README: > > Multilingual bibliographies: The babelbib package > ================================================= > > This package enables to generate multilingual bibliographies in > cooperation with babel. Two approaches are possible: Each citation > may be written in another language, or the whole bibliography can > be typeset in a language chosen by the user. The current version > supports Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Finnish, French, > German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish. > In addition, the package supports commands to change the typography > of the bibliographies. > Many of the standard and extended bibliography styles are available. > > Please help me to add more languages to babelbib. > > The file tugboat-babelbib.pdf is a draft of an article that has been > published in TUGboat. It contains a detailed documentation of the babelbib > package and how to extend it. The source code for this file is not > included. > This article is about version 0.40 of this package but is up-to-date in > most parts. > > > ChangeLog: > > 2005/09/01 1.15 Harald Harders (h.harders(a)tu-bs.de) > - Add iblanguage that switches to the keyword language within a > field. > - Small bug fix in loading language files (Angel Tsankov). Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: TeXmuse
by CTAN Announcements 01 Sep '05

01 Sep '05

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: TeXmuse Author's name: Federico Garcia Location on CTAN: /macros/texmuse Summary description: Professional music typesetting system with TeX and METAFONT License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the first stage of the program, i.e., it can typeset Bach's inventions and similar music. The program is still very limited. This first submission is more to spread the word about TeXmuse so that the TeX community knows about it and can try it, comment on it, etc. The system was described in TUGBoat 24/2. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/texmuse . 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: new LM fonts
by CTAN Announcements 01 Sep '05

01 Sep '05

On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Staszek Wawrykiewicz submitted an update to the Latin Modern fonts (lm) package. Package: Latin Modern fonts Authors: JNSteam License: GPL Location on CTAN: fonts/lm Note that the directory contains an extra file lm0.99.1mt1.zip, containing fonts sources for MetaType1. The Latin Modern family of fonts is based on the Computer Modern fonts in the PostScript Type 1 format, released into public domain by the American Mathematical Society. The fonts, as compared to the CM family, contain a lot of additional characters, mainly accented ones, but not only. The current distribution contains: Latin Modern fonts in the PostScript Type 1 and OpenType formats, source files for MetaType1 plus all requisites for using the fonts with TeX/pdfTeX; there is one set of PostScript fonts and five sets of TeX Font Metric files, corresponding to: -- EC (Cork) encoding (ec-*.tfm), -- QX encoding (qx-*.tfm), -- TeX'n'ANSI aka LY1 encoding (texnansi-*.tfm), -- T5 (Vietnamese) encoding (t5-*.tfm), -- Text Companion for EC fonts aka TS1 (ts1-*.tfm). LaTeX *.sty and *.fd files were also added plus a few test files. Most important recent changes: 1. There is 12 fonts more, mainly tt light (tl), light condensed (tlc) and dark (tk) lmtk10, lmtko10 lmtl10, lmtlo10 lmtlc10, lmtlco10 lmvtk10, lmvtko10 lmvtl10, lmvtlo10 plus two fonts apparently missing their oblique counterpart: lmro17 lmtcso10 2. Experimentally, we included proportional digits, but their metrics almost surely will be chaned. 3. Apart from Knuthian asymmetric double quotes we introduced double quotes without extra space at the sidebearings. The old quotes will be used only in substitutions. Here also metrics may need an adjustment, namely, kerning pairs. 4. A few new glyph were added, a few glyphs were corrected. 5. Internal PostScript names of the fonts were uniformized (it has something to do with the grouping of OTF files into families). -- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: poemscol 2.37
by CTAN Announcements 31 Aug '05

31 Aug '05

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 John Burt submitted an update to his poemscol package. Poemscol.sty 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 Summary description: macros for critical editions of poetry License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- poemscol 2.37 allows one to align the line numbers with the beginning or runover lines rather than with the ends, and allows one to align the line numbers with the beginning of broken lines rather than with the end. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: computational-complexity class
by CTAN Announcements 31 Aug '05

31 Aug '05

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 Michael Nüsken submitted an update to the computational-complexity package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/computational-complexity Summary description: Class originally desigend for the journal Computational Complexity License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The LaTeX2e class cc was written for the journal Computational Complexity, and it can also be used for a lot of other articles. You may like it since it contains a lot of features as more intelligent references, a set of theorem definitions, an algorithm environment, ... The class requires natbib. The author is <a href=http://www.math.upb.de/~nuesken/>Michael Nüsken</a>. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: plnfss version 1.1
by CTAN Announcements 31 Aug '05

31 Aug '05

Reinhard Kotucha writes: > I just uploaded a new version of plnfss. > > It is now plnfss-1.1.tar.bz2 because I cannot overwrite the old one. > > It contains now: > > README.txt > plnfss-1.1.zip > > Description of the package: > > Name of contribution: plnfss-1.1 > Author's name: Han The Thanh and Michal Konecny > Location on CTAN: macros/plain/plnfss > Summary description: Font selection macros for plain TeX > License type: lppl > > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > plnfss is a set of macros to provide easy font access (somewhat similar to > NFSS but with some limitations) with plain tex. > > plnfss can automatically make use of PSNFSS fd files, ie. when a postscript > font is used the relevant fd file will be loaded automatically. > For cmr-like fonts (ec, vnr, csr or plr fonts), a special format called pfd > (plain fd) is required and must be loaded manually. > > Recent Changes: > * Copyright messages in all files, > * a bugfix provided by Hartmut Henkel to avoid spurious white spaces, > * additional .pfd files. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: textpos 1.6
by CTAN Announcements 30 Aug '05

30 Aug '05

Norman Gray writes: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: textpos 1.6 > Author's name: Norman Gray > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/textpos (replacing current version) > Summary description: Lay out text and graphics at arbitrary positions on the LaTeX page. > License type: gpl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Changes in 1.6, 2005 August 30 > ------------------------------ > > * Made {calc}-style dimensions to the {textblock*} > argument work again. > * Override the figure and table environments within textblock > environments, to avoid their surprising and undesirable interaction > with textblock. i've installed the package as requested, and updated the catalogue. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: bibhtml 1.2b2
by CTAN Announcements 30 Aug '05

30 Aug '05

Norman Gray wrote: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: bibhtml 1.2b2 > Author's name: Norman Gray > Location on CTAN: biblio/bibtex/contrib/bibhtml (replacing current version) > Summary description: Use BibTeX to maintain HTML bibliographies > License type: gpl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Bibhtml consists of a Perl script and a BibTeX style > file, which together allow you to compile a bibliography for a > collection of HTML files. The references in the text are linked > directly to the corresponding bibliography entry, and if a URL is > defined in the entry within the BibTeX database file, then the > generated bibliography entry is linked to this. > > bibhtml 1.2b2 adds features, and fixes some bugs in 1.1 i've installed the files, and updated the catalogue. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN upload: runtex
by CTAN Announcements 30 Aug '05

30 Aug '05

On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Bernd Becker submitted a new package called runtex to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /support/runtex/runtex.zip Summary description: runs TeX or a variant and various utils if needed (windows) License type: pd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A Win32 program(me) that tries to guess the number of times - if you neglected to tell it how often - [pdf][e][La]TeX should be executed and which other utilities - currently makeindex, xindy, MetaPost, MetaFont, and BibTeX - if at all are run after the first TeX run. Temporary files will be deleted if nothing went wrong and you told it to. Not all the functionality got tested (don't use BibTeX or glossaries currently) but it ought to work if I haven't overlooked any bugs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- In addition, the source code is available as /support/runtex/runtex_src.zip Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the ANSI/POSIX C source code for runtex. As I use MinGW I don't know if the makefile does anything useful if run with MSVC, but I have my doubts. It shouldn't take too much effort to port it to unix if one wants to, but some ANSI/POSIX functions were defined differently by MS so it won't compile out of the box, sorry. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN upload: symbolindex
by CTAN Announcements 30 Aug '05

30 Aug '05

On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 Frédéric Holzmann submitted a new package called symbolindex to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/symbolindex Summary description: Generate a list of symbols with different subgroups License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This extension can be used irregardless of the platform. It defines a new command addsymbol[group]{symbol}{description} and the list of the symbols sorted by groups and symbols can be shown with listofsymbols It needs an additional software which works directly under Dos or must be recompiled with the source code: makesym file It will generate the pages to integrate at the place of listofsymbols. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN upload: semioneside package
by CTAN Announcements 30 Aug '05

30 Aug '05

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 Stephan Hennig submitted a new package called semioneside to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/exptl/semioneside/ Summary description: Put only special contents on left-hand pages in two sided layout. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package supports the preparation of semi one sided documents. That is, two sided documents, where all text is output on right-hand pages---like in one sided documents---and only special contents is output on left-hand pages on user request, e. g., floating objects. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: IEEEconf
by FTP archive maintainer 29 Aug '05

29 Aug '05

The package below has been updated on tug.ctan.org. The changes should soon make their way to your favorite mirror. Thanks for the update, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: IEEEconf Author's name: Scott Pakin Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/IEEEconf Summary description: Class file for IEEE Computer Society Press conference proceedings License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The IEEEconf class implements the formatting dictated by the IEEE Computer Society Press for conference proceedings (http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm). IEEEconf.cls replaces latex8.sty and latex8.bst. The goal was to produce a more faithful implementation of the formatting rules and to do so with cleaner LaTeX code than that provided by the latex8.* files. This update implements the newly revised IEEE Computer Society Press formatting guidelines. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/IEEEconf . 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: ushyphex
by FTP archive maintainer 29 Aug '05

29 Aug '05

Barbara Beeton has updated her master list of hyphenation exceptions for U.S. English. The updates to the list will appear in the forthcoming issue of TUGboat. The complete list, with plurals and other variants included, is now available on CTAN, in info/digests/tugboat: ushyphex.tex - the generated list, suitable for passing to TeX tb0hyf.tex - the source for the list hyphenex.sh - the (shell/sed) script which generates the former from the latter, courtesy of Werner Lemberg. If you actually try to input the list unaltered, you will find that it is currently over 1000 exceptions, which will overflow the limit in many distributions (e.g., TeX Live 2004). The default limit will be increased in future releases; meanwhile, for Web2C-based distributions, you can increase hyph_size in texmf.cnf (8191 is a good number). If any questions or problems, or you find additional exceptions are needed, please email tugboa (at) tug.org. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/digests/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 update: movie15
by CTAN Announcements 29 Aug '05

29 Aug '05

On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 Alexander Grahn submitted an update to the movie15 package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/movie15 Summary description: multimedia inclusion package License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Embedded media data are now re-used as file attachments, giving the user the possibility to extract and save the media file to disk for later playback with an external media player. This makes PDF documents a little more portable to Readers which do not ship with a multimedia plugin but which support embedded file attachments, such as Un*x versions of Adobe Reader. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: byzfonts
by CTAN Announcements 29 Aug '05

29 Aug '05

On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 Ioannis A. Vamvakas submitted an update to the byzfonts package. Location on CTAN: /fonts/byzfonts License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tabulated Byzantine Music Symbols. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the updates. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: pdftex 1.30.2
by FTP archive maintainer 27 Aug '05

27 Aug '05

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon appear at your favorite mirror. Thank you for the contribution, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: pdftex 1.30.2 Author's name: Martin Schröder Location on CTAN: /systems/pdftex Summary description: fixed some build problems and minor bugs introduced in 1.30.1 License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- fixed some build problems and minor bugs introduced in 1.30.1 - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/pdftex . 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: byzfonts 2
by CTAN Announcements 27 Aug '05

27 Aug '05

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 Ioannis A. Vamvakas submitted a new version of the pacakge byzfonts to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /fonts/byzfonts Summary description: This is a new version of the byzantine fonts License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- An improved version of 'byzfonts' with which one can typeset byzantine musical phrases. Byzantine music is the one used by the Greek Orthodox Church for her litourgical needs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: movie15
by CTAN Announcements 26 Aug '05

26 Aug '05

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 Alexander Grahn submitted an update to the movie15 package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/movie15 Summary description: multimedia inclusion package License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Bugfix: The poster option was broken due to a small bug. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: latexdiff
by CTAN Announcements 26 Aug '05

26 Aug '05

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 Frederik Tilmann submitted an update to the latexdiff package. Location on CTAN: /support/latexdiff Summary description: Determine and mark up significant differences between latex files License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- latexdiff is a Perl script, which compares two latex files and marks up significant differences between them (i.e. a diff for latex files). Various options are available for visual markup using standard latex packages such as color.sty. Changes not directly affecting visible text, for example in formatting commands, are still marked in the latex source. A rudimentary revision facilility is provided by another Perl script, latexrevise, which accepts or rejects all changes. Manual editing of the difference file can be used to override this default behaviour and accept or reject selected changes only. This is a significant update (from version 0.2 to 0.3). Major changes are the introduction of CVS support, and much improved reliability for inlined math, plus several bug fixes ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: flagderiv
by FTP archive maintainer 26 Aug '05

26 Aug '05

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: flagderiv Author's name: Paul van Tilburg Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/flagderiv/ Summary description: Flag style derivation package License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- First stable release and release into CTAN of the flagderiv package used to create mathematical derivations using the flag/flagpole notation. This release features an intuitive command syntax, opening & closing multiple flagpoles, different comment styles, customizable symbols and label namespaces. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/flagderiv/ . 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: Bibliography Builder for FileMaker Pro 7
by FTP archive maintainer 25 Aug '05

25 Aug '05

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon appear at your favorite mirror. Thank you for the contribution, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: Bibliography Builder for FileMaker Pro 7 Author's name: Steven Harrod Location on CTAN: /biblio/bibtex/utils/BibBuild Summary description: BibTex compatible citation database, graphical interface License type: other Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This database will record your bibliography entries and any notes you have, and allow you to group them by project. Entries that are used in more than one project need only be entered once. The database will then format the entries into BibTex compatible files, and provide other handy references such as a short index of citiation names or a LaTeX format summary of notes. The database is written in FileMaker Pro 7 and requires that software. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/BibBuild . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: movie15
by CTAN Announcements 25 Aug '05

25 Aug '05

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 Alexander Grahn submitted an update to his movie15 package. This package defines includemovie with PDF-1.5 compatibility. Option 'autoplay' causes the media clip to be started right after the page has loaded. This is useful for side by side movie clips to be played back synchronously. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/movie15 Summary description: multimedia inclusion package License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This release reimplements the `mouse' option to includemovie. Playback of 2D media can now be paused and continued by clicking into and clicking outside the media. Following options to the inclusion command have been added: startat, stopat, palindrome, rate. All of the added options, including `mouse', require JavaScript to be enabled in Adobe Reader. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: BaKoMa TeX 7.37 - TeXWord and DVIEW improvements.
by CTAN Announcements 25 Aug '05

25 Aug '05

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Basil Malyshev submitted an update to the bakoma package. Location on CTAN: systems/win32/bakoma License: shareware Most noticeable improvements are: * `View|Figures/Bounding Boxes' option in TeXWord and DVIEW include new choose - `show only BBox', that is useful for editing (in TeXWord) document with complex PostScript figures. * TeXWord: Inline math is marked by ( ... ) instead of egin{math} ... end{math}. * TeXWord: Fixed hanging with amsart, amsbook document classes. * TeXWord: Refined spell check of words with ligatures (i.e. Times fonts). * Refined Compatibility with EPS saved from Adobe Illustrator 12 More details about changes and another bug fixing see at: <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes7.html> > -------------------- About BaKoMa TeX 7.37 ------------------ > > BaKoMa TeX 7.37 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/> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: dvisvgm
by CTAN Announcements 25 Aug '05

25 Aug '05

On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Martin Gieseking submitted an update to the dvisvgm package. Dvisvgm is a command line utility that converts TeX DVI files to the XML-based Scalable Vector Graphics format. New feature in this release: Fonts that are not available as PFB files are now vectorized by tracing Metafont's bitmap output. This function is not perfect yet but already usable. Location on CTAN: /dviware/dvisvgm License type: gpl Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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