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Re: CTAN upload notification: pst-optic
by Rainer Schöpf 16 Feb '03

16 Feb '03

On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 Herbert Voss submitted: > Name of contribution: pst-optic > Summary description: Drawing lenses and mirrors for optical systems > License type: Free > > Announcement text: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This new version 0.9 has macros for refraction, reflection > and for spherical lenses/mirrors. > There are also some new utility macros for rotating nodes, > lines with arrows inside. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. I installed it in graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-optic For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN upload -- ruhyphen package update
by Robin Fairbairns 14 Feb '03

14 Feb '03

Vladimir Volovich writes: > i've uploaded the file ruhyphen.tar.gz to the incoming directory of > ftp.tex.ac.uk > > this is an update to the ruhyphen package (collection of Russian > hyphenation patterns), version 1.6. > > please replace the files under language/hyphenation/ruhyphen directory > with the contents of this tarball (it may be unpacked in the > language/hyphenation, as it contains the ruhyphen subdirectory). > > the license is as previously, LPPL 1.2. > > the changes are not significant - accompanying patterns for the letter > yo were regenerated with the latest version of Alexander Lebedev's > rus-ispell dictionary; more important is that all 7 different patterns > are now fully redistributable (the files ruhyphas.tex and ruhyphzn.tex > previously had some restrictions on commercial usage, which were > removed by their authors), so that these 2 files can be re-included > into teTeX distribution. i have installed the files as requested, in language/hyphenation/ruhyphen. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN submission -- Ukrainian translation of lshort
by Reinhard Zierke 14 Feb '03

14 Feb '03

----- Forwarded message from Maksym Polyakov ----- I have uploaded to ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/lshort-ukr Ukrainian translation of 'Not so short introduction to LaTeX', v. 4.00 files lshort-ukr-4.00.src.tar.gz lshort-ukr.dvi lshort-ukr.pdf lshort-ukr.ps.gz Files should be placed to CTAN:/tex-archive/info/lshort/ukrainian ----- End forwarded message ----- Thank you very much for the submission. I installed it as suggested in CTAN:/tex-archive/info/lshort/ukrainian/ Now we have 2^4 versions of this fine document. Will we reach 2^5 too? Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN upload: corelfonts
by Jim Hefferon 13 Feb '03

13 Feb '03

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make its way to your favorite local mirror in the next day or two. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ftpmaint(a)tug.ctan.org ================================================================ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor. Name of contribution: corelfonts Author's name: Tony McClelland Location on CTAN: fonts/utilities/corelfonts Summary description: Perl script to install all Bitstream fonts on a Corel Ventura CD for use with LaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- There are several Bitstream PostScript Type1 fonts on the Corel Ventura 5 CD (and probably other Corel products). This perl script will automatically install them to your TeXMF tree and create LaTeX package files to use with them. You will need a Corel CD, perl and fontinst for this to work. - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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CTAN Upload - BaKoMa TeX 5.25
by Reinhard Zierke 13 Feb '03

13 Feb '03

----- Forwarded message from Basil K. Malyshev ----- I have uploaded to `ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma' directory update for BaKoMa TeX 5.25 (issued 12-Feb-2003). Please put the files to 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' directory. This version has Patch status and may be freely installed by holders of NON-UPGRADABLE license for BaKoMa TeX 5.20. This version has following bug fixing and refinments: TeX4HT improvements: * Improved appearance of imported graphics in HTML4 output mode. * Fixed copying images from Common Picture Directory. * Sets background color in css to keep it consistent with image background. * Fixed tabbing translated via picture. Other fixes: * Updated Mathematica support, added wrisym, notebook2e, and notebook. * Buffer overflow (RunPL) at converting documents in too deep directories. * HTML external links, generated by DVI2HTML, now overloads frameset, * Fixed translating of URL directories (terminated by `/') to PDF and HTML. * Added Belleek fonts to PSFONTS.BKZ. Bye. Basil K. Malyshev 12-Feb-2003 PS: Please send announce to appropriate mailing lists and news groups. --------------- About BaKoMa TeX 5.25 ---------------------- CONTENTS * Highlights * Graphical Capabilities * Fonts * User Interface * PDF Generation Features * HTML Generation features * New Features of BaKoMa TeX 5.25 For more information about BaKoMa TeX see <ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/index.html> BaKoMa TeX is a complete TeX system for Microsoft Windows XP/2000/NT/98/95 HIGHLIGHTS * Dynamical Preview allows the user to preview instantly selected region of the file being edited. (It is analog of Instant Preview - http://www.activetex.org). * PostScript enabled TeX system. ** Generates *PDF* from documents with *PSTricks*, *PSfrag*, etc. ** Generates HTML (TeX4HT, DVI2HTML), also supports Hevea and TTH. * Supports using PostScript Type 1 fonts (including MM) *WITHOUT ATM*. However, using ATM for font rendering is optionally available. * Complete distribution includes about *1500* TeX Fonts (including EC/TC, LH) in ATM Compatible PostScript Type 1 font format. * Font Setup Wizard installs Postscript/TrueType fonts almost in one click * Consistent graphics and font support for all DVI back-ends. * BibEdit - editor for LaTeX BIB files is included. * Supports hyperlink text broken across lines and pages. * Easy to install and use. * Much less expensive than other analogues. GRAPHICAL CAPABILITIES BaKoMa TeX includes an interpreter for *PostScript Level 2*, which is tested for compatibility with output from popular software such as: MetaPost, Adobe Illustrator 10, Adobe Streamline 4.0, Mathematica 4, MatLab, CorelDraw 10, CorelXARA, HIGZ, PageDraw, FrameMaker, ImageMagick, etc. All DVI back-ends support the same special interface compatible with well known Rokicki's DVIPS, including processing PostScript embedded into DVI files (PSTricks, PSfrag, XyPic, etc.). The system includes Graphics Import Filters for the following formats: PostScript, HPGL, DXY, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, MSP, BMP. FONTS BaKoMa TeX supports the following font formats: * PostScript Type 1 (including Multiple Masters), * PostScript Type 3, * TrueType, * OpenType, * TeX PK/VF. The system includes about *1500* typefaces in PostScript Type 1 and Type 3 font format including the following fonts: * CM (including LaTeX and Logo fonts + vf for T1 with CX * AMS Fonts (Euler, Math Symbols), * EC/TC, * LH (T2A), * Concrete (Math, ECC), * Malvern, * CMCyr + vf for T2A/LCY * Scripting fonts, CMPica, Punk. Math Fonts: * Stmaryrd, Wasy, Rsfs, YHMath, BlackBoard (bbm, doublestroke). Diagram drawing fonts: * Lams, Astro Symbols (cmastro, astrosym, moonphase), * Barcodes (barcodes, wlean, wlc*), Logical (loggates, milstd), * timing, MusiXTeX, Chess/CChess, Go, Backgammon, Dingbats/NiceFrame. etc. Any font type can be used for any output device/format. This feature is supported by automatic font conversion between font formats when needed. This feature enables the rendering of Type 1 fonts *without ATM*. On the other hand, it enables the use of TrueType/OpenType fonts for generating PostScript printed even on PostScript Level 1 printers. In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use most of free Type 1 fonts available on CTAN and Trutype fonts coming with MS Windows systems. Font Setup Wizard lets you to install most of commercial (and free) Postscript Type 1 and TrueType fonts in one click. USER INTERFACE * Dynamical Preview (Instant Preview) of selected part of a document. It reformats (and preview) selected part of document on the fly, when you edit it. This feature accelerates tuning paragraphs, mathematics, pictures, etc. * Flexible window docking lets you optimize splitting your screen for using Dynamical Preview efficiently. * One touch key for TeX + Preview + other customizable postprocessors, * Quick navigation via document structure, * DVI Forward/Reverse search (format independent), * Powerful support for different input encodings, * Project support, * Graphics import assistant, * Assitance for multi-file documents: context sensitive openning of included text and graphics files, * Searching for TeX errors using the TeX log file, * Searching for help for TeX commands in entire document collection, * Syntax highlighting is configurable for catcodes and command dictionaries, * Customizable GUI Bars and menus for inserting Math Symbols and other commands, * Automatic creation of a BB-file for non-PostScript graphics. * Spell Checker: On-the-spot highlighting of misspelled words, correction proposals, handling accents and babel shortcuts. configurable for handling (La)TeX commands. * BibEdit - editor for LaTeX BIB files is included. * Syntax Completion is context sensitive and flexible. * Support for Multi-User systems. OUTPUT DEVICES/FORMATS * View on Windows Display. * Print on any printer supported by a MS Windows driver. * PostScript (really scalable), * PDF, * HTML. Important feature of BaKoMa TeX is consistent graphics and font support for all types of output. This means that all font formats mentioned may be used for every type of output. This also means that all graphical capabilities mentioned are supported for every type of output. PDF GENERATION FEATURES * Handling in-line PostScript in DVI files (PSTricks). * Creating PDF files which share fonts. Suitable for preparing CD-ROM based document libraries. * Embedding fonts in CFF requires 2--3 times less space then other font forms. * Handles HyperTeX (HyperRef) and document outline. HTML GENERATION FEATURES BaKoMa TeX 5 supports several ways for conversion of (La)TeX documents into HTML files. * `TeX|Generate HTML ...' text editor menu command lets you launch `TeX4HT' convertor with numerous options. * `File|Generate HTML ...' DVI viewer menu command lets you convert pages of a DVI file into PNG files wrapped into navigation HTML pages. This approach is useful for documents with complex graphics, such as slides. In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use `HEVEA' and/or `TTH' convertors. Launching of these convertors is available via extra TABS of `TeX|Generate HTML ...' editor command. Including graphics is well integreated with BaKoMa TeX graphical engine. In this reason, you can insert everithing supported by BaKoMa TeX into generated HTML pages. *** NEW FEATURES OF BAKOMA TEX 5.25 in comparison with BAKOMA TEX 5.10 *** Font Setup Wizard (`Options|Install TrueType/Postscript fonts ...') ----------------- * supports installation of *Postscript Type 1* in advance to TrueType/OpenType fonts. * works faster, because of using dynamic update of ls-R files. BibEdit - new application ------------------------- BibEdit is new utility in BaKoMa TeX. It is intended for browsing and editing BIB files used by BibTeX program. It is launched for openning BIB files (Windows Explorer) or from Centaur Text Editor (Insert|Edit Bibliography, Insert|cite).. Features: * Edits several BIB files simultaneously, that is very useful to handle situation when `ibliography' command includes several files. * Easy to use - Help window provides user with useful hints for every editing mode; * Provide user with hints for preparing fields of different types; * Chroma codidng for fields: `Required', `Optional', and `Ignored'. * Tells user when one or more `Required' fields are missed. * Quick insertion of reference on string into the currently edited field; * Quick insertion of citation into your document. User Interface -------------- * Improved `Insert' menu. + `Complete Word' (Ctrl+Enter) LaTeX Syntax completion command. Context sensitive, adding/removing words, definable extra code. + `LaTeX Environment ...' (Alt+Enter) now it is implemented as dialog (instead of submenu) whicj lets you: (1) add/remove environments immediately in dialog (2) modify default arguments for environment. + `Edit Bibliography ...' Provide simple way to start edit of bibliography: In case of ibliography command launches BibEdit, In case of `thebibliography' environment opens file with him. If no bibliography in you document it helps to create it. + `cite' (Alt+C) inserts `cite' LaTeX command. However, at second call (when cite{} is already under cursor) it launches BibEdit or dialog with list of available bibliography entries. + `Insert Indexing Stuffs' lets you prepare document for indexing in one click. + ` ef' (Ctrl+R) and `pageref' (Ctrl+P) like to cite command, at second click, show list of labels in current document. + `Graphics|Graphics File' (inserts `includegraphics') detects that cursor is already under some `includegraphics' command and edit it instead of inserting another command. DVI Viewer ---------- * Support for `colorlinks' option of HyperRef</i> package. * `Document Properties|Outline' - more robust refreshing outline. * `File|Read PDF' and `File|View Postscript' commands check existing and date of PDF/PS file to suggest user (re)generate it if one is absent or older then DVI file. * `File|Edit Source TeX File' command is disabled when TeX source isn't available for currently opened DVI file. In advance, it works with non standard file extensions (DTX, DRV, LTX, etc.). Also, cursor isn't jumped into BOF when file is already opened. * Fixed Problem with mishandling negative deltas by ExtTextOut under Win98. * Handling kerning in Readable mode was refined. TeX4HT ------ * Copying imported PNG and GIF images into TeX4HT subdirectory (see texmf/tex/latex/tex4ht/tex4ht.fix). Fixes done in BaKoMa TeX 5.25 ----------------------------- TeX4HT improvements: * Improved appearance of imported graphics in HTML4 output mode. * Fixed copying images from Common Picture Directory. * Sets background color in css to keep it consistent with image background. * Fixed tabbing translated via picture. Other fixes: * Updated Mathematica support, added wrisym, notebook2e, and notebook. * Buffer overflow (RunPL) at converting documents in too deep directories. * HTML external links, generated by DVI2HTML, now overloads frameset, * Fixed translating of URL directories (terminated by `/') to PDF and HTML. * Added Belleek fonts to PSFONTS.BKZ. For more information about changes see <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes5.html> ---------- End of BaKoMa TeX Information ---------- ----- End forwarded message ----- Thank you very much for the submission. I installed it as suggested replacing and expanding the old version in the nonfree CTAN tree at CTAN:nonfree/systems/win32/bakoma/ Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN submission: evweek.cls (extension of Latex Calendar Bundle)
by Reinhard Zierke 13 Feb '03

13 Feb '03

----- Forwarded message from Emanuele Vicentini ----- I've uploaded in incoming/evweek a small spinn-off/bugfix of weekly.cls of the LaTeX Calendar Bundle. Licese is lppl. I'd put evweek.{dtx,ins} in a new subdirectory of calendar: macros/latex/contrib/supported/calendar/contrib Here's the summary: evweek.cls is a small extension of weekly.cls, the class for the weekly calendar format of the LaTeC Calendar Bundle. I've fixed a little problem with the height of titleboxes; the only extensions of this first release are five new options that allow a greater control over fonts used to typeset titleboxes. ===== Saluti, Emanuele. ----- End forwarded message ----- Thank you for the submission. I installed it as suggested in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/calendar/contrib/ Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN submission: LaTeX package gensymb.sty
by Reinhard Zierke 13 Feb '03

13 Feb '03

----- Forwarded message from Walter Schmidt <w-a-schmidt(a)arcor.de> ----- I have uploaded the file gensymb.zip to the /incoming directory at dante.ctan.org. Please, unpack it to the CTAN directory macros/latex/contrib/supported/was . Doing so will add the files gensymb.dtx and gensymb.ins and update the files upgreek.dtx and readme.1st. The other files in this directory are to remain unchanged. This is the first (and somewhat experimental) release of the LaTeX package gensymb.sty. It provides generic commands degree, celsius, perthousand, micro and ohm, which work both in text and math mode. Various means are provided to fake the symbols or take them from particular symbol fonts, if they are not available in the default fonts used in the document. This should be perfectly transparent at user level, so that one can apply the same notation for units of measurement in text and math mode and with arbitrary typefaces. Note that the package has been designed to work flawlessly in conjunction with the famous units.sty. This upload updates also the source file of my package upgreek.sty. However, only the documentation has been changed with respect to the new gensymb package, which can coopereate with upgreek. The macro package upgreek.sty is actually unchanged. thank you in advance Walter Schmidt ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the upload. I installed the new and updated files in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/was/ as suggested. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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withdrawal of systems/unix/teTeX/1.0
by Robin Fairbairns 12 Feb '03

12 Feb '03

with the arrival of teTeX 2.0, all traces of teTeX 1.0 are being removed from the archive. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: Need file to be removed from server
by Robin Fairbairns 11 Feb '03

11 Feb '03

Ross Maloney writes: > I have uploaded xbibfile-0.7.tar.gz to the /incoming directory of > ftp.tex.ac.uk for consideration for inclusion in CTAN. > > I suggest it be located in CTAN at biblio/bibtex/utils. The package > xbibfile is released under the GNU Public License. > > Xbibfile is used to create and search BibTeX databases. It is > written in C and uses the GTK graphics libraries to create its user > interface. It was written under Linux using the X Window system. > It was written out of my need for such a research tool and has > performed satisfactory in that role. At some future stage I may get > around to increasing its capabilities so some hooks are in place for > doing that expansion. However, it is usable in its current state. > > This is the first public release of this package. The 0.7 is a > version number for my own records. i have installed the contents of your .tar.gz in a new directory biblio/bibtex/utils/xbibtex, which is now set off to propagate. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN submission --- needspace package
by Robin Fairbairns 07 Feb '03

07 Feb '03

Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded needspace.sty to UK incoming. Please ue this to > replace the current > macros/latex/contrib/supported/misc/needspace.sty. It is released > under the LPPL. > > Package Description: > > Provides commands to reserve space at the bottom of a page. If > there is not enough space on the current page a new one is started. > > Changes in version 1.3 (2003/02/07) > o Added new Needspace and Needspace* commands (providing a new algorithm) i've installed the file as requested; thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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installed up-to-date version of scripttex
by Robin Fairbairns 06 Feb '03

06 Feb '03

macros/scripttex, on ctan, was dated 1991; an eager user spotted a newer version on the web. i've therefore contacted the author, adrian mccarthy, and with his permission have installed the latest version (v.104 of march 2002) to replace the older version. beware: some file names in the previous version have changed. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN (Cambridge) upload: varwidth.sty
by Robin Fairbairns 06 Feb '03

06 Feb '03

Donal Arseneau writes: > I have uploaded varwidth.sty and varwidth.xml (for the catalogue) > to ftp.tex.ac.uk:incoming. Please put it in > macros/latex/contrib/other/misc. > > I am releasing this as version 0.9 because it has gotten mouldy > waiting for me to get back to it. (It does work, mostly.) > Anyone who tries it should be sure to make bug reports. > > It is released under LPPL. > > % The varwidth environment is based on minipage, and takes the same > % parameters, but the specified width is just a maximum value -- the > % environment will be typeset with a narrower natural width if > % possible. > % > % In a varwidth environment, paragraph line-breaks are chosen > % according to the specified width, but each line is reset to > % match a narrower natural width, if there is one. > % > % The arrowragged command works like aggedright, but produces > % generally narrower lines in paragraphs, but more text in the last > % line (the lines have more-equal lengths). > % > % This version works fine, but there are still many questions about > % how it would work best. Should there be a version that avoids the > % usual minipage formatting style? > % > % Numbered equations are not handled well, especially with leqno. > % AMSmath environments have not been tried, and undoubtedly fail. > % > % It also defines a ewcolumntype{V} that is the {varwidth} > % counterpart of a p column in tabulars. i've installed the file as requested: thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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minor update of uk faq
by Robin Fairbairns 06 Feb '03

06 Feb '03

i've updated the faq in a very minor way, and reinstalled on ctan and the web. changes: correct links for tetex v2.0 new text (and revised link) for question tds Robin Fairbairns UK TeX FAQ maintainer http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=maillists+askquestion

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Re: WinShell 2.2.2beta upload
by Rainer Schöpf 05 Feb '03

05 Feb '03

On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Ingo H. de Boer wrote: > I have uploaded a new WinShell 2.2.2beta to > ftp.dante.de/incoming/winshell > please copy the files to > ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/systems/win32/winshell > > Thanks > Ingo > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > WinShell is a graphical user interface 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. > > Now, ISpell is also included ! Thanks for the new version. The files are now in directory systems/win32/winshell For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN upload to Cambridge: wrapfig.sty
by Robin Fairbairns 05 Feb '03

05 Feb '03

Donald Arseneau writes: > I've uploaded yet another version of wrapfig.sty to ftp.tex.ac.uk. > > Version 3.5 from last week introduced float.sty support, but > for the previous version of float.sty, not the current. > > Version 3.6 supports current float.sty, and retains support for > the previous version. It also supports the new-float mechanisms > of memoir.cls and ccaption.sty. > > It also introduces a new command to support other, unknown, > classes of float: e.g., egin{wrapfloat}{figure} is the same > as egin{wrapfigure}. > > Version 3.6 still retains the deficiencies I've known about for > years. thanks for the upload: i've installed it as requested. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN submission --- tocbibind package
by Robin Fairbairns 05 Feb '03

05 Feb '03

Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded tocbibind.tar to UK incoming. Please use this to > replace the current macros/latex/contrib/supported/tocbibind. The > distribution is under the LPPL. > > From the README: > > The tocbibind package can be used to add the ToC and/or > bibliography and/or index etc., to the Table of Contents listing. > > Changes in version 1.5f (2003/02/04) > o Fixed Index heading MakeUppercase problem i've installed the package as requested: thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: Upload: cjhebrew manuals
by Rainer Schöpf 04 Feb '03

04 Feb '03

On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Christian Justen wrote: > I just uploaded the following files: > cjhebrew.pdf > cjh-en.pdf > to ftp.dante.de/incoming/cjhebrew > > Please install the files in CTAN/language/hebrew/cjhebrew. > > cjhebrew.pdf is the updated German manual for CJHebrew an should > replace the old version. > > cjh-en.pdf is an English translation of the CJHebrew manual. > > License: lppl > > Short description: CJHebrew is a system for typesetting of Hebrew > text with LaTeX containing two type 1 fonts. Thanks for the new docs, I installed the files as requested. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: platex and mwcls packages
by Rainer Schöpf 04 Feb '03

04 Feb '03

On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Stanis/law Wawrykiewicz wrote: > I've uploaded to dante:/incoming > platex-1.2.4.zip > mwcls.zip > > Both contain updated packages already on CTAN. > Please unzip platex-1.2.4.zip in > macros/latex/contrib/supported/platex > > and mwcls.zip in > macros/latex/contrib/supported/mwcls Thanks for the updates. I installed the files. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN upload notification: skak v1.2
by Robin Fairbairns 04 Feb '03

04 Feb '03

and behold! our upload daemon did say (yesterday, when i was too busy to do anything about it): > A submission was uploaded to /anfs/ctan-inc/upload-20030203.001/. > > The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: > > Name of contribution: skak v1.2 > Name: Torben Hoffmann > Suggested location on CTAN: fonts/skak > Summary description: Easy chess typesetting using SAN input > License type: LaTeX Project > > Announcement text: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Changes from v1.1: > * Better Informator symbols. > * Description of how to choose a different font. > * movecomment command added - allows easy typesetting of comments. > * The PostScript files are 10 times smaller (for big files) > * All dead code has been removed from skak.sty > > Most of this is due to a big effort by Dirk Bächle - plaudits are in order. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i've installed the files ins skak.zip as requested. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package: LaTeXPiX
by Jim Hefferon 31 Jan '03

31 Jan '03

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make its way to your favorite mirror in the next day or two. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ftpmaint(a)tug.ctan.org ================================================================ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor. Name of contribution: LaTeXPiX Author's name: N.J.H.M. van Beurden Location on CTAN: systems/win32/latexpix Summary description: LaTeX picture editor for Windows License type: pd Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LaTeXPiX is a picture editor for LaTeX and works on all Microsoft Windows versions. LaTeXPiX offers advanced picture drawing, editing and generation beyond the scope of most other available editors. - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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New CTAN package: iTe
by Jim Hefferon 29 Jan '03

29 Jan '03

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and it should make its way to your favorite mirror in the next day or two. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ftpmaint(a)tug.ctan.org ====================================================================== The following information was provided by our fellow contributor. Name of contribution: iTe Author's name: wolfgang kuehn Location on CTAN: support/ite Summary description: the interactive Tex editor License type: gpl Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- iTe is an easy to use, interactive authoring tool for LATEX and TEX documents. With iTe running inside emacs, it is possible to select arbitrary display fragments such as figures, equations, labels, captions, etc. These fragments can then be freely moved, rotated and scaled. - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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New version (3.4) of UK TeX FAQ on CTAN and the Web
by Robin Fairbairns 29 Jan '03

29 Jan '03

I have installed a new version of the FAQ. As usual, a small set of new questions/answers has been added, and a number of typos and plain-and-simple bugs have been corrected. In addition, I have addressed a significant problem with the presentation of URLs for directories, on the Web. In the last few months I have learned that some browsers always provide the answer non-existent if you ask a CTAN node for a .tar.gz or a .zip file of a directory. (Tracing reveals packets where the client is asking whether the file exists before attempting to download it; of course the file _doesn't_ exist, and our FTP daemons aren't smart enough to spot this case. None of which explains _why_ these browsers behave like this.) Now, whenever the FAQ used to present a .tar.gz URL for a directory, it also presents a .zip URL, and a URL for browsing (the latter two in parentheses). If all else fails, frustrated users may download a directory one file at a time. I have also made a small improvement to the way searches are conducted. I've been thinking about how to do this job better, but at least now one of the worst excesses of the stupidity of the old version have gone: the search regards space-separated words as distinct. A further advance has come for users of the PDF versions; thanks to the good offices of Heiko Oberdiek, those files now have thumbnails by each question title. In the thumbnail's data, one finds the URL for this question (in my favoured label format), and the question title. As always, I shall be pathetically grateful for help with new answers, or corrections to old answers, in the FAQ -- feel free to mail to faq(a)tex.ac.uk An HTML-only (i.e., no searching) version of the FAQ is available for use by TeX distribution builders; for those who already use it, the new version is in the usual place -- those who don't already use it may contact me for details. Robin Fairbairns UK TeX FAQ maintainer

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CTAN submission -- KOMA-Script
by Reinhard Zierke 29 Jan '03

29 Jan '03

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload ----- A submission was uploaded to nova.dante.de:/ftp/incoming/upload-20030129.001/. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: KOMA-Script Name and email: Markus Kohm Suggested location on CTAN: tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/koma-script Summary description: KOMA-Script, a versatile LaTeX2e bundle License type: Free Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The KOMA-Script team is happy to announce the February '03 Release of the KOMA-Script bundle aka the three days too early release. -------------------------------------------------------- What is KOMA-Script -------------------------------------------------------- KOMA-Script is a versatile bundle of LaTeX2e document classes and packages. It aims to be a replacement to the standard LaTeX2e classes. KOMA-Script does not stop with the features known from the standard classes, but it extends the possibilities in order to provide the user an almost complete working environment. -------------------------------------------------------- Versions of classes and packages at this release: -------------------------------------------------------- scrartcl.cls 2003/01/28 v2.9l scrbook.cls 2003/01/28 v2.9l scrreprt.cls 2003/01/28 v2.9l scrlttr2.cls 2003/01/28 v2.9l scrlettr.cls 2002/05/24 v2.6e (obsolete) scrtime.sty 2002/02/02 v1.1m scrdate.sty 2002/02/02 v1.1m scrpage2.sty 2002/11/01 v2.1a typearea.sty 2003/01/28 v2.9l scrlfile.sty 2003/01/28 v2.9l scrpage.sty 2001/06/22 v1.3c (obsolete) scraddr.sty 2002/06/02 v1.1b -------------------------------------------------------- What is new in this KOMA-Script release -------------------------------------------------------- This is only a bug-fix-release: - typo-fixes at the guides - index is not longer openright with option openany - missing files at source of english guides added - some fixes behind the curtain (e.g. of scrlttr2) Go discover. -------------------------------------------------------- XML file to be used at The TeX Catalogue: -------------------------------------------------------- See koma-script.xml at the distribution. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the upload. I installed it as suggested replacing the old version in CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/koma-script Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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Re: ctan upload: wrapfig.sty 3.5
by Robin Fairbairns 29 Jan '03

29 Jan '03

Donald Arseneau writes: > I've uploaded version 3.5 of wrapfig.sty to ctan/UK. > > Please use it to replace macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/wrapfig.sty > > New with version 3.5: support for float.sty > > New with version 3.4: setting linewidth in wrapped text. > > As before the license is lppl. i've installed the new version; thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: Uploaded updated style file
by Robin Fairbairns 28 Jan '03

28 Jan '03

Rohit Grover writes: > Uploaded to cam.ctan.org > Directory: incoming/newpunk > > Updated style file and test latex file for using Knuth's punk fonts. The > old one (released 1992) doesn't work anymore because it uses obsolete > syntax. This version should probably replace the current punk.sty in the > CTAN tree. i've rearranged the fonts/punk directory: fonts/punk/source contains the original .mf files fonts/punk/latex contains your contribution: punk.sty punktest.tex thanks for the contribtion Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN upload notification: ragged2e v2.00
by Rainer Schöpf 28 Jan '03

28 Jan '03

On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 Martin Schröder submitted: > Name of contribution: ragged2e v2.00 > Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/ms/ > Summary description: A new improved version of ragged2e > License type: Free > > Announcement text: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This version fixes some (hopefully all) bugs and introduces some new features. > The bugs had to do with the handling of spaceskip and xspaceskip; this has been completely redesigned. > The new features are new options for setting the complete document, all footnotes and all parboxes raggedright. The new version also incorporates the raggedr package. Thanks for the update. Following the upload instructions, I replaced the files ragged2e.dtx ragged2e.ins and removed the files ragged2e.asc ragged2e.bug ragged2e.dvi The updated xml entry follows: <?xml version=1.0?> <!DOCTYPE entry SYSTEM ../catalogue.dtd> <entry id=ragged2e datestamp=2003/01/28 modifier=martin(a)oneiros.de> <about> <name>ragged2e</name> <caption> Defines Centering, RaggedLeft, and RaggedRight, and corresponding environments. </caption> <author> <name>Martin Schröder</name> <email>martin(a)oneiros.de</email> </author> <license type=lppl/> <version> <number>2.00</number> <released>2003/01/28</released> </version> <xref refid=everysel/> </about> <description> <abstract> A LaTeX package which defines new commands Centering, RaggedLeft, and RaggedRight and new environments Center, FlushLeft, and FlushRight, which set ragged text and are easily configurable to allow hyphenation. </abstract> </description> <distribution> <ctan>macros/latex/contrib/supported/ms</ctan> <texlive>latexextra</texlive> </distribution> </entry> For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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encTeX on ctan
by Robin Fairbairns 28 Jan '03

28 Jan '03

encTeX is (another) tex extension, written at the change-file level. it provides means of translating input, on the way into tex's mouth. the most recent version allows translation of multibyte sequences, such as utf-8 encoding. i have established a mirror of enctex into ctan at systems/enctex, to aid people's evaluation of the system. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN upload: iagproc
by Jim Hefferon 27 Jan '03

27 Jan '03

New material has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should make its way to your local mirror in the next day or two. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ftpmaint(a)tug.ctan.org ==================================================================== The following information was provided by our fellow contributor. Name of contribution: iagproc Author's name: Martin Vermeer Location on CTAN: latex/contrib/supported/misc Summary description: LaTeX2e class file for two column IAG Proceedings articles License type: lppl Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LaTeX2e class file for two column IAG Proceedings articles, like for the Banff GGG2000 Symposium or the Thessaloniki IGGC 2002 meeting. Format description: http://www.ucalgary.ca/~sideris/GGG2000/instructions.pdf - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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CTAN upgrade: Makor 2
by Jim Hefferon 27 Jan '03

27 Jan '03

A package has been upgraded on tug.ctan.org and should be at your favorite local mirror in a day or two. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ftpmaint(a)tug.ctan.org =============================================================== The following information was provided by our fellow contributor. Name of contribution: Makor 2 Author's name: Alan Hoenig Location on CTAN: language/hebrew/makor Summary description: Typesetting Hebrew with vowels with Omega License type: lppl Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Use Makor2 to typeset: Hebrew with vowels or liturgical accents; Yiddish; docs prepared using ArabTeX Hebrew conventions; Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia; Old Hebrew; and much, much more; see files README and mkr2man.pdf for additional details and copious examples. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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bug fix version of footmisc on ctan
by Robin Fairbairns 27 Jan '03

27 Jan '03

i have replaced macros/latex/contrib/supported/footmisc.dtx, to bring the release up to version 5.2 this version fixes two bugs: - that multiple option did not work with perpage option enabled. - an interaction with the color package that caused errors if the para option was enabled. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN submission --- memoir class
by Robin Fairbairns 24 Jan '03

24 Jan '03

Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded memoir.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use this to > replace macros/latex/contrib/supported/memoir. > > The distribution is under the LPPL. > > From the README: > > Memoir is a configurable class for general fiction, non-fiction > and mathematical books. It encompasses the standard book and report > classes and can simulate the article class as well as a double > spaced typewritten manuscript. > > It provides a variety of predefined page, chapter, and caption > styles and easy ways of creating new ones. There is a reasonably > intuitive way of specifyng page margins, etc., with an option for > printing trimming marks. Documents can use 9pt, 10pt, 11pt, 12pt, > 14pt or 17pt as the normal font size. > > Changes (2003/01/22) > o Second optional argument to section etc., for page header text > o Number formatting --- cardinals and ordinals, numeric and spelled out > o Better cooperation with natbib, chapterbib, hyperref and nameref packages > o New version (1.3) of mempatch.sty > o New version (1.1) of memhfixc.sty > o New version of the Addendum whew! i've installed the new stuff as requested; thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: Upload to CTAN
by Rainer Schoepf 24 Jan '03

24 Jan '03

On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Christian Gollwitzer wrote: > I´ve uploaded a bugfix release of ShapePatch to CTAN. It is on > the server dante.ctan.org in the directory /incoming/shapepatch I > created. > It should be placed in the directory /graphics/transfig-shape, where the > old version is situated. It had (at least :-) two bugs that are fixed in > this new release. > > The license of transfig was erroneously listed as GPL in your > Catalogue, so I used this the last time. In fact transfig uses the > X/Open Group license, so the license of shapepatch should match that > too. (now listed as BSD in your Catalogue) Thanks for your update, I installed it in graphics/transfig-shapepatch For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: Upload - References v4.0a
by Rainer Schoepf 24 Jan '03

24 Jan '03

On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Volker Kiefel wrote: > I have uploaded: References v4.0a, bibliographic software > To: ftp.dante.de > Files should go to: /tex-archive/support/references > GNU general public licence > > Summary: REFERENCES is bibliographic software for > authors of scientific manuscripts and for management of > bibliographic data on ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS, BOOKS > and CHAPTERS IN BOOKS. REFERENCES supports LaTeX > including BibTeX. REFERENCES is able to import > bibliographic records in the MEDLINE format. Retrieval > of references by keywords, authors' or editors' names, > date of publication, title of article, book title, > journal name or combinations thereof is possible. Lists > of references can be compiled in any (user-defined) > format required by the publishers of scientific > journals. Source code is included: REFERENCES is free > software distributed under the terms of the GNU GENERAL > PUBLIC LICENSE, Version 2 (FSF). Thanks for the update, I installed it in support/references For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN Upload - BaKoMa TeX 5.22
by Rainer Schoepf 23 Jan '03

23 Jan '03

On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Basil K. Malyshev wrote: > I have uploaded to `ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma' directory > update for BaKoMa TeX 5.22 (issued 23-Jan-2003). > > Please put the files to 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' directory. > > This version has Patch status and may be freely installed by > holders of NON-UPGRADABLE license for BaKoMa TeX 5.20. > > This version has following bug fixing and refinments: > * Saving settings under accounts with names with international symbols. > * Changed format of date embedded into PDF file (Now use D:20030123....) > * Fixed configuration for BibEdit (It avoids Win98 limitations) > * Refined Outline generation in DVI2HTML (corporating bugs) > * Refined configuration of cyrillic (LH) fonts for TeX4HT. > * Fixed driver for HyperRef package (Extra `}' before egin{equation}). > * Recent Files List was reimplemented via dialog. > > Bye. > Basil K. Malyshev > 23-Jan-2003 Thanks for the update, I installed the files in the nonfree/systems/win32/bakoma hierarchy. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf > --------------- About BaKoMa TeX 5.20 ---------------------- > > CONTENTS > * Highlights > * Graphical Capabilities > * Fonts > * User Interface > * PDF Generation Features > * HTML Generation features > * New Features of BaKoMa TeX 5.20 > > For more information about BaKoMa TeX see > <ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/index.html> > > BaKoMa TeX is a complete TeX system for Microsoft Windows XP/2000/NT/98/95 > > HIGHLIGHTS > > * Dynamical Preview allows the user to preview instantly selected region > of the file being edited. > (It is analog of Instant Preview - http://www.activetex.org). > * PostScript enabled TeX system. > ** Generates *PDF* from documents with *PSTricks*, *PSfrag*, etc. > ** Generates HTML (TeX4HT, DVI2HTML), also supports Hevea and TTH. > * Supports using PostScript Type 1 fonts (including MM) *WITHOUT ATM*. > However, using ATM for font rendering is optionally available. > * Complete distribution includes about *1500* TeX Fonts (including EC/TC, LH) > in ATM Compatible PostScript Type 1 font format. > * Font Setup Wizard installs Postscript/TrueType fonts almost in one click > * Consistent graphics and font support for all DVI back-ends. > * BibEdit - editor for LaTeX BIB files is included. > * Supports hyperlink text broken across lines and pages. > * Easy to install and use. > * Much less expensive than other analogues. > > GRAPHICAL CAPABILITIES > > BaKoMa TeX includes an interpreter for *PostScript Level 2*, > which is tested for compatibility with output from popular > software such as: MetaPost, Adobe Illustrator 10, Adobe Streamline 4.0, > Mathematica 4, MatLab, CorelDraw 10, CorelXARA, HIGZ, PageDraw, > FrameMaker, ImageMagick, etc. > > All DVI back-ends support the same special interface compatible > with well known Rokicki's DVIPS, including processing PostScript > embedded into DVI files (PSTricks, PSfrag, XyPic, etc.). > > The system includes Graphics Import Filters for the following formats: > PostScript, HPGL, DXY, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, MSP, BMP. > > FONTS > > BaKoMa TeX supports the following font formats: > * PostScript Type 1 (including Multiple Masters), > * PostScript Type 3, > * TrueType, > * OpenType, > * TeX PK/VF. > > The system includes about *1500* typefaces in PostScript Type 1 > and Type 3 font format including the following fonts: > * CM (including LaTeX and Logo fonts + vf for T1 with CX > * AMS Fonts (Euler, Math Symbols), > * EC/TC, > * LH (T2A), > * Concrete (Math, ECC), > * Malvern, > * CMCyr + vf for T2A/LCY > * Scripting fonts, CMPica, Punk. > Math Fonts: > * Stmaryrd, Wasy, Rsfs, YHMath, BlackBoard (bbm, doublestroke). > Diagram drawing fonts: > * Lams, Astro Symbols (cmastro, astrosym, moonphase), > * Barcodes (barcodes, wlean, wlc*), Logical (loggates, milstd), > * timing, MusiXTeX, Chess/CChess, Go, Backgammon, Dingbats/NiceFrame. etc. > > Any font type can be used for any output device/format. > This feature is supported by automatic font conversion > between font formats when needed. > This feature enables the rendering of Type 1 fonts *without ATM*. > On the other hand, it enables the use of TrueType/OpenType fonts > for generating PostScript printed even on PostScript Level 1 printers. > > In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use most of free Type 1 fonts > available on CTAN and Trutype fonts coming with MS Windows systems. > > Font Setup Wizard lets you to install most of commercial (and free) > Postscript Type 1 and TrueType fonts in one click. > > USER INTERFACE > > * Dynamical Preview (Instant Preview) of selected part of a document. > It reformats (and preview) selected part of document on the fly, > when you edit it. This feature accelerates tuning paragraphs, > mathematics, pictures, etc. > * Flexible window docking lets you optimize splitting your screen > for using Dynamical Preview efficiently. > * One touch key for TeX + Preview + other customizable postprocessors, > * Quick navigation via document structure, > * DVI Forward/Reverse search (format independent), > * Powerful support for different input encodings, > * Project support, > * Graphics import assistant, > * Assitance for multi-file documents: > context sensitive openning of included text and graphics files, > * Searching for TeX errors using the TeX log file, > * Searching for help for TeX commands in entire document collection, > * Syntax highlighting is configurable for catcodes and command dictionaries, > * Customizable GUI Bars and menus for inserting Math Symbols and other commands, > * Automatic creation of a BB-file for non-PostScript graphics. > * Spell Checker: On-the-spot highlighting of misspelled words, > correction proposals, handling accents and babel shortcuts. > configurable for handling (La)TeX commands. > * BibEdit - editor for LaTeX BIB files is included. > * Syntax Completion is context sensitive and flexible. > * Support for Multi-User systems. > > OUTPUT DEVICES/FORMATS > > * View on Windows Display. > * Print on any printer supported by a MS Windows driver. > * PostScript (really scalable), > * PDF, > * HTML. > > Important feature of BaKoMa TeX is consistent graphics and font support > for all types of output. This means that all font formats mentioned > may be used for every type of output. This also means that all graphical > capabilities mentioned are supported for every type of output. > > PDF GENERATION FEATURES > > * Handling in-line PostScript in DVI files (PSTricks). > * Creating PDF files which share fonts. > Suitable for preparing CD-ROM based document libraries. > * Embedding fonts in CFF requires 2--3 times less space then other font forms. > * Handles HyperTeX (HyperRef) and document outline. > > HTML GENERATION FEATURES > > BaKoMa TeX 5 supports several ways for conversion of (La)TeX > documents into HTML files. > * `TeX|Generate HTML ...' text editor menu command lets you launch > `TeX4HT' convertor with numerous options. > * `File|Generate HTML ...' DVI viewer menu command lets you convert > pages of a DVI file into PNG files wrapped into navigation HTML > pages. This approach is useful for documents with complex graphics, > such as slides. > > In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use `HEVEA' and/or `TTH' convertors. > Launching of these convertors is available via extra TABS of > `TeX|Generate HTML ...' editor command. > > Including graphics is well integreated with BaKoMa TeX graphical engine. > In this reason, you can insert everithing supported by BaKoMa TeX > into generated HTML pages. > > *** NEW FEATURES OF BAKOMA TEX 5.20 in comparison with BAKOMA TEX 5.10 *** > > Font Setup Wizard (`Options|Install TrueType/Postscript fonts ...') > ----------------- > > * supports installation of *Postscript Type 1* > in advance to TrueType/OpenType fonts. > * works faster, because of using dynamic update of ls-R files. > > BibEdit - new application > ------------------------- > > BibEdit is new utility in BaKoMa TeX. It is intended for > browsing and editing BIB files used by BibTeX program. > It is launched for openning BIB files (Windows Explorer) > or from Centaur Text Editor (Insert|Edit Bibliography, Insert|cite).. > Features: > * Edits several BIB files simultaneously, that is very useful > to handle situation when `ibliography' command includes several files. > * Easy to use - Help window provides user with useful hints > for every editing mode; > * Provide user with hints for preparing fields of different types; > * Chroma codidng for fields: `Required', `Optional', and `Ignored'. > * Tells user when one or more `Required' fields are missed. > * Quick insertion of reference on string into the currently edited field; > * Quick insertion of citation into your document. > > User Interface > -------------- > > * Improved `Insert' menu. > + `Complete Word' (Ctrl+Enter) LaTeX Syntax completion command. > Context sensitive, adding/removing words, definable extra code. > + `LaTeX Environment ...' (Alt+Enter) > now it is implemented as dialog (instead of submenu) whicj lets you: > (1) add/remove environments immediately in dialog > (2) modify default arguments for environment. > + `Edit Bibliography ...' Provide simple way to start edit of bibliography: > In case of ibliography command launches BibEdit, > In case of `thebibliography' environment opens file with him. > If no bibliography in you document it helps to create it. > + `cite' (Alt+C) inserts `cite' LaTeX command. > However, at second call (when cite{} is already under cursor) > it launches BibEdit or dialog with list of available bibliography entries. > + `Insert Indexing Stuffs' > lets you prepare document for indexing in one click. > + ` ef' (Ctrl+R) and `pageref' (Ctrl+P) like to cite command, > at second click, show list of labels in current document. > + `Graphics|Graphics File' (inserts `includegraphics') > detects that cursor is already under some `includegraphics' command > and edit it instead of inserting another command. > > DVI Viewer > ---------- > > * Support for `colorlinks' option of HyperRef</i> package. > * `Document Properties|Outline' - more robust refreshing outline. > * `File|Read PDF' and `File|View Postscript' > commands check existing and date of PDF/PS file to suggest user > (re)generate it if one is absent or older then DVI file. > * `File|Edit Source TeX File' command is disabled when TeX > source isn't available for currently opened DVI file. In advance, > it works with non standard file extensions (DTX, DRV, LTX, etc.). > Also, cursor isn't jumped into BOF when file is already opened. > * Fixed Problem with mishandling negative deltas by ExtTextOut under Win98. > * Handling kerning in Readable mode was refined. > > TeX4HT > ------ > > * Copying imported PNG and GIF images into TeX4HT subdirectory > (see texmf/tex/latex/tex4ht/tex4ht.fix). > > For more information about changes see > <ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes5.html> > > ---------- End of BaKoMa TeX Information ----------

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CTAN upload: the covington font material renamed covfonts
by Jim Hefferon 23 Jan '03

23 Jan '03

The covington font package has been renamed covfonts, to avoid a name clash with an existing package. Sorry about any confusion; thank you to the folks who pointed out my oversight and also to the package author, Scott Pakin, for making the changes. Jim Hefferon ftpmaint(a)tug.ctan.org ========================================================== The following information was provided by our fellow contributor. Name of contribution: covfonts Author's name: Scott Pakin Location on CTAN: fonts/covfonts Summary description: Make Apostrophic Laboratories's Covington fonts available to TeX and LaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The covfonts package provides all of the font metrics, virtual fonts, font-description files, and font-mapping files needed to use Apostrophic Laboratories's freely downloadable Covington font with TeX and LaTeX. - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: new shapepar bundle (version 2.0)
by Robin Fairbairns 23 Jan '03

23 Jan '03

Donald Arseneau writes: > I have uploaded version 2.0 of shapepar to > cambridge_ctan:incoming/shapepar.tar.gz with contents: > shapepar/ > shapepar/Canflagshape.def > shapepar/shapepar.ltx > shapepar/TeXshape.def > shapepar/candleshape.def > shapepar/proshap.py > shapepar/README.shapepar > shapepar/shapepar.sty > > Please unpack this so the new shapepar directory appears in > macros/latex/contrib/supported, and remove the previous > macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/shapepar.sty. > > Since shapepar.sty continues to be functional under plain > TeX, please update whatever symbolic link exists from > macros/plain or macros/generic to reflect the new location. > > proshap.py doesn't really belong in the macros tree because > it is a Python script (by Manuel Gutierrez Algaba). Feel free > to relocate it. > > Also uploaded is a revised incoming/shapepar.xml to replace > help/Catalogue/entries/shapepar.xml, but someone with more > experience should check it. > - I probably did not update all the information properly, > - I don't know which distributions carry shapepar.sty > > Abstract: > The shapepar macro (or `command') is used to typeset paragraphs of > a specified shape, where the total size is adjusted automatically so > that the entire shape is filled with text, and the shape may include > separate pieces and holes. These macros work for both LaTeX and > plain TeX. > > New with version 2.0: > o cutout for fitting shape in surrounding text > o Fixed-size shapes > o Considerable re-write > o Bug fix for disjoint parts > o Allow back-spacing between disjoint parts > o Typeset manual > o More pre-defined shapes i've installed the files as requested, and deleted the old version. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: statex v1.2 uploaded to ftp.ctan.org
by Robin Fairbairns 22 Jan '03

22 Jan '03

Rodney Sparapani writes: > I've just uploaded statex v1.2 to ftp.ctan.org/incoming > This is a replacement for v1.1 which currently resides in > macros/latex/contrib/supported/misc/ > The license is LPPL v.1.2+ > > statex v1.2 corrects some bugs and adds lots of new features: > 1) many positioning problems have been resolved > 2) more statistics commands and probability mass/density functions > 3) new commands for creating documentation for the TI-83 calculator > 4) all commands are now short > 5) updated examples at the end of the style file by the wonders of the dns, the upload appeared in cambridge. sorry this has been delayed for a day or so, but i've now installed the package as requested. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN submission --- tocbibind package
by Robin Fairbairns 22 Jan '03

22 Jan '03

Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded tocbibind.tar to UK incoming. Please use this to > replace the current macros/latex/contrib/supported/tocbibind > > The distribution is under the LPPL. > > From the README: > > The tocbibind package can be used to add the ToC and/or > bibliography and/or the index, etc., to the Table of Contents > listing. > > Changes in version 1.52 (2002/01/22) > o Improved harmony with the chapterbib and natbib packages. i've installed the new version as requested. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN upload notification: LaTeX2PDF
by Rainer Schöpf 22 Jan '03

22 Jan '03

A submission was uploaded to CTAN. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: > Name of contribution: LaTeX2PDF > Name and email: Sascha Beuermann > Suggested location on CTAN: tex-archive/info/german/ > Summary description: Erstellung von PDF-Dokumenten mit LaTeX > License type: Free > > Announcement text: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Erstellung von leistungsfähigen PDF-Dokumenten mit LaTeX und den > Paketen hyperref sowie thumbpdf, Version 2.10 vom 15. Januar 2002 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- (Howto create PDF document with LaTeX and hyperref/thumbpdf) Thanks for the upload, I installed the file as info/german/LaTeX2PDF.pdf For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN submission --- tocloft package
by Robin Fairbairns 20 Jan '03

20 Jan '03

Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded tocloft.tar to UK incoming. Please use this to > replace the current macros/latex/conrib/supported/tocloft. > > The distribution is under the LPPL. > > From the README: > > The tocloft package provides control over the typography of the > able of Contents, List of Figures, and List of Tables. You can also > define your own kinds of `List of ...'. > > Changes in version 2.3b (2003/01/20) > o Again made Part commands work as advertised (with the koma classes) i've installed the files as requested; thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package upgrade: newlfm
by Jim Hefferon 20 Jan '03

20 Jan '03

A package upgrade has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should make its way to your favorite mirror in a day or two. Thanks for the upload, Jim ====================================================================== The following information was provided by our fellow contributor. Name of contribution: newlfm Author's name: Paul Thompson Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/newlfm Summary description: newlfm - new letter fax memo License type: lppl Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 6.0 of newlfm is announced. This is a pretty major revision of newlfm. It corrects an inconsistency with geometry (by removing dependence on geometry). It incorporates several missing components from the page. Most importantly, Version 6.0 incorporates a keyed-value approach to parameter setting. Rather than setting all parameters using the options section of the documentclass command, the keyed-value approach allows the parameters to be set using several keyed-value parameters (i.e., LetterP{stdletter,nofromaddr} ). These allow the entire composition of the letter (dimensions, etc.) to be stored and used as callable values from the letter database file. - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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CTAN submission -- preview-latex-0.7.8
by Reinhard Zierke 20 Jan '03

20 Jan '03

----- Forwarded message from David Kastrup ----- I have uploaded preview-latex-0.7.8.tar.gz and preview-0.7.8.tar.gz to the incoming directory of ftp.dante.de. Its license is the GPL. I would recommend installing it in the following way: Put the packed archive preview-latex-0.7.8.tar.gz under support/preview-latex/ and unpack the README from it to support/preview-latex/README Create a symbolic link from support/preview-latex/preview-latex.tar.gz to preview-latex-0.7.8.tar.gz so that people can always get the newest version under this name. Unpack preview-0.7.8.tar.gz in the directory macros/latex/contrib/supported/preview/ It contains just README-preview, preview.dtx and preview.ins. The reason is that the preview.dtx file can also be used as a standalone LaTeX style for extracting selected elements from a LaTeX source into separate pages of a DVI file. Previous versions of preview-latex can be deleted. Here are the release notes: Release notes for version 0.7.8 of the preview-latex package: preview-latex dresses up your LaTeX source by pasting judiciously selected chunks (such as single formulas) chopped from unwieldy preview pages right over their source in the Emacs/XEmacs buffer. You get to have your eye candy and edit it, too. Since only the display of the text is affected, you can safely test-drive on important documents right away. Quitting its use can be done anytime you'd want to, which you won't. The employed style file preview.sty is independently useful for extraction of selected text elements as images. The package is released under the GNU Public License (GPL). At the current point of time, at least GNU Emacs-21.1 under the X window system, AUC TeX (11.14 or later recommended, see below), a working LaTeX installation and GhostScript are required. This version also supports XEmacs-21, best in version 21.4.9 or later, and the various Windows ports of XEmacs. You may also use recent CVS versions of Windows GNU Emacs. Release 0.7.8 has gained a few more commands, its menu has been reorganized, the fleqn document class option from LaTeX is fully supported, preview.sty has gained a much more powerful interface for configuring previews and a few more items are previewed by default or more correctly. Various bugs have been fixed and the installation process does a better job of getting things to work particularly for Windows users, with better documentation, too. Whitespace changes will not invalidate previews as they did before. This means that outline-minor-mode is usable in XEmacs now. The README file provides adequate information for firing up preinstalled distributions, and pointers how to provide feedback. The INSTALL file contains a special section with advice for package providers. There is also a file INSTALL.windows detailing instructions for users of that operating system. The home page is <URL:http://preview-latex.sourceforge.net>, the SourceForge project page that among others offers anonymous CVS access is located at <URL:http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex>. If you can spare the time, you can also comment on or rate this project at <URL:http://freshmeat.net/projects/preview-latex>. Additional files can be found at <URL:http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/preview-latex>: * If you don't have texinfo 4.0 or later installed, prebuilt documentation files can be found there. * Tarballs of preview-latex for all users, alternatively RPMs for RedHat Linux. For the binary RPMs, you will need the preview-latex-common RPM as well as the Emacs-flavor specific RPM. * AUC TeX is now located at <URL:http://www.nongnu.org/auctex>. The download area should also provide you with RPMs if you are using RedHat Linux. The RPMs require a few packages that should be readily available in current distributions. RedHat 7.3 contains Emacs-21.2 and GhostScript-6.52 which are about the minimum versions to be recommended. Later releases should work fine. XEmacs in current distributions will still be affected with a serious display bug, see the PROBLEMS file or the respective manual section. ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the submission. I installed the new version as suggested in CTAN:/tex-archive/support/preview-latex/ and CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/preview/ replacing the old versions. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN submission -- new font metrics for LucidaBright
by Reinhard Zierke 20 Jan '03

20 Jan '03

----- Forwarded message from Walter Schmidt ----- I have uploaded the following files to the /incoming directory at dante.ctan.org: readme.lucida lucida.zip makefile This is an updated set of font metrics, virtual fonts, FD and font map files for Y&Y's commercial font family LucidaBright. A makefile is provided to help with renaming of the original font files so standard Berry-style names. (This is optional.) The upload occurs in accordance with Blenda Horn (Y&Y) and Sebastian Rahtz (who made the existing Lucida font metrics). Please remove the following existing CTAN directories: fonts/metrics/bh/lubright fonts/metrics/bh/lucidfax fonts/metrics/bh/lucsans fonts/metrics/bh/lumath and the contents of the directory fonts/metrics/bh/lucida. Then move my files to the directory fonts/metrics/bh/lucida. (The stuff is no longer spread over 5 different directories). Please, do not unpack lucida.zip. This release features a number of changes over the previous distribution: * The file set includes also the metrics for LY1 encoded text fonts. These are the original files from Y&Y, only renamed to Karl-Berry-style names. The related .fd files were changed appropriately. Thus, LY1 can be used easily beside T1/TS1. * The LY1 and TS1 encodings make the Euro symbol ( exteuro) accessible, which is present in the current release of the Lucida fonts. * With T1/TS1 encoding, the same set of font series and shapes is supported as with Y&Y's original distribution. The previous CTAN distribution, in contrast, included a number of additional series/shapes, which were based on artificially compressed, expanded or slanted fonts and faked smallcaps. Notice that these were never documented. * The obsolete OT1 font encoding is no longer supported with the Lucida fonts. * T1 encoded smallcaps fonts (hlhrc8t, hlhbc8t) include normal digits now, as expected. Oldstyle digits are still available in the TS1 encoding. ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the update. I installed it as suggested replacing everything in CTAN:/tex-archive/fonts/metrics/bh/ with the new version in CTAN:/tex-archive/fonts/metrics/bh/lucida/ Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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Re: Upload
by Rainer Schöpf 19 Jan '03

19 Jan '03

On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Volker Kiefel wrote: > I have uploaded: References v4.0, Bibliographic software > To: ftp.dante.de > Files should go to: /tex-archive/support/references > GNU general public licence - Latex Project > > Summary: > > REFERENCES v4.0 is bibliographic software for authors > of scientific manuscripts and for management of > bibliographic data on ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS, BOOKS > and CHAPTERS IN BOOKS. REFERENCES supports LaTeX > including BibTeX. REFERENCES is able to import > bibliographic records in the MEDLINE format. Retrieval > of references by keywords, authors' or editors' names, > date of publication, title of article, book title, > journal name or combinations thereof is possible. Lists > of references can be compiled in any (user-defined) > format required by the publishers of scientific > journals. Source code is included: REFERENCES is free > software distributed under the terms of the GNU GENERAL > PUBLIC LICENSE, Version 2 (FSF). Thanks for the update, I installed the new version in support/references For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN upload notification: pst-optic
by Rainer Schöpf 18 Jan '03

18 Jan '03

> Name of contribution: pst-optic > Summary description: A pstricks package for optical lenses and mirrors > License type: Free > > Announcement text: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > pst-optic offers macros for lenses and mirrors to build > optical systems and drawing the rays. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. As you suggested, I installed the files in graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-optic For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Updated version of tugboat macros on ctan
by Robin Fairbairns 17 Jan '03

17 Jan '03

i have just installed my latest working version of the tugboat macros on ctan at macros/latex/contrib/supported/tugboat there are significant changes between this version, and the one previously on ctan: potential writers of tugboat (or tug conference proceedings) papers are urged to update their macro files. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: hatching.zip on DANTE:/incoming
by Robin Fairbairns 17 Jan '03

17 Jan '03

Staszek Wawrykiewicz writes: > > I've just uploaded to DANTE:/incoming/hatching.zip > > Please unpack it in graphics/metapost/macros/ > > > > The file HATCHING.MP contains a set of METAPOST macros for hatching > > interior of closed paths. The examples of usage included. > > Licence: PD i have installed the files as requested (at the cambridge ctan, for ctan internal reasons...). thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN submission: Day Roman font (bug fix)
by Rainer Schoepf 17 Jan '03

17 Jan '03

On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Walter Schmidt wrote: > I have uploaded the files > > readme.dayroman > dayroman.zip > > to the /incoming directory at dante.ctan.org. Please, move them > to the directory fonts/DayRoman, thus replacing the corresponding > present files. The existing archive file day_t1.zip, however, > is to remain unchanged. > > This release fixes several bugs in the LaTeX support files for > the Day Roman typeface, which I uploaded recently. The changes > affect particularly the use of ligatures and the shape of the > Polish diacritics. Besides, I have corrected a very misleading > typo in the documentation. > > Many apologies for the bugs and for the confusion caused by > the faulty documentation. Credits to Staszek Wawrykiewicz for > spotting the bugs with the Polish letters! Thanks for the update. I installed it in fonts/DayRoman For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN submission --- bundle of 8 bookhand fonts
by Robin Fairbairns 17 Jan '03

17 Jan '03

Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded 9 files to UK incoming. They are all under the > LPPL. Please: > > o Move contents of bookhands.tar.gz into fonts/bookhands. > > o For each of the 8 files, move them to fonts/bookhands and untar > there to create new subdirectories: carolmin.tar, egothic.tar, > humanist.tar, inslrmin.tar, pgothic.tar, rotunda.tar, sqrcaps.tar, > and tgothic.tar. > > This distribution completes my planned set of bookhand > (METAFONT) fonts and packages covering manuscript scripts from the > 1st century until Guthenberg and Caxton. The new hands are: > o Square Capitals 1st century onwards (sqrcaps) > o Insular Minuscule 6th cenury onward (inslrmin) > o Carolingian Minuscule 8-12th century (carolmin) > o Early Gothic 11-12th century (egothic) > o Gothic Textura Quadrata 13-15th century (tgothic) > o Gothic Textura Prescius 13th onward (pgothic) > o Rotunda 13-15th century (rotunda) > o Humanist Minuscule 14th onward (humanist). > > The existing set includes: > o Roman Rustic 1st to 6th century > o Uncial 3-6th > o Half Uncial 3-9th > o Artificial Uncial 6-10th > o Insular Majuscule 6-9th > > The file bsamples.ps in bookhands.tar.gz shows examples of each > of the fonts. installed as requested (in the spirit, if not the letter -- we don't unpack things direct into the archive), and set to propagate. thanks for the uploads. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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New package on CTAN: covington
by Jim Hefferon 16 Jan '03

16 Jan '03

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and it should make its way to your favorite local mirror in the next day or two. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ftpmaint(a)tug.ctan.org =================================================================== The following information was provided by our fellow contributor. Name of contribution: covington Author's name: Scott Pakin Location on CTAN: fonts/covington Summary description: Make Apostrophic Laboratories's Covington fonts available to TeX and LaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The covington package provides all of the font metrics, virtual fonts, font-description files, and font-mapping files needed to use Apostrophic Laboratories's freely downloadable Covington font with TeX and LaTeX. - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: CTAN submission -- BibTool 2.47
by Rainer Schoepf 16 Jan '03

16 Jan '03

On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Gerd Neugebauer wrote: > I have uploaded Release 2.47 of BibTool to > ftp.dante.de:/incoming/BibTool-2.47.tar.gz > BibTool is distributed under the GPL. > > The uploaded file should go into the directory > biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool. The file BibTool-2.46.tar.gz residing there > can be deleted. > > Several and tiny enhancements have made it into this release. > I append the README file for a general description > of BibTool. > > Ciao > Gerd > > ====================================================================== > > ###### ############ > ####### ############ > ## ## ## > ## ## ## ##### ## #### #### ## > ####### ## ###### ## ###### ###### ## > ####### ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## > ## ## ## ###### ## ## ## ## ## ## > ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## > ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## > ####### ## ###### ## ###### ###### ####### > ###### ## ##### ## #### #### ####### > > ====================================================================== > > BibTool: A Tool for Manipulating BibTeX Data Bases > > > BibTeX provides an easy to use means to integrate citations and > bibliographies into LaTeX documents. But the user is left alone with > the management of the BibTeX files. The program BibTool is intended to > fill this gap. BibTool allows the manipulation of BibTeX files which > goes beyond the possibilities --- and intentions --- of BibTeX. The > possibilities of BibTool include > > * Pretty-printing BibTeX data bases adjustable by lots of parameters. > > * Syntactic checks with error recovery superior to BibTeX and helpful > error messages. > > * Semantic checks can be specified by the user. > > * Sorting and merging of BibTeX data bases according to a free > definable sort key. > > * Generation of uniform reference keys according to predefined rules > or according to an own specification. > > * Selecting references used in one publication which are found by > analyzing an .aux file. > > * Selecting references by a set of criteria (regular expressions). > > * Controlled rewriting of fields utilizing regular expressions to > specify the rewriting rules. > > * Macro (String) expansion to eliminate the need of extra string > definitions. > > * Collecting statistics about one or more BibTeX data bases. > > > BibTool contains a documentation written in LaTeX of more than 60 > pages (and still growing). > > BibTool is written in C and has been compiled on various operating > systems like flavors of UN*X and MSDOG machines. It is distributed in > source code. No compiled versions are available from the author > (Useless to ask!). > > BibTool can be obtained from the CTAN archives: > > * ftp.dante.de:/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool > * ftp.tex.ac.uk:/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool > * ctan.tug.org:/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool > > Get the file BibTool-x.xx.tar.gz where x.xx is the version number. > Unpack it with the command (on UN*X) > > gunzip < BibTool-x.xx.tar.gz | tar -xvf - > > Alternatively get the file BibTool-x.xx.zip where x.xx is the version > number. Unpack it with the command > > unzip BibTool-x.xx.zip > > It will create a directory named BibTool-x.xx which contains the > installation instructions in the file install.tex. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update, I installed the new file in bibliography/bibtex/utils/bibtool and deleted the old one. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: Upload to CTAN
by Rainer Schöpf 15 Jan '03

15 Jan '03

On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Christian Gollwitzer wrote: > I´ve uploaded the first official version of ShapePatch to CTAN. It is on > the server dante.ctan.org in the directory /incoming/shapepatch I > created. > ShapePatch is a patch against transfig, that adds a new output driver. > This driver writes definitions for the TeX macro shapepar by Donald > Arsenau. Defining such shapes is normally crucial, using this driver one > can sketch the shape in XFig and then convert it to shapepar. Details > can be found in the attached readme file. > Since it is a patch to transfig, I think the best place for it is a > subdirectory beyond the graphics/transfig or a separate directory > graphics/transfig-shape. > As for the license, it should be the same as transfig, which is listed > as GPL in your Catalogue. Thanks for the upload. Installing your patch within the graphics/transfig tree is not easily possible, as this tree is mirrored. I have therefore taken the liberty to install it in graphics/transfig-shapepatch For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN upload notification: SplitIndex
by Rainer Schöpf 15 Jan '03

15 Jan '03

On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 Markus Kohm wrote: > Name of contribution: SplitIndex > Suggested location on CTAN: tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/splitindex > Summary description: Using a unlimited number of indices with almost every LaTeX-class > License type: Free > > Announcement text: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > SplitIndex consists of a LaTeX package, splitidx, and a > small program, splitindex. The package may be used to > produce one index or several indices. Without using the > program the number of indices is limited by the number of > TeXs output streams. But using the program you may use even > more than 16 indices. At this case, splitidx outputs only a > single file jobname.idx and the program splits that file > into several raw index files and calls your favorite index > processor for each of it. > > The splitindex program is available as perl-program > (splitindex.pl), java-program (splitindex.java/class), > Windows-CYGWIN binary (splitindex.exe), Linux-i386-ELF > binary (splitindex-Linux-i386), OpenBSD-3.0-i386 binary > (splitindex-OpenBSD-i386) and even as TeX program > (splitindex.tex with some limitations). The source > splitindex.c is also part of the distribution. > > There's an installation documentation (install.txt) and an > installation script (install.sh) at the package. > > The package was testet with the standard LaTeX classes and > the KOMA-Script classes. > > This release is a bugfix of the Nov '02 release and > intended to be stable though the version number is less > than 1. > > Fixes: > - no more segmentation fault, if a unknown long option > name is used > - some spellings at documentation > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested, in macros/latex/contrib/supported/splitindex For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN upload lineno.sty
by Robin Fairbairns 14 Jan '03

14 Jan '03

Stephan Boettcher writes: > Please find in ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming/lineno.tar.gz a new version > v3.09 of lineno.sty, to replace in macros/latex/contrib/supported/lineno. > > This update fixes a bug in the nameref.sty detection test, which was > gobbling a token from the AtBeginDocument hook. All users should > consider to update to this version. that was quick -- or have you been aware of the bug longer than i have? anyway, i've installed the files as requested -- thanks for the upload Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN submission: Day Roman font
by Rainer Schöpf 14 Jan '03

14 Jan '03

On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Walter Schmidt wrote: > I have uploaded the files > > readme.dayroman > day_t1.zip > dayroman.zip > > to the /incoming directory at dante.ctan.org. Please, > create a new directory fonts/DayRoman and install the files > there. Do _not_ unpack the ZIP archives! > > Thiese are the free Type1 fonts Day Roman and Day Roman > Expert and the required font metrics, virtual fonts etc. > to use them with TeX on the Un*x or PC platform. > > Day Roman is a digitally redrawn version of the Two Line > Double Pica Roman, a typeface designed by 16th century > French punchcutter Francois Guyot. The character set suits > today's requirements, including even the Euro. Use of the > historic long s is supported as an option. > > The Type1 fonts are provided for free by Apostrophiclab > <http://www.apostrophiclab.com> and may be redistributed, as > long as the archive file (day_t1.zip) is kept intact and no > money is charged. (Does this imply that it must be > distributed from the nonfree branch of the CTAN?) I have > added the font metrics, virtual fonts and FD files, which > are released under the LPPL. Thanks for the upload, I installed the files as requested in fonts/DayRoman For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN upload notification: KOMA-Script
by Rainer Schöpf 14 Jan '03

14 Jan '03

> The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: > > Name of contribution: KOMA-Script > Suggested location on CTAN: tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/koma-script > Summary description: KOMA-Script, a versatile LaTeX2e bundle > License type: Free > > Announcement text: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The KOMA-Script team is happy to announce the January '03 > Release of the KOMA-Script bundle aka What we have to > fix in our previous release. > > -------------------------------------------------------- > What is KOMA-Script > -------------------------------------------------------- > > KOMA-Script is a versatile bundle of LaTeX2e document > classes and packages. It aims to be a replacement to > the standard LaTeX2e classes. > KOMA-Script does not stop with the features known from > the standard classes, but it extends the possibilities > in order to provide the user an almost complete working > environment. > > -------------------------------------------------------- > Versions of classes and packages at this release: > -------------------------------------------------------- > > scrartcl.cls 2003/01/12 v2.9k > scrbook.cls 2003/01/12 v2.9k > scrreprt.cls 2003/01/12 v2.9k > scrlttr2.cls 2003/01/12 v2.9k > scrlettr.cls 2002/05/24 v2.6e (obsolete) > scrtime.sty 2002/02/02 v1.1m > scrdate.sty 2002/02/02 v1.1m > scrpage2.sty 2002/11/01 v2.1a > typearea.sty 2003/01/12 v2.9k > scrlfile.sty 2003/01/12 v2.9k > scrpage.sty 2001/06/22 v1.3c (obsolete) > scraddr.sty 2002/06/02 v1.1b > > -------------------------------------------------------- > What is new in this KOMA-Script release > -------------------------------------------------------- > > This is a bugfix release, so only bugs are fixed: > - Manual fixed and improved > - autodot-feature works even without output at > end{document} > - parskip-option at scrlttr2 works with all agruments > - option tocleft at scrbook and scrreprt improved > (line breaks) > - option tocleft works at scrartcl > - problems with running headlines after > pagestyle{empty} fixed at scrpage2 > > Go discover. Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested, in macros/latex/contrib/supported/koma-script For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: New LaTeX package: empheq
by Rainer Schöpf 12 Jan '03

12 Jan '03

On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Morten Høgholm wrote: > I have uploaded the file `empheq.zip' to the incoming directory of > dante.ctan.orgckage. It contains `.dtx', `.ins' and `readme' files for a > new LaTeX package empheq. The files should be installed in > macros/latex/contrib/supported/empheq > > This package is distributed under the conditions of the LPPL. > > Extract from the readme file: > ------------------------------------------------------------- > The scope of the empheq (EMPHasizing EQuations) package is to > provide a visual markup extension to amsmath. > > The user-friendly interface allows the user to put a set of > equations inside a box thus enhancing the oxed feature of > amsmath. As a side effect it's also possible to add material on > both sides of the equations thus providing (and surpassing) the > functionality of the cases package. > > Users of ntheorem will probably want to have a look at it as well, > since the problem of end-of-theorem marks in gather and others can > be circumvented using empheq. > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > Morten Ho gholm Thanks a lot for the upload. As you requested, I installed the files in directory macros/latex/contrib/supported/empheq For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN upload notification: fbithesis
by Rainer Schoepf 08 Jan '03

08 Jan '03

On Wed, 8 Jan 2003 Andre Dierker wrote: > Name of contribution: fbithesis > Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/supported/fbithesis > Summary description: Thesis class for the department of computer science at the University of Dortmund > License type: Free > > Announcement text: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > At the department of computer science at the University of > Dortmund there are cardboard cover pages for research or > internal reports like master/phd-theses. The main function > of this LaTeX2e document-class is a replacement for the > maketitle command to typeset a title page that is > adjusted to these cover pages. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload, I installed the files in macros/latex/contrib/supported/fbithesis For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: upload of 'gchords'
by Robin Fairbairns 08 Jan '03

08 Jan '03

Kasper Peeters writes: > I have uploaded the following: > > package: gchords (several files) > where: cam.ctan.org:incoming/gchords > please put in: graphics/gchords > license: gpl > summary: Gchords is a LaTeX package for typesetting of guitar > chord diagrams, including options for chord names, > finger numbers and typesetting above lyrics. > > master site: http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/kp229/gchords/ i've installed the files as requested. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN submission -- yfonts package v1.3
by Reinhard Zierke 08 Jan '03

08 Jan '03

----- Forwarded message from Walter Schmidt ----- I have uploadad the file yfonts.zip to the /incoming directory at dante.ctan.org. Please, unpack it in the CTAN directory macros/latex/contrib/supported/yfonts, thus replacing all present files there. This is version 1.3 of the LaTeX package yfonts.sty to support the blackletter (old-german) typefaces provided by Y. Haralambous. This release fixes a bug of version 1.2, which would break the AA and aa commands. Credits to Ingo Schwab for having found the bug! ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the upload. I installed it as suggested replacing the old version in CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/yfonts/ Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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Re: Another 3D MetaPost implementation
by Rainer Schoepf 07 Jan '03

07 Jan '03

On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 Luís Nobre Gonçalves wrote: > I've uploaded the file > featpost.tar.gz > to > dante.ctan.org/incoming > > This file contains: > 1) a set of MetaPost macros in the file la3Dmacros.mp > 2) its documentation in the directory doc/ > 3) examples in the directory exa/ > > I think it should go into > graphics/metapost/macros. > > It is GPL'd. > > These macros allow the production of three-dimensional schemes > containing: angles, circles, cylinders, cones and spheres, among other things. Thanks for the upload, I installed the files in graphics/metapost/macros/featpost For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN Upload -- BaKoMa TeX 5.20
by Rainer Schoepf 07 Jan '03

07 Jan '03

On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Basil K. Malyshev wrote: > I have uploaded to `ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma' directory > update for BaKoMa TeX 5.20 (issued 5-Jan-2003). > > Please put the files to 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' directory. > > New features are: > 1) BibEdit - new application to edit BIB files. > 2) Font Setup Wizard supports Postscript Type 1 fonts > (in advance to TrueType/OpenType supported in V 5.10) > 3) Improved editor `Insert' menu: > Syntax Comletion, Citation and Crossreferencing wizards, etc. > Bye. > Basil K. Malyshev > 5-Jan-2003 > > PS: Please send announce to appropriate mailing lists and news groups. > > --------------- About BaKoMa TeX 5.20 ---------------------- > > CONTENTS > * Highlights > * Graphical Capabilities > * Fonts > * User Interface > * PDF Generation Features > * HTML Generation features > * New Features of BaKoMa TeX 5.20 > > For more information about BaKoMa TeX see > <ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/index.html> > > BaKoMa TeX is a complete TeX system for Microsoft Windows XP/2000/NT/98/95 > > HIGHLIGHTS > > * Dynamical Preview allows the user to preview instantly selected region > of the file being edited. > (It is analog of Instant Preview - http://www.activetex.org). > * PostScript enabled TeX system. > ** Generates *PDF* from documents with *PSTricks*, *PSfrag*, etc. > ** Generates HTML (TeX4HT, DVI2HTML), also supports Hevea and TTH. > * Supports using PostScript Type 1 fonts (including MM) *WITHOUT ATM*. > However, using ATM for font rendering is optionally available. > * Complete distribution includes about *1500* TeX Fonts (including EC/TC, LH) > in ATM Compatible PostScript Type 1 font format. > * Font Setup Wizard installs Postscript/TrueType fonts almost in one click > * Consistent graphics and font support for all DVI back-ends. > * BibEdit - editor for LaTeX BIB files is included. > * Supports hyperlink text broken across lines and pages. > * Easy to install and use. > * Much less expensive than other analogues. > > GRAPHICAL CAPABILITIES > > BaKoMa TeX includes an interpreter for *PostScript Level 2*, > which is tested for compatibility with output from popular > software such as: MetaPost, Adobe Illustrator 10, Adobe Streamline 4.0, > Mathematica 4, MatLab, CorelDraw 10, CorelXARA, HIGZ, PageDraw, > FrameMaker, ImageMagick, etc. > > All DVI back-ends support the same special interface compatible > with well known Rokicki's DVIPS, including processing PostScript > embedded into DVI files (PSTricks, PSfrag, XyPic, etc.). > > The system includes Graphics Import Filters for the following formats: > PostScript, HPGL, DXY, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, MSP, BMP. > > FONTS > > BaKoMa TeX supports the following font formats: > * PostScript Type 1 (including Multiple Masters), > * PostScript Type 3, > * TrueType, > * OpenType, > * TeX PK/VF. > > The system includes about *1500* typefaces in PostScript Type 1 > and Type 3 font format including the following fonts: > * CM (including LaTeX and Logo fonts + vf for T1 with CX > * AMS Fonts (Euler, Math Symbols), > * EC/TC, > * LH (T2A), > * Concrete (Math, ECC), > * Malvern, > * CMCyr + vf for T2A/LCY > * Scripting fonts, CMPica, Punk. > Math Fonts: > * Stmaryrd, Wasy, Rsfs, YHMath, BlackBoard (bbm, doublestroke). > Diagram drawing fonts: > * Lams, Astro Symbols (cmastro, astrosym, moonphase), > * Barcodes (barcodes, wlean, wlc*), Logical (loggates, milstd), > * timing, MusiXTeX, Chess/CChess, Go, Backgammon, Dingbats/NiceFrame. etc. > > Any font type can be used for any output device/format. > This feature is supported by automatic font conversion > between font formats when needed. > This feature enables the rendering of Type 1 fonts *without ATM*. > On the other hand, it enables the use of TrueType/OpenType fonts > for generating PostScript printed even on PostScript Level 1 printers. > > In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use most of free Type 1 fonts > available on CTAN and Trutype fonts coming with MS Windows systems. > > Font Setup Wizard lets you to install most of commercial (and free) > Postscript Type 1 and TrueType fonts in one click. > > USER INTERFACE > > * Dynamical Preview (Instant Preview) of selected part of a document. > It reformats (and preview) selected part of document on the fly, > when you edit it. This feature accelerates tuning paragraphs, > mathematics, pictures, etc. > * Flexible window docking lets you optimize splitting your screen > for using Dynamical Preview efficiently. > * One touch key for TeX + Preview + other customizable postprocessors, > * Quick navigation via document structure, > * DVI Forward/Reverse search (format independent), > * Powerful support for different input encodings, > * Project support, > * Graphics import assistant, > * Assitance for multi-file documents: > context sensitive openning of included text and graphics files, > * Searching for TeX errors using the TeX log file, > * Searching for help for TeX commands in entire document collection, > * Syntax highlighting is configurable for catcodes and command dictionaries, > * Customizable GUI Bars and menus for inserting Math Symbols and other commands, > * Automatic creation of a BB-file for non-PostScript graphics. > * Spell Checker: On-the-spot highlighting of misspelled words, > correction proposals, handling accents and babel shortcuts. > configurable for handling (La)TeX commands. > * BibEdit - editor for LaTeX BIB files is included. > * Syntax Completion is context sensitive and flexible. > * Support for Multi-User systems. > > OUTPUT DEVICES/FORMATS > > * View on Windows Display. > * Print on any printer supported by a MS Windows driver. > * PostScript (really scalable), > * PDF, > * HTML. > > Important feature of BaKoMa TeX is consistent graphics and font support > for all types of output. This means that all font formats mentioned > may be used for every type of output. This also means that all graphical > capabilities mentioned are supported for every type of output. > > PDF GENERATION FEATURES > > * Handling in-line PostScript in DVI files (PSTricks). > * Creating PDF files which share fonts. > Suitable for preparing CD-ROM based document libraries. > * Embedding fonts in CFF requires 2--3 times less space then other font forms. > * Handles HyperTeX (HyperRef) and document outline. > > HTML GENERATION FEATURES > > BaKoMa TeX 5 supports several ways for conversion of (La)TeX > documents into HTML files. > * `TeX|Generate HTML ...' text editor menu command lets you launch > `TeX4HT' convertor with numerous options. > * `File|Generate HTML ...' DVI viewer menu command lets you convert > pages of a DVI file into PNG files wrapped into navigation HTML > pages. This approach is useful for documents with complex graphics, > such as slides. > > In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use `HEVEA' and/or `TTH' convertors. > Launching of these convertors is available via extra TABS of > `TeX|Generate HTML ...' editor command. > > Including graphics is well integreated with BaKoMa TeX graphical engine. > In this reason, you can insert everithing supported by BaKoMa TeX > into generated HTML pages. > > *** NEW FEATURES OF BAKOMA TEX 5.20 in comparison with BAKOMA TEX 5.10 *** > > Font Setup Wizard (`Options|Install TrueType/Postscript fonts ...') > ----------------- > > * supports installation of *Postscript Type 1* > in advance to TrueType/OpenType fonts. > * works faster, because of using dynamic update of ls-R files. > > BibEdit - new application > ------------------------- > > BibEdit is new utility in BaKoMa TeX. It is intended for > browsing and editing BIB files used by BibTeX program. > It is launched for openning BIB files (Windows Explorer) > or from Centaur Text Editor (Insert|Edit Bibliography, Insert|cite).. > Features: > * Edits several BIB files simultaneously, that is very useful > to handle situation when `ibliography' command includes several files. > * Easy to use - Help window provides user with useful hints > for every editing mode; > * Provide user with hints for preparing fields of different types; > * Chroma codidng for fields: `Required', `Optional', and `Ignored'. > * Tells user when one or more `Required' fields are missed. > * Quick insertion of reference on string into the currently edited field; > * Quick insertion of citation into your document. > > User Interface > -------------- > > * Improved `Insert' menu. > + `Complete Word' (Ctrl+Enter) LaTeX Syntax completion command. > Context sensitive, adding/removing words, definable extra code. > + `LaTeX Environment ...' (Alt+Enter) > now it is implemented as dialog (instead of submenu) whicj lets you: > (1) add/remove environments immediately in dialog > (2) modify default arguments for environment. > + `Edit Bibliography ...' Provide simple way to start edit of bibliography: > In case of ibliography command launches BibEdit, > In case of `thebibliography' environment opens file with him. > If no bibliography in you document it helps to create it. > + `cite' (Alt+C) inserts `cite' LaTeX command. > However, at second call (when cite{} is already under cursor) > it launches BibEdit or dialog with list of available bibliography entries. > + `Insert Indexing Stuffs' > lets you prepare document for indexing in one click. > + ` ef' (Ctrl+R) and `pageref' (Ctrl+P) like to cite command, > at second click, show list of labels in current document. > + `Graphics|Graphics File' (inserts `includegraphics') > detects that cursor is already under some `includegraphics' command > and edit it instead of inserting another command. > > DVI Viewer > ---------- > > * Support for `colorlinks' option of HyperRef</i> package. > * `Document Properties|Outline' - more robust refreshing outline. > * `File|Read PDF' and `File|View Postscript' > commands check existing and date of PDF/PS file to suggest user > (re)generate it if one is absent or older then DVI file. > * `File|Edit Source TeX File' command is disabled when TeX > source isn't available for currently opened DVI file. In advance, > it works with non standard file extensions (DTX, DRV, LTX, etc.). > Also, cursor isn't jumped into BOF when file is already opened. > * Fixed Problem with mishandling negative deltas by ExtTextOut under Win98. > * Handling kerning in Readable mode was refined. > > TeX4HT > ------ > > * Copying imported PNG and GIF images into TeX4HT subdirectory > (see texmf/tex/latex/tex4ht/tex4ht.fix). > > For more information about changes see > <ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes5.html> > > ---------- End of BaKoMa TeX Information ---------- Thanks for uploading the update. I installed the files as requested. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN submission -- pdfpages v0.2l
by Rainer Schoepf 07 Jan '03

07 Jan '03

On 7 Jan 2003, Andreas Matthias wrote: > I have uploaded the archive file `pdfpages.tar.bz2' to > ftp.dante.de/incoming. > > Please, extract this archive and replace the files in > > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/pdfpages/ > > This version fixes a minor bug. A separate announcement > is probably not necessary. > > The `pdfpages' package makes it easy to insert pages of > external PDF documents. Several logical pages can be > arranged onto each sheet of paper. The package provides > hypertext operations like hyperlinks and article threads. > > It is distributed under the LPPL. Thanks for the update. I installed the files as requested, in macros/latex/contrib/supported/pdfpages For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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New CTAN package: development.bst
by Jim Hefferon 07 Jan '03

07 Jan '03

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and will make its way to your favorite mirror in the next day or two. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ftpmaint(a)tug.ctan.org =================================================================== The following information was provided by our fellow contributor. Name of contribution: development.bst Author's name: Stephen Eglen Location on CTAN: biblio/bibtex/contrib/ Summary description: Bibtex style file for the journal Development. License type: gpl Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Here is a bibtex style file for biologists interested in submitting an article to the journal `Development' (http://dev.biologists.org). - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: CTAN upload framed.sty (to ftp.tex.ac.uk)
by Robin Fairbairns 07 Jan '03

07 Jan '03

Donald Arseneau writes: > I've just uploaded framed.sty to: > > ftp.tex.ac.uk:incoming/true_framed.sty > > It should replace macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/framed.sty > Several bugs are fixed, and a new environment leftbar is defined. > (I hope the latter doesn't cause conflicts!) i've installed the file as requested. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package upgrade: rotpages
by Jim Hefferon 06 Jan '03

06 Jan '03

A package has been upgraded on tug.ctan.org and should make its way to a mirror near you very shortly. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ftpmaint(a)tug.ctan.org ====================================================================== The following information was provided by our fellow contributor. Name of contribution: rotpages Author's name: Sergio Callegari Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/rotpages Summary description: Typeset multiple pages upside-down with page order rearrangement License type: lppl Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- rotpages.sty R3.0 Copyright 2002 Sergio Callegari The rotpages.sty package for latex 2e permits to format documents where small sets of pages are rotated by 180 degrees and rearranged, so that they can be read by turning the printed copy upside-down. It was primarly meant for collecting exercises and solutions: the package permits to print the exercise text normally and the solutions rotated. This is release 3.0 of the package, with many enhancements over release 1.0. Release 2.0 has never been distributed. Note that release 3.0 is *not* compatible with version 1.0, however documents written for version 1.0 can be easily converted to take advantage of the features of version 3.0. The package may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.2 of this license or (at your option) any later version. - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: mfpic06b.zip uploaded
by Rainer Schoepf 06 Jan '03

06 Jan '03

On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Dan Luecking wrote: > I have uploaded mfpic06b.zip > to ftp.dante.de/incoming. > It should be unzipped in graphics/mfpic, replacing the files there. > It may be redistributed under the LPPL. > > Summary: This is mfpic version 0.6b. It fixes an embarassing bug in > 0.6a that has existed (undetected) since at least version 0.5. The > definition of sinh x in both grafbase.mf and grafbase.mp had the > sign wrong! Thanks for the update, I installed it in graphics/mfpic For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN upload notification: skak - easy chess typesetting (skak package)
by Robin Fairbairns 03 Jan '03

03 Jan '03

Torben Hoffmann writes (through the mediation of our upload server): > The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: > > Name of contribution: skak - easy chess typesetting > Name and email: Torben Hoffmann <torben.hoffmann(a)motorola.com> > Suggested location on CTAN: fonts/skak > Summary description: The skak package facilitates typesetting of > chess using SAN input. > License type: LaTeX Project > > Announcement text: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This is version 1.1 of the skak package for typesetting chess. > > New in this release: > * A number of bugs have been removed: > - spaces or no spaces in the input > - spurious spaces in the output (fixed by Dirk Baechle) > - handling of ambiguous moves involving files (fixed by Ulrike Fischer). > * The font has been extended with a number of Informator symbols > (courtesy of Dirk Baechle). > * A change history has been added. > * The documentation has been expanded with a number of entries in the wish-list. > > Enjoy your chess typesetting, > /Torben > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thanks for the upload; i've installed it to replace fonts/skak on ctan Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN submission --- memhfixc package (memoir/hyperref)
by Robin Fairbairns 02 Jan '03

02 Jan '03

Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded memhfixc.sty and README.memoir to UK > incoming. Please put memhfixc.sty into > macros/latex/contrib/supported/memoir, and use README.memoir as a > new version of the README in the memoir subdirectory. > > memhfixc package provides a patch for the hyperref package when > it is used with the memoir class: > documentclass[...]{memoir} > ... > usepackage[...]{hyperref} > usepackage{memhfixc} thanks for the upload; i've installed the new files as requested Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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New package on CTAN: opcit
by Jim Hefferon 30 Dec '02

30 Dec '02

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should spread soon to a mirror near you. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ftpmaint(a)tug.ctan.org ================================================================ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor. Name of contribution: opcit Author's name: Federico García Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/opcit Summary description: Footnote-style bibliographical references License type: lppl Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- `opcit' makes the bibliographical references to appear as footnotes. It automatically substitutes conventional shorthands such as `Op. Cit.' and `Idem' for multiply cited works. The user can still append a `References' list at the end of the document. The documentation has a section on how to modify the BibTeX style. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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CTAN submission -- fonts/greek/psgreek
by Reinhard Zierke 30 Dec '02

30 Dec '02

Some months ago, Alexej Kryukov submitted this to CTAN: ----- Forwarded message from Alexej Kryukov ----- Name of contribution: psgreek Name and email: Alexej Kryukov <basileia(a)yandex.ru> Suggested location on CTAN: /tex-archive/fonts/greek/ Summary description: LaTeX support for (some) PostScript Greek fonts License type: LPPL Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- `Psgreek1' package provide LaTeX support for popular Type 1 Greek fonts in WinGreek encoding. The `Psgreek1' package includes 3 fonts: Greek Garamond by Carmelo Lupini (http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Workshop/3799/download.htm), Greek Oxonia and original WinGreek font. As far as I know, all these fonts are distributed free of charge. They don't contain kerning. For each typerface virtual fonts are provided, rearranging its mapping according to so-called LGR encoding, e. g. to the layout of Claudio Beccari's Greek fonts, which seem to became a standard for LaTeX. There are two main differences from this mapping: - ligatures for final sigma aren't supported. So, in order to get this symbol you must explicitly type the latin letter `c'. - in order two produce the circumflex accent you can type the equal sign (=) as well as ASCII tilde (~). Furthermore, for each font virtual fonts with faked small capitals are included. I provided also a set of virtual font in my own encoding, called LEL, as well as description for this encoding (lelenc.def). This encoding is based on standard modern Greek mapping, and so it may be preferred by users with Greek codepage (ELOT 928 or Windows 1253). INSTALLATION AND USAGE First you must put font files and `psgreek.sty' in any location, there LaTeX can find them. If your TeX tree is TDS compliant, you can simply unpack *.zip files in your TEXMF directory. Then add font definitions from psgreek.map to your psfonts.map file (usually this file resides in ../dvips/config/ directory). In order to use Type 1 Greek fonts in your document, you have to load the Babel package with `greek' or `polutonikogreek' option. I prefer Babel version 3.6, since version 3.7 has many bugs and doesn't work properly. Then load `psgreek' package with the font name as option. The following names are supported: `regular' for original WinGreek font, `garamond' for Greek Garamond, `oxonia' for Greek Oxonia, `oldface' for Greek Old Face, `milan' for Milan. You can change your greek font in any time redefining the `greekfont' command (for example: enewcommand{greekfont}{myfont} Use `greek' environment or `localgreek{text goes here}' command for switching to Greek font and language. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I didn't install it at that time because I had some problems with the naming and the directory structure - among others, the name psgreek suggests that it is a general solution for Greek postscript fonts - and then I let the matter drift into the backlog. Sorry about that; now I installed the package on CTAN in the directory CTAN:/tex-archive/fonts/greek/psgreek/ Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN upload
by Rainer Schoepf 26 Dec '02

26 Dec '02

On Wed, 25 Dec 2002, Iliya Peregoudov wrote: > What I've uploaded: > single archive file `/incoming/glonti-fonts/glonti-fonts.zip' > > Which CTAN node I've uploaded to: > ftp.dante.de > > Contents of this archive are intended for: > `/tex-archive/fonts/cyrillic' tree > > Licensing conditions: > public domain > > Summary: > Virtual fonts that combine CM and CMCYR. > `glonti-fonts.zip' includes following: > - README file > - VF and TFM files for the fonts > - LaTeX support files > - Files used to build these virtual fonts > (fontinst scripts, etc.) Thanks for the upload. I installed the files under fonts/cyrillic/glonti For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: Upload: new version of mparhack
by Rainer Schoepf 21 Dec '02

21 Dec '02

On Sat, 21 Dec 2002, Stefan Ulrich wrote: > I've just uploaded the archive > mparhack.tar.gz > to the incoming directory of > ftp.dante.de > > The archive contains the files: > mparhack.ins > mparhack.dtx > > Please replace the files in > CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/mparhack/ > by the new versions. > > Licensing is GPL (unchanged). > > Mparhack is a package for ensuring that marginpars appear on > the correct margin. > > The new version (1.3) contains updated author info, and fixes > a compatiblility problem with the scrpage2 package - thanks > to Achim Blumensath for spotting the bug, and suggesting a fix. Thanks for the update, I installed the new version in macros/latex/contrib/supported/mparhack For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: Upload of perpage.sty version 1.0
by Rainer Schoepf 21 Dec '02

21 Dec '02

On 20 Dec 2002 David Kastrup wrote: > Hello, I have uploaded perpage.sty to ftp.dante.de. License is LPPL, > I recommend installing it to > macros/latex/contrib/supported/misc/perpage.sty > since it is a single file including its docs. It is so short that I > have not bothered making a dtx file from it. > > Here is its comment section: > > % The following package adds the ability to reset counters per page. > % Usage example: > % MakePerPage[2]{footnote} > % will start footnote numbers with 2 on each page (the optional > % argument defaults to 1). 2 might be a strange number, unless > % you have enewcommand hefootnote{fnsymbol{footnote}} and > % want to start off with a dagger. This may need multiple passes > % to work: LaTeX will complain about changed labels if you need > % another pass. > > It is quite short and can do all the tricks that footnpag claims to > implement in some indefinite versions. And it will work with any > counters, not just footnotes. If work is the correct expression > for the dirty trickery it does. Thanks for the upload. As suggested, I installed the file in macros/latex/contrib/supported/misc/perpage.sty For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: Uploaded new mfpic
by Rainer Schoepf 21 Dec '02

21 Dec '02

On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Dan Luecking wrote: > What: I have uploaded mfpic06a.zip to incoming > Node: ftp.dante.de > Where: unzip it into graphics/mfpic, replacing the files there. > License: LPPL > Summary: This is version 0.6a of mfpic, which fixes a couple of bugs > introduced in version 0.6 as a side effect of attempting to squash a > long-standing bug. In addition, the files (all ascii) have been prepared > with unix-style EOLs so that ftp programs will not be confused by DOS > EOLs inside files taken from a unix server. I apologize for not realizing > this problem before. (I sort of assumed the CTAN unzipper would just > make things right, I guess.) Thanks for the update, in installed the update as you requested, in graphics/mfpic For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN upload notification: pdftex.def v0.0.3k
by Rainer Schoepf 21 Dec '02

21 Dec '02

Martin Schröder uploaded: > Name of contribution: pdftex.def v0.0.3k > Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/required/graphics > Summary description: the pdftex-driver for (La)TeX > License type: Free > > Announcement text: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This brings the CTAN version of pdftex.def up-to-date with the current stable version. > > The changes since 0.03g (the latest CTAN-version) are: > % 2002/06/19 v0.03k > % * Correction by Petiard Franc{c}ois for GPT@DoEndClip. > % 2002/06/18 v0.03j > % * Contribution by Petiard Franc{c}ois <petiard(a)math.univ-fcomte.fr>: > % Improvement of Ginclude@mps (support of viewport and clip). > % 2001/11/29 v0.03i > % * Problem with if@inlabel (plain format) fixed. > % 2001/09/01 v0.03h > % * Compatibilty for miniltx.tex, problems fixed: > % @ifpackageloaded, PackageWarning, PackageWarningNoLine, > % @currname. > > pdftex.def has found a new home on the internet at > http://pdftex-def.berlios.de/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. pdftex.def has beeen installed in graphics/pdftex/pdftex.def The old file (which is part of the required LaTeX graphics bundle) was replaced by a link to this new one. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package upgrade: Scientific Viewer 4.1
by Jim Hefferon 20 Dec '02

20 Dec '02

The package described below has been upgraded on tug.ctan.org. It should make its way to your local mirror in the next day or two. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ftpmaint(a)tug.ctan.org ================================================================= The following information was provided by our fellow contributor. Name of contribution: Scientific Viewer 4.1 Author's name: George Pearson Location on CTAN: systems/win32/scientificviewer/ Summary description: Scientific Viewer 4.1 License type: nosource Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is an updated release of Scientific Viewer. - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: New xfig/TransFig submission to CTAN
by Robin Fairbairns 20 Dec '02

20 Dec '02

Brian V. Smith writes: > I have just uploaded the drawing package xfig and its postprocessor package > TransFig into /incoming on ftp.tex.ac.uk. > > The files are: > xfig.README.3.2.4 > xfig.3.2.4.code_only.tar.gz > xfig.3.2.4.docs_only.tar.gz > xfig.3.2.4.full.tar.gz > xfig.3.2.4.libraries_only.tar.gz > xfig-3.2.4.i386.rpm > transfig.README.3.2.4 > transfig.3.2.4.tar.gz > transfig-3.2.4.i386.rpm > > and they should go in /pub/archive/graphics. > > Here is the blurb for both packages: > > Xfig is a menu-driven tool that allows the user to draw and manipulate objects > interactively in an X window. The resulting pictures can be saved, printed > on postscript printers or converted to a variety of other formats (e.g. to > allow inclusion in LaTeX documents). > > TransFig is a set of tools for creating TeX documents with graphics > which are portable, in the sense that they can be printed in a wide > variety of environments. > > The fig2dev program is a general program for translating from Fig code to > other graphics desciption languages. > > The xfig drawing program directly calls fig2dev to translate Fig files > to the various output languages. i've installed the new material in graphics/xfig and graphics/transfig, as appropriate, and have pushed the new versions out to the other ctans. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Package upgrade on CTAN: LaTeX for Word Processor Users
by Jim Hefferon 20 Dec '02

20 Dec '02

A package has been upgraded on tug.ctan.org and the changes should propogate to your favorite mirror within a day. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ftpmaint(a)tug.ctan.org ======================================================================== The following information was provided by our fellow contributor. Name of contribution: LaTeX for Word Processor Users Author's name: Guido Gonzato, Ph. D. Location on CTAN: info/latex4wp Summary description: A LaTeX guide specifically designed for word processor users. License type: gpl Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is an update of the LaTeX for Word Processor Users guide. It also contains a useful script for converting data files into LaTeX tables. - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [TeXmacs@math.u-psud.fr: Re: CTAN submission -- TeXmacs version 0.3.5.11]
by Rainer Schoepf 19 Dec '02

19 Dec '02

On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Joris van der Hoeven wrote: > I just uploaded the new GNU TeXmacs distribution in > > ftp.dante.de/incoming/TeXmacs > > The new distribution contains the files > > TeXmacs-1.0.1-1.i386.rpm > TeXmacs-1.0.1-1.src.rpm > TeXmacs-1.0.1-src.tar.gz > TeXmacs-1.0.1-static-gnu-linux.tar.gz > > The files should be put into the directory systems/unix/TeXmacs > All existing files in this directory become obsolete, > except for the file .message. Thanks for the update, I installed the files. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf > ----------------------------------------------------------- > Full announcement > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > Hi all, > > We are happy to announce the release of GNU TeXmacs 1.0.1. > With respect to version 1.0, the major changes are the following: > > * The user interface has been completely redesigned so as > to become more intuitive and compatible with other software. > > * The TeXmacs -> LaTeX and LaTeX -> TeXmacs converters have > been improved. In particular, TeXmacs now generates LaTeX files > which do no longer depend on the TeXmacs.sty style file. > > * We implemented several structural editing primitives and > better ways to visualize structure. > > * The TeXmacs style files and packages have been reorganized, > completed and improved. > > * The documentation system has been improved. > In particular, we now provide online documentation and > you may update your documentation from the web. > The user manual has been translated into French too. > > * TeXmacs has been ported to Cygwin (Windows) and Fink (MacOS X). > > * Interfaces with the Axiom and Giac computer algebra systems > have been implemented. There is also an experimental interface > with GNU Octave. > > * Support has been added for Finnish and Ukrainian. > > As to the future, the focus for version 1.0.2 will be on further > stabilization of the editor and support of Html and MathML. > We also plan to work on a Windows port and better support for > external plug-ins.

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New CTAN package: degrade
by Jim Hefferon 19 Dec '02

19 Dec '02

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org. It will make its way to your favorite local mirror in a day or two. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ftpmaint(a)tug.ctan.org ================================================================ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor. Name of contribution: degrade Author's name: Peter Münster Location on CTAN: graphics/degrade Summary description: Degrades JPEG images to a given resolution License type: lppl Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A package that degrades JPEG images on the fly to decrease the size of the resulting PostScript or PDF file. You'll need the convert utility from the ImageMagick bundle and the jpeg2ps program from CTAN if you don't use VTeX. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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CTAN upload -- statex.sty
by Reinhard Zierke 18 Dec '02

18 Dec '02

----- Forwarded message from Rodney Sparapani ----- > I've just uploaded statex.sty to ftp.dante.de into incoming. > The licensing terms are LPPL. > This style is designed to make statistical notation easier to type and more > appropriately rendered. ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the upload. I installed the style file in CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/misc/statex.sty Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN upload -- preview-latex-0.7.7.tar.gz
by Reinhard Zierke 18 Dec '02

18 Dec '02

----- Forwarded message from David Kastrup ----- I have uploaded preview-latex-0.7.7.tar.gz and preview-0.7.7.tar.gz to the incoming directory of ftp.dante.de. Its license is the GPL. I would recommend installing it in the following way: Put the packed archive preview-latex-0.7.7.tar.gz under support/preview-latex/ and unpack the README from it to support/preview-latex/README Create a symbolic link from support/preview-latex/preview-latex.tar.gz to preview-latex-0.7.7.tar.gz so that people can always get the newest version under this name. Unpack preview-0.7.7.tar.gz in the directory macros/latex/contrib/supported/preview/ It contains just README-preview, preview.dtx and preview.ins. The reason is that the preview.dtx file can also be used as a standalone LaTeX style for extracting selected elements from a LaTeX source into separate pages of a DVI file. Previous versions of preview-latex can be deleted. Here are the release notes: Release notes for version 0.7.7 of the preview-latex package: preview-latex dresses up your LaTeX source by placing judiciously selected chunks (such as single formulas) chopped from unwieldy preview pages right into its Emacs/XEmacs buffer, while keeping the original source readily accessible. You get to have your eye candy and edit it, too. Since only the display of the text is affected, you can safely test-drive on important documents right away. There are no physical withdrawal symptoms to be feared if you chose to quit using it, but you'll find yourself unable to do so. The employed style file preview.sty is independently useful for extraction of selected text elements as images. The package is released under the GNU Public License (GPL). At the current point of time, at least GNU Emacs-21.1 under the X window system, AUC TeX (11.14 recommended, see below), a working LaTeX installation and GhostScript are required. This version also supports XEmacs-21, best in version 21.4.9 or later. The various Windows ports of XEmacs should work out of the box. Really. Recent CVS versions of Windows GNU Emacs can reportedly be made to work, too. Release 0.7.7 is 0.7.6 minus a last-minute bug for GNU Emacs, so 0.7.6 info applies: AFPL GhostScript releases 7.x should work. Treatment of multi-directory projects has been corrected, once yo upgrade to AUC TeX 11.14. An added feature can be customized into the new preview-required-option-list variable: checking the counters option will retain correct equation and section numbering even when you are regenerating single previews. Various bugs have been fixed and the installation process does a better job of getting things to work particularly for Windows users. The README file provides adequate information for firing up preinstalled distributions, and pointers how to provide feedback. The INSTALL file contains a special section with advice for package providers. The home page is <URL:http://preview-latex.sourceforge.net>, the SourceForge project page that among others offers anonymous CVS access is located at <URL:http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex>. If you can spare the time, you can also comment on or rate this project at <URL:http://freshmeat.net/projects/preview-latex>. Additional files can be found at <URL:http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/preview-latex>: * If you don't have texinfo 4.0 or later installed, prebuilt documentation files can be found there. * Tarballs of preview-latex for all users, alternatively RPMs for RedHat Linux. For the binary RPMs, you will need the preview-latex-common RPM as well as the Emacs-flavor specific RPM. * AUC TeX is now located at <URL:http://www.nongnu.org/auctex>. The download area should also provide you with RPMs if you are using RedHat Linux. The RPMs require a few packages that should be readily available in current distributions. RedHat 7.3 contains Emacs-21.2 and GhostScript-6.52 which are about the minimum versions to be recommended. Later releases should work fine. XEmacs in current distributions will still be affected with a serious display bug, see the PROBLEMS file or the respective manual section. ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the upload. I installed the new version as suggested replacing the old versions in CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/preview/ CTAN:/tex-archive/support/preview-latex/ Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN submission -- subfloat
by Rainer Schöpf 16 Dec '02

16 Dec '02

On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Harald Harders wrote: > I have uploaded subfloat.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de. It contains the new > version of the subfloat package. Please replace the old version in > macros/latex/contrib/supported/subfloat/. > License is LPPL. > The new version avoids a problem with tabularx. > > From the README and the ChangeLog: > > subfloat.sty -- subnumbering for figures and tables > > This package enables subnumbering of different floats (figures and > tables) simular to the subequations-environment of the amsmath > package. It does not the same as the subfigure package which > generates subfigures within one normal figure. > > 2002-12-16 v2.13 <h.harders(a)tu-bs.de> > Remove error message of incorrect usage of the counters for > maximal float number due to an incompatibility to tabularx. Thanks for the update. I installed the files as requested, in macros/latex/contrib/supported/subfloat For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: lshort and PTLshort uploads
by Robin Fairbairns 13 Dec '02

13 Dec '02

in the last two days, both english (info/lshort/english) and portuguese (info/lshort/portuguese) versions of lshort have been upgraded to v4.00 on ctan. thanks to Tobias Oetiker and Alberto Simões for their uploads. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN upload notification: Pitkänpuoleinen johdanto LaTeX2e:n käyttöön
by Rainer Schoepf 11 Dec '02

11 Dec '02

On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 Timo Hellgren wrote: > Name of contribution: Pitkänpuoleinen johdanto LaTeX2e:n käyttöön > Suggested location on CTAN: /info/lshort/finnish (replaces the previous contents) > Summary description: The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2e v.3.22 Finnish edition > License type: Free > > Announcement text: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This is an update of the Finnish edition of Tobias Oetikers dokument > The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2e. In addition to translating > the original I have added emphasis on things you should consider when > making Finnish documents with LaTeX2e. This version adds all the stuff > in version 3.22 of the original text. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update, I replaced the files in info/lshort/finnish For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN submission --- patch for the memoir class
by Robin Fairbairns 10 Dec '02

10 Dec '02

Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded mempatch.sty to UK incoming. Please use this to > replace the current > macros/latex/contrib/supported/memoir/mempatch.sty. Please also > _advertise_ the patch upload. > > mempatch v1.0 fixes some minor infelicities in version 1.3 of > the memoir class. i've installed the file as requested; thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: tif2eps on dante:/incoming
by Rainer Schoepf 09 Dec '02

09 Dec '02

On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Staszek Wawrykiewicz wrote: > I've just uploaded to dante:/incoming > tif2eps.zip > > Please unzip it in > support/pstools/ > and remove > support/pstools/tiff2ps/ > > The name of package was changed to avoid conflicts with tiff2ps available > in tiff tools (e.g. Linux distributions). > > tif2eps.xml goes directly to Graham. By the way, I'd suggest removing > obsolete help/Catalogue/entries/antyktor.html|xml (we have antt.html|xml) Thanks for the upload, I installed the new files in support/pstools/tif2eps and removed the old version in support/pstools/tiff2ps For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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new CTAN package: javascript TeX editor JS-TeX.hta]
by Jim Hefferon 06 Dec '02

06 Dec '02

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and it should make its way to a fovorite mirror near you in the next day or two. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ftpmaint(a)tug.ctan.org =================================================================== The following information was provided by our fellow contributor. Name of contribution: javascript_TeXed Author's name: Nick Yas'ko Location on CTAN: support/javascript_TeXed Summary description: Small MikTeX-editor for Win32 Intel platform. IE5.0+ need. License type: nocommercial Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a small editor for MikTeX as an HTML application (~20kb). It'll work on a Win32 Intel platform if you have Internet Explorer ver 5.0+. You can run it as JS-TeX.hta from command line or start JS-TeX.hta filename.tex If you have help for LaTeX in HTML, you can fill the HELP field in Options. - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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CTAN submission -- Greek CB fonts in Type 1 format
by Reinhard Zierke 06 Dec '02

06 Dec '02

----- Forwarded message from Apostolos Syropoulos ----- I have just uploaded the latest version of the Greek CB fonts (by Claudio Beccari). The font bundle includes a Type 1 version for each METAFONT driver file (i.e., 888 Type 1 font files!). ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the upload. I installed it in CTAN:/tex-archive/fonts/greek/cb/ replacing the previous version. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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Re: upload (new version of) mimetex.zip to ftp.tex.ac.uk
by Robin Fairbairns 05 Dec '02

05 Dec '02

John Forkosh writes: > As per your README.uploads instructions... > + what you've uploaded > mimetex.zip > (version 1.00, to replace support/mimetex/mimetex.zip) > + which CTAN node you've uploaded to > ftp.tex.ac.uk > + where you want the files to go > support/mimetex > Please REPLACE all existing files (mimetex.zip and README) in > support/mimetex (please unzip mimetex.zip README and place > this separate copy of README alongside mimetex.zip in the > support/mimetex directory) > + what licensing conditions you apply to your software > GNU GPL > > + brief summary of what your upload is intended to do. > Bug fix and new features. > From the original submission... > MimeTeX parses LaTeX math expressions, emitting either > mime xbitmaps or gif images of them, which can be used in html > documents in the form, e.g., > <img src=../cgi-bin/mimetex.cgi?f(x)=int_{-infty}^x~e^{-t^2}dt > border=0 align=absmiddle> > This allows you to embed math directly in html, reducing > the need for lots of external gif images, and making your html > documents more readable and easily maintained. See > http://www.forkosh.com/mimetex.html#examples > for examples demonstrating mimeTeX's features and usage. > MimeTeX isn't primarily meant for latex2html-like tasks > where you're maintaining native LaTeX documents that are later > redistributed in several formats, including html. Rather, mimeTeX > is primarily meant to help maintain native html documents containing > math. In this sense it's a kind of lightweight alternative to > MathML, with the advantage that mimeTeX preserves LaTeX syntax. > Similar non-MathML packages, like textogif and gladTeX, > require setup procedures that use TeX to help generate external > gif (or png) images of your equations, which are later included > in your html document as it's being rendered. MimeTeX, as far > as I know, is the only such non-MathML package that has its > own built-in parser and rendering engine, entirely independent > of TeX, and therefore requires no setup procedure or external > images whatsoever. It renders realtime, on-the-fly images > directly from your LaTeX math embedded in html documents. i've installed the files as required. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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New CTAN package: latex4jed
by Jim Hefferon 03 Dec '02

03 Dec '02

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should make its way to a mirror near you in the next day or two. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ftpmaint(a)tug.ctan.org ================================================================= The following information was provided by our fellow contributor. Name of contribution: latex4jed Author's name: Guido Gonzato, Ph. D. Location on CTAN: support/jed Summary description: A much enhanced LaTeX mode for the Jed editor. License type: gpl Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This S-Lang file for the Jed editor provides a much enhanced LaTeX mode a la AUCTeX: menus, shortcuts, templates, syntax highlighting, document outline, integrated debugging, symbol completion, full integration with external programs, and more. It was designed with both the beginner and the advanced LaTeX user in mind. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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CTAN submission - preview-latex-0.7.5.tar.gz
by Reinhard Zierke 29 Nov '02

29 Nov '02

----- Forwarded message from David Kastrup ----- I have uploaded preview-latex-0.7.5.tar.gz and preview-0.7.5.tar.gz to the incoming directory of ftp.dante.de. Its license is the GPL. I would recommend installing it in the following way: Put the packed archive preview-latex-0.7.5.tar.gz under support/preview-latex/ (...) Unpack preview-0.7.5.tar.gz in the directory macros/latex/contrib/supported/preview/ It contains just README-preview, preview.dtx and preview.ins. The reason is that the preview.dtx file can also be used as a standalone LaTeX style for extracting selected elements from a LaTeX source into separate pages of a DVI file. Previous versions of preview-latex can be deleted. Here are the release notes: Release notes for version 0.7.5 of the preview-latex package: preview-latex dresses up your LaTeX source by placing judiciously selected chunks (such as single formulas) chopped from unwieldy preview pages right into its Emacs/XEmacs buffer, while keeping the original source readily accessible. You get to have your eye candy and edit it, too. The employed style file preview.sty is independently useful for extraction of selected text elements as images. The package is released under the GNU Public License (GPL). At the current point of time, at least GNU Emacs-21.1 under the X window system, AUC TeX (11.11 recommended, see below), a working LaTeX installation and GhostScript are required. This version also supports XEmacs-21, best in version 21.4.9 or later. The various Windows ports of XEmacs should work out of the box. Recent CVS versions of Windows GNU Emacs could conceivably be made to work, too, but the jury is still out on that one. Release 0.7.5 is a bug fix release for XEmacs. Compatibility macros caused several conflicts with other packages when preview-latex was loaded after them. In addition, the preview icon could appear doubly in the toolbar. GNU Emacs users were not affected by either bug and need not upgrade from 0.7.4. The README file provides adequate information for firing up preinstalled distributions, and pointers how to provide feedback. The INSTALL file contains a special section with advice for package providers. The home page is <URL:http://preview-latex.sourceforge.net>, the SourceForge project page that among others offers anonymous CVS access is located at <URL:http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex>. If you can spare the time, you can also comment on or rate this project at <URL:http://freshmeat.net/projects/preview-latex>. Additional files can be found at <URL:http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/preview-latex>: * If you don't have texinfo 4.0 or later installed, prebuilt documentation files can be found there. * AUC TeX can be found at several places, but if you want the latest 11.11 (alpha, but stable AFAIK) with no known issues concerning preview-latex, you can find it there as well. * RPMs for preview-latex and AUC TeX are provided for users of RedHat Linux. For the binary RPMs, you will need the preview-latex-common RPM as well as the Emacs-flavor specific RPM. The RPMs require a few packages that should be readily available in current distributions. RedHat 7.3 contains Emacs-21.2 and GhostScript-6.52 which are about the minimum versions to be recommended. Later releases should work fine. XEmacs in current distributions will still be affected with a serious display bug, see the PROBLEMS file or the respective manual section. ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the upload. I installed the new version as suggested in CTAN:/tex-archive/support/preview-latex/ and CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/preview/ replacing the old version Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN submission -- Euler-VM fonts v2.9a
by Rainer Schoepf 27 Nov '02

27 Nov '02

On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Walter Schmidt wrote: > I have uploaded the file eulervm.zip to the /incoming directory > at dante.ctan.org. Please, unpack it to the CTAN directory > > fonts/eulervm. > > Doing so will replace all present files there. > > This is version 2.9a of the Euler-VM fonts and the related > LaTeX package eulervm.sty. Euler-VM is a set of generic > math fonts, based on the Euler and CM typefaces. > > With version 2.9a, both the fonts (*.vf, *.tfm) and the > macro package have changed. Main news is, that epsilon and > varepsilon were exchanged for each other; they were mixed up > in all previous versions. Thanks for the update, I installed it. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: mk-1.0.tar.gz
by Rainer Schoepf 27 Nov '02

27 Nov '02

On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Wybo Dekker wrote: > - I have uploaded mk-1.0.tar.gz > - at ftp.dante.de > - I suggest to unpack in support/mk > - GPL > - mk (make for latex) is a Perl script that, in close collaboration with > vpp (short for View and Print PostScript/PDF) is helpful in the cyclic > process of editing, viewing, and printing a latex document. > Essentially, mk uses the make utility for the management of file > dependencies, texi2pdf for compilation, gv (or any other viewer you > like) for viewing, and context's texexec for printing in various > formats. mk has been tested under linux only. Adaptation to othes OS's > should be not too complicated. Thanks for the upload, i installed the files in directory support/latex_maker For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: vpp-1.0.tar.gz
by Rainer Schoepf 27 Nov '02

27 Nov '02

On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Wybo Dekker wrote: > - I have uploaded vpp-1.0.tar.gz > - at ftp.dante.de > - I suggest to unpack in support/vpp > - GPL > - vpp (View and Print Postscript/PDF) displays a pdf document or a > postscript document (after conversion to pdf using gv, xpdf, or > acrobat reader (in that order of choice), or perhaps another pdf > viewer. One can use the viewer to print the document but, > alternatively, leave the viewer and use vpp's facilities to print > selected pages to a one- or two-sided hardcopy or an A5-booklet. Thanks for the upload. I installed the files in the directory support/view_print_ps_pdf For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN upload notification: SplitIndex
by Reinhard Zierke 26 Nov '02

26 Nov '02

----- Forwarded message from Markus Kohm ----- A submission was uploaded to nova.dante.de:/ftp/incoming/upload-20021125.001/. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: SplitIndex Name and email: Markus Kohm Suggested location on CTAN: tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/splitindex Summary description: Using a unlimited number of indices with almost every LaTeX-class License type: Free Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SplitIndex consists of a LaTeX package, splitidx, and a small program, splitindex. The package may be used to produce one index or several indices. Without using the program the number of indices is limited by the number of TeXs output streams. But using the program you may use even more than 16 indices. At this case, splitidx outputs only a single file jobname.idx and the program splits that file into several raw index files and calls your favorite index processor for each of it. The splitindex program is available as perl-program (splitindex.pl), java-program (splitindex.java/class), Windows-CYGWIN binary (splitindex.exe), Linux-i386-ELF binary (splitindex-Linux-i386), OpenBSD-3.0-i386 binary (splitindex-OpenBSD-i386) and even as TeX program (splitindex.tex with some limitations). The source splitindex.c is also part of the distribution. There's an installation documentation (install.txt) and an installation script (install.sh) at the package. The package was testet with the standard LaTeX classes and the KOMA-Script classes. This version is intended to be stable though the version number is less than 1. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the upload. I installed the new package as suggested in CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/splitindex Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CYAN submission -- preview-latex-0.7.4.tar.gz
by Reinhard Zierke 26 Nov '02

26 Nov '02

----- Forwarded message from David Kastrup ----- I have uploaded preview-latex-0.7.4.tar.gz and preview-0.7.4.tar.gz to the incoming directory of ftp.dante.de. Its license is the GPL. I would recommend installing it in the following way: Put the packed archive preview-latex-0.7.4.tar.gz under support/preview-latex/ (...) Unpack preview-0.7.4.tar.gz in the directory macros/latex/contrib/supported/preview/ It contains just README-preview, preview.dtx and preview.ins. The reason is that the preview.dtx file can also be used as a standalone LaTeX style for extracting selected elements from a LaTeX source into separate pages of a DVI file. Previous versions of preview-latex can be deleted. Here are the release notes: Release notes for version 0.7.4 of the preview-latex package: preview-latex dresses up your LaTeX source by placing judiciously selected chunks (such as single formulas) chopped from unwieldy preview pages right into its Emacs/XEmacs buffer, while keeping the original source readily accessible. You get to have your eye candy and edit it, too. The employed style file preview.sty is independently useful for extraction of selected text elements as images. The package is released under the GNU Public License (GPL). At the current point of time, at least GNU Emacs-21.1 under the X window system, AUC TeX (11.11 recommended, see below), a working LaTeX installation and GhostScript are required. This version also supports XEmacs-21, best in version 21.4.9 or later. The various Windows ports of XEmacs should work out of the box. Recent CVS versions of Windows GNU Emacs could conceivably be made to work, too, but the jury is still out on that one. Release 0.7.4 is a consolidation release containing mostly bug fixes. Several interoperatibility problems under Windows and with various GhostScript versions have been dealt with. The previous release lead to problems when buffers without associated file name were put into LaTeX-mode. If this occured while first loading preview-latex, compatibility macros caused further problems with XEmacs. As a promotional measure, preview-at-point has been added to the tool bar. The README file provides adequate information for firing up preinstalled distributions, and pointers how to provide feedback. The INSTALL file contains a special section with advice for package providers. The home page is <URL:http://preview-latex.sourceforge.net>, the SourceForge project page that among others offers anonymous CVS access is located at <URL:http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex>. If you can spare the time, you can also comment on or rate this project at <URL:http://freshmeat.net/projects/preview-latex>. Additional files can be found at <URL:http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/preview-latex>: * If you don't have texinfo 4.0 or later installed, prebuilt documentation files can be found there. * AUC TeX can be found at several places, but if you want the latest 11.11 (alpha, but stable AFAIK) with no known issues concerning preview-latex, you can find it there as well. * RPMs for preview-latex and AUC TeX are provided for users of RedHat Linux. For the binary RPMs, you will need the preview-latex-common RPM as well as the Emacs-flavor specific RPM. The RPMs require a few packages that should be readily available in current distributions. RedHat 7.3 contains Emacs-21.2 and GhostScript-6.52 which are about the minimum versions to be recommended. Later releases should work fine. XEmacs in current distributions will still be affected with a serious display bug, see the PROBLEMS file or the respective manual section. ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the upload. I replaced the contents of CTAN:/tex-archive/support/preview-latex/ CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/preview/ with the new version as suggested. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN submission -- cmbright fonts v0.6
by Rainer Schöpf 24 Nov '02

24 Nov '02

On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Harald Harders wrote: > file: hfbright.tar.gz > node: ftp.dante.de > location: CTAN:fonts/ps-type1/hfbright/ > license: LPPL > > Please replace all files in the directory by the contents of the tar > archive. Please remove the hfbright-beta directory. > > From the README: > > This package contains the cmbright fonts in Type1 format. Only the > fonts are included that are not part of the cm-super bundle > (thus, math and OT1 fonts). > This package contains the ready Postscript Type1 fonts in PFB format as > used by dvips and pdflatex, as well as a map file and a config file for > dvips. > > This version is tested with dvips and pdflatex. It will be quite stable > with the exception that the UniqueIDs will change someday. But this change > shouldn't cause any trouble. Thanks for the update, I installed the new version as requested, in fonts/ps-type1/hfbright For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN submission --- memoir class
by Robin Fairbairns 22 Nov '02

22 Nov '02

Peter Wilson writes: > Aaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhhhh > > I have just discovered a vicious intermittent gremlin in the memoir > class that is not fixable by a patch file. > > My apologies to all memoir users. > > I have uploaded memoir.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use this to replace > the current macros/latex/contrib/supported/memoir, and announce on CTT. > > Changes in version 1.3a > o Fixed figure/table numbering gremlin i've installed the replacement as requested. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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