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CTAN submission -- onlyamsmath package
by Reinhard Zierke 04 Oct '01

04 Oct '01

----- Forwarded message from Harald Harders ----- I have uploaded the file onlyamsmath.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de. Please install its contents to CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/supported/onlyamsmath. Licence is lppl. >From the README: This package inhibits the usage of plain TeX and on demand of standard LaTeX math environments. This is useful for class writers who want to force their clients to use the environments provided by the amsmath package. ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the submission. I installed this new package as suggested in CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/onlyamsmath Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN submission -- pdftricks 1.15
by Reinhard Zierke 04 Oct '01

04 Oct '01

----- Forwarded message from Radhakrishnan CV ----- > 1. Uploaded pdftricks-1.15.tar.gz to /incoming/pdftricks of > ftp.dante.de > > 3. shall go to > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/pdftricks by > replacing the existing contents of the directory > > The following major changes are made: > > 1. pdftricks automatically finds out whether shell escape facility > is available in the user's pdfTeX implementation. > > 2. If yes, it does the processing of pstricks figures using shell > escape facility. If not, pdftricks silently writes the external > figure files to be manually processed. > > 3. A shell script, pst2pdf is supplied to automate the processing > of figure files generated in the first run of pdfTeX, if shell > escape is not available in the pdfTeX implementation. > > 4. A new command, NoProcess[fig number list] to suppress the > processing of figures, is introduced in this version. ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the submission. I installed the new version as suggested in CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/pdftricks/ Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN update of biblio/bibtex/utils/bibweb
by Reinhard Zierke 04 Oct '01

04 Oct '01

I have updated CTAN:/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibweb to the current version on the author's website (dated Nov 10, 2000). >From the README file: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- bibweb is a utility for automatically retrieving bibliographical information from the American Mathematical Society's MathSciNet program. John Palmieri (engineer) wrote bibweb, and Bill Dwyer (idea man) helped to design it. If you're too lazy to go to the library or use a web browser to find out bibliographical information for that ground-breaking paper you're writing, you can let bibweb do the work for you. You have to use bibtex (which means you have to use latex, I think), and you have to write citations in a particular format, but that's about it. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN submission -- preview-latex
by Reinhard Zierke 04 Oct '01

04 Oct '01

----- Forwarded message from David Kastrup ----- I have uploaded preview-latex-0.5.tar.gz, a package for previewing inline images of equation environments and similar. It needs recent pretest versions of GNU Emacs to work at the current point of time (at least 21.0.105) as well as AucTeX. I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de. I would recommend loading it into a separate directory support/preview-latex and extracting the file README from the archive and placing this file as well as the tar archive into that directory. The license is GPL. I append an excerpt from the README: I do not know where to start. This is the preview-latex project at Sourceforge, <URL:http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex>. There is a mailing list for developers, the web page is <URL:http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/preview-latex-devel> Send a message with just the word `help' as subject or body to preview-latex-devel-request(a)lists.sourceforge.net for more information. Anonymous CVS is available as well. See the Sourceforge web pages for more information. Purpose of the package is to embed LaTeX environments such as display math or figures into the source buffers. By mouse-clicking, you can open the original text. After editing, another click will just run the region in question through LaTeX and redisplay the new results. Thr project is just starting. Current state of affairs: you need to get access to a very recent Emacs 21 version, which at the current time means that you need to be a pretester of Emacs. Versions before 21.0.105 have EPS rendering support that is defective. Direct EPS rendering is in need of improvement and very experimental, so the default setting replaces Emacs internal EPS handling by an indirect rendering mechanism. If you feel capable of helping out with Emacs' EPS interface (meaning that the APIs connecting GhostScript and viewers such as GhostView and xdvi are not a book with seven seals for you), feel free to do so. Report bugs you can reproduce along with the files needed to reproduce them. The new display engine for 21.1 is quite powerful, and some bugs still might be lurking inside. You also need AucTeX installed and working, and probably a fairly recent version of GhostScript. At the current point of time, XEmacs is not supported. This may change in future versions, depending on contributions. Offers to support further development will be appreciated. David Kastrup, <URL:mailto:dakas@users.sourceforge.net> ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the upload. I installed it as suggested (tar archive + README file) in the directory CTAN:/tex-archive/support/preview-latex/ Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN upload notification: clock & invoice packages
by Rainer Schoepf 02 Oct '01

02 Oct '01

Oliver Corff submitted updates to his packages clock Announcement: A corrected and updated version of the TeX clock. Former inconsistencies in naming conventionss have been removed. Please note that the package files are not called ``texclock'' any longer; they are now simply named ``clock''. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% invoice Announcement: A corrected and updated version of the invoice package. Arithmetics has been fixed. Now works under KOMA-Script's scrlettr.cls. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN submission: emTeX/TDS 0.56
by Rainer Schoepf 01 Oct '01

01 Oct '01

On Sun, 30 Sep 2001, Walter Schmidt wrote: > I have uploaded the following files to the directory > /incoming/emtexds at dante.ctan.org: > > NEWS > readme.eng > readme.ger > config.zip > texmf.zip > tfe.cfg > tdsinst.cmd > > Please, move them to the directory > > systems/os2/emtex-contrib/emtexTDS > > thus replacing most of the present files. (Please, do not > alter the files; line endings ar already Unix-style where > appropriate.) > > > This is version 0.56 of the emTeX/TDS TeX system for OS/2. > Main news with this release: > > * June 2001 LaTeX macros > * Latest versions of all packages, including PSNFSS 8.2 > and KOMA-Script. > * Additional Type1 fonts: WASY smybols, BrushScriptX. > > See the file NEWS in the distribution for details. Thanks for the update, I installed the files as requested. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN Submission -- paralist v2.2
by Rainer Schoepf 01 Oct '01

01 Oct '01

On Sun, 30 Sep 2001, Bernd Schandl wrote: > I have uploaded the file paralist.zip to the /incoming directory of > ftp.dante.de. > > The package is licensed under the LPPL. > > I recommend placing the unpacked files README, paralist.ins and > paralist.dtx in > macros/latex2e/contrib/supported/paralist/ > replacing the old versions. Thanks for the upload, I installed it in macros/latex/contrib/supported/paralist For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf > >From the abstract: > This style file provides some new list environments. Itemized and > enumerated lists can be typesetted within paragraphs, as > paragraphs and in a compact version. Most environments have > optional arguments to format the labels. > Additionally, the LaTeX environments |itemize| and |enumerate| > can be extended to use a similar optional argument. > > New in the version are: > - A few small bug fixes. > - New WWW address (still as boring but at least reachable)

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CTAN submission -- new polynom package
by Reinhard Zierke 27 Sep '01

27 Sep '01

----- Forwarded message from Carsten Heinz ----- I've uploaded the file `polynom.zip' to dante.ctan.org/incoming. Please decompress it to CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/polynom/ The new version just adds stepwise output of polynomial long divisions and nothing else. Reply to comp.text.tex is much appreciated. ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the submission, I installed the new version as suggested. The Readme file says about the package: ------------------------------------------------------------ The `polynom' package implements macros for manipulating polynomials, for example it can typeset long polynomial divisions. The main test case and application is the polynomial ring in one variable with rational coefficients. For more details read the documentation `polynom.dvi' or visit http://www.atscire.de/products/polynom . ------------------------------------------------------------ Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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New MiKTeX and LaTeX releases
by Reinhard Zierke 27 Sep '01

27 Sep '01

Andreas Hirsch wrote: > zu meiner Uberraschung musste ich eben auf der MiKTeX-Seite lesen, > dass das jahrliche Update verfugbar ist. > > Ich dachte, sowas erfahrt man hier als erster ... [ Translation: Andreas asks why the MiKTeX update has been announced on the MiKTeX website but not on CTAN ] We send to CTAN-ANN information about things that we manually install on the CTAN hosts unless these are minor updates (whatever that is). Lots of other things get mirrored from other sites though, e.g. MiKTeX. Unfortunately we can't announce such things regularly as we would have to wade through each updated package, analyse the - hopefully existent - readme files, etc. Therefore we have to trust the owners of packages mirrored to CTAN to announce their new versions by themselves. Of course we are glad if they send us a release/update notice that we can forward to CTAN-ANN. Having said all this, I should add that the LaTeX release <2001/06/01> is on CTAN for two days now. See CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/doc/ltnews14.{dvi,pdf,ps} for news. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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New Dante CTAN server
by Reinhard Zierke 26 Sep '01

26 Sep '01

I am proud to announce that one of the three central CTAN hosts, ftp.dante.de and www.dante.de, has moved from the old server sun.dante.de, located in Mainz, Germany, to a brand new machine nova.dante.de, which is now located in my faculty in Hamburg, Germany. DANTE, Deutschsprachige Anwendervereinigung TeX e.V., appreciates the long time support of the Computer Center of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz which has hosted the Dante servers for many years. Thank you very much! Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke(a)informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster(a)informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241

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CTAN submission -- ifvtex.sty
by Reinhard Zierke 26 Sep '01

26 Sep '01

----- Forwarded message from Heiko Oberdiek ----- I have uploaded oberdiek.zip in the /incoming directory of ftp.dante.de. Please unzip it in the directory CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/oberdiek It contains a new package ifvtex.sty: % Function: This package looks for VTeX and implements % and sets the switches ifvtex, ifvtex<mode>, % and ifvtexgex. % It works with plain or LaTeX formats. The licence is LPPL 1.2. ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the upload. I installed it in CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/oberdiek/ifvtex.sty as suggested. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN submission -- BrushScriptX-Italic PS Type-1 fonts (update)
by Reinhard Zierke 25 Sep '01

25 Sep '01

I have installed an update of the Type-1 font BrushScriptX-Italic by Maurizio Loreti in CTAN:/tex-archive/fonts/brushscr. >From the README file: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This directory contains: a Type-1 font named BrushScriptX-Italic, that simulates hand-written characters; all the files needed by LaTeX in order to use that font; a file AAA_readme.tex that fully describes the package; two example files. History: - The original (public domain) NeXT screen font has been edited, with a Type-1 font editor named TypeSmith, on an Amiga computer. The service files have been generated using the fontinst package by Alan Jeffrey. - Having TypeSmith generated a buggy font, Louis Vosloo of Y&Y, with enormous courtesy, has fixed the font in his spare time (I no longer had an Amiga computer, or a font editor of any kind). - Rolf Niepraschk submits a file pbsi.sty . - A more strict dvips (5.86e) refuses to handle the font. Rolf Niepraschk submits a fix, generated by the type1fix perl script. - Having learnt about a free Type-1 font editor called 'pfaedit' by George Williams (http://pfaedit.sourceforge.net) I have completely re-edited the font. Thierry Bouche has been of invaluable help with fontinst. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN Submission -- paralist v2.1
by Reinhard Zierke 21 Sep '01

21 Sep '01

----- Forwarded message from Bernd Schandl ----- I have uploaded the file paralist.21.zip to the /incoming directory of ftp.dante.de. The package is licensed under the LPPL. I recommend placing the unpacked files README, paralist.ins and paralist.dtx in macros/latex/contrib/supported/paralist/ replacing the old versions. >From the abstract: This style file provides some new list environments. Itemized and enumerated lists can be typesetted within paragraphs, as paragraphs and in a compact version. Most environments have optional arguments to format the labels. Additionally, the LaTeX environments |itemize| and |enumerate| can be extended to use a similar optional argument. New in the version are: - New options alwaysadjust, neveradjust and neverdecreas to adjust label widths. - New environments asparadesc and inparadesc. - Flushleft labels. - New macros setdefaultleftmargin, setdefaultitem and setdefaultenum replacing the macros without set. Now the left margin for all six possible list labels can be set. - New macros enumlabel, itemlabel and paradescriptionlabel to define label format. ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the submission, I installed the new version in CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/paralist as suggested. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN package upgrade: JavaBib
by Jim Hefferon 20 Sep '01

20 Sep '01

An upgrade, including a change of license to LPPL, has been made on the JavaBib package. It has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make its way through the mirroring process in the next day or two. Thanks for the contribution, Jim Hefferon ftpmaint(a)tug.ctan.org ============================================================= The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: JavaBib Name: John Janmaat Location on CTAN: biblio/bibtex/utils/JavaBib Summary description: BibTeX reference manager, written in Java License type: lppl Announcement text: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- JavaBib update: Have corrected a few bugs, added partial documentation, and included the source files. I was hoping to clean up the documentation in the source files, but have not had the time to do so. Anyone who wants to continue the project is welcome to do so. Please keep me appraised, so that I don't reinvent the wheel, if you do. John. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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New CTAN package: boites.sty
by Jim Hefferon 18 Sep '01

18 Sep '01

A new LaTeX package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and it should make its way through the mirroring process in the next day or two. Thanks for the contribution, Jim Hefferon =============================================================== The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: boites.sty Name: ZOONEKYND Vincent Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/other Summary description: boxes that may break across pages License type: gpl Announcement text: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I define environments that allow page breaks inside framed boxes and include a few examples (shaded box, box with a wavy line on its side, etc.) - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: MacDevnag update
by Rainer Schoepf 11 Sep '01

11 Sep '01

On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Bernard Desgraupes wrote: > this message concerns an update of the macdevnag package which I have > contributed and which is located in > /tex-archive/languages/devanagari/contrib/MacDevnag/ > > Could you please replace it (version 0,1) by the latest version which is > > 0,4 and which has proven very stable. > > I have uploaded it in the incoming directory together with a new README. > > It is compacted in .sit.hqx which is the usual format expected by > macintosh users. Licence terms are unchanged : it is free software with > a > gpl license and the C source code is freely distributed on my Web page. Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN Uload -- BaKoMa TeX 4.0
by Rainer Schoepf 11 Sep '01

11 Sep '01

On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Basil K. Malyshev wrote: > I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma directory > update for BaKoMa TeX 4.0 > Downloaded files must replace files in 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' directory. > All old files in directory `CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' must be removed. > > Bye. > Basil K. Malyshev > 11-Sep-2001 Thanks a lot for the update, I installed the new version as you requested, completely replacing the old version. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf > --------------- About BaKoMa TeX 4.0 ---------------------- > > CONTENTS > * Highlights > * Graphical Capabilities > * Fonts > * User Interface > * PDF Generation Features > * New Features of BaKoMa TeX 4.0 > > For more information about BaKoMa TeX see > <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/index.html> > > BaKoMa TeX is a complete TeX system for Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT/2000. > > HIGHLIGHTS > > * PostScript enabled TeX system. > Generates *PDF* from documents with *PSTricks*, *PSfrag*, etc. > * 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. > * Consistent graphics and font support for all DVI back-ends. > * 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 9.0, Adobe Streamline 4.0, > MatLab, CorelDraw, 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. > > USER INTERFACE > > * One touch key for TeX + Preview + other customizable postprocessors, > * Typesetting a selected part of a document (styles may be precompiled as format). > * 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, > * Spell Checker is configurable for handling (La)TeX commands. > * Automatic creation of a BB-file for non-PostScript graphics. > > OUTPUT DEVICES/FORMATS > > * View on Windows Display. > * Print on any printer supported by a MS Windows driver. > * PostScript (really scalable), > * PDF. > > 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. > > NEW FEATURES OF BAKOMA TEX 4.0 in comparison with BAKOMA TEX 3.51 > > Text Editor (CENTAUR) > > * Customizable GUI Bars for insertion of a math symbols. > Currently, the way for adding new symbols is simplest among > another solutions (WinEdt, WinTeX, etc.). See subdirectory: `BaKoMaGUI'. > * `Options|TeX Running Parameters' - all parameters for running TeX are > in one ddialog. Arbitrary set of postprocessors is available. > * `File|Print (Generate Listing)' (LP2DVI) gets space width from TFM file. > > DVI Viewer (DVIEW) > > User Interface > * Left mouse button may be used for dragging page inside a window > like to hand tool of Acrobat Reader. > * Right mouse button opens diffrent context menus > for cases with selection and without selection. > * Document Outline is displayed at left side of window > via `tree view' like to Acrobat Reader bookmarks. > * User Bookmarks are shown via dialog. > Advantages: Looking to global bookmarks and removing a bookmarks. > > DVIPS Compatibility > > There are several improvements intended for more compatibility > between BaKoMa DVI Viewer and DVIPS programs. > > * Support for literal prologs (special{! ...}). > * Support for local headers (special{header=...}), > whose are in the same directory as document. > * Support for PostScript procedure definitions splitted between > several specials (Embedding TeX material into PostScript procedures). > This feature enables running such macro > packages as *PSFrag*, *PST-FILL* (from PSTricks), etc. > * DVI page origin was changed to match it with DVIPS origin, > that is sensitive for *changebar.sty* package. > * Installation of PK Fonts is simplified -- just put they to TDS. > > HyperRef Support > > There is appeared specific HyperRef driver for BaKoMa TeX > (see `BaKoMa exlatexhBaKoMa4.def'). > This driver embeds document outline and document info into DVI file > via `pdfmark' operator in `literal prologs' (special{! ...}). > This approach enables embedding into PDF document > such HyperRef options as `pdftitle', `pdfauthor', etc. > In advance, *unicoded* outline and document info > are supported without any limitations, because DVIEW keeps > document outline and document info in Unicode format. > > Approach of importing outline and entering document info via dialog > is still available for documents produced without HyperRef package. > > MetaHelp > > * MetaHelp displays document collection via Tree View in main dialog. > * This tree view is synchronized with keyword targets. > * All functions are available from buttons on main dialog. > > FONTS > > * Windows families for Standard TeX Fonts was changed > to avoid conflicts with fonts from another TeX systems. > * Multi-aliasing, which works acros not-present fonts. > It works also for substitution of preconfigured but absent fonts. > * Adobe 35 Fonts are preconfigured, to use they with BaKoMa TeX > you must only put they in TDS. > * Fixed problem with font files with two fonts (some Obliqued fonts) > > New and Updated Packages. > > * Omega 1.15 > * PSTricks 97 (Feb 2001) > * PSFrag 3.04 (NEW) > * RLEPSF (NEW) > * MusixTeX T.103 > * DraftCopy - adapted for random page drawing. > Works with DVIEW, DVIPS+GV, and with rearranged PS files. > * ChangeBar - refixed for BaKoMa TeX 4.0 > * fancybox, fancyhdr, fancyvrb, caption, ccaption, units, and nicefrac > was added because of user requests. > > For more information about changes see > <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/dst/changes3.html> > > ---------- End of BaKoMa TeX Information ----------

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CTAN package upgrade: FiXme v1.4
by Jim Hefferon 11 Sep '01

11 Sep '01

An upgrade to the FiXme package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should make its way through the mirroring process in the next day or two. Thanks for the contribution! Jim Hefferon ftpmaint(a)tug.ctan.org ================================================================== The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: FiXme v1.4 Name: Didier Verna Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/ Summary description: FiXme 1.4 is out. License type: lppl Announcement text: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm happy to release the next version of FiXme (1.4). This version contains one bug fix, plus additional support for the koma-script classes. This package provides you with a way of inserting fixme notes in documents being developped (in draft mode). Such notes can appear in the margin of the document, as index entries, in the log file and as warnings on stdout. It is also possible to summarize them in a list, and in the index. If your document is in a final version, any remaining fixme note will produce an error. FiXme also comes with support for AUC-TeX. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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CTAN package upgrade: Frankenstein
by Jim Hefferon 11 Sep '01

11 Sep '01

An upgrade of the Frankenstein package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make its way through the mirroring process in the next day or two. Jim Hefferon ftpmaint(a)tug.ctan.org ============================================================ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Frankenstein Name: Matt Swift Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/frankenstein Summary description: a collection of LaTeX packages and a Bibtex bibstyle License type: lppl Announcement text: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Cleanup release prior to some more significant work (I hope). Please see README for full package descriptions and ChangeLog for changes. Please note that a preformatted TeX Catalogue database describing these packages is at http://www.shore.net/~swift/latex/swift.db. A web page of description like the TeX Catalogue descriptions is at http://www.shore.net/~swift/latex/. The most important changes are noted here: all: LPPL instead of GPL * achicago.bst: Extensive revisions to documentation. Thanks to Panagiotis Louridas for pointing out a significant bug that would indicate authors with the same last name as the same with a 3-em dash in the bibliography. Major version to 1; reflects non-beta state. * achicago.sty: Depends on slemph and verbatim too now, but not relsize. * newclude.sty: Move from unsupported to supported. Extensive documentation revisions. Incorporation of includex package (working yet? includex still available). Revision and extension of hooks mechanisms. Remove group option. * tag.sto: Add 2d optional argument to include. Revise documentation. * titles.dtx: Changed: ooktitle -> ook, journaltitle -> journal, musictitle -> music, articletitle -> article, playtitle -> play, crafttitle -> craft. Compatibility easily retained in configuration file. New: species, WrapquotesSN, WrapquotesDN, WrapquotesSK, ospacelist (abstraction of what was hard-coded). * titles.cfg: New: ewletlongpoem extitswitch ewletfilm extitswitch ewletessaytitleWrapquotes ewletchaptertitleWrapquotes. * moredefs.sty: Many documentation changes. Change implementation of provideboolean and ewboolean to be compatible with ifthen package. Fix prependto@macro g@prependto@macro so they work. Fix check for defined macro in SaveName. Fix SaveName so it works. Fix GobbleO GobbleMO so they work. * abbrevs.sty: Added emulation of acromake.sty. * lips.sty: New: BracketedLips, olips, Lips, mla package option. * compsci.sty: New: file email. Add hyperlatex package option. * bits.sty: Requires letterhead package -- which I don't think I distribute. Aha, that's why this is unsupported! It may be usable with a dummy letterhead package. * attrib.sty: Add attribcitations. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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CTAN package upgrade: Frankenbundle, including swiftex.el
by Jim Hefferon 11 Sep '01

11 Sep '01

An upgrade of the Frankenbundle package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should make its way to the other CTAN sites and mirrors in the next day or two. Jim Hefferon ftpmaint(a)tug.ctan.org ========================================== The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Frankenbundle, including swiftex.el Name: Matt Swift Location on CTAN: support/frankenbundle Summary description: Develop and distribute groups of LaTeX packages and classe; ALSO Edit doc.sty and normal LaTeX files with GNU Emacs. s and BibTeX bibstyles; License type: gpl Announcement text: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Interim cleanup release prior to some more significant work (I hope). Please see README for a full description and ChangeLog for changes. Please note that a preformatted TeX Catalogue database describing this software is at http://www.shore.net/~swift/latex/swift.db. A web page of description like the TeX Catalogue descriptions is at http://www.shore.net/~swift/latex/. Frankenbundle: Develop and distribute groups of LaTeX packages and classes and BibTeX bibstyles. Frankenbundle allows an author to maintain and distribute a bundle of one or more LaTeX packages and classes and BibTeX bibliography styles, their documentation, and any support files with a high degree of sophistication, consistency, and convenience both for the author and their end users, who will receive the bundle in a form easy to understand and use. The author using Frankenbundle needs a Unix-like environment, GNU Make, and a rudimentary understanding of Makefiles. The end user does not need Make. Frankenbundle also includes swiftex.el: Swiftex.el: Edit doc.sty and normal LaTeX files with GNU Emacs. docTeX mode is for editing buffers containing self-documenting LaTeX code that uses the doc package, including the ltxdoc document class. For these buffers, docTeX mode is IMHO significantly more useful than the alternatives provided by standard Emacs and AUC TeX, though I do intend to merge this code into AUC TeX one day. swifTeX mode is for editing buffers containing normal LaTeX{} files and provides an alternative to the other LaTeX modes. The most important changes are noted here: * Frankenbundle: Handles variety of bundle licenses: LPPL and GPL are preconfigured. Extensive documentation revision. * swiftex.el: Fix `stx-merge-list' for the thousandth time. Additional documentation. Moved user documentation and todo list to swiftex-doc.txt. Begin to implement Emacs customization. Numerous bugfixes. Numerous small extensions. Please note that Frankenbundle is in the public domain and swiftex.el is under the GPL. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: CTAN submission: typedref
by Robin Fairbairns 11 Sep '01

11 Sep '01

Greg Seidman writes: > Please find on cam.ctan.org the file typedref.tar.gz, an update of the > saferef package. Due to the licensing of the original the name had to be > changed. The license for the original reads like this: > > %% Package `saferef' for use with LaTeX2e > %% Copyright (C) 1997 James Ashton (email `James.Ashton(a)anu.edu.au'). > %% All rights reserved. You may not alter the contents of this file > %% unless you also change its name. > > ...so I am not entirely certain of the legitimacy of my submission. Anyway, > my license reads identically (since I don't know what other rights I can > give according to the previous license). sigh. leave it where it is for the time being: you're obviously doing the best you can. if your version is enough better, we could well find saferef withering on the branch (at which point we could shuffle it off to obsolete, if we were to remember at that stage...). > Presumably, typedref belongs in the same place in the tree as saferef, i.e. > macros/latex/contrib/supported. > > The improvements over saferef are: > > 1. Compatibility with hyperref. This has been tested extensively. > 2. Support for referencing appendices in documents which do not define > chapter (i.e. anything that isn't a book). > 3. Minor documentation changes/fixes. thanks for the upload. i've installed the files as suggested. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN submission - gloss 1.5
by Rainer Schoepf 10 Sep '01

10 Sep '01

On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Javier Bezos wrote: > I've uploaded to the DANTE server the following files under > incoming/gloss/: > gloss.sty, gloss.tex, glsbase.bib, glsplain.bst, glsshort.bst, > readme, sample.bib, sample.tex. > > Please, delete the contents of /macros/latex/contrib/ > supported/gloss, and place under it the new files. > > Gloss is a LaTeX package which allows the creation of > glossaries using bibTeX. New in gloss 1.5: > - hyperlinks from text to entries when hyperref is used. > - a new glsshort.bst style which sorts entries by the > short field. > > License is lppl. Thanks for the update, I installed it in macros/latex/contrib/supported/gloss For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: Upload: register
by Robin Fairbairns 07 Sep '01

07 Sep '01

Matthew Lovell writes: > I have uploaded register.tar.gz to the UK incoming directory. I would > suggest that this new packaged be placed under > > macros/latex/contrib/supported/register > > The distribution is under the LPPL. > > A description of the package is as follows: > > The register package is designed for typsetting the programmable > elements in digital hardware, i.e., registers. Such registers > typically have many fields and can be quite wide; they are thus a > challenge to typeset in a consistent manner. > > Register is similar in some aspects to the bitfield package by > Reuben Thomas. Anyone doing hardware documentation using LaTeX > should examine both packages. > > Register requires a fairly recent version of the float package. i've installed the files as requested. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN submission --- combine class
by Robin Fairbairns 06 Sep '01

06 Sep '01

Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded combine.tar to the UK incoming directory. Please use > this to replace the current contents of > macros/latex/contrib/supported/combine. > > The distribution is under the LPPL. > > From the README: > > The combine class lets you bundle individual documents into a single > document, such as when preparing a conference proceedings. > > The auxiliary combinet package puts the titles and authors from > maketitle commands into the main documents table of contents, and > combnat.sty enables the combine class and the natbib package to work > harmoniously together. > > Changes in version 0.45 of combine.cls and version 0.2 of combinet.sty: > o Fixed minor ToC alignment problem i've installed the files as requested. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: New version TkTeXCAD
by Robin Fairbairns 05 Sep '01

05 Sep '01

Hilmar Straube writes: > What: New Beta for TkTeXCAD, a graphical user interface to the > picture environment > Which node: graphics > Licence: GPL > Description: Tk-Python script for graphical creation of picture > environments. Runs on every GUI-platform with the Tk/Python scripting > language (see www.python.org). Provides Lines, Vectors, circles, > filled rectangles, various textboxes, .EPS-graphics, ... i've installed the update. thanks for submitting. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN Submission --- memoir class
by Robin Fairbairns 04 Sep '01

04 Sep '01

Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded memoir.tar to the UK incoming directory. Please > use this to replace the current > macros/latex/contrib/supported/memoir. > > The distribution is under the LPPL. > > From the README: > > Memoir is a configurable class for typesetting 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 plus easy means of creating new ones. There is a reasonably > intuitive way of specifying page margins, etc., with an option for > printing trimmining marks. Standard font sizes are 9--12pt and > 14pt. > > Changes in version 0.33 (2001/08/31) > o Added controllable chapter spacing in LoF and LoT > o Fixed bug in appendixpage > o Added dictionary style Index headers (in memman.(tex|ist) ) thanks for the upload: i've installed the files as requested. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN upload
by Robin Fairbairns 04 Sep '01

04 Sep '01

Maurizio Loreti writes: > + what you've uploaded: a file called brushscr.tar.gz > + which CTAN node you've uploaded to: ftp.tex.ac.uk > + where you want the files to go: the uploaded files should replace the > files currently in the directory tex-archive/fonts/brushscr > + what licensing conditions you apply to your software: public domain > + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do: here follows the > uploaded file brushscr/README: > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This directory contains: a Type-1 font named BrushScript-Italic, that > simulates hand-written characters; all the files needed by LaTeX in > order to use that font; a file AAA_readme.tex that fully describes the > package; a sample file sample.tex . > > The font itself and all the files are Public Domain. > > History: > > - The original (public domain) NeXT screen font has been edited, with > a Type-1 font editor named TypeSmith, on an Amiga computer. The > service files have been generated using the fontinst package by > Alan Jeffrey. > - Later, having TypeSmith generated a buggy font, a more strict dvips > refuses to handle BrushScript. Louis Vosloo of Y&Y, with enormous > courtesy, has fixed the font in his spare time (I no longer have an > Amiga computer, or a font editor of any kind). > - Rolf Niepraschk submits a file pbsi.sty . > - A more strict dvips (5.86e) still refuses to handle the font. Rolf > Niepraschk submits a fix, generated by the type1fix perl script > part of the TeXtrace package (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~pts/textrace/) > by Peter Szabo i've installed the files as requested: thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN update: Circuit_macros5.1
by Robin Fairbairns 04 Sep '01

04 Sep '01

Dwight Aplevich writes: > Circuit_macros5.1.tar.gz has been copied into the incoming directory > of ftp.tex.ac.uk. Its expanded contents are to replace the contents > of graphics/circuit_macros. The copyright is almost public domain. > > From the README: > ... > This is a set of macros for drawing high-quality line diagrams to > include in TeX, LaTeX, or similar documents. The macros were > originally intended for electric circuit diagrams containing > fundamental elements, amplifiers, transistors, and basic logic gates, > but several tools and examples for other types of diagrams are also > included. The advantages and disadvantages of such a system are > similar to those of TeX itself, which is macro-based, non-wysiwyg, > and which uses ordinary character input. > > The macros evaluate to drawing commands in the pic little language, > which is easy to read and learn. The programming elements in pic are > well suited to line drawings requiring parametric or conditional > components, fine tuning, significant geometric calculations or > repetition, or to drawings that are naturally block structured or > tree structured. Arbitrary formatted text can be included. Free > TeX- and LaTeX-compatible interpreters for m4 and pic are readily > available for Unix and PC machines. > > View or print the file examples.ps in the examples directory, or try > http://ece.uwaterloo.ca/~aplevich/Circuit_macros/ > > A collection of examples and hints intended for his colleagues has > been produced by Alan Robert Clark at http://ytdp.ee.wits.ac.za/cct.html > ... > CHANGES: > Version 5.1: Signal-flow graph (directed graph) macros. More consistent > rot3Dz. Work-around for a bug in some pic processors invoked by the > battery macro and for an arc instability invoked by the fuse macro. > Modified ground, dimension_, par_, label macros, b_current, diode, > transformer. New macros gpar_, ujt, scr, contact, relay. Document > fixes and additions. Changes to examples for portability. > ... i have installed the files as requested: thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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new version of AMS-LaTeX (2.2)
by Reinhard Zierke 30 Aug '01

30 Aug '01

----- Forwarded message from Barbara Beeton ----- A new version of AMS-TeX has been posted to the AMS server at ftp://ftp.ams.org/tex/amstex This will be mirrored to CTAN into the ../macros/amstex area in due course. This is AMS-TeX version 2.2. It is mostly a bug fix release, but a few important changes have been made: - The copyright notice is no longer reported at run time, and there is no longer an explicit request for use of AMS-TeX to be acknowledged. (A footnote Typeset by AMS-TeX that appears at the bottom of the first page of an article can be removed by the command ologo.) - An explicit subclassyear has been added to facilitate reference to versions of the Mathematics Subject Classification other than the default (1991). - The definition of folio was simplified to include only the page number, permitting auxiliary packages such as index.tex (from texsis) to be used without conflict. - Empty elements (addresses, thanks, subjclass, caption) are checked and extraneous footnotes, punctuation, etc., are suppressed as appropriate. Users of AMS-TeX are advised to consider obtaining this new release. ----- End forwarded message ----- Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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New release (3.4b) of the changebar package
by Johannes L. Braams 29 Aug '01

29 Aug '01

Hi all, I have just prepared a new release of the changebar package to mirrored onto CTAN. The changes are; - support for VTeX has been added, thanks to a contribution by Michael Vulis - support for colored changebars has (finally) been added - a problem with changebar and shadethm used in the same document has been fixed. - a number of minor typo's have been fixed. Kind regards, Johannes Braams

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Re: The Green Point
by Rainer Schoepf 29 Aug '01

29 Aug '01

On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Markus Triska wrote: > I have uploaded the file greenpoint.mf on node ftp.dante.de today. > It should go into the directory fonts, possibly in its own sub-directory, greenpoint. > The file is available under the terms of the GNU GPL. > > greenpoint.mf is a METAFONT-implementation of the logo commonly known as Der Gruene Punkt (The Green Point). In Austria, it can be found on nearly every bottle. It should not be confused with the Recycle-logo, implemented by Ian Green. > > I want to thank Beate Edl for her sharp eye and her suggestions. Thanks for the upload. As you suggested, I installed it in fonts/greenpoint/greenpoint.mf For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf PS: I would appreciate if you would not send HTML enhanced Email. All CTANners are human, not browsers.

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Re: upload musixps-unix.tar.gz
by Robin Fairbairns 28 Aug '01

28 Aug '01

Takanori Uchiyama writes: > I uploaded musixps-unix.tar.gz at cam.ctan.org. > > Please replace previous one on fonts/musixtex/ps-type1/. > > The license of the fonts is LPPL. > > VERSION 1.11 > > CHANGES > + Fix wrong width of musix13.pfb. > + Fix wrong width of xslhu11-29 and xslhu11d-29d. > > OUTLINES > > This package provides PostScript (type 1) fonts (PFB format), and dvips and > dvipdfm map files for MusiXTeX. The fonts are based on the original METAFONT > sources, such as musix20.mf, which are distributed with MusiXTeX. The fonts > provided here may be used to produce printer-independent Postscript files. PDF > files generated using type 1 fonts are well displayed by the Acrobat Reader and > xpdf. > > The fonts were generated from the METAFONT sources in the TeX Live CD 2000 July > using TeXtrace 0.45 but musix11-20, xslhz20 and xslhz20d were upgraded to those > in musixtex-T102.tar.gz. > > Here is a list of the 71 generated fonts. > > musix11.pfb xgreg24.pfb xsld29.pfb xslhd24.pfb xslhu24.pfb xslu20.pfb > musix13.pfb xgreg29.pfb xsld29d.pfb xslhd24d.pfb xslhu24d.pfb xslu20d.pfb > musix16.pfb xsld11.pfb xsldd20.pfb xslhd29.pfb xslhu29.pfb xslu24.pfb > musix20.pfb xsld11d.pfb xsldu20.pfb xslhd29d.pfb xslhu29d.pfb xslu24d.pfb > musix24.pfb xsld13.pfb xslhd11.pfb xslhu11.pfb xslhz20.pfb xslu29.pfb > musix29.pfb xsld13d.pfb xslhd11d.pfb xslhu11d.pfb xslhz20d.pfb xslu29d.pfb > musixsps.pfb xsld16.pfb xslhd13.pfb xslhu13.pfb xslu11.pfb xslud20.pfb > musixspx.pfb xsld16d.pfb xslhd13d.pfb xslhu13d.pfb xslu11d.pfb xslup20.pfb > xgreg11.pfb xsld20.pfb xslhd16.pfb xslhu16.pfb xslu13.pfb xslz20.pfb > xgreg13.pfb xsld20d.pfb xslhd16d.pfb xslhu16d.pfb xslu13d.pfb xslz20d.pfb > xgreg16.pfb xsld24.pfb xslhd20.pfb xslhu20.pfb xslu16.pfb xtie20.pfb > xgreg20.pfb xsld24d.pfb xslhd20d.pfb xslhu20d.pfb xslu16d.pfb > > Note: musix25 and xgreg25 were not generated because they are not used in > musixgre.tex or musixtex.tex. > > The control points were reduced with Fontographer. > The fonts were hinted automatically with Fontographer. musix11 - 29 were > hand tuned by Takanori Uchiyama. thanks for the upload: i've installed the file as requested. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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New CTAN package: uiucthesis
by Jim Hefferon 27 Aug '01

27 Aug '01

A new LaTeX package has been installed at tug.ctan.org, and should make its way through the mirroring process in the next day or two. Jim Hefferon =============================================================== The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: uiucthesis Name: Scott Pakin Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/uiucthesis/ Summary description: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign thesis style License type: lppl Announcement text: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- uiucthesis is a LaTeX package for formatting theses in the format required by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Also, included is uiucredborder, a LaTeX class for filling out the infamous red-bordered form that must accompany UIUC theses. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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CTAN submission -- package ebezier
by Reinhard Zierke 27 Aug '01

27 Aug '01

A submission was uploaded to Dante. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: package ebezier Name and email: Gerhard Bachmaier Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/ebezier Summary description: plotting commands for picture environment License type: Free Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package ebezier is an extension of the (old) bezier.sty which is now part of LaTeX2e. It defines linear and cubic Bernstein polynomials together with some plotting macros for arcs. With the aid of the calc package also the calculation of square roots and henceforward lengths is supplied. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for upload, I installed the package as suggested. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN Submission -- draftcopy
by Reinhard Zierke 25 Aug '01

25 Aug '01

----- Forwarded message from Jürgen Vollmer ----- I put a new version (2.14) of my draftcopy package to ftp.dante.de This package is used to print on some pages the word `DRAFT' (or the language dependent analogon) ``behind'' the intended stuff. The following files are contained in draftcopy.tar.gz draftcopy/draftcopy.ins draftcopy/draftcopy.doc draftcopy/Makefile draftcopy/README draftcopy/THIS-IS-VERSION-2.14 Please put it into tex/macros/latex/contrib/supported/draftcopy I'm looking still for translations for the word DRAFT. Have a look into draftcopy.sty, which are missing and send me some... Who knows an easy way to typeset foreign letters like Ü in postscript? Who knows how to implement draftcopy stuff for PDF? Changes since the last version: - Added conditional, final and draft options - Added draftcopyPageX, etc. to specify the start of the text on the page - Added draftcopySetScaleFactor to specify a scailng factor - Added the timestamp option and the draftcopyVersion macro - Added the greek language option (i.e. DRAFT is printed in the greek translation with greek letters) With best regards Jürgen Vollmer PS: Thanks to all people, sending me new ideas and code, your are mentioned in the package code. ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the submission. I installed it as suggested in CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/draftcopy/ replacing the old version Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN submissions --- combine class & booklet package
by Robin Fairbairns 25 Aug '01

25 Aug '01

Peter Wilson writes: > I have just uploaded combine.tar and booklet.tar to the UK incoming > directory. Please use these to replace the current contents of > macros/latex/contrib/supported/(combine|booklet). > > The distributions are under the LPPL. > > From the READMEs > > --- The combine class lets you bundle individual documents into a single > document, such as when preparing a conference proceedings. > > Changes in version 0.44 > o Imported documents can now use a class that LoadClass's another class. > > > > --- Booklet provides some aids for printing simple booklets or signatures > for longer books. > > Changes in version 0.6 > o The number of ox es used is limited to the pages in a signature. i've installed the files as requested: thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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new package on CTAN: filecontents
by Jim Hefferon 24 Aug '01

24 Aug '01

A new LaTeX package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should make its way through the mirroring process in the next day or two. Jim Hefferon ==================================================================== The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: filecontents Name: Scott Pakin Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/filecontents Summary description: Less-limited version of LaTeX2e's filecontents and filecontents* environments License type: lppl Announcement text: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LaTeX2e's filecontents and filecontents* environments enable a LaTeX source file to generate external files as it's run through latex. However, there are two limitations of these environments: They refuse to overwrite existing files, and they can be used only before the documentclass declaration. The filecontents package removes these limitations, letting you overwrite existing files and letting you use filecontents/filecontents* anywhere. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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CTAN submission -- Metapost examples
by Reinhard Zierke 24 Aug '01

24 Aug '01

----- Forwarded message from Vincent Zoonekynd ----- Name of contribution: Metapost examples Name and email: ZOONEKYND Vincent Suggested location on CTAN:/tex-archive/info/metapost/examples/ Summary description: Example pictures drawn with Metapost License type: Free Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- These are a few (hundred) example pictures drawn with metapost, ranging from very simple (lines and circles) to rather intricate (uncommon geometric transformations, fractals, bitmap, etc.). See also: http://www.math.jussieu.fr/~zoonek/LaTeX/Metapost/metapost.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the upload. I installed the files as suggested. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN submission -- PSNFSS 8.2 final release
by Reinhard Zierke 23 Aug '01

23 Aug '01

The LaTeX required package PSNFSS is now version 8.2, i.e. I renamed the directory CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/psnfss-beta to CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/psnfss. >From the changelog (file changes.txt): 2001-06-04 PSNFSS-v8.2 * mathpazo.sty: Changed behavior of the options sc and osf; jmath and imath changed back to type 'mathord', as in normal LaTeX. * mathptm.sty: Revoked the changes re. AMS fonts, since the package is only provided for use with legacy douments, anyway. * Many changes to the documentation (psnfss2e.*). * test1.tex, test2.tex, test3.tex: Fixed typo. 2001/05/27 PSNFSS-v8.2beta * mathpazo.sty: An improved version of this package is now part of the PSNFSS distribution. * freenfss.zip: Added TFM, VF and FD files for the Pazo fonts. * mathptmx.sty New option: [slantedGreek] * The AMS fonts are scaled properly now, when used in conjunction with the packages mathptmx, mathpple or mathpazo. Specifying the [psamsfonts] option for the packages amsfonts or amssymb may be needed wrt/ the Euler Fraktur fonts, but will not affect the scaling of the others. * ot1*.fd: additional font shape substitition bx/ui -> b/it * fixed TFM file zptmcm7y.tfm so as to raise the subscripts generated by mathptmx (pr/3279) * fixed FD files for Adobe Courier so as to disable hyphenation (I wonder why this bug was never noticed...) * test file completely revised Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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Re: ps2eps 1.35 in /incoming/ps2eps
by Robin Fairbairns 22 Aug '01

22 Aug '01

Roland Bless has submitted an update of support/ps2eps he writes of it: > ps2eps v1.35 in CTAN:support/ps2eps > ----------------------------------- > ps2eps is a tool to produce Encapsulated PostScript Files (EPS/EPSF) > from usual one-paged Postscript documents. It calculates correct > Bounding Boxes for those EPS files and filters some special postscript > command sequences that can produce errorneous results on printers. > > You need: > - perl (an interpreter for the perl language, see http://www.perl.com) > - ghostscript (an interpreter/raster image processor > for the PostScript language, > see http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/) > - maybe an ANSI-C compiler if you don't use Linux, Solaris, Digital > Unix, HP-UX or Windows 9x/NT/2000. > > The program is licensed under gpl. > > Important changes since version 1.28: > - Improved processing of files with leading or trailing binary code > - Improved processing of files with embedded binary coded images > - Removes gabby diagnostic output from Adobe Printer Driver (see > variable removeADO) > - Corrected handling of existing %%BoundingBox comments. Now it > takes the last one seen. Should esp. work with %%BoundingBox: > (atend) usage... > - Fixed case sensitiveness when checking for suffix replacement > (thanks to Erik J=F8rgensen) > - Heuristic added for finding end of file by counting %%EOF comments. > Now correctly treats already embedded EPS, too. > Usually only trailing garbage (e.g., PCL control sequences) follows > last %%EOF. However, sometimes the last %%EOF may be missing. > Therefore, the behavior is switchable by new -E option. > - New first line of code for getting rid of the #! comment > - EOF handling corrected, allowing better handling of already > embedded eps files > - New -P option to allow selective removal of embedded preview > images (was previously default) > - Preview images were not filtered in the prolog section (now > corrected with -P) > - New -N option to prevent inclusion of any surrounding postscript code Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN upload notification: KOMA-Script
by Rainer Schoepf 19 Aug '01

19 Aug '01

Markus Kohm wrote: > Name of contribution: KOMA-Script > Suggested location on CTAN: tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/koma-script > Summary description: KOMA-Script is a bundle of classes and packages > License type: Free > > Announcement text: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This is only an update or fix of the last release. > Most changes are bug fixes. There are also some new > features at scrpage2 e.g. option 'nouppercase' and macro > clearscrheadfoot. > > Never the less most files are changed, so I'll upload a > complete archive (but I've preseved file date and time of > the unchanged files). Please extract the contents of > directory > koma-script at the tar.gz into the koma-script directory > at CTAN. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Update of biocon package
by Rainer Schoepf 19 Aug '01

19 Aug '01

On Sat, 18 Aug 2001, Pieter Edelman wrote: > I just uploaded a new version of the biocon package to ftp.dante.de. It > should replace the current macros/latex/contrib/supported/biocon/ > directory on CTAN. It is still licensed under the GPL. Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN submission --- booklet package
by Robin Fairbairns 18 Aug '01

18 Aug '01

Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded booklet.tar to UK incoming. Please install the > contents into macros/latex/contrib/supported/booklet. > > The distribution is under the LPPL. > > From the README: > > booklet provides some aids in printing simple booklets or > signatures for longer books. i have installed the files as requested: thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN submission -- warning.sty
by Rainer Schoepf 17 Aug '01

17 Aug '01

On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Harald Harders wrote: > I have uploaded warning.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de. It contains the package > warning.sty and the xml-file for the package list. > Please put it to CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/supported/warning/ > Licence is LPPL > > >From the description: > > Sometimes a class or package has to make a global warning such as > ``Rerun for this or that reason'' or ``This is draft, change this > before the final run''. If you are generating them with > AtEndDocument{PackageWarningNoLine{packagename}{warning}} > the warning appears very early before the filelist. Then the > warning can easily be overseen. This package provides a command > that surely puts the warning at the end near to the global > warnings generated by LaTeX itself. > You can add a warning to a list of user defined warnings using the > command addglobalwarning as it can be seen in the example below. > This package could be useful for the warnings generated e.g. by > the packages changebar.sty or longtable.sty. Thanks for the upload, I installed the files as suggested, in macros/latex/contrib/supported/warning For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN submission -- xl2latex
by Reinhard Zierke 17 Aug '01

17 Aug '01

----- Forwarded message from Ronny Buchmann ----- I've uploaded xl2latex in dante.ctan.org:/incoming/xl2latex package summary ---------------- xl2latex Convert Excel (97 and above) tables to LaTeX tabulars This Excel to LaTeX converter exports the current selection as a LaTeX file which can be included via input in your actual document. It supports multicolumn cells (only horizontal), borders, font styles (bold, italic), colored cells and text, LaTeX math in cells and cells with wrapped text. It has a nothing to do with Excel-To-LaTeX, despite some ideas and features. --------------- this should go into CTAN:tex-archive/support/xl2latex license: gpl ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the submission, I installed it as suggested. Unfortunately, the above mentioned Excel-To-LaTeX is packaged in a zip file CTAN:tex-archive/support/excel2latex/xl2latex.zip even though the file in that archive is called Excel2Latex.bas again. I'm sorry about this confusion of names but I am not allowed to rename the older archive due to several reasons. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN submission -- new version of float package
by Reinhard Zierke 16 Aug '01

16 Aug '01

----- Forwarded message from Anselm Lingnau ----- I've uploaded a new version (1.3a) of the float package to ftp.dante.de:/incoming. This should replace the existing version in tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported. It is still a LPPL package. This updates the float package in a number of respects, including - Introduces new `plaintop' float style - Introduces ` estylefloat*' command which will restyle floats but leave their caption processing alone - List-of-float starting code factored out (for the benefit of packages like KOMA-Script, suggested by Markus Kohm) - Adds float@addtolists command to put something (such as extra vertical space at chapter boundaries) into all active list-of-float files - End-of-float handling simplified according to H.A. Sommerfeldt ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the submission, I installed it as suggested in CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/float replacing the old version. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN submission -- KOMA-Script update
by Reinhard Zierke 14 Aug '01

14 Aug '01

----- Forwarded message from Markus Kohm ----- Summary description: KOMA-Script is a bundle of classes and packages for LaTeX Suggested CTAN directory: Please remove the contents of tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/koma-script but not the contrib subdirectory and extract the koma-script.tar.gz into tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/koma-script Short text for announcement: Lots of changes where done. There a many new features, a new package (scrpage2), better compatibility with packages like longtable and float, and a new written german scrguide. Because of lack in time and translation staff the english scrguide is still the old one. License: lppl Greetings Markus ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the upload. I installed the new version as suggested. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN upload notification: arraymaker
by Robin Fairbairns 13 Aug '01

13 Aug '01

> The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: > > Name of contribution: arraymaker > Name and email: Donu Arapura > Suggested location on CTAN: support > Summary description: A program for making latex and xypic arrays. > License type: Generic DFSG > > Announcement text: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This program is designed to take some of the tedium out of > constructing arrays, diagrams and tables. Latex code is entered into > an array of blank boxes and arrows can be added with a click of the > mouse. The program then outputs an array that can be pasted into a > latex file. This is requires tcl/tk (>= 8.0) to be installed > beforehand; it is on most unix/linux systems. This is an update of > the July 10 2001 version. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i've installed the files as requested. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN submission -- datenumber
by Reinhard Zierke 09 Aug '01

09 Aug '01

I installed the package macros/latex/contrib/supported/datenumber by Jörg-Michael Schröder. >From the documentation: This package provides commands to convert a date into a number and vice versa. Additionally there are commands for incrementing and decrementing a date. Leap years and the Gregorian calendar reform are considered. The license is LPPL. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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minor bugfix and rename -- dashbox and bitfield
by Robin Fairbairns 08 Aug '01

08 Aug '01

the package formerly known as dashdbox was found to suffer a minor infelicity. in the course of correcting the bug, the author (Reuben Thomas) decided to change the name of the package to dashbox. i have therefore deleted the previous macros/latex/contrib/supported/dashdbox, and installed the new version of the package in macros/latex/contrib/supported/dashbox the dashbox package does fbox(etc)-like things, with dashed borders the bitfield package (macros/latex/contrib/supported/bitfield) has also been upgraded, since it uses dashbox. the bitfield package draws bitfield diagrams. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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New CTAN package: crossreference
by Jim Hefferon 08 Aug '01

08 Aug '01

A new LaTeX package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make its way through the mirroring process in the next few days. Jim Hefferon ftpmaint(a)tug.ctan.org =============================================================== The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: crossreference Name: Vincent Filby Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/crossreference Summary description: Crossreferencing package that can help provide tracability for technical documents, especially Software Requirements Specifications. License type: lppl Announcement text: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Preliminary release. see http://filbar.org/projects/crossreference/ for more details. Wish list: 1. combining multiple references with a ,. For examples [ref 31], [ref 87] should be [ref 31, 87]. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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package upgrade: bundledoc
by Jim Hefferon 08 Aug '01

08 Aug '01

An upgrade of the bundledoc package has been installed on CTAN. It should have made its way to your favorite mirror by now. Jim Hefferon ftpmaint(a)tug.ctan.org =========================================================== The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: bundledoc Name: Scott Pakin Location on CTAN: support/bundledoc Summary description: Bundle all the files needed to build a LaTeX document License type: lppl Announcement text: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- bundledoc is a post-processor for the snapshot package that bundles together all the classes, packages, and files needed to build a given LaTeX document. It reads the .dep file that snapshot produces, finds each of the files mentioned therein, and archives them into a single .tar.gz (or .zip, or whatever) file, suitable for moving across systems, transmitting to a colleague, etc. As an added bonus, this distribution includes a small script called arlatex. arlatex is a LaTeX-specific archiving program that combines a bunch of files into a single .tex file. When the .tex file is run through latex, all of the original files are recreated and the LaTeX document is built. bundledoc can be easily configured to use arlatex as its archiver in place of tar, zip, etc. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: tkTeXCAD
by Rainer Schoepf 08 Aug '01

08 Aug '01

On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Hilmar Straube wrote: > What: tkTeXCAD Beta > Node: graphics > Licence: GPL > Purpose: Creation of standard picture-environments with special focus on > creating reuseable picture parts. > System: Requires Python >2.0 and Tcl/Tk (Available for various platforms at > www.python.org and www.scriptics.com) > > There is currently only german documentation. English user interface can be > activated by setting LANG = 1 in config.py. Thanks for the upload, I installed the files in graphics/tktexcad For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: upload musixps-unix.tar.gz
by Robin Fairbairns 07 Aug '01

07 Aug '01

Takanori Uchiyama writes: > I uploaded musixps-unix.tar.gz at cam.ctan.org. > > Please replace previous one on fonts/musixtex/ps-type1/. > > The license of the fonts is LPPL. > > CHANGES > > + Reducing control points. > + Hinted automatically with Fontographer. > + Upgrade from T101 to T102 (musix11 - 29, xslhz20, xslhz20d) > + PostScript names were changed. > Ex. TeX-musix20 --> TeXMUSIX20-Regular > + typo correction. > musix.tex --> musix.map > > OUTLINES > > This package provides PostScript (type 1) fonts (PFB format), and dvips and > dvipdfm map files for MusiXTeX. The fonts are based on the original METAFONT > sources, such as musix20.mf, which are distributed with MusiXTeX. The fonts > provided here may be used to produce printer-independent Postscript files. PDF > files generated using type 1 fonts are well displayed by the Acrobat Reader and > xpdf. > > The fonts were generated from the METAFONT sources in the TeX Live CD 2000 July > using TeXtrace 0.45 but musix11-20, xslhz20 and xslhz20d were upgraded to those > in musixtex-T102.tar.gz. > > Here is a list of the 71 generated fonts. > > musix11.pfb xgreg24.pfb xsld29.pfb xslhd24.pfb xslhu24.pfb xslu20.pfb > musix13.pfb xgreg29.pfb xsld29d.pfb xslhd24d.pfb xslhu24d.pfb xslu20d.pfb > musix16.pfb xsld11.pfb xsldd20.pfb xslhd29.pfb xslhu29.pfb xslu24.pfb > musix20.pfb xsld11d.pfb xsldu20.pfb xslhd29d.pfb xslhu29d.pfb xslu24d.pfb > musix24.pfb xsld13.pfb xslhd11.pfb xslhu11.pfb xslhz20.pfb xslu29.pfb > musix29.pfb xsld13d.pfb xslhd11d.pfb xslhu11d.pfb xslhz20d.pfb xslu29d.pfb > musixsps.pfb xsld16.pfb xslhd13.pfb xslhu13.pfb xslu11.pfb xslud20.pfb > musixspx.pfb xsld16d.pfb xslhd13d.pfb xslhu13d.pfb xslu11d.pfb xslup20.pfb > xgreg11.pfb xsld20.pfb xslhd16.pfb xslhu16.pfb xslu13.pfb xslz20.pfb > xgreg13.pfb xsld20d.pfb xslhd16d.pfb xslhu16d.pfb xslu13d.pfb xslz20d.pfb > xgreg16.pfb xsld24.pfb xslhd20.pfb xslhu20.pfb xslu16.pfb xtie20.pfb > xgreg20.pfb xsld24d.pfb xslhd20d.pfb xslhu20d.pfb xslu16d.pfb > > Note: musix25 and xgreg25 were not generated because they are not used in > musixgre.tex or musixtex.tex. > > The control points were reduced with Fontographer. > The fonts were hinted automatically with Fontographer. musix11 - 29 were > hand tuned by Takanori Uchiyama. i've installed the new file (as before) as fonts/musixtex/ps-type1/musixps-unix.tar.gz -- thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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revtex 4 production (i.e., non-beta) release
by Robin Fairbairns 07 Aug '01

07 Aug '01

ctan is now mirroring the production version of revtex 4. changes are: macros/latex/contrib/supported/revtex4-beta has been withdrawn macros/latex/contrib/supported/revtex is the new release in parallel, the old (latex 2.09) version has been moved to obsolete/macros/latex209/contrib/revtex Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN upload -- new version of ruhyphen package (1.4)
by Robin Fairbairns 07 Aug '01

07 Aug '01

Vladimir Volovich writes: > i've uploaded to ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/ruhyphen-010807.tar.gz > the new version of our ruhyphen package (collection of russian > hyphenation patterns). > > changes between the previous version (1.3) and this new version (1.4): > > * Alexander Lebedev's patterns, ruhyphal.tex, are now generated using > patgen and his rus-ispell dictionary (previously it was derived from > Dimitry Vulis' patterns). This and many other improvements for > Alexander Lebedev's patterns made over the last years, make them the > highest quality patterns for russian language. > > * added one more original pattern by Mikhail Grinchuk. it is the > smallest of all patterns for Russian language, and could be used on > TeX systems with limited memory; due to its small size, the number > of wrong hyphenated words is bigger than for other patterns. > > * the pattern ruhyphvl.tex was updated with the new version (slightly > modified by A.Cherepanov, V.Kryukov and A.Shen). > > * accompanying patterns for the cyrillic letter `yo' were regenerated > using the latest version of Alexander Lebedev's comprehensive word > list generated from his rus-ispell dictionary. > > * patterns were made stable against re-encoding to any cyrillic > encoding, and also usable with non-standard on the fly reencoding > mechanisms like TCX or TCP (switched on at TeX format creation > phase) used in some TeX implementations (provided that these > transformations are 1-to-1 in *all* the range 128--255, -- otherwise > the results may be incorrect). This was suggested by Alexander > Cherepanov. > > Please replace the old version located at > CTAN:language/hyphenation/ruhyphen/ with this new version (please > remove old package files first, because there were some changes in > filenames). installed the files as requested. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN submissions --- ccaption,verse packages, memoir class
by Robin Fairbairns 07 Aug '01

07 Aug '01

Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded ccaption.tar to UK incoming. Please use this to > replace the current contents of > macros/latex/contrib/supported/ccaption. > > The distribution is under the LPPL. > > From the README: > > The ccaption package provides commands for `continuation > captions', unnumbered captions, and legends. Methods are provided to > define captions for use outside floats, caption styles, and new > floats. > > Changes in version 3.0a: > o Catered for old versions of amsmath package doing odd things with > @tempa etc. and > I have uploaded memoir.tar to UK incoming. Please use this to > replace the current macros/latex/contrib/supported/memoir. > > The distribution is under the LPPL. > > From the README: > > Memoir is a configurable class for typeseeting general (non-) > fiction and mathematical books. It encompasses the book and report > classes and can simulate the article class and double-spaced > typewritten manuscripts. > > It provides a variety of predefined page, chapter and caption > styles with easy means of creating your own. There is a reasonably > intuitive way of specifying page margins. etc, and trimming marks > can be printed. Documents can use 9--12pt and 14pt fonts as the > normal size. > > Changes in version 0.32: > o Fixes for old versions of the amsmath package. and > I have uploaded verse.tar to UK incoming. Please use this to > replace the current contents of > macros/latex/contrib/supported/verse. > > The distribution is under the LPPL. > > From the README: > > verse provides some aids for typesetting simple verse (poems). > > Changes in version 1.1: > o Added pattern-based line indents. i have installed all three upgrades as requested. thanks for the uploads. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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new version of uk tex faq on archive and web
by Robin Fairbairns 06 Aug '01

06 Aug '01

i have just installed a new version of the uk tex faq on ctan (help/uk-tex-faq) and on the web (http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq) i've mended a small number of bugs in the markup and translation to html, corrected and/or extended a few answers, and added answers to another small number of questions. note that question numbers have (again) changed, though no old questions have gone away this time. users are again urged to use the label= form of reference to questions, rather than the old question= form: label= references may be found at the end of every answer the web version of the faq returns. Robin Fairbairns UK TeX FAQ maintainer (and CTAN manager)

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Re: Upload of binhex.dtx
by Rainer Schoepf 03 Aug '01

03 Aug '01

On 2 Aug 2001 David Kastrup wrote: > I have uploaded binhex.dtx and the accompanying binhex.ins (which can > be regenerated from binhex.dtx if the need arises) to directory > ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/binhex > > Running tex on binhex.ins extracts binhex.tex (the code) and > binhex.drv (the driver for typesetting the documentation using LaTeX). > > This implements commands to expandably convert numbers into binary, > octal and hexadecimal, so that > message{hex{-15}} will output -F > > License is dfsg compatible, basically free for everything except that > you should preserve the copyright notice. > > Suggested placement is macros/generic/kastrup, since I might want to > submit a few other tricks of the trade later. Thanks for the upload, I installed binhex.ins and binhex.dtx in macros/generic/kastrup For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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