On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 John Bowman submitted an update to the
asymptote
package.
Summary description: 2D & 3D TeX-Aware Vector Graphics Language
License type: lgpl
Announcement text:
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Labels work correctly with oblique projections. Transformed
Label alignment and pt scalings were fixed. Latticeshading
is now properly clipped. The normal and true Circle
calculations were fixed. The interface to the simpson
integrator and an array index in contour.asy were fixed. In
the flowchart module, the implicit cast from a pair to a
virtual node was removed in favour of a block constructor.
The ode integrationg routines now return a structure that
includes the sampled time values; dynamic timestepping was
implemented for solveBVP. New predefined tick modifiers were
added. The CLZ and CTZ bit functions were implemented. PRC
part names were fixed. The GL library is now explicitly
linked. Memory usage was improved by configuring the garbage
collector with --enable-large-config. Null 3D paths are
ignored. Non-pdf output is supported for PDF tex engines.
Portability changes for CYGWIN 1.7 were made.
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 John Collins submitted an update to the
latexmk
package.
Summary description: Fully automated LaTeX document generation routine
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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1. To give compatibility with tlperl (in TeX Live),
latexmk now uses the Digest::MD5 module instead of the
Digest module.
2. When latexmk is used under cygwin, the searched
locations for the system rc file are extended to include
UNIX-like paths.
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
the daemon staggers centre stage again, after a hard day's work:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: plantslabels
> Author's name: Merciadri Luca
> ocation on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/
> Summary description: This packages helps the user to write labels for plants.
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> By using the command plant{}, which takes 3 mandatory arguments from
> a total of 9, this package will help the user to write labels for
> plants. It uses the `labels' package.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
i have installed the package and updated the catalogue repository.
thanks for the upload.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/plantslabels.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/plantslabels
in fact, i installed the package on sunday, and then forgot to announce
it. it was one of those days... a side-effect of the error is that the
catalogue entry is now stable on the archive(s)...
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon's having to work for his living, just now:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: keycommand
> Author's name: Florent CHERVET
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/keycommand
> Summary description: key-value interface for commands and environments in LaTeX
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> I fixed two bugs :
> - in the normalization process
> - in ifcommandkey
> If nobody complains, it could be the last version...
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
not complaining yet, except you seem to hav caused my wife's windows
machine to crash.
thanks for the upload; i've installed the files and updated the
catalogue source repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/keycommand.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/keycommand
and the web catalogue entry will change ever so slightly, overnight
tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon splutters a little, and coughs up:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: pdfjam
> Author's name: Karl Berry
> Author's email:
> Location on CTAN: support/pdfjam
> Summary description: shell interface to pdfpages
> License type: gpl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> I'm uploading on behalf of the author, David Firth. This is a
> collection of shell scripts which provide an interface to the pdfpages
> LaTeX package. They do such jobs as selecting pages, concatenating
> files, doing n-up formatting, and so on.
>
> The pdfjam home page is http://go.warwick.ac.uk/pdfjam.
thanks for the upload. i've installed the package and made a catalogue
entry in the repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pdfjam.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/pdfjam
as usual, the new catalogue entry won't appear until some time tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon stirs from his slumbers, and proclaimsL
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: boolexpr
> Author's name: Florent CHERVET
> Location on CTAN: /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/boolexpr/
> Summary description: purely expandable boolean expressions and switch (eTeX)
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> etoolbox (v1.9 2010-04-10) now defines a ifboolexpr macro
> (which is not purely expandable).
> ifboolexpr was used to be defined by boolexpr.sty
>
> Fix has been done to be able to use boolexpr and purely
> expandable ifboolexpr.
thanks for that. i've installed the new version, and updated the
catalogue source repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/boolexpr.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/boolexpr/
and of course, the catalogue entry will change, minutely, overnight
tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
ctan-upload(a)cl.cam.ac.uk wrote:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: ot-tableau
> Author's name: Adam Baker
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ot-tableau
> Summary description: Creates Optimality Theory tableaux
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The ot-tableau package makes it easy to create beautiful
> optimality-theoretic tableaux. The LaTeX source is visually very
> similar to a formatted tableau, which makes working with the source
> code painless (well, less painful). A variety of stylistic variants
> can be modified to suit personal taste.
thanks for the upload. i've installed it and created a catalogue entry.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/ot-tableau.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ot-tableau/
the catalogue entry won't appear on the web until some time tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
Herbert Voss wrote:
> I have uploaded pst-solides3d.tgz to the uk CTAN node.
> Please delete _all_ files in the directory
> /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-solides3d/
>
> and put the new ones in there.
>
> pst-solides3d is a collection of PSTricks macros to
> threedimensional objects with hidden lines and
> hidden surfaces.
>
> pst-solides3d.tex ---
> 4.18 2010-04-14 - set ngrid= to an empty value
> - some modifcations to the code
> - moved the algebraic option into the base pstricks.tex
> - fix for introduced bug in psSolid (hv)
>
> solides.pro ---
> 4.16 2010-01-07 - fix bug with pst-surfaceparametre and function def
thanks for the upload: i've installed the new version and updated the
catalogue repository.
Users may view the package's catalogue entry at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/pst-solides3d.html
or browse the package's directory at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-solides3d/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 Martin Scharrer submitted an update to the
svn-prov
package.
Announcement text:
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This version allows the version number and description to be
stated in two optional argument instead in one. This
simplifies DTX files which extract several style files.
A new macro filetoday is provided which print filedate in
the format of oday. For this the oday macro is required
(otherwise filetoday simply return '?') and might be
defined using the babel package.
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For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
Philipp Lehman wrote:
> I've uploaded etoolbox.tar.gz and etoolbox.tds.zip to the incoming
> directory of the UK node. This is an update for
> macros/latex/contrib/etoolbox and install/macros/latex/contrib,
> respectively. Please purge the old files, install the new ones, and
> announce the upload. Thank you very much.
>
> ABOUT
>
> The etoolbox package is a toolbox of programming facilities geared
> primarily towards LaTeX class and package authors. It provides LaTeX
> frontends to some of the new primitives provided by e-TeX as well as
> some generic tools which are not related to e-TeX but match the
> profile of this package.
>
> CHANGES
>
> See the manual for a list of changes.
Users may view the package's catalogue entry at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/etoolbox.html
or browse the package's directory at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/etoolbox/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
with jim otherwise engaged, the ol' daemon's going to be working hard...
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: bundledoc
> Author's name: Scott Pakin
> Location on CTAN: support/bundledoc/
> Summary description: Bundle together all the files needed to build a LaTeX document
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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.
>
> Version 3.0 of bundledoc retains in the generated archive the
> document's directory structure; provides support for including only
> document files, not parts of LaTeX; lets the user control at a
> fine-grained level exactly which files are included or excluded; and
> improves the handling of filenames containing spaces. The tetex.cfg
> configuration file has been replaced by a (virtually identical)
> texlive-unix.cfg file. Thanks to Marius Kleiner and Fabien
> Vignes-Tourneret for their contributions to this release.
thanks for the upload; i have installed the new version, and updated the
catalogue repository (somewhat more than usual for a package update).
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/bundledoc.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/bundledoc/
the web copy of the catalogue entry will change a fair bit, overnight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
This should within a day be at your local mirror.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: ydoc
Version number: v0.1alpha
Author's name: Martin Scharrer
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ydoc
Summary description: Documentation Macros for LaTeX packages and classes
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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'ydoc' provides macros and environments to document LaTeX
packages and classes.
It is an (unfinished) alternative to the 'ltxdoc' class and
'doc' or 'xdoc' package.
It targets a different layout and tries to provide more
modern styles (xcolor, hyperref, etc.).
This is an alpha release. It should not be used yet for
other packages,
because the implementation might change.
However, the other packages of the author will use it soon
to some extend.
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Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: modroman
Version number: 1
Author's name: Yvon Henel aka Le TeXnicien de surface
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/modroman/
Summary description: macros to write roman numerals thus i, ij, iij, iv... or
thus i, ij, iij, iiij... or even thus I, II, III, IIII...
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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modroman.sty, macros to write numbers
1) in lowercase roman numerals thus i, ij, iij, iv...
2) in lowercase roman numerals thus i, ij, iij, iiij...
3) in uppercase roman numerals thus I, II, III, IIII...
complete rewriting of the code
new documentation
many new macros to format roman numerals
two thirds of them are purely expandable
new options
but compatibility with the previous version
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http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/modroman/
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Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: montex
Version number: IVu.04.092
Author's name: Oliver Corff
Summary description: MonTeX provides Mongolian and Manju support for the TeX/LaTeX community.
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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Change language name for hyphenation patterns from mongolian to mongolianlmc that
needs to be updated simultaneously with hyph-utf8 and language.dat in TeX
distributions (the change will allow babel users to use T2A-encoded patterns).
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: xypdf
Version number: v1.2
Author's name: Daniel Müllner
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/xypdf/
Summary description: PDF output for the Xy-pic package
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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* No error message with the [color] and [all] options in Xy-pic
* Support for rotation and scaling.
* Improved precision and numerical stability in the curve
offset algorithm.
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This package is located at
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Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: currfile
Version number: v0.1
Author's name: Martin Scharrer
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/currfile
Summary description: Macros for file name and path of input files
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This package provides macros holding the file name
information (dir, base name, extension, full name and full
path) for
files read by LaTeX's input and include macros. It uses
the file hooks
provided by the 'filehook' package.
The package is similar to the 'fink' package, but uses a
different implementation (a stack) and takes care to restore
the parent file name after the trailing clearpage of an
include'd file. This allows the usage of the macros on the
page header and footer of the last page of such files.
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Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: filehook
Version number: v0.1
Author's name: Martin Scharrer
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/filehook
Summary description: Provides hooks for input files
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This package provides several file hooks (AtBegin, AtEnd,
...) for files read by input, include and
InputIfFileExists. General hooks for all such files (e.g.
all include'd ones) and file specific hooks only used for a
named files are provided.
Also two hooks are provided for the end of include'd files:
one before and one after the clearpage.
This hooks allows document and package author to execute
code before and after specific or all files.
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This package is located at
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Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: OCGtools
Version number: 0.6
Author's name: Robert Marik
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ocgtools
Summary description: hanlding PDF document's this.dirty
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This new version keeps PDF document's this.dirty and hence
the users of Adobe Acrobat are not bothered by the question
Save changes? if the user only opened/closed the layers
and related buttons and nothing else has been changed in
document.
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This package is located at
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Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: fancytooltips
Version number: 1.6
Author's name: Robert Marik
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/fancytooltips/
Summary description: Added new options and examples, expanded documentation
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The new version includes the following
* New options active and inactive allow to extract
labeled equations, figures and theorem-like environments and
put tooltips to the output of
ef and eqref commands. This
all is done automatically. (See the demo file
examples/fancy-preview/fancy-preview-demo.pdf and script
fancy-preview in the same directory.)
* Starred versions of ooltip and ooltipanim commands
(see the demo file above).
* Expanded documentation and new option for debug
debugging problems (see the file
fancytooltis-example-min-dvips.pdf in the examples directory).
* Handles PDF's this.dirty variable and the users of Adobe
Acrobat are not bothered by the questions about saving
changes.
* Created repository with forum for reporting problems and
with development version of the package at
http://bitbucket.org/robert.marik/fancytooltips . The
version from this repository is considered to be unstable,
the last stable version is always the version at CTAN.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/fancytooltips/
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On Wed, 7 Apr 2010, Josef Kleber submitted an update to the
installfont
package.
Summary description: A bash script for installing a LaTeX font family
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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With this script you can install a LaTeX font family
(Postscript Type1, Truetype, Opentype). At least the
four basic cuts + light + (faked) small caps + faked
slanted, but no expert fonts. The script will rename
the fonts automatically (optinal) or will otherwise
expect *.afm files and the font files (in Postscript
Type1 format!) named in the Karl Berry scheme
(e.g. 5bbr8a.pfb). After running the script, you should
have a working font installation in your local TeX tree.
License: LPPL
New in v1.4:
- added support for light font
- Bugfix: added Book as grep search pattern for
regular font
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/support/installfont
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
This should within a day be at your local mirror.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: jeopardy package
Version number: 1.1a
Author's name: Robert Marik
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/jeopardy/
Summary description: Redesigned examples to work in TeXlive 2009.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The demo files for Jeopardy package stopped to work under
TeXlive 2009 due to some conflict between packages used in
these files. This update of demo files solves the problem.
The pdfscreen.sty package has been replaced by web.sty
package. This solves also problems with pdfscreen, babel and
select@language command, which has been reported by some
users.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/jeopardy/
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Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: latexmk
Version number: 4.15
Author's name: John Collins
Location on CTAN: /
Summary description: Fully automated LaTeX document generation routine
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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1. Changes of default settings for running latex and
pdflatex with latexmk's -quiet option; they are now TeX-Live
compatible for all OSs.
2. Small improvements in diagnostics and error handling.
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This package is located at
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Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: prerex
Version number: 5.7
Author's name: Bob Tennent
Location on CTAN: /graphics/prerex
Summary description: macro support, editors and viewers for producing prerequisite charts
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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+ corrected coordinate calculations in the vprerex application
+ the delete command in the prerex editor can now do
multiple deletions
+ more detailed documentation
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/prerex
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i continue to make small updates of the faq, while pondering a new web
interface. today's release (some details below) contains a number of
minor improvements and extensions, and some corrections.
the web interface (such as it is) remains at http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq
Changes in version 3.19d
This file lists changes since its most recent release (version 3.19c).
New answers:
+Label plaintex: explains writing in tex, was part of Label whattex
Relabelled answers:
<none>
Revised answers:
+Label codelist: mention the minted package
+Label docs: single reference to epslatex (via catalogue)
+Label etex: add ctan link
+Label filesused: rewrite to clarify the issue with input
+Label luatex: now version 0.60.0
+Label fonts-pln: replace some complete gibberish (undoing mis-edits, I guess)
+Label parallel: mention the pdfcolparcolumns package
+Label seccntfmt: remove superfluous expandafter in programming, tidy text
+Label tabcellalign: editorial on PBS macro discussion
+Label texfuture: rehashed, in light of today's situation
+Label whattex: simplified by removal of material for Label plaintex
Deleted answers:
<none>
Web interface:
Extension of links to catalogue, to packages distributed as part of...
Abbreviate header text (omitting long list of helpers -- which will
ultimately be available in a separate file online)
Convert alphabetic SGML entities to use numeric equivalents
(stragglers are bound to show up, but most have gone)
Users may view the faq's catalogue entry at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/uk-tex-faq.html
or browse the faq directory at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/uk-tex-faq
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team