the daemon sleeps ... and then awakes while _i_ sleep:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: tocvsec2
> Author's name: Will Robertson
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/tocvsec2
> Summary description: Section numbering and table of contents control
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Bug fix that removes occasional extraneous vertical space before section
> headings. This will unfortunately change, perhaps, the output of some old
> documents that use this package, but that's the sad price that must be paid for
> the existence of a bug.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/tocvsec2.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/tocvsec2
the eagle-eyed (who have never looked before) will notice minuscule
change in the catalogue entry.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
This should be at your local mirror within a day.
Thanks again,
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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Name of contribution: lua-alt-getopt
Version number: 0.7.0
Author's name: Khaled Hosny
Summary description: A lua module for processing application's arguments the same way
BSD/GNU getopt_long(3) functions do.
License type: other-free
Announcement text:
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lua_altgetopt is a MIT-licenced module for Lua programming
language for processing application's arguments the same way
BSD/GNU getopt_long(3) functions do.
This module is made available for lua script writers to have
consistent command line parsing routines.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/luatex/generic/lua-altgetopt
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/lua-alt-getopt
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Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
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Thanks again,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: Knitting Pattern class
Version number: 1
Author's name: Hugh Griffiths
Summary description: LaTeX class for formatting knitting patterns
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This class aims to provide a simple, effective method for
knitters to produce high-quality, attractive patterns using
LaTeX. It does this by providing commands to handle as much
of the layout of the document as possible, leaving the
author free to concentrate on the pattern.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/knittingpattern
. More information is at
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------------------------- Announcement -------------------------
I'm happy to announce release 3.4 of Eplain, a set of TeX macros that
expands on and extends the definitions in plain TeX in a
style-neutral fashion. Eplain's home page is
http://tug.org/eplain
You can get it off CTAN at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/eplain
The manual is available on-line from CTAN or Eplain home page, or as a
hard-copy from
http://www.lulu.com/content/113810
(royalties are donated to the TeX Users Group).
Here's an excerpt from the NEWS file.
* Eplain repository moved from cvs.sarovar.org:/cvsroot/eplain to
svn://tug.org/eplain/trunk.
* Changed ProcessOptions from miniltx.tex to gobble the optional star
argument, to accommodate the new version of epstopdf.sty.
Thanks to everybody who contributed with bug reports, feature
suggestions and code patches.
Oleg Katsitadze
Herbert Voss wrote:
> I uploaded pst-gantt.tgz to the uk CTAN node.
> Please replace the files with the ones in the
> directory
> /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-gantt/
>
> pst-gantt is a PSTricks related package for
> drawing Gantt charts, which is a type of bar chart
> that illustrates a project schedule.
>
> v0.21 2010-02-23 - add optional arguments
> ChartModulo and ChartModuloValue
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new files and updated the
catalogue repository.
Users may view the package's catalogue entry at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/pst-gantt.html
or browse the package's directory at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-gantt/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
This should be at your local mirror within a day.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: pst-jtree
Version number: 2.5
Author's name: John Frampton
Location on CTAN: /graphics/pstricks/contrib
Summary description: fixes bug revealed by new version (2.01) of pstricks
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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New error checking by pstricks revealed an error in one of
the examples in pst-jtree-examples.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib
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Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: pst-asr
Version number: 1.3
Author's name: John Frampton
Location on CTAN: /graphics/pstricks/contrib
Summary description: bug fix
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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fixes compatibility issue with new version (2.01) pstricks
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib
. More information is at
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after my days of doing nothing but adding documentation to the archive,
suddenly the daemon says:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: siunitx
> Author's name: Joseph Wright
> Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/siunitx
> Summary description: A comprehensive (SI) units package
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> v1.4c:
> - Fix issue with cmbright package
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
thanks for the upload. i've installed the files, and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/siunitx.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive//macros/latex/contrib/siunitx
the catalogue entry will chance (almost imperceptibly) overnight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Sun, 21 Feb 2010, Ralf Angeli submitted an update to the
preview
package.
Summary description: Extract bits of a LaTeX source as graphics
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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The main purpose of the preview package is the extraction of selected
elements from a LaTeX source, like formulas or images, into separate
pages of a DVI file. This works with DVI files postprocessed by
either Dvips and Ghostscript or dvipng, but it also works when you are
using PDFTeX for generating PDF files.
Current uses of the package include the preview-latex package for
WYSIWYG functionality in the AUCTeX editing environment, generation of
previews in LyX, as part of the operation of the ps4pdf package, the
tbook XML system and some other tools.
The preview package is being developed along and distributed with
preview-latex. With the integration of preview-latex into AUCTeX as
of version 11.81, the preview package became part of AUCTeX as well.
It can therefore be obtained as part of AUCTeX distribution files
available at <URL:ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/auctex/>. CTAN provides
the standalone preview package at
<CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/preview>.
For more information about the preview package please refer to the
home page of AUCTeX at
<URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/>.
Version 11.86 of the preview package adds support for XeTeX.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/preview/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=preview
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appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
_______________________________________________
Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
This should be at your local mirror within a day.
Jim
.......................................................................
The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: luaotfload
Version number: 1.06b
Author's name: Elie Roux
Location on CTAN: /macros/luatex/generic/luaotfload/
Summary description: ConTeXt OTF loading system for Plain and LaTeX.
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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Fixing feature file loading.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/luatex/generic/luaotfload/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/luaotfload
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appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
This should be at your local mirror within a day.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: The memoir class
Version number: v1.618033988c
Author's name: Lars Madsen
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/memoir
Summary description: The memoir class for configurable typesetting
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Fixes a sporadic space in the regular footnote command
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memoir
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/memoir
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appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
This should be at your local mirror in a day or so.
Thanks again
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: footbib
Version number: 2.0.7
Author's name: Eric Domenjoud
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/footbib
Summary description: Bibliographic references as footnotes.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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A bug in earlier versions could make the references appear
on the wrong page. Also the package became incompatible with
the output routine of LaTeX. This version corrects both
these problems.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/footbib
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/footbib
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Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
This update should within a day be at your local mirror.
Thanks again,
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
.....................................................................................
The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: Eukleides
Version number: 1.5.1
Author's name: Christian Obrecht
Location on CTAN: /support/eukleides
Summary description: A geometry drawing system
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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Eukleides 1.5 is a complete rewrite of the interpreter based
on an enhanced version of the language. It offers better
integration with LaTeX than version 1.0, since figures may
now be included in the 'eukleides' environment.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/eukleides
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/eukleides
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Herbert Voss wrote:
> I uploaded pst-3dplot.tgz to the uk CTAN node. Please replace
> all files in the directory with the new ones
>
> /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-3dplot/
>
> pst-3dplot is a PSTricks related package for drawing
> 3D objects in parallel projection.
>
> pst-3dplot.tex --------
> 1.90 2010-02-18 - enable the comma option
> - fix bug with tx@addDict for the AlgParser
thanks for the upload; i have 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-3dplot.html
or browse the package's directory at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-3dplot/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
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: TeXShop
Version number: 2.31
Author's name: Richard Koch
Location on CTAN: /support/texshop
Summary description: TeX front end for use on MacOS X.
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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See www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop for list of changes.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/texshop
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/texshop
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appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
This update should be at your local mirror within a day.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: The Memoir class
Version number: v1.618033988b
Author's name: Lars Madsen (memoir maintainer)
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/memoir/
Summary description: The memoir class for configurable typesetting
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Fixed bug in v1.618033988 og 2010/02/16 that broke
feetbelowfloats
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memoir/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/memoir
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to
appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
This update should be at your local mirror within a day.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: engtlc
Version number: 2.0
Author's name: Claudio Fiandrino
Summary description: Support for users in Telecommunications Engineering
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The package provides a wide range of abbreviations for terms
used in Telecommunications Engineering.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/engtlc
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/engtlc
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On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, Francois Charette submitted an update to the
biber
package.
Biber is a BibTeX replacement for users of biblatex, with full Unicode support,
written in Perl. This release coincides with the release of biblatex 0.9. This
version of Biber was in fact specifically developed for that version of biblatex
0.9. See the accompanying README file for requirements and installation
instruction.
Location on CTAN: /biblio/biber
License type: artistic
Announcement text:
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Bugfix release.
* Removed support for legacy biblatex control files
(jobname-blx.bib): Biber now only reads .bcf files which
are generated by biblatex with the option backend=biber.
* Improved handling of uniquename and namehash.
* Don't escape LaTeX special chars in bbl output, as it
breaks math formatting.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/biblio/biber
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=biber
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Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
_______________________________________________
Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
This should be at your local mirror within a day.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: biblatex-chicago-notes-df
Version number: 0.8.9d
Author's name: David Fussner
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib
Summary description: Chicago notes + bibliography style files for biblatex
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This interim release fixes a few minor formatting bugs in version
0.8.9c, and will be the last release in the 0.8.9 series. It is _not_
intended for use with the latest version of biblatex (0.9), recently
released, but rather as a final clean-up for users of 0.8i. As soon
as possible I shall provide a new version of
biblatex-chicago-notes-df which is both compatible with
biblatex 0.9 and which contains many other enhancements in
functionality.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblate…
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/biblatex-chicago-notes-df
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Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
This should be at your local mirror within a day.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: style_showcase
Version number: 1
Author's name: Jim Hefferon
Location on CTAN: /support/style_showcase
Summary description: Build a web page to compare LaTeX styles
License type: pd
Announcement text:
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The style_showcase helps you make a web page that allows
visitors to compare a number of article styles.
A sample draft is at http://www.ctan.org/style_showcase .
The script style_showcase.py will build a sample LaTeX
source file using the given style, create the .pdf, and
convert the result to small and regular-sized .png graphics.
Then you can incorporate those in the .html file.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/style_showcase
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/style_showcase
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Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
This should within a day be at your local mirror.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's Colege
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: The Memoir class
Version number: v1.618033988
Author's name: Lars Madsen (memoir maintainer)
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/memoir/
Summary description: The memoir class for configurable typesetting
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Some bug fixes and new additions, see the README for details.
Some of the new things:
* bottom aligned side footnotes
* swicth to make footnote internally use marginpar to
write the footnote in the margin
* common interface for specifying which margin each of the
four memoir margin writing macros should write to
* sidepar and sidebar have been changed such that their
contents is typeset flush against the text block (can easily
be removed again)
* added an appendix about the picture environment
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memoir/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/memoir
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appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
hot on the heels of biblatex-chem (but not hot enough that i didn't get
distracted), the daemon reported:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: biblatex-nature
> Author's name: Joseph Wright
> Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-nature
> Summary description: biblatex style for Nature
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> v0.9:
> - Update to match biblatex v0.9
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/biblatex-nature.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive//macros/latex/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-na…
the catalogue entry on the web will twitch slightly, overnight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
quoth the daemon, as i was on my way to work:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: biblatex-chem
> Author's name: Joseph Wright
> Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-chem
> Summary description: biblatex styles for chemistry
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> v0.9:
> - Update to work with biblatex v0.9
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
i have installed the new version and updated the catalogue repository;
thanks for the upload.
note to all readers: joseph wins the honour of being first to update his
contributed package to deal with biblatex 0.9!
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/biblatex-chem.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive//macros/latex/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-ch…
and, of course, the catalogue entry on the web will twitch slightly,
overnight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the daemon's popular, recently. this morning, it said:
> ======================================================================
>
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: bigints
> Author's name: Merciadri Luca
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/
> Summary description: Writing big integrals when needed
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This package helps you to write big integrals when needed. For
> example, you may want to write standard integrals before a matrix, but
> if you find them too small, you can use bigger integrals thanks to
> this package.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
thanks for the upload; i've installed the package and made an entry in
the catalogue repository for it.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/bigints.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/bigints/
that catalogue entry won't appear at all until some time tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 Josef Kleber submitted an update to the
installfont
package.
Location on CTAN: /support/installfont
Summary description: A bash script for installing a Postscript Type1 font family.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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With this script you can install a Postscript Type1 font family (at least the four
basic cuts + (faked) small caps + faked slanted, but no expert fonts) for using
it with LaTeX (MiKTeX). The script will rename the fonts automatically (optinal)
or will otherwise expect the *.pfb and *.afm files named in the Karl Berry scheme
(e.g. 5bbr8a.pfb). Just adapt the script variables to your fonts and directories.
After running it, you should have a working font installation in your local TeX tree.
License: LPPL
New in v1.2:
- added the options scaled and leading to the created style file to scale the font
for better matching with other fonts and to increase the leading between lines
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/support/installfont
. More information is at
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appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
_______________________________________________
Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf