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Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: ERDC
Author's name: Boris Veytsman
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/erdc
Summary description: LaTeX Style For Technical Information Reports of the Engineer Research and Development Center, US Army Corps of Engineers
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This package provides class for typesetting Technical
Information
Reports of the Engineer Research and Development Center, US
Army Corps
of Engineers.
The class was commissioned and paid for by US Army Corps of
Engineers,
Engineer Research and Development Center, 3909 Halls Ferry Road,
Vicksburg, MS 39180-6199.
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Saint Michael's College
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Name of contribution: ESTCPMM
Author's name: Boris Veytsman
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/estcpmm
Summary description: LaTeX Style For Munitions Management Project Reports,
Environmental Security Technology Certification Program, 2008/12/09 v0.2
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Typesetting Cost & Performance Reports and Final Reports for
Munitions
Management Reports, US Environmental Security Technology
Certification
Program.
The class was commissioned and paid for by US Army Corps of
Engineers,
Engineer Research and Development Center, 3909 Halls Ferry Road,
Vicksburg, MS 39180-6199.
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Name of contribution: biblatex-chicago-notes-df
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 version (0.8.9) introduces a new default way of loading
the package, using usepackage{biblatex-chicago} instead of
usepackage{biblatex}, an interface that should be simpler
for those who want the standard settings, and more flexible
for those who don't. I've also added new entry types and
new package options, as well as fixing a number of bugs.
Please see the docs for all the details of these and other
changes.
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Name of contribution: Asymptote
Author's name: Andy Hammerlindl and John Bowman
Location on CTAN: /
Summary description: 2D & 3D TeX-Aware Vector Graphics Language
License type: lgpl
Announcement text:
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The perp vector calculation in the solids module was fixed.
A bug in the
mouse motion functions was fixed. A pan action (which
differs from shift
due to perspective distortion) was added to the OpenGl renderer;
the Camera (c) menu item now outputs all camera settings.
The default right
mouse button mouse binding was changed from zoom/menu to
zoom.
User-initiated exports no longer cause the renderer to quit.
Dynamic time stepping was fixed in the ode module; the
integrate
routines now return the array of computed values. Operators
== and != were
added for all built-in arithmetic 2D arrays; a segmentation
fault was
fixed. The etc/fstab kludge for Cygwin 1.7 was removed. The
configuration
directory under TeXLive is now $TEXMFCONFIG/asymptote.
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Name of contribution: asyfig
Author's name: Will Robertson
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/asyfig
Summary description: External Asymptote graphics
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Bug fix for the most recent version of Asymptote. The code
was sitting on my machine for some time, and I neglected to
update my installation of Asymptote for testing before
releasing this package. Thanks to Ricard Torres for alerting
me to the fault.
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Name of contribution: pstdoc
Author's name: Michael Sharpe
Location on CTAN: /info/pstdoc
Summary description: Help script for pstricks
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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SQLite database and Python script that provides extensive help with
PSTricks commands from a Terminal window. Eg pstdoc psarc
gives the syntax os psarc and all associated keywords, with short
definitions. Works well on Mac. OK on Win, should work with Linux.
The database covers pstricks, pst-plot, pst-node, pst-text, pstricks-add,
pst-3dplot and related packages.
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in the depths of the server, something stirred, and wrote:
> ======================================================================
>
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: achemso
> Author's name: Joseph Wright
> Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/achemso
> Summary description: Support for submissions to American Chemical Society journals
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> v3.2c:
> - Added phone and fax macros
> - Better handling of footnotes in title/author list
> - Various bug fixes
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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/achemso.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive//macros/latex/contrib/achemso
(the catalogue entry will change, almost imperceptibly, overnight
tonight.)
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
From: Jerzy B. Ludwichowski
Subject: URW++ making original 35 fonts available under LPPL
I am forwarding the message below on behalf of Peter Rosenfeld, Managing
Director of URW++, who has kindly agreed to make the basic 35 PostScript
fonts also available under the LPPL. At his request, I'll be
disseminating the information throughout the TeX community.
Many thanks to Dr. Rosenfeld!
Many thanks are also due to Karl Berry, TUG President, for his unswerving
support and advice and Bogus{}aw Jackowski, lead TeX Gyre developer,
for pushing the issue.
Best,
Jerzy
...............................................................
From: Peter Rosenfeld
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:33:29 +0200
Subject: URW++ original 35 fonts available under LPPL
To whom it may concern,
Many years ago, URW++ Design and Development Inc. released their
Type 1 implementations of the basic 35 PostScript fonts under the
GNU General Public License and the Aladdin Ghostscript Free Public
License.
We now additionally release them under the LaTeX Project Public License
(http://www.latex-project.org/lppl), either version 1 or (at your
option) any later version.
Of course, this additional licensing applies to the original URW++
material, not any subsequent changes and additions made by other
parties.
The original font files are widely available, for instance as part of
the Ghostscript 4.00 release, and therefore we are not releasing any new
font files. Those interested can replace the license terms in those
original files accordingly. Responsibility for ensuring that no
material is incorrectly licensed remains with the distributor, as
always.
We hope this additional licensing will make our fonts even more widely
available and usable in the free software community, such as the TeX
Gyre Project.
Sincerely,
Peter Rosenfeld (Managing Director, URW++)
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Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: The CodeDoc class
Author's name: Paul Isambert
Location on CTAN: /
Summary description: LaTeX code and documentation in LaTeX-format file.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Bugfix release:
ef in the (unmodified) code
environment and input in produce mode work properly.
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Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: recycle
Author's name: Ian Green, Scott Pakin
Location on CTAN: /fonts/recycle
Summary description: A font providing the recyclable logo
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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As Ian Green's recycle.readme states, recycle.mf is awful code and
doesn't even put the logo in a box (properly). In practical terms,
this means that recycle.mf produces a number of Metafont Inconsistent
equation errors, which break many of the scripts that process
Metafont fonts. Fortunately, running Metafont manually and forcing it
to ignore errors does seem to produce valid output.
To ease the pain of using the recycling symbol in (La)TeX documents
and to enable the recycling symbol to look good at arbitrary scale I
hereby provide recycle.pfb, a PostScript Type 1 version of recycle.mf.
recycle.pfb was produced by running recycle.mf through mf2pt1 and
tweaking the resulting Type 1 font in FontForge to relocate a few
control points to integral coordinates and to remove a
self-intersecting path.
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On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Mojca Miklavec and Arthur Reutenauer submitted an update to
the
hyph-utf8
package.
Modern native UTF-8 engines such as XeTeX and LuaTeX need hyphenation patterns
in UTF-8 format, whereas older systems require hyphenation patterns in the 8-bit
encoding of the font in use (such encodings are codified in the LaTeX scheme
with names like OT1, T2A, TS1, OML, LY1, etc).
The present package offers a collection of conversions of existing patterns to
UTF-8 format, together with converters for use with 8-bit fonts in older
systems. Since hyphenation patterns for TeX are only read at iniTeX time, it is
hoped that the UTF-8 patterns, with their converters, will completely supplant
the older patterns.
Location on CTAN: /language/hyph-utf8/
Summary description: UTF-8 hyphenation patterns
License type: other-free
Announcement text:
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Synchronize changes from dehyph-exptl v0.20:
- improvements in hyph-de-1901.tex, hyph-de-1996.tex
- added Swiss-German patterns with traditional ortography
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/language/hyph-utf8/
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On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, Stephan Hennig submitted an update to the
dehyph-exptl
package.
Location on CTAN: /language/hyphenation/dehyph-exptl
Summary description: experimental hyphenation patterns for the German language
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This package provides experimental hyphenation patterns for
the German language, covering traditional and reformed
orthography for several varieties of Standard German. The
patterns can be used with packages Babel and hyphsubst from
the Oberdiek bundle.
Dieses Paket enthaelt experimentelle Trennmuster fuer die
deutsche Sprache. Die Trennmuster decken das in
Deutschland, Oesterreich und der Schweiz gebraeuchliche
Standarddeutsch in der traditionellen und reformierten
Rechtschreibung ab und koennen mit den Paketen Babel und
hyphsubst aus dem Oberdiek-Buendel verwendet werden.
2009-06-24: v0.20
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Aenderungen:
* allgemein:
** Die Trennung von Zahlwoertern wurde verbessert.
** Die roemischen Zahlen bis MMD (2500) werden nicht getrennt.
** Viele zusaetzliche irrefuehrende Trennungen werden vermieden.
** Viele Fehler in der Wortdatenbank wurden korrigiert.
** Die Dokumentation wurde erweitert.
* dehypht-x (traditionelle Rechtschreibung, Deutschland, Oesterreich):
Der Ersatz ss fuer ß wird beruecksichtigt und wie bei der Schreibung
mit ß getrennt. Das Babelkuerzel S muss damit in Versalwoertern
nur noch in Ausnahmefaellen verwendet werden (siehe auch Regel T2
in der Paketdokumentation).
* dehyphts-x (traditionelle Rechtschreibung, Schweiz):
Es werden neue Trennmuster fuer die traditionelle Rechtschreibung
des Schweizer Standarddeutschs angeboten. Die Trennmuster
unterscheiden sich von denen fuer die traditionelle Rechtschreibung
des Standarddeutschs Deutschlands und Oesterreichs (dehypht-x) in
der Trennung von ss als Ersatz fuer ß. Babelunterstuetzung fuer
diese Trennmuster fehlt bisher jedoch. Wer machts?
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Rainer Schöpf
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, James Clawson submitted an update to the
biblatex-mla
package.
The package provides biblatex support for citations in the format specified by
the MLA.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Version 0.7 of biblatex-mla allows for compatibility with
the latest version of biblatex (o.8d), fixes other problems,
and adds many new features, including the following:
- package option mladraft
- entry options totalnames and uniquetranslator
- support for entry types @suppbook and @suppcollection
- support for reprints and translations
- improved localization for non-American (and American) users
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local
mirror.
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: Asymptote
Author's name: Andy Hammerlindl and John Bowman
Location on CTAN: /
Summary description: 2D & 3D TeX-Aware Vector Graphics Language
License type: lgpl
Announcement text:
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Thread locking issues were fixed. The linegranularity is now
respected when
drawing thick curved lines. A bug in FSAL ODE integrators
when using a
fixed time step was fixed. Missing miterlimit defaults were
added.
Xasy was updated to use Python 2.6.2 and Imaging-1.1.7b1
(which requires no
alpha support patches). Obsolete patches were removed. More
TeXLive build
issues were addressed: the install-prebuilt target omits
texhash and does
not attempt to install PNG files for asymptote.info. A
configuration
problem with --disable-gc was fixed. The 3D mouse bindings
are now
customizable. Support was added for generating syntax
highlighting for the KDE
editor Kate.
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Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: luaotfload
Author's name: Elie Roux
Location on CTAN: /macros/luatex/generic/luaotfload/
Summary description: ConTeXt font loading system for Plain and LaTeX
License type: other-free
Announcement text:
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This is an update for luaotfload. It syncronises it with a
recent ConTeXt version : more features, less bugs.
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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
Author's name: John Collins
Location on CTAN: /support/latexmk
Summary description: Fully automated LaTeX document generation routine V. 4.08
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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This version corrects problem caused by MikTeX 2.7 writing
log files containing binary characters, including ctrl/Z.
When latexmk reads the log file to get dependency
information, a ctrl/Z causes a premature end-of-file
condition. On MS-Win, latexmk now reads the log file in
binary mode.
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1. i recently realised that our mirror of macros/plain/base wasn't
delivering the correct stuff (don's latest updates went into
systems/knuth/dist/lib and not to the canonical place on ctan for the
files).
i've therefore corrected that; macros/plain/base now contains don's
latest release.
see http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/plain.html
2. version 3.0 of the amsfonts bundle has been released. this includes
revised versions of the ams fonts, and an update of the long-
established y&y and blue sky research versions of the computer modern
fonts (for which the ams holds the copyright).
note that rather little of the amsfonts documentation has been updated
for the new version; the ams are working on that.
see http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/amsfonts.html
that's quite enough excitement for one day. now i'll get back to _real_
work.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Luis Randez submitted an update to the
tdclock
package.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/tdclock
Summary description: A ticking digital clock package to be used in Pdf-LaTeX documents, for example in presentations.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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New version of tdclock package with additional features has been released
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http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/tdclock/
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_______________________________________________
Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
This package is new at tug.ctan.org, but is an update of materials that were
previously available from cstug. It should soon be at your local mirror.
Thanks again,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: ELTEX
Author's name: Libor Gajdosik
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/eltex
Summary description: latex macro for drawing the simple electrical circuit diagrams
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This macro enables you to draw simple electrical circuit
diagrams in the picture environment withouth any special
fonts. The application of this macro for drawing is
proper for school materials in education area. The
circuit symbols are accordingly the IEC 617 standard. No
special requirements to hardware or installation. It
runs in latex2.09 or latex2e.
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http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/eltex
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http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/eltex
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Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: asyfig
Author's name: Will Robertson
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/asyfig
Summary description: Standalone Asymptote files for LaTeX inclusion
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This package hacks support for including standalone .asy
figures into LaTeX documents. (See the Asymptote drawing
language.) This allows figures to be rapidly proofed before
re-typesetting the document.
This is the first CTAN release after some time of private
use, and has not been widely tested.
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http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/asyfig
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On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 Olga Lapko submitted an update to the
floatrow
package.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/floatrow
Summary description: Modifying the layout of floats.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The floatrow package provides many ways to customize layouts of
floating environments and has code cooperation with caption 3.x
package. Package offers possibilities to put floats side by
side, to put caption beside float. The floatrow settings could
be expanded to the floats created by packages rotating, wrapfig,
subfig (in the case of rows of subfloats), and longtable.
Changes:
Bug fixes.
Documentation was extended by examples.
Fixed code for settings for common height for the photos in the row.
Frame(plate) settings for full row -- allow to put material
accordingly to frame corners.
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http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/floatrow
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_______________________________________________
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For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
This package is new at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local mirror.
Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: getfiledate
Author's name: Ahmed Musa
Location on CTAN: /
Summary description: Fetches and formats the date of last modification of
any resident file.
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The package fetches from the system the date of last
modification or opening of a resident file. It is based
on an idea by Heiko Oberdiek that appeared in February
2009 on the TeX newsgroup website comp.text.tex, ie,
using the pdffilemoddate command of pdfTeX. A user-
friendly interface is provided for obtaining and
presenting the needed filedate in several formats.
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http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/getfiledate
. More information is at
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Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: xwatermark
Author's name: Ahmed Musa
Location on CTAN: /
Summary description: Upgrade of xwatermark package to address some of the issues
raised by users.
License type: nocommercial
Announcement text:
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The package puts user-specified watermarks (graphics and
arbitrary texts) on select pages of documents. The user
can specify the watermark and color, the watermark
position and orientation, the page(s) (all pages, odd
pages, even pages, a particular page number, and a range
of pages) on which the watermark should appear, and all
the options are passed directly to package instead of
being defined by macros. It extends the functionality of
the 'draftmark' package to permit the direct use of
graphic watermarks.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xwatermark
. More information is at
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the snitchy little upload daemon whispered in my ear:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: Getting up and running with AMS-LaTeX, Version 2.1
> Author's name: Philip S. Hirschhorn
> Location on CTAN: tex-archive/info/amslatex/primer/
> Summary description: A primer on using AMS-LaTeX
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This is version 2.1 of Getting up and running with AMS-LaTeX
> (contained in the file amshelp.tex), and its template file
> template.tex.
>
> This is an attempt to get you up and running with AmS-LaTeX as quickly
> as possible. These instructions (along with the template file
> template.tex) won't be a substitute for the full documentation, but
> they may get you started quickly enough so that you'll only need to
> refer to the main documentation occasionally.
>
> The major additions in this version are:
>
> 1. A new section describing how to draw commutative diagrams using Xy-pic.
>
> 2. A new section describing how to use amsrefs to create a bibliography.
>
> 3. An expanded description of the environments for displayed mathematics.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/amslatex-primer.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/tex-archive/info/amslatex/primer/
i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository.
one small -- but important -- change to the catalogue entry (removing
the last paragraph of the description) was not committed last night, so
the web page will change again overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team