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CTAN update: BibTeX documentation and FAQ
by CTAN Announcements 11 Jan '07

11 Jan '07

The material below has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College .................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: BibTeX documentation and FAQ Author's name: Michael Shell Location on CTAN: /biblio/bibtex/contrib/doc/ Summary description: The standard BibTeX documentation and a FAQ in PDF format. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I am pleased to announce the release of a new BibTeX Tips and FAQ document on CTAN: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/doc/ (as btxFAQ.pdf). Originally based on a 1998 post to comp.text.tex, Do we need a BibTeX FAQ? by David Hoadley, I've added a lot of material to cover the types of problems most frequently encountered by BibTeX users. The BibTeX Tips and FAQ is not intended to replace the existing BibTeX literature, but rather to complement them: 1. Oren Patashnik's BibTeXing 2. Nicolas Markey's Tame the BeaST --- The B to X of BibTeX 3. Ki-Joo Kim's A BibTeX Guide via Examples 4. Robin Fairbairns' The TeX FAQ 5. Helge Kreutzmann's How to Efficiently Use BibTeX and to help direct readers to these other sources of information for a more in depth treatment of the topics at hand. I sincerely hope that BibTeX users will find it to be of help. Enjoy! Michael Shell ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This material is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/doc/ . We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN has a new package: binomexp
by CTAN Announcements 11 Jan '07

11 Jan '07

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College .................................................................. Name of contribution: binomexp Author's name: David Roderick Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/binomexp Summary description: put rows of Pascal's triangle and proof License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Put the rows of Pascal's triangle and proof. Even a beginner can write a package in 3 weeks with comp.text.tex ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/binomexp . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=binomexp (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 .

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CTAN package update: JustFontIt TeX Edition v1.1.
by CTAN Announcements 11 Jan '07

11 Jan '07

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to the mirror that you like th best. Jim Hefferon Saine Michael's College ................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: JustFontIt TeX Edition v1.1. Author's name: Alexei V. Kostin Location on CTAN: /fonts/utilities/JustFontItTE Summary description: Font utility to generate TeX metric files License type: other Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- News: JustFontIt TeX Edition v1.1 Beta 1 for Linux is available Additional validity tests for OpenType/TrueType fonts, minor bug fixes ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/utilities/JustFontItTE . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=JustFontItTE 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 .

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CTAN package update: IEEEtran/testflow
by CTAN Announcements 10 Jan '07

10 Jan '07

The material described below has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Update to Testflow Author's name: Michael Shell Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/IEEEtran/testflow/ Summary description: A diagnostic test page for PS/PDF output of LaTeX. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I am pleased to announce the release of an update to the testflow test page for checking PS/PDF output from LaTeX. The changes in version 1.1 include: 1. Updated documentation (now in PDF form) to cover the newer LaTeX systems. 2. New duplex test to check front/back page alignment of duplex printers. 3. New Palladio hinting test. See the testflow_doc.pdf file for complete documentation. Testflow is available at CTAN: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/IEEEtran/testflow/ I am also pleased to announce the creation of support pages for testflow at my website: http://www.michaelshell.org/tex/testflow/ where latest news, helpful tips, answers to frequently asked questions, beta releases and/or other support can be found. Enjoy! Michael Shell ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This material is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/IEEEtran/testflow/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=IEEEtran (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 .

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CTAN package update; minitoc upgrade to version 51.
by CTAN Announcements 09 Jan '07

09 Jan '07

Jean-Pierre Drucbert wrote: > Dear CTAN administrators, > > Happy new year 2007. and to you! (and to all our readers...) > I have uploaded a new version (#51) of the minitoc package in > the /incoming directory of ftp.tex.ac.uk . The file is named > > minitoc.zip (10372726 bytes) > > This package should completely replace its previous version in > > tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/minitoc/ > > The licence is LPPL. > > This package allows the creation of mini-tables of contents, > lists of figures or lists of tables per part, chapter or > section, with language dependent titles. > > This new version has the following changes or improvements: > > _______________________________________________________________________ > Minitoc version #51 > -- Improving the index: packages and classes, scripts, tools, > names, examples, extensions, options, language options, > environments (not perfect), files, counters and depth counters. > -- Updated some .mld files with names of the authors of titles. > -- Miscellaneous corrections. > -- The names of some internal macros are shortened to fit into the > margin. > -- Added a ProvidesFile command to the example files. > -- Renamed the file ``catalog'' into ``CATALOG''. > -- The example files are in their own directory in the (proposed) > TDS hierarchy. > _______________________________________________________________________ > > The administravive trivia are in the `CATALOG' file in the > distribution. > > Note that the documentation is mainly available in PDF form, > -- in english (not perfect): minitoc.pdf > -- in french: fminitoc.pdf > > The INSTALL file (and, better, the ``Installation'' chapter in the > documentation) describes the files of this package (the list > of files is in minitoc.l). i have installed the update as requested. users may browse the (rather large) directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/minitoc/ or view the catalogue file: http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/minitoc.html thanks for the upload Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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New CTAN package -- titlepages.pdf
by Robin Fairbairns 09 Jan '07

09 Jan '07

Peter Wilson wrote: > I have uploaded a new version of titlepages.pdf to UK incoming. Please > use this to replace the (unannounced) /info/latex-samples/titlepages.pdf. > The document is under the Open Publication License with options A and B. > > For the Catalogue > The document provides examples of over two dozen title page designs > based on a range of published books and theses together with the LaTeX code > used to create them. i have installed the package as requested[*]. users may view the document direct at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/latex-samples/titlepages.pdf or (for whatever reason) browse the catalogue page http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/titlepages.html thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team [*] note, there was an earlier version, which was not announced, due to confusion (on my part) about its licence.

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CTAN has new packages: pdfcolfoot v1.0, transparent v1.0
by CTAN Announcements 09 Jan '07

09 Jan '07

On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Heiko Oberdiek submitted an update of the oberdiek bundle. Loation on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek License: LPPL New packages: > * pdfcolfoot v1.0 > Since version 1.40 pdfTeX supports several color stacks. This > package uses a separate color stack for footnotes that can break > across pages. > > * transparent v1.0 > Since version 1.40 pdfTeX supports several color stacks. This > package shows, how a separate color stack can be used for transparency. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This bundle is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=oberdiek (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 . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: numprint
by CTAN Announcements 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Harald Harders submitted a new version of the numprint package. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/numprint License: LPPL > Changes: > > 2007/01/08 v1.37 Harald Harders > - Add an own separator for degree centigrade. > - Use separator for percent also for permil. > - Change thousand separator for Portuguese from , to .. > - Add support for French. Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: pdftex 1.40.1
by CTAN Announcements 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

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CTAN has a new package: philokalia
by CTAN Announcements 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

On Sun, 7 Jan 2007, Apostolos Syropoulos submitted a new package philokalia for typesetting the Philokalia Books to CTAN. The philokalia package has been designed to ease the use of the Philokalia-Regular OpenType font with XeLaTeX. It contains an OpenType font and an accompanying XeLaTeX package. The font started as a project to digitize the typeface used to typeset the Philokalia books. See http://orthodoxwiki.org/Philokalia ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/philokalia . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=philokalia (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 . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: pdftex.def v0.04d
by CTAN Announcements 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Heiko Oberdiek submitted a new version of the pdftex.def file. Location on CTAN: graphics/pdftex/pdftex.def License: LPPL Changes: * Support for JBIG2 added (pdfTeX 1.40.0). * Bug fix: .mps forgotten for extension list if pdfTeX >= 1.40.0 * .jbig2 and .jb2 are not listed in the extension list if pdfminorversion < 4. Thus pdfminorversion should have the correct value, if pdftex.def is loaded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pdftex/pdftex.def . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=pdftex-def (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 . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: The caption package v3.0k
by CTAN Announcements 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

On Sun, 7 Jan 2007, Axel Sommerfeldt submitted an update to the caption package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/caption/ License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The caption package provides many ways to customise the captions in floating environments like figure and table and cooperates with many other packages. This is a bugfix release of the caption package 3.0: - The usage of setspace was fixed in documentation - AtBeginEnvironment added to caption kernel - subref will be made robust (See changelog for details.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/caption/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=caption (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 . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: mathscinet
by CTAN Announcements 06 Jan '07

06 Jan '07

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: mathscinet Author's name: Michael Tweedale Location on CTAN: /biblio/bibtex/utils/mathscinet Summary description: Gets references from MathSciNet in bibtex format. License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A Perl script that downloads references from MathSciNet in bibtex format. Works with the recently redesigned MathSciNet site. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/mathscinet . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=mathscinet (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 .

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CTAN package update: biblatex 0.6
by CTAN Announcements 06 Jan '07

06 Jan '07

Philipp Lehman wrote: > I've uploaded `biblatex.tar.gz' to the incoming directory of the UK > node. This is an update for macros/latex/exptl/biblatex. Please > purge the old files, install the new ones, and announce the upload as > usual. > > Thank you very much. > > RELEASE NOTES > > See the file `RELEASE' for release notes. (see below for changes) I have installed this new version, as suggested by Philipp, on the LaTeX experimental tree on CTAN -- macros/latex/exptl/biblatex users may browse the package via its catalogue entry http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/biblatex.html or direct on CTAN via http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex/ Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team addendum: CHANGES > * Added package option 'sorting=none' > * Renamed package option 'block=penalty' to 'block=ragged' > * Changed data type of 'origlanguage' back to field > * Support 'origlanguage' field if 'translator' is present > * Renamed field 'articleid' to 'id' > * Support 'id' field in 'article' entries > * Support 'series' field in 'article' entries > * Support 'doi' field > * Updated documentation of all entry types > * Updated documentation of field 'series' > * Added field 'redactor' > * Added field 'shortauthor' > * Added field 'shorteditor' > * Improved support for corporate authors and editors > * Updated documentation of field 'labelname' > * Added field alias 'key' > * Added package option 'autocite' > * Added package option 'autopunct' > * Added citation command autocite > * Added command DeclareAutoCiteCommand > * Added command DeclareAutoPunctuation > * Added option 'filter' to printbibliography > * Added command defbibfilter > * Added package option 'maxitems' > * Added package option 'minitems' > * Added option 'maxitems' to printbibliography > * Added option 'minitems' to printbibliography > * Added option 'maxitems' to ibbysection > * Added option 'minitems' to ibbysection > * Added option 'maxitems' to ibbysegment > * Added option 'minitems' to ibbysegment > * Added option 'maxitems' to ibbycategory > * Added option 'minitems' to ibbycategory > * Added option 'maxitems' to printshorthands > * Added option 'minitems' to printshorthands > * Added counter 'maxitems' > * Added counter 'minitems' > * Added adapted headings for 'scrartcl', 'scrbook', 'scrreprt' > * Added adapted headings for 'memoir' > * Added citation command Cite > * Added citation command Textcite > * Added citation command Parencite > * Added citation command Footcite > * Added citation command Citeauthor > * Added citation command parencite* > * Added citation command supercite > * Added command ameyeardelim > * Added command multiitemdelim > * Added command multipubsdelim > * Added command multilangdelim > * Completed documenation > * Completed documenation > * Added command usecitecmd > * Added command hyphenate > * Added command hyphen > * Added command bhyphen > * Improved test ifsamepage > * Removed test ifnameequalstr > * Removed test iflistequalstr > * Added test ifcapital > * Added documentation of command MakeCapital > * Added starred variant to setunit > * Improved test ifterm > * Straightened out documentation of helist > * Straightened out documentation of hename > * Added command docsvfield > * Added command docsvlist > * Removed command CopyFieldFormat > * Removed command CopyIndexFieldFormat > * Removed command CopyListFormat > * Removed command CopyIndexListFormat > * Removed command CopyNameFormat > * Removed command CopyIndexNameFormat > * Added command savefieldformat > * Added command estorefieldformat > * Added command savelistformat > * Added command estorelistformat > * Added command savenameformat > * Added command estorenameformat > * Added command savebibmacro > * Added command estorebibmacro > * Added command savecommand > * Added command estorecommand > * Added documentation of 'shorthands' driver > * Rearranged, renamed, and extended localization keys > * Renamed counter 'citecount' to 'instcount' > * Added new counter 'citecount' > * Added counter 'citetotal' > * Rearranged and expanded documentation > * Expanded documentation > * Expanded documentation > * Expanded documentation > * Completed support for Spanish > * Added support for Italian (translations by Enrico Gregorio) > * Added language alias 'australian' > * Added language alias 'newzealand' > * Various minor improvements throughout

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CTAN Update: bmeps
by CTAN Announcements 06 Jan '07

06 Jan '07

On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Dirk Krause submitted version 2.0.0 of the bmeps package. Location on CTAN: /support/bmeps Summary description: Converter from PNG/JPEG/Tgb81AIFF/NetPBM to EPS and PDF License type: bsd Announcement text: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The bmeps program was rewritten completely. > Advantages from a users point of view: > - Bmeps can produce PS/EPS and PDF now. > - Easier configuration. Simply type > bmeps -leps2 input.png output.eps > instead of the former > bmeps -p 2 -c -e r8 input.png output.eps > - Better compression: > - Use of the multiple data sources feature > allows run-length compression of horizontal > lines in the same color. Previous versions > allowed run-length compression only for > gray lines. > - Pass-through of JPEG files. If bmeps successfully > analyzes a JPEG file it uses the file contents > directly as DCT-encoded data and only adds > ASCII-Hex- or ASCII85-encoding. If the analysis > function fails the program uses the JPEG library > to read the image and uses the combination of > run-length-, flate- and ASCII-Hex/ASCII85-encoding > to produce output. > Advantages from my point of view: > - Using the dklibs libary set allows to combine > different encoding/compression methods easier than > in previous versions of bmeps. > - Grouping image reading functions in a separated > library (dkbif library from the dklibs library set) > makes it easier to add new file types. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/bmeps . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=bmeps (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 . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: dvisvgm 0.4.3
by CTAN Announcements 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Martin Gieseking submitted an update to the dvisvgm package. Dvisvgm is a command line utility that converts TeX DVI files to the XML-based Scalable Vector Graphics format. The initial (limited) realease 0.3 provides basic functionality that will be extended in future versions. Users will need a working TeX installation including the kpathsea library and Type 1 versions of the fonts used in the DVI file. Dvisvgm has been successfully tested with both teTeX and MikTeX. Location on CTAN: /dviware/dvisvgm Summary description: minor update of dvisvgm License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a minor dvisvgm update. I have added support for MiKTeX 2.5 and fixed a compilation issue caused by a freetype API change. Precompiled binaries for Windows can be downloaded from the project page http://dvisvgm.sourceforge.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/dviware/dvisvgm . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=dvisvgm (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 . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: pdftex.def v0.04b
by CTAN Announcements 02 Jan '07

02 Jan '07

On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Heiko Oberdiek submitted a new version of pdftex.def Location on CTAN: graphics/pdftex/pdftex.def License: LPPL Latest changes: % 2007/01/01 v0.04a (HO) % * Support of color stack, introduced in pdfTeX 1.40.0. % * Support of transform matrix commands of pdfTeX 1.40.0. % * The argument for option `page' can be a register. * Internal change: Switching of color stacks is easier by using @pdfcolorstack for the stack number. Thus this command should be redefined, if someone wants to use another color stack (e.g. for footnotes). main@pdfcolorstack should not be changed for this purpose. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This file is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pdftex/pdftex.def . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=pdftex-def (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 . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: tabularht v2.3, pdfcolmk v1.0
by CTAN Announcements 02 Jan '07

02 Jan '07

On Sun, 31 Dec 2006, Heiko Oberdiek submitted an update to the oberdiek bundle. Location on CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek/ License: LPPL > Changes: > * tabularht v2.3: > * Documentation fix. > * Fix in code of option vlines. > * pdfcolmk v1.0: > * If pdftex.def >= 2007/01/01 v0.04a is used with > pdfTeX 1.40.0, then package pdfcolmk is obsolete. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This bundle is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=oberdiek (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 . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: pdftex 1.40.0
by CTAN Announcements 01 Jan '07

01 Jan '07

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: pdftex 1.40.0 Author's name: Martin Schröder Location on CTAN: /systems/pdftex Summary description: A new version of pdftex License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The pdfTeX team is happy to announce the release of a new stable version: =========================================================================== pdfTeX 1.40.0 =========================================================================== This is the announcement of pdfTeX 1.40.0, an extended version of TeX that can create PDF directly from TeX source files and enhance the result of TeX typesetting with the help of PDF. =========================================================================== Main changes of pdfTeX 1.40.0 =========================================================================== - pdfetex (as a separate binary/program) is gone; all extensions are now in pdftex. The make files still know about the target pdfetex, but it's just a copy of pdftex - The sources of TeX, eTeX and pdfTeX have been merged into one file pdftex.web and one change file pdftex.ch. The sources of TeX and eTeX distributed are just there for reference - New features: - pdfTeX can now generate PDF 1.5 object streams, which leads to smaller PDFs. This is controlled by setting pdfobjcompresslevel to a value >0 (3 compress everything, 2 don't compress /Info, 1 also don't compress embedded PDFs) and works only with PDF >=1.5 - pdfTeX now supports another image file format: JBIG2 files (.jbig2) - the memory allocated for objects and destination names now grows dynamically - pdfTeX now generates smaller PDFs since for char positioning the width of chars (/Widths) is stored with more precision and so the chars must rarely be positioned separately - the PK resolution is now taken from the pk_dpi parameter in texmf.cnf if it has not been set in the format file or by the user - pdfTeX now removes the generated pdf in case of a fatal error - pdfTeX now sets /ModDate and /Trapped in the InfoDict by default (the values can be overridden with pdfinfo) - the format of warnings and errors issued by pdfTeX has been changed and unified - the output of -version has been extended and now includes information about the libraries actually used, which can be handy when using shared libraries - rules and their positioning on the page are now inside a qQ group - New primitives: - pdfTeX can now handle colourstacks. - pdfcolorstackinit A stack is initialized by pdfcolorstackinit. It expands to the number of the new stack. The common case, the traditinal color stack is already initialized as first stack: pdfcolorstackinit page direct {0 g 0 G} The keyword page means that this stack is page based. At the start of the new page, the current stack value is automatically set. - pdfcolorstack pdfcolorstack <stack number> push {<new color>} pushes the current value on the stack and sets the <new color>. pdfcolorstack <stack number> pop pops and sets the current stack value. pdfcolorstack <stack number> current sets the current stack value without changing the stack. This is useful for stacks that are initialized without keyword page. Thus the page start setting can be set manually. pdfcolorstack <stack number> set {<new color>} The current value is set to <new color>. - Transformation matrices can now be manipulated more cleanly: Currently matrix changes are done and hidden inside pdfliteral nodes; pdfTeX doesn't parse its contents and does not know the new settings of the transform matrix. Thus the new primitives to save pdfTeX from parsing pdfliteral contents and to notify pdfTeX about matrix changes to use them in calculating link and anchor positions. - pdfsetmatrix{<a> <b> <c> <d>} is the equivalent to pdfliteral{<a> <b> <c> <d> 0 0 cm} - pdfsave is the equivalent to pdfliteral{q} - pdfrestore is the equivalent to pdfliteral{Q} - pdfprimitiveTeX-primitive executes the original TeX-primitive even if the command has been redefined since. E.g. let elaxundefinedpdfprimitive elax expands to elax. ifpdfprimitiveTeX-primitive is true if TeX-primitive has its original meaning - ifpdfabsnum and ifpdfabsdim are like ifnum and ifdim, but don't care about negative numbers - shell escape: if the first character of a filename for openin, openout input is a pipe symbol (|), the filename is assumed to be a request for a pipe to a command line that is given in the rest of the filename - draftmode: With pdfdraftmode=1 or the commandline switch -draftmode pdfTeX doesn't write the output pdf and doesn't actually read any images, thus speeding up compilations when you know you need an extra run but don't care about the output, e.g. just to get the BibTeX references right - pdfpxdimen (introduced in 1.30) is now a real dimension parameter. It allows one base dimensions on pixels. 1px defaults to 1bp (or 72dpi), but can be changed with the pdfpxdimen primitive: pdfpxdimen=1in % 1 dpi dividepdfpxdimen by 96 % 96 dpi hsize=1200px Now hsize is (1in/96)*1200 - pdflastlink returns the object number of the last pdfstartlink - pdfsavepos now works in DVI mode - Fonts: - support for subfonts: This creates all needed map entries for subfonts automatically and handles Unicode mappings - ToUnicode entries for Type1 fonts (patch 580) - HZ: - added patch 462: HZ font expansion in autoexpand mode now produces smaller pdf files, as it works by modififying the text matrix for single fonts instead of embedding many expanded font versions. Therefore HZ now can be used also for TrueType fonts and even for non-embedded fonts (e.g. Times-Roman) - Bugfixes: - the PDF statistics in the log are now correct - added JFIF detection patch to writejpg.c (bug 548) - bugfix: invalid pdf created if font name contains space (509) - bugfix: truetype OS/2 v3 fonts (594) - bugfix: Type1C (CFF) fonts of embedded pdfs didn't get replaced For complete release notes see http://www.pdftex.org/NEWS =========================================================================== Legal notice / license =========================================================================== pdfTeX is copyright (c) 1996-2007 Han The Thanh, <thanh(a)pdftex.org> pdfTeX is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. For a complete README (with a full discussion of the license) please look at http://www.pdftex.org/README =========================================================================== The files / installation =========================================================================== You should first try to get a new version of pdfTeX through your distribution. If you want to compile it yourself, have a look at http://www.pdftex.org -- there you can find links to the pdfTeX sources on CTAN. And some useful documentation. =========================================================================== Mailing lists / web pages: =========================================================================== Mailing list: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdftex Related web pages: http://www.pdftex.org http://sarovar.org/projects/pdftex/ http://www.tug.org/tex-live/ http://www.tug.org/tetex/ http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes http://www.dante.de/ http://tug.org/ http://www.pragma-ade.com/ Have fun! Martin Schröder (martin(a)pdftex.org) for the pdfTeX team, January 2007 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/pdftex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=pdftex (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 .

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CTAN has a new package: refreshpdf
by CTAN Announcements 01 Jan '07

01 Jan '07

A new package has been put on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Happy new year, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ............................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: refreshpdf Author's name: Claus Gerhardt Location on CTAN: /support/refreshpdf Summary description: Refreshpdf refreshes a pdf file opened in Acrobat (Mac OS X) License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Refreshpdf is an Applescript that takes the path of a pdf file as argument and then opens the file in Acrobat. If the file is already open in Acrobat, then Acrobat is told to close and reopen the file and to go to the same page that was displayed in the closed file. The Applescript can also be called from the command line by a shell script refreshpdf. Refreshpdf only works on MacOS X. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/refreshpdf . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=refreshpdf (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 .

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CTAN update: pst-optic
by CTAN Announcements 28 Dec '06

28 Dec '06

On Wed, 27 Dec 2006, Herbert Voss submitted an update to the pst-optic PSTricks related package for drawing both reflective and refractive optics diagrams. Location on CTAN: /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-optic License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- version 0.96 of pst-optic has a new macro psprism which allows to draw a prism with light rays and calculated refractions. please replace all files with the existing ones. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-optic . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=pst-optic (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 . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: classico
by CTAN Announcements 28 Dec '06

28 Dec '06

On Wed, 27 Dec 2006, Bob Tennent submitted the new classico package, providing four type-1 fonts with metrics and LaTeX support files. Location on CTAN: /fonts/urw/classico Summary description: URW Classico type-1 fonts and support files License type: nocommercial Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The archive provides four type-1 fonts with metrics and LaTeX support files. URW Classico is a clone of the Optima typeface, a very well-known sans serif face designed by Hermann Zapf. The fonts were made available for non-commercial distribution at www.artifex.com. The support files were generated using fontinst. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/urw/classico . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=classico (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 . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: visualtex
by CTAN Announcements 28 Dec '06

28 Dec '06

On Mon, 25 Dec 2006, Alex Romanenko submitted an update to the visualtex package. Visual-TeX is a TeX-oriented text editor which uses Neil Hodgson's Scintilla editing component as source code editor, and a TeX lexer by the package author. The editor has several valuable TeX-specific features, including forward search capability from YAP. Location on CTAN: systems/win32/visualtex License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- In ver 3.12: Fixed bug: after playing tex macro editor's window is focused correctly. Fixed bug: correct automatic scrolling is added. Fixed bug: incorrect editor macro executing is removed. Added feature: KBDC module of layout convertion ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/visualtex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=visualtex (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 . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: TeX-GYRE fonts
by CTAN Announcements 28 Dec '06

28 Dec '06

On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Staszek Wawrykiewicz submitted a new package tex-gyre to CTAN. Location on CTAN: fonts/tex-gyre License: gfsl -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Package: TeX Gyre Bonum font > Authors: Bogusl{}aw Jackowski and Janusz M. Nowacki > Version: 1.000 > Date: 14 XII 2006 > License: > This work is released under the GUST Font License > This work has the LPPL maintenance status maintained. > The Current Maintainer of this work is Bogusl{}aw Jackowski > and Janusz M. Nowacki. > > The TeX Gyre Bonum family of fonts is based on the URW Bookman L family > (designed by Alexander Phemister), but heavily extended. The constituent > 4 standard faces contain nearly 1200 glyphs each and are available in > Postscript, TeX and Open Type formats. Please note that with the release > of this family the QuasiBookman fonts became obsolete. > The Vietnamese and Cyrillic characters were added > by Han The Thanh and Valek Filippov, respectively. > > =========== > Package: TeX Gyre Schola font > Authors: Bogusl{}aw Jackowski and Janusz M. Nowacki > Version: 0.995 > Date: 14 XII 2006 > License: > This work is released under the GUST Font License > This work has the LPPL maintenance status maintained. > The Current Maintainer of this work is Bogusl{}aw Jackowski > and Janusz M. Nowacki. > > The TeX Gyre Schola family of fonts is based on the URW Century > Schoolbook L family (designed by Morris Fuller Benton), but > heavily extended. The constituent 4 standard faces contain > nearly 1200 glyphs each and are available in Postscript, TeX > and Open Type formats. The Vietnamese and Cyrillic characters > were added by Han The Thanh and Valek Filippov, respectively. > > ============ > Package: TeX Gyre Pagella font > Authors: Bogusl{}aw Jackowski and Janusz M. Nowacki > Version: 1.000 > Date: 27 X 2006 > License: > This work is released under the GUST Font License > This work has the LPPL maintenance status maintained. > The Current Maintainer of this work is Bogusl{}aw Jackowski > and Janusz M. Nowacki. > > The TeX Gyre Pagella family of fonts is based on the URW Palladio L > family (designed by Hermann Zapf), but heavily extended. The > constituent 4 standard faces contain nearly 1200 glyphs each and are > available in Postscript, TeX and Open Type formats. > The Vietnamese and Cyrillic characters were added by Han The Thanh > and Valek Filippov, respectively. > Please note that with the release of this family the QuasiPalatino > fonts became obsolete. > > =========== > Package: TeX Gyre Termes font > Authors: Bogusl{}aw Jackowski and Janusz M. Nowacki > Version: 1.000 > Date: 27 X 2006 > License: > This work is released under the GUST Font License > This work has the LPPL maintenance status maintained. > The Current Maintainer of this work is Bogusl{}aw Jackowski > and Janusz M. Nowacki. > > The TeX Gyre Termes is based on the URW Nimbus Roman No9 L family > (designed by Stanley Morison together with Starling Burgess and > Victor Lardent), but heavily extended. The constituent 4 standard > faces contain nearly 1200 glyphs each and are available in Postscript, > TeX and Open Type formats. > The Vietnamese and Cyrillic characters were added > by Han The Thanh and Valek Filippov, respectively. > Please note that Termes obsoletes the QuasiTimes fonts. ----------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/tex-gyre . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=tex-gyre (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 . _____________________________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: Patches for memoir class (again) again
by CTAN Announcements 28 Dec '06

28 Dec '06

Peter Wilson wrote: > I have uploaded memfixesDec06b.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use the > contents to replace the corresponding files in macros/latex/contrib/memoir. > > Version 4.7 of mempatch.sty fixes some minor infelicities in version > 4.6. Mempatch provides fixes for the memoir class. i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue. Interested users may browse the memoir package (including its patch) direct at: http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memoir/ or via the catalogue entry: http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/memoir.html Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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