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CTAN has a new package: mkpattern
by CTAN Announcements 09 Nov '06

09 Nov '06

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 ................................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: mkpattern Author's name: Javier A. Múgica de Rivera Location on CTAN: /language/hyphenation/utils/mkpattern/ Summary description: TeX program for the generation of hyphenation patterns License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mkpattern is a general purpose program for the generation of hyphenation patterns, with definition of letter sets and template-like constructions. It also provides an easy way to handle different input and output encodings. Used for the creation of the Galician patterns. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/hyphenation/utils/mkpattern/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=mkpattern (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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[Fwd: tug.ctan.org upload: Free Math Font Survey for Vietnamese]
by CTAN Announcements 08 Nov '06

08 Nov '06

The package described below has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should by now be at your favorite mirror. Thank you again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Free Math Font Survey for Vietnamese Author's name: Th�i Ph� Kh�nh H�a Location on CTAN: /info/Free_Math_Font_Survey/vn Summary description: Vietnamese version of the Free Math Font Survey License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a Vietnamese translation of the Free Math Font Survey by Stephen Hartke. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/Free_Math_Font_Survey/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=free-math-font-sur… (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: isodoc 0.1
by CTAN Announcements 08 Nov '06

08 Nov '06

A new package isodoc by Wybo Dekker has been installed on CTAN and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/isodoc License: lppl Description: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The isodoc class can be used for the preparation of letters, invoices, and, in the future, similar documents. Documents are set up with options, thus making the class easily adaptable to user's wishes and extensible for other document types. Victor Eijkhout's NTG brief class, which implements the NEN1026 standard, was the starting point. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/isodoc/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=isodoc (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: glhyph
by CTAN Announcements 07 Nov '06

07 Nov '06

A package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to the mirror that you like best. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ....................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: glhyph Author's name: Javier A. Múgica de Rivera Location on CTAN: /language/hyphenation Summary description: Major upgrade for glhyph.tex License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Major upgrade of the hyphenation patterns for Galician. They now follow a scheme similar to the spanish ones. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/hyphenation . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=glhyph (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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tug.ctan.org upload: jeopardy
by CTAN Announcements 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and those updates should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you for the upload, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College .......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: jeopardy Author's name: Robert Marik Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/jeopardy/ Summary description: Build a jeopardy game in LaTeX. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The jeopardy package allows to build a jeopardy game with pdfLaTeX. It is based on the jj_game class and exerquiz package, written by D. P. Story. The author of the game can use multichoice questions or fill-in questions. The answer for fill-in questions is either a mathematical formula or text string (see the documentation of exerquiz and RespBoxMath and RespBoxTxt commands to learn more about the capabilities). JavaScripts are written to record the score. If the score is greater than a given value, a hidden string is shown. The user should use the style with some screen presentation package, such as web or pdfscreen. For the new version of jeopardy package, a new option picture has been added. This option allows to build game where the user (student) answers questions and uncovers (after a correct answer) parts of hidden picture. The new option is demonstrated in game1a.pdf, game2a.pdf and game4.pdf files. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/jeopardy/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=jeopardy (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 . _______________________________________________ Ctan mailing list Ctan(a)dante.de https://lists.dante.de/mailman/listinfo/ctan

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tug.ctan.org upload: prerex-3.2
by CTAN Announcements 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

The package here has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be updated at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: prerex-3.2 Author's name: Bob Tennent Location on CTAN: /graphics/prerex Summary description: Interactive editor for prerequisite charts, macro support, patch for PDF viewer. License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This release includes a new feature: a patch to the source files of kpdf to enable tooltip display and clipboard selection of coordinates of course boxes and background points. These capabilities can be used during chart editing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/prerex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=prerex (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: euenc
by CTAN Announcements 04 Nov '06

04 Nov '06

A new package has been put up on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at the mirror that you like best. Thank you for the contribution, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ....................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: euenc Author's name: Will Robertson Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/latex/euenc Summary description: Unicode font encoding definitions for XeTeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Font encoding definition(s) for unicode fonts loaded by LaTeX in XeTeX. At present, consists only of the EU1 encoding, which fontspec uses for unicode fonts with no macro-level processing required for accents, and no restriction on glyphs provided by a font. Includes font definition files for the Latin Modern OpenType fonts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/euenc . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=euenc (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: kvsetkeys v1.1
by CTAN Announcements 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Heiko Oberdiek submitted an update to his kvsetkeys package. This package provides kvsetkeys, a variant of package keyval's setkeys. It allows to specify a handler that deals with unknown options. Active commas and equal signs may be used (e.g. see babel's shorthands) and only one level of curly braces are removed from the values. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek/ License: LPPL Changes: * kvsetkeys v1.1 * Interface for handler definition fixed. * Example added. * oberdiek-tds.zip updated. _______________________________________________________________ This package is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=kvsetkeys (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 update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: protocol
by CTAN Announcements 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, Thomas Leineweber submitted an update to the protocol package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/protocol Summary description: A class for typesetting minutes (only german) License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This version supercedes the old version of protocol and has the following new features: - uses koma-script class as main class - correct decision for the next meeting - additional environment Absent for absent persons ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/protocol . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=protocol (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: otfinst
by CTAN Announcements 02 Nov '06

02 Nov '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ............................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: otfinst Author's name: John Owens Location on CTAN: /fonts/utilities/otfinst Summary description: Tool for installing OpenType fonts for use in TeX/LaTeX systems License type: bsd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- otfinst takes a list of OpenType font files as input, uses Eddie Kohler's otftotfm to install them into a TeX/LaTeX system, and builds and installs the necessary font description and style files. otfinst was formerly known as otftex_install and is written in Python. It has similar capabilities to Marc Penninga's fontools. http://www.ece.ucdavis.edu/~jowens/code/otfinst/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/utilities/otfinst . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=otfinst (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: Synapsen
by CTAN Announcements 01 Nov '06

01 Nov '06

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ....................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Synapsen. A hypertextual card index Author's name: Markus Krajewski Location on CTAN: /biblio/bibtex/utils/Synapsen Summary description: Reference management software, bibliography gui tool or card index for bibtex License type: shareware Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Synapsen is a hypertextual card index or reference organizer, esp. designed for BibTeX. The Software is written in JAVA, and therefore it runs on all major operating systems (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Unix). For further information, manual, screen shots etc. see http://www.verzetteln.de/synapsen/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/Synapsen . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=synapsen (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: bibhtml 1.3
by CTAN Announcements 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

Via the upload script, Norman Gray writes: ctan-upload(a)tex.ac.uk wrote: > Name of contribution: bibhtml 1.3 > Author's name: Norman Gray > Author's email: norman(a)astro.gla.ac.uk > Location on CTAN: biblio/bibtex/contrib/bibhtml/ (replacing current version) > Summary description: Generate HTML bibliographies using BibTeX > License type: gpl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Allow mild configuration of generated link targets > Some documentation improvements > Update default e-print URL > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thanks for the upload. i've installed the revision of the package, and updated the catalogue. users who want to inspect the new version may browse via the catalogue entry http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/bibhtml.html Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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tug.ctan.org upload: bibtopicprefix
by CTAN Announcements 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

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 .................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: bibtopicprefix Author's name: Martin Schröder Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/bibtopicprefix Summary description: Provides a way to prefix references from bibliographies produced by the bibtopic package. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package provides a way to prefix references from bibliographies produced by the bibtopic package with fixed strings. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/bibtopicprefix . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=bibtopicprefix (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: disser
by CTAN Announcements 30 Oct '06

30 Oct '06

A new package has been put on tug.ctan.org and should soon get to your favorite mirror. Thank you again, Jim Hefferon .......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: disser Author's name: Stanislav Kruchinin Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/disser Summary description: A document class and set of templates for typesetting dissertations in Russian. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a document class and set of templates for typesetting dissertations in Russian. One of it's primary advantages is a simplicity of format specification for titlepage, headers and elements of automatically generated lists (table of contents, list of figures, etc). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/disser . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=disser (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: dvdcoll
by CTAN Announcements 30 Oct '06

30 Oct '06

On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, Josef Kleber submitted an update to the dvdcoll package. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/dvdcoll Summary description: A class for typesetting DVD archives License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Having lost the overview of my DVD archives, I simply could not remember if I already recorded the documentary running on TV that day. I chose to recreate the index using LaTeX: the design aim was a hyperlinked and fully searchable PDF-document listing my DVDs with all titles, contents, lengths and so on. Further requirements were support for seasons of tv series and a list with all faulty or missing programs for rerecording. The dvdcoll class supports all these requirements. dvdcoll.cls follows the structure <number><title><length>. As a result, the class is not limited to DVDs ÿÿ you can of course typeset archives of CD-ROMs, Audio-CDs and so on. Supported languages at the moment: English, French, German. Some help is needed for other languages! ;-) License: LPPL new in v0.6a: - Bugfix: solving indent problems after commands within environment Dvd (endlinechar=-1) - replacement for broken dcexample.pdf on CTAN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/dvdcoll . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=dvdcoll (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 update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: simplewick
by CTAN Announcements 29 Oct '06

29 Oct '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College .......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: simplewick Author's name: Jindrich Kolorenc Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/simplewick Summary description: Drawing Wick contractions above and bellow expressions in math mode. License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Drawing Wick contractions above and bellow expressions in math mode. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/simplewick . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=simplewick (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: word-to-latex
by CTAN Announcements 29 Oct '06

29 Oct '06

A new package has been put up on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ............................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: word-to-latex Author's name: Michal Kebrt Location on CTAN: /tools/word-to-latex Summary description: Convert documents written in Microsoft Word into LaTeX and XML format License type: nosource Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Word-to-LaTeX (Word-to-XML; two names for the same program :-)) is a program for converting documents written in Microsoft Word into LaTeX and XML format (additional formats can be easily added through the configuration). Word-to-LaTeX runs only on Windows with Microsoft Word installed. This is the first public release of Word-to-LaTeX (Word-to-XML) convertor. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/tools/word-to-latex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=word-to-latex (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: recipecard
by CTAN Announcements 28 Oct '06

28 Oct '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: recipecard Author's name: Ben Reish Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/recipecard Summary description: Typesets recipes into note card sized boxes. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The recipecard class typesets recipes into note card sized boxes that can then be cut out and pasted to note cards. The recipe then looks elegant and fits in the box of recipes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/recipecard . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=recipecard (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: PGF and TikZ version 1.10
by CTAN Announcements 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, Till Tantau submitted version 1.10 of his PGF/TikZ package. Location on CTAN: /graphics/pgf License: Mixed LPPL/GPL/FDL PGF is a macro package for creating graphics. It is platform- and format-independent and works together with the most important TeX backend drivers, including pdftex and dvips. It comes with a user-friedly syntax layer called TikZ. Its usage is similar to pstricks and the standard picture environment. Unlike pstricks, it can produce either PostScript or PDF output, and works with plain (pdf-)TeX, (pdf-)LaTeX, and ConTeXt. Till writes: > > I consider this version stable and recommend upgrading to all users. > > Changes since version 1.09: > > - Renamed pgf@sys@pdf@mark to pgfsyspdfmark. > - Fixed the ConTeXt support so that it is usable (which is wasn't). > Best regards, _______________________________________________ This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pgf/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=pgf (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 update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: Susy
by CTAN Announcements 25 Oct '06

25 Oct '06

The package below has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Susy Author's name: Emmanuel Turlay Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/susy Summary description: Commands to write supersymmetry related documents easily License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Commands to write supersymmetry related documents easily. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/susy . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=susy (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: gellmu, version 0.8.3
by Robin Fairbairns 24 Oct '06

24 Oct '06

William F Hammond wrote: > I've uploaded version 0.8.3 (23 Oct 06) of the GELLMU tarball to > ftp.tex.ac.uk. > > GELLMU stands for Generalized Extensible LaTeX-Like MarkUp. > > The package includes software for an XML document type (which may be > written in LaTeX-like markup) that emulates much of LaTeX article > while admitting robust translation to XHTML+MathML. > > I suggest that it be placed in support/gellmu. > > License: GPL > > This supersedes version 0.8.2.3 (25 May 06). > > It contains an important change for generating XHTML+MathML content > that has been made necessary by a mid-September (2006) revision in > Firefox and other Mozilla browsers. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > CHANGES IN GELLMU, VERSION 0.8.3 (23 Oct 2006) > > IMPORTANT change necessitated by change in Firefox and other Mozilla > browsers: > > This update is mandatory for those who wish their XHTML+MathML outputs > to function properly in Mozilla. Because of a mid-September 2006 > change in Mozilla with the handling of equations and arrays of > equations, previously generated XHTML+MathML outputs will need to be > rebuilt. > > This release also has reduced use of XML namespace switching in the > XHTML+MathML outputs for the sake of greater compatibilty with > browsers that do not recognize it. > > The XML side door: > > The largest change in this update release concerns Regular GELLMU > (the didactic production system described in the GELLMU Manual). The > standard translation pipeline leading from LaTeX-like source through > SGML and XML document types to (1) LaTeX source (hence DVI and PDF > outputs), (2) classical HTML output with pseudo-TeX math, and (3) > XHTML with MathML output has been modified to capture along the way a > variant of the XML document type that is reusable as XML source. > Subsequent pipeline processing proceeds from that point with end > results equivalent to those in earlier releases. > > The new variant of the XML document type may be regarded as a > full-featured author level XML document type. It is usable and > modifiable by authors who choose to write XML syntax rather than the > LaTeX-like equivalent. > > The new author level variant of the XML document type is a suitable > target for translation from other XML document types, and therefore, > could provide an alternative way to format other document types for > PDF, HTML, and XHTML+MathML. > > Beyond that document instances under the new author level variant of > the XML document type should usually be stand-alone instances that > are suitable for semi-formatted viewing through the web with CSS > styling. They cannot be fully formatted because, for example, > numbering has not been inserted, and cross-references have not been > resolved. > > A consequence of having the XML side door is that the automatically > formatted LaTeX files will tend to have very long lines. > > Driver Scripts: > > For the regular GELLMU main track use the driver script mmkg to > build from regular GELLMU source. One should use the new driver > script mmkgfromx to build from XML source under the document type > defined in the DTD file xml/axgellmu.dtd. (This DTD file lives > under the UTF-8 text encoding though presently only one little-used > element name is non-ASCII, and that name admits Latin-1 representation.) > > Windows XP Support: > > In the case of a recently acquired (August 2006) ``notebook'' > class computer with ``Windows XP, Home Edition'', it was found after > (1) installing Cygwin, (2) then installing Cygwin packages for GNU Emacs, > Perl, Tcsh, TeX and LaTeX, OpenSP/OpenJade, and Expat (for the important > and basic xmlwf utility), and (3) making sure that all of the > appropriate executables are in one's command path (within Cygwin), > that the GELLMU tarball drops easily into /usr/local/gellmu (Cygwin > filesystem hierarchy), and the Linux driver scripts may be used. i have indeed placed the new version in support/gellmu; thanks for the upload. users who want to view the package, or to download it, may do so via the catalogue entry http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/gellmu.html Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: pinlabel.sty
by CTAN Announcements 23 Oct '06

23 Oct '06

Colin Rourke, of Mathematical Sciences Publishers, has provided a new package. the catalogue entry says: Pinlabel is a labelling package for attaching perfectly formatted TeX labels to figures and diagrams in both eps and pdf formats. It is suitable both for labelling a new diagram and for relabelling an existing diagram. and the package may be found on CTAN in directory macros/latex/contrib/pinlabel users may browse the new package's directory, and read its documentation, via the catalogue entry http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pinlabel.html thanks to colin and msp for the upload -- Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: JustFontIt TeX Edition v1.0
by CTAN Announcements 23 Oct '06

23 Oct '06

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 .......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: JustFontIt TeX Edition v1.0 Author's name: Alexei Kostin Location on CTAN: /fonts/utilities/JustFontItTE Summary description: Font utility to generate TeX metric files License type: other Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- JustFontIt TeX Edition for Win32 is a tool for TeX users. It is intended to help installing fonts in Type1 Binary (PFB), Type1 ASCII (PFA), TrueType and OpenType/CFF to use with TeX. Major features of JustFontIt TeX Edition: 1. Functionality of pltotf, tftopl, vftovp, vptovf tools, initially developed by Prof. D. E. Knuth. 2. Direct production of TFM and PL TeX metric files from various sources (PFA, PFB, TTF, OTF, AFM, PFM). Reencoding. 3. Support for response files and recursive directory search. 4. Evident command-line interface. 5. High performance. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 (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: uebungsblatt
by CTAN Announcements 23 Oct '06

23 Oct '06

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 ..................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: uebungsblatt Author's name: Igor Akkerman Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/uebungsblatt Summary description: LaTeX-Klasse zur Erstellung von Übungsblättern License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LaTeX-Klasse zur Erstellung von Übungsblättern Features: * schnelles Setzen von Übungsblättern oder deren Bearbeitungen * einfache, benutzerfreundliche Kommandos * elegante Seitenformatierung * vollautomatische Nummerierung der Aufgaben und Teilaufgaben * Nummer des Übungsblatts wird automatisch aus dem Dateinamen bestimmt * statische Informationen zur Lehrveranstaltung und den Autoren müssen nur an einer Stelle angegeben werden ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/uebungsblatt . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=uebungsblatt (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: AkkTeX
by CTAN Announcements 23 Oct '06

23 Oct '06

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon make it to your favorite mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: AkkTeX Author's name: Igor Akkerman Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/akktex Summary description: Collection of new document classes and packages, especially making easier the creation of math documents License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * new document classes for technical documents, thesis works, manuscripts and lecture notes * many math packages providing a tremendous nuber of macros for mathematical texts * layout providing a non-empty parskip with extended length corrections and new section definition commands * easy label creation for counters * german language tools and predefined abbreviations ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/akktex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=akktex (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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