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
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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.
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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:
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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.)
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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
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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:
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A Perl script that downloads references from MathSciNet in bibtex
format. Works with the recently redesigned MathSciNet site.
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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.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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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:
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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
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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.
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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.
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The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be
at your favorite mirror.
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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: 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:
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The pdfTeX team is happy to announce the release of a new stable version:
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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.
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Mailing lists / web pages:
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Mailing list:
http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdftex
Related web pages:
http://www.pdftex.orghttp://sarovar.org/projects/pdftex/http://www.tug.org/tex-live/http://www.tug.org/tetex/http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yeshttp://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
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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:
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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.
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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:
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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.
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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:
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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.
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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:
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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
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On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Staszek Wawrykiewicz submitted a new package
tex-gyre
to CTAN.
Location on CTAN: fonts/tex-gyre
License: gfsl
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> 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.
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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
Herbert Voss wrote:
> I uploaded pstricks.tgz to the uk mirror.
> Please put all directories with it files below the directory
> graphics/pstricks/
>
> the version 1.15 of pstricks defines some more dot styles
> (done by Etienne Riga). The documentation pstnews1-15.pdf
> in graphics/pstricks/doc/ lists all old and new styles
> and additional changes in the distribution.
>
> the files pst-dots.pro and pstricks.pro should go into
> $TEXMF/dvips or $TEXMFHOME/dvips
i have installed the package as requested. users may browse the
package, embedded in a rather complicated structure on ctan at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks
or they may browse via the catalogue at:
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pstricks.html
thanks for the upload.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Tommy Ekola submitted the
cmarrows
package to CTAN.
Location on CTAN: /graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/cmarrows
Summary description: MetaPost arrows and braces in the Computer Modern style
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This MetaPost package contains macros to draw arrows and braces in the
Computer Modern style.
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This package is located at
http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/cmarrows
. More information is at
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For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
On Sun, 17 Dec 2006, Martin Hensel submitted version 3.05 of his
mhchem
bundle.
Currently, the mhchem bundle consists of two packages: mhchem and
rsphrase. The mhchem package provides two commands: one for typesetting
chemical molecular formulae and one for typesetting chemical equations
with these formulae. The rsphrase package contains the text of all
official Risk and Safety (R and S) Phrases that are used to label
chemicals. At the time being, these phrases are available in Danish,
English, French, German (current spelling), and Spanish.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/mhchem/
Summary description: for typesetting chemical formulae, chemical equations and Risk and Safety (R and S) Phrases
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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- fixed: more complex structures (bonds, hyphens etc.) in TOC
- changed: $...$ replaces cmath{...}
- fixed: parenthesis, brackets, braces in corrent font
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This package is located at
http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mhchem/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=mhchem bundle v3.05
(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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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Grzegorz `Natror' Murzynowski submitted new packages
gmutils
gmverb
gmiflink
gmdoc
to CTAN.
Information on the individual packages follows.
gmutils
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Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/gmutils
Summary description: misc. macros used by other packages by Natror (GM)
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Miscellaneous macros used by other packages of Natror.
Contents of the package:
ewgif and Other Globals. @ifnextcat. afterfi
and Pals. Almost an Environment or Redefinition
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This package is located at
http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/gmutils
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=gmutils
gmverb
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Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/gmverb
Summary description: my version of verb and verbatim, provides also short verb
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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A redefinition of verb and verbatim so that long lines are breakable
before
and after { with % as `hyphen'. Allows you to define your own
verbatim-like environments (not too long!) and allows you to declare any
single char as a shorthand for verb (cf. shortvrb.sty)
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This package is located at
http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/gmverb
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=gmverb
gmiflink
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Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/gmiflink
Summary description: 3 macros to simplify usage of hypertarget an
hyperlink of hyperref.sty nad avoid error if there's
no target
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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Three hyperref-based macros that simplify usage of hypertarget and
hyperlink: one argument instead of twice the same. And gmiflink and
gmifref to typeset plain text instead of error or ?? if there's no
respective hypertarget or label.
I also used them in automatically generated hyperindex while documenting
some database project.
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This package is located at
http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/gmiflink
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=gmiflink
gmdoc
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Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/gmdoc
Summary description: a package for documenting packages etc.
with minimal markup of source and hyperlinks in pdf
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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A .sty file and an example .cls (documentclass) for documenting (La)TeX
packages, document classes, .dtx etc. providing hyperlinks, compatible
with doc.sty (no warranty :-) and letting to mark up the code minimally
(no macrocode env. necessary anymore). Needs hyperref and three 'basic'
packages of mine: gmutils, gmverb and gmiflink.
As a bonus, the driver files are added that typeset the LaTeX
(TeXLive2005) Base.
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This package is located at
http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/gmdoc
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=gmdoc
(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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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
The package below has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at
your favorite mirror.
Thank you again,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: arabi version 1.1
Author's name: Youssef JABRI
Location on CTAN: /language/arabic/arabi
Summary description: A package toa add support of Arabic and Farsi to
(La)-TeX, compliant with BABEL
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The Arabi package provides the Arabic script support for TeX without
the need of any external pre-processor. The Bi-directional capability
s that the user has a TeX--XeT or e-TEX engine. Arabi is fully
compliant with the BABEL system.
Among the new things with Version 1.1:
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+ You can search and copy Arabic and Farsi text from PDF files
generated by pdflatex (read the documentation to know how to)
+ You can use TeX4ht to make HTML files.
+ Now we can have Arabic in the bookmarks sidebar, although hyperref
is still not fully supported yet.
+ In Farsi contexts, Digits (0, 1, . . . , 9) are written with the
extended Indo-Arabic (Farsi) digits.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/arabic/arabi
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=arabi
(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 .
I have installed a new version of the UK TeX FAQ on CTAN, in directory
help/uk-tex-faq
This new version includes some work on tidying the FAQ-as-a-whole, and a
small number of improvements and additions (see extracts from the
CHANGES file, copied below).
(I did in fact install a new copy last week, but problems with it were
detected almost immediately, so I delayed announcement until the
problems were resolved and this replacement installed.)
The FAQ appears on CTAN as
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/uk-tex-faq
and in the catalogue as
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/faq.html
However, browsing (and rather feeble searching) is best achieved via the
web interface at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq
The CHANGES file for this release mentions:
Changes in version 3.16c
New answer:
+Label isdef: is this command defined? tests
Revised answers:
+Label bibprefixsort: two new examples
+Label citeURL: provide a list (rather than a bunch) of alternative
styles, mention babelbib
+Label multirow: mention the case of multicolumn-multirow
+Label music: correct Web output of package list at end of answer
+Label oarglikesect: mention kernel command @dblarg
+Label secthead: rewritten accounts of sectsty & titlesec
+Label tutbitslatex: added pointer to Fauske's page on PGF/TikZ
+Label watermark: noted that package draftcopy doesn't work with pdflatex,
+Label watermark: mention draftwatermark
+Label whatbst: correct reed.edu link
Bugfix:
+Release dates are now represented in ISO format (yyyy-mm-dd) --
previously we used the LaTeX format, using solidus instead of hyphen
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Morten Høgholm submitted an update to the
expl3 bundle
on behalf of the LaTeX Project.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/exptl/project/expl3
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The expl3 bundle consists of the core files of the LaTeX3 kernel. The
modules in this bundle can be used as add-on packages on top of LaTeX2e as
well.
All files are also available in the Subversion (SVN) repository of the
LaTeX3 Project, which is located at
http://www.latex-project.org/svnroot/experimental/trunk
The bundle on CTAN is a snapshot of the SVN repository as of 2006/12/12.
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This package is located at
http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/project/expl3
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=expl3
(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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For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Morten Høgholm submitted the
xbase bundle
on behalf on the LaTeX Project.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/exptl/project/xbase
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The xbase bundle provides the packages xparse and template.
xparse provides a high-level interface for declaring document commands,
e.g., a uniform way to define commands taking optional arguments,
optional stars (and others), mandatory arguments and more.
template provides an interface for defining generic functions using a
key=val syntax.
All files are also available in the Subversion (SVN) repository of the
LaTeX3 Project, which is located at
http://www.latex-project.org/svnroot/experimental/trunk
The bundle on CTAN is a snapshot of the SVN repository as of 2006/12/12.
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This package is located at
http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/project/xbase
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=xbase
(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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Rainer Schöpf
Herbert Voss wrote:
> I have uploaded pst-code,tgz to the uk mirror. Please
> create the new directory /graphics/pstricks/doc/code
> and put all files in there.
>
> pst-code is the original code documentation of PSTricks
> from Timothy Van Zandt from 1997. All macros, dimensions and
> counters of the packages pstricks and pst-node are
> explained in detail.
i have installed the material as suggested: users may view the source,
etc., via
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/doc/code/
the stuff appears in the catalogue as one of the documentation links in:
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pstricks.html
thanks for the upload
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team