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CTAN has a new package: exceltex
by CTAN Announcements 18 Feb '06

18 Feb '06

A new package has just been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: exceltex Author's name: Hans-Peter Doerr Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/exceltex Summary description: accessing Excel files from LaTeX License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Exceltex is a small LaTeX package combined with a helper program written in Perl, which makes it easy to include tabulars and cells from Excel files in LaTeX documents. Exceltex' intention is it to provide a do it once and forget solution for accessing data from spreadsheet files. You don't need to sync data in LaTeX with the Spreadsheet anymore (or even copy each cell by hand - uhhhh), except that you have to press the save button of your spreadsheet application before running exceltex :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/exceltex . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is 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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Re: CTAN submission --- sudoku bundle
by Robin Fairbairns 17 Feb '06

17 Feb '06

Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded sudokubundle.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please add the > contents to CTAN (I suggest a directory macros/latex/contrib/sudokubundle as > there is already a macros/latex/contrib/sudoku). The distribution is under > the LPPL. > > From the README > The sudoku bundle provides the printsudoku, solvesudoku and createsudoku > coordinated set of packages for typesetting, solving and creating Sudoku > puzzles. Over 50 puzzles are also supplied. > > Changes: > > printsudoku.sty v1.0 (2006/02/16) > o First public release > > solvesudoku.sty v1.0 (2006/02/16) > o First public release > > createsudoku.sty v1.0 (2006/02/16) > o First public release > > somesudoku.tex (2006/02/16) > o First public release > > NOTE > I will be away for most of the next 3 months and will be unlikely to > answer any emails concerning any of my packages or classes. Ask all > questions on the comp.text.tex newsgroup. i've installed the package and am just now checking in a catalogue entry. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: csquotes beta 2
by CTAN Announcements 16 Feb '06

16 Feb '06

Philipp Lehman writes: > I've placed `csquotes.tar.gz' in the incoming directory of the CTAN UK > node. This should go into macros/latex/contrib/csquotes/testing. > Please overwrite the old files and announce the upload as usual. > Note that this update only affects the 'testing' subdirectory. The > 'stable' subdirectory remains unchanged. from the catalogue: The csquotes package provides advanced facilities for inline and display quotations. It is designed for a wide range of tasks ranging from the most simple applications to the more complex demands of formal quotations. > Changes in beta 1: > > * Added support for UTF-8 encoded active quotes > * Modified active quotes, catcode 7 no longer allowed > * Modified delimiters, catcode 3, 4, and 7 no longer allowed > * Added value `once' to package option `babel' > > Changes in beta 2: > > * Modified active quotes, catcode 8 no longer allowed > * Modified delimiters, catcode 8 no longer allowed > * Active quotes may now be defined in the document body > * Renamed RestoreQuotes to EnableQuotes > * Added DeleteQuotes > * Added ExecuteQuoteOptions > * Added new style variant for French > * Improved nesting control for active block quotes > * Ensure that delimiters are robust if they are active i've installed the new material, and am committing a catalogue update as i write. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: xytree
by CTAN Announcements 16 Feb '06

16 Feb '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 St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: xytree Author's name: Koaunghi Un Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/xytree Summary description: tree drawing package using Xy-pic License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The aim of xytree.sty is to draw linguistic syntactic trees with ease and to support hopefully sufficient functionalities, that the linguist may need. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xytree . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is 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: pdftex 1.30.6
by CTAN Announcements 16 Feb '06

16 Feb '06

The package described below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: pdftex 1.30.6 Author's name: Martin Schröder Location on CTAN: /systems/pdftex Summary description: bugfix: updated xpdf to 3.01pl2 License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The pdfTeX team is happy to announce the release of a new stable version: =========================================================================== pdfTeX 1.30.6 =========================================================================== This is the announcement of pdfTeX 1.30.6, 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 1.30.6 =========================================================================== - bugfix: updated xpdf to 3.01pl2 For complete release notes see http://www.pdftex.org/NEWS =========================================================================== Legal notice / license =========================================================================== pdfTeX is copyright (c) 1996-2006 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, February 2006 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive//systems/pdftex . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is 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: Galician-hyphenation
by CTAN Announcements 15 Feb '06

15 Feb '06

New material has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: Galician-hyphenation Author's name: Javier Múgica de Rivera Location on CTAN: /language/hyphenation/glhyph.tex Summary description: Hyphenation patterns for Galician License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- First hyphenation file for Galician. I expect to improve it soon. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/hyphenation/glhyph.tex . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is 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: visualtex
by CTAN Announcements 14 Feb '06

14 Feb '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon appear at your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: visualtex Author's name: Alex Romanenko Location on CTAN: /systems/win32/visualtex Summary description: Visual TeX text editor License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Visual TeX is a free text editor that maintains most useful editing features as in MultiEdit и WinEdit. By default Visual TeX is oriented on MiKTeX system ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/visualtex . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is 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 --- mempatch (memoir class enhancements)
by CTAN Announcements 13 Feb '06

13 Feb '06

Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded mempatch.sty.v45 to UK incoming. Please use this > as a replacement for the current macros/latex/contrib/memoir/mempatch.sty > > Changes in v4.5 (2006/02/10) > o A DisemulatePackage macro to annihilate a previous EmulatedPackage > o Commands to switch trimming marks off and on > o Usual minor fixes thanks for the upload: i've installed it and updated the catalogue. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: probsoln
by CTAN Announcements 12 Feb '06

12 Feb '06

> The Cambridge upload daemon reported: > > ====================================================================== > > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: probsoln > Author's name: Nicola Talbot > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/probsoln/ > Summary description: generates problem sheets and their solution sheets > License type: lppl from the catalogue: The package probsoln.sty is designed for lecturers who have to generate new problem sheets for their students on a regular basis (e.g. yearly) by randomly selecting a specified number of problems defined in another file. > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > New to Version 2.01: > > *Provided means to customise the way in which randomly > selected problems are displayed. > > *Added doforrandN command (like @for but for a random subset of > the specified list.) > > *Added andom command which stores a random number in the given > range in the specified counter. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i've installed the package and updated the catalogue. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN submission -- telprint v1.6
by CTAN Announcements 12 Feb '06

12 Feb '06

On Sun, 12 Feb 2006, Heiko Oberdiek submitted a package called telprint to CTAN. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek/telprint.sty License: LPPL 1.3 Heiko writes: > telprint is a package for formatting German phone numbers. > Current version is 1.6 and is the first version that > goes to CTAN. Some previous versions were published > in de.comp.text.tex or TEX-D-L. > Unhappily most documentation is in German and remember > that this was written in my early TeX days. Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: malayalam-omega
by CTAN Announcements 10 Feb '06

10 Feb '06

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: Omega for Malayalam Author's name: Alex A.J. Location on CTAN: /macros/omega/latex/contrib/malayalam-omega Summary description: A package for typesetting Malayalam using Omega License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package enables typesetting in the Indian language Malayalam using Omega. UTF-8 source files are supported by this package. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/omega/latex/contrib/malayalam-omega . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is 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: csquotes beta release
by CTAN Announcements 10 Feb '06

10 Feb '06

Philipp Lehman writes: > I've placed `csquotes.tar.gz' in the incoming directory of the CTAN UK > node. This release should go into macros/latex/contrib/csquotes. > Please purge the old files, install the new ones, and announce the > upload as usual. from the catalogue: The csquotes package provides advanced facilities for inline and display quotations. It is designed for a wide range of tasks ranging from the most simple applications to the more complex demands of formal quotations. The facilities include commands, environments, and user-definable `smart quotes' which dynamically adjust to their context. Quotation marks are switched automatically if quotations are nested and they can be adjusted to the current language if the babel package is available. There are additional facilities designed to cope with the more specific demands of academic writing, especially in the humanities and the social sciences. All quote styles as well as the optional active quotes are freely configurable. > Note that there are two subdirectories in the archive, stable and > testing. The stable version is essentially the one already on CTAN, > the testing directory contains a beta version for public testing. > Please keep the directory structure intact. This split is only > temporary. > > Thank you very much. > > Changes in the beta version: > > * Added support for UTF-8 encoded active quotes > * Modified active quotes, catcode 7 no longer allowed > * Modified delimiters, catcode 3, 4, and 7 no longer allowed > * Added value `once' to package option `babel' i have installed the package, and perfunctorily updated the catalogue to mention the beta release. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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New CTAN package --- sarabian archaic script bundle
by CTAN Announcements 10 Feb '06

10 Feb '06

Peter Wilson writes: > I have very belatedly uploaded sarabian.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please > install this under /fonts/archaic. The distribution is under the LPPL. > > From the README: > The sarabian bundle provides PostScript Type 1 fonts for the South Arabian > script which was in use for about 1000 years from roughly 600BC. The > original glyphs were the work of Alan Stanier. This is one of a series of > ancient scripts. > > Changes in version 1.1 (2005/11/12) > o Font supplied as Type1 instead of MetaFont. i've installed the package, and a catalogue entry is under way. thanks for the upload Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: active-conf
by CTAN Announcements 09 Feb '06

09 Feb '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thank you for the contribution, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: active-conf Author's name: Will Robertson Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/conferences/active-conf/ Summary description: Class for typesetting ACTIVE conference papers License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- active-conf is a class for typesetting papers for the Active conference on noise and vibration control. Initially intended for the 2006 conference in Adelaide, Australia. It is based on article with more flexible front-matter, and can be customised for future years with a header file. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/conferences/active-con… . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is 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 upload: TOPtesi
by CTAN Announcements 08 Feb '06

08 Feb '06

On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Claudio Beccari submitted a new package called toptesi to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/toptesi Summary description: Bundle of files for typsetting theses in Italy and in other countries; facilities are provided in such a way as to typset the thesis in any language supported by LaTeX. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This bundle contains everything is needed for typesetting a bachelor, master or PhD thesis in Italian or in any other language supported by LaTeX; the infix strings may be selected and specified at will by means of a configuration file, so as to customize the layout of the front page to the requirements of a specific university; thanks to its language management, the bundle is suited for multilanguage theses that are becoming more and more frequent thanks to the double degree programs of the European Comunity Socrates programs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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LaTeX (2005/12/01) Release Beta Test
by CTAN Announcements 07 Feb '06

07 Feb '06

On behalf of the LaTeX Team I'd like to announce the public beta test of the new LaTeX release (officially dated 2005/12/01). Location on CTAN: macros/latex/beta-test This directory contains four zip files: latex2e.zip tools.zip graphics.zip cyrillic.zip Documentation and installation instructions are included in the latex2e.zip archive. Problems should be reported via the normal LaTeX bug reporting mechanism at http://www.latex-project.org/bugs-upload.html Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: pst-3dplot
by CTAN Announcements 07 Feb '06

07 Feb '06

Herbert Voss writes: > I uploaded pst-3dplot.tgz to the uk mirror. > > Please replace all files with the ones in > /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-3dplot/ > > this new version has an updated documentation and > > pst-3dplot.pro -------- > 0.22 2006-01-11 add code for left-handed coor (experimental) > > pst-3dplot.tex -------- > 1.72 2006-02-07 - allow negative direction for the 3D ellipse > - add code for left-handed coor (experimental > and not documented) pst-3dplot is a package using PSTricks to draw a large variety of graphs and plots, including 3D maths functions. Data can be read from external data files, making this package a generic tool for graphing within TeX/LaTeX, without the need for external tools. I've installed the update as requested, and updated the catalogue. Thanks for the upoad. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: dante.ctan.org upload: RATeX
by CTAN Announcements 07 Feb '06

07 Feb '06

On Sun, 5 Feb 2006 Friedrich Vosberg submitted a new package called ratex to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/rtklage Summary description: A package for German lawyers License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- RATeX is an aborning bundle of packages and classes provided for German lawyers. Now in the early beginning it only contains rtklage.cls, a class to make lawsuits. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Sch�pf

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CTAN package update --- phoenician font bundle
by CTAN Announcements 07 Feb '06

07 Feb '06

Peter Wilson writes: > Dear CTAN/Robin, > > I have uploaded archaic.tar.gz and phoenician.tar.gz to UK incoming. > > archaic.tar.gz contains some replacements for the sample files in > fonts/archaic. A new version of the phoenician bundle is in > phoenician.tar.gz. Please use this to replace the current > fonts/archaic/phoenician. > > >From the README: > The phoenician bundle provides PostScript Type1 fonts for the semitic > script in use from about 1600 BC, which formed the basis for all the world's > alphabets. This is one of a series for archaic scripts. > > Changes in version 2.2 (2006/02/05) > o Changes to the glyphs for aleph, lamed, and yod. i've installed the updates, and updated the catalogue. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: marginnote
by CTAN Announcements 07 Feb '06

07 Feb '06

On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Markus Kohm submitted an update to the marginnote package. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/marginnote Summary description: marginnote allows margin note, where marginpar fails License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package provides the command marginnote that may be used instead of marginpar at almost every place, where marginpar cannot be used, e.g. inside floats, footnotes, frames made with framed package ... ---------------------------------------------------------- Changes at version 1.0a: - Some fixes at the documentation. - marginfont is defined using providecommand ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN upload: png2pdf-1.0.11
by CTAN Announcements 06 Feb '06

06 Feb '06

On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Dirk Krause submitted an update to the png2pdf package, a PNG to PDF converter. Location on CTAN: /support/png2pdf License type: bsd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Bugfix in the Makefile. Corrections were applied to a cp command. It must copy files only, but should not abort the make process when finding subdirectories. So the command was changed from cp ... to -cp .... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: microtype
by CTAN Announcements 03 Feb '06

03 Feb '06

The package listed below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon make their way to your favorite mirror. Thank you; have a nice weekend, Jim ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: microtype Author's name: R Schlicht Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/microtype Summary description: An interface to the micro-typographic extensions of pdfTeX License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================== Changes in version 1.9c: ------------------------ * protrusion settings for URW Garamond (ugm) * add example for context sensitive setup to the documentation * fix two minor bugs (one of them introduced in 1.9b) Changes in version 1.9b: ------------------------ * fix for possible incompatibility with the listings package * add samples of micro-typographic extensions to the documentation * beta: register extls and lsstyle commands with soul's scanner ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/microtype . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is 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 upload: marginnote
by CTAN Announcements 03 Feb '06

03 Feb '06

On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Markus Kohm submitted the new package marginnote to CTAN. This package provides the command marginnote that may be used instead of marginpar at almost every place, where marginpar cannot be used, e.g. inside floats, footnotes, frames made with the framed package ... Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/marginnote Summary description: marginnote allows margin note, where marginpar fails License type: lppl Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN upload: The umlaute package v2.1
by CTAN Announcements 01 Feb '06

01 Feb '06

On Wed, 1 Feb 2006 Axel Sommerfeldt submitted The umlaute package v2.1 to CTAN. This is some kind of pre-historic `inputenc' package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/umlaute/ License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This about-10-years-overdue update reduces the `umlaute' package to a simple loader of the `inputenc' package. (And gives an `obsolete' warning.) But the input encoding definition files `atari.def' (for ATARI ST(E)/TT/Falcon(TM)) and `roman8' (for HP-UX(TM)) are still usefull since they are missing in the LaTeX2e `inputenc' package distribution. (These 2 files have been cleaned up from the crap inside and have been adapted to the current `inputenc' package.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Sch�pf

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CTAN update: LM Fonts for BaKoMa TeX
by CTAN Announcements 01 Feb '06

01 Feb '06

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Basil K. Malyshev submitted an update to the bakoma package. Location on CTAN: systems/win32/bakoma/fonts He writes: > lmodern.bkz module installs > OpenType forms of Latin Modern fonts > under BaKoMa TeX with proper configuration. > Note: PFB/AFM font files are not included > because BaKoMa TeX can use OpenType fonts > for all types of output (PDF, SVG, PS, View, Print). Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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