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CTAN update: The lhfonts package 3.5e
by CTAN Announcements 24 Jul '06

24 Jul '06

On Sun, 23 Jul 2006, Olga Lapko submitted an update to the lh fonts package. Location on CTAN: /fonts/cyrillic/lh Summary description: CyrTUG Cyrillic alphabet fonts (LH) with support of LaTeX standard encodings License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CyrTUG Cyrillic alphabet fonts (LH) with support of LaTeX standard encodings. The LH fonts address the problem of the wide variety of alphabets that are written with Cyrillic-style characters. The fonts are the original basis of the set of T2* and X2 encodings that are now used when LaTeX users need to write in Cyrillic languages. LH offers the latex/lhfonts bundle of packages for standard LaTeX Cyrillic and traditional encodings. The fonts are available in Adobe Type 1 format, in the CM-Super family of fonts. See also cyrillic t2 ccfonts cmbright concrete ecc. The authors are Andrey Khodulev, Olga Lapko, Alexander Berdnikov and Vladimir Volovich. ----- Changes: Minor changes in documentation. Deleted overlapping with cyrillic bundle of font definitions files. Added file nfssfox - extension of testfont/nfssfont files with eXtension of able command (xtable: adds decimal codes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: pst-pdf v1.1n
by CTAN Announcements 24 Jul '06

24 Jul '06

On Sun, 23 Jul 2006, Rolf Niepraschk submitted an update to the pst-pdf package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/pst-pdf *NOTE* changed from: graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-pdf Summary description: A LaTeX package to integrate PostScript code into a PDF output. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes: o ofiles added for the LaTeX run. o Added missing files to process the example. o Merge english and german version of the documentation. o Improved script `ps4pdf'. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: pst-barcode
by CTAN Announcements 24 Jul '06

24 Jul '06

Herbert Voss writes: > I uploaded a new version of pst-barcode.tgz to > the uk mirror. > > please replace all files with the existing ones in > /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-barcode/ > > The pst-barcode package allows printing of barcodes. > Possible barcodes are: > EAN-13 -- EAN-8 -- UPC-A -- UPC-E -- EAN-5 -- EAN-2 -- > ISBN-10 and ISBN-13 -- Code-39 -- Code-128 and UCC/EAN-128 -- > Rationalized Codabar -- Interleaved 2 of 5 and ITF-14 -- > Code 2 of 5 -- Postnet -- Royal Mail -- > Kix (Customer index) - Dutch Mail -- Australian postal service -- > onecode -- Symbol -- MSI -- Plessey -- Reduced Space Symbology (RSS) -- > rss14 -- rsslimited -- rssexpanded i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue. thanks for the upload > this new version has the following changes: > ----- pst-barcode.tex > 0.04 2006-07-23 - printing the code from the current point and > no more from the origin > 0.03 2005-07-26 - Changes to the documentation and the syntax > of psbarcode (hv) > 0.02 2005-07-26 - first version (hv) > > > ----- pst-barcode.sty > 0.02 2006-07-23 message for pst-barcode.pro loading > 0.01 2005-07-26 first version (hv) > > > ----- pst-barcode.pro > 2006-03-04 - An encoder for the Reduced Space Symbology > RSS Expanded was added. > - The incorrect definition of the USPS FIM-B symbol > was fixed. > - An encoder for the Reduced Space Symbology RSS Limited > was added. > The efficiency of RSS-14 was improved. > - An encoder for the new OneCode symbology used by the US > Postal Service was added. > - The FIM symbols now render according to their > specification. > - The Postnet, Royal Mail, AusPost and KIX encoders > were amended > so that the metrics of their default symbols confirms > strongly to their respective specifications. > - The encoders now pass an array containing the widths of the > bar space succession to the renderer allowing for sub-point > horizontal precision. > - The default border positions for EAN and UPC symbols were > amended to properly enclose the human readable text. > - The colour support code was fixed to prevent overwriting of > the current colour when values are left unspecified. > - The logic to guard whitespace in EAN symbols was migrated > from the encoders to the renderer. > - The whitespace guard symbols are now drawn directly making > them > independant of any font. > - The inter-guard bar height of EANs and UPCs was amended. > - The renderer was amended to support the passing of encoder > specific arguments. > - The options barcolor, textcolor, bordercolor, > showbackground > and backgroundcolor were added to the renderer. > - A flaw in the derivation of the top border height was > fixed. > - add support for the new ISBN-13 > - printing the code from the current point > - The performance of the renderer was improved by avoiding > unnecessary calls of setfont > - The auspost encoder was extended to support the customer > information field. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: chessboard
by CTAN Announcements 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

The package below has been updated 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: chessboard Author's name: Ulrike Fischer Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/chessboard Summary description: A package to print chessboards License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: No ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANGES I rearranged and rewrote the keys and commands for the pgf-pictures. Now all styles and marks can be used in the foreground and in the background. I added definitions for partial borders. I extended the trim and clip commands. xifthen is now required. ATTENTION Upgrading to this version can change the look of existing document. Notably two things can give problems: The value of the padding key now affects much more objects (marks) in the pgf pictures. So it could be necessary to reset the padding. And the applycolor has changed its behaviour. It will now also affect the foreground picture. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/chessboard . 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 .

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CTAN package update: pst-optic
by CTAN Announcements 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

Herbert Voss writes: > I uploaded pst-optic to the uk mirror. > Please replace all files with the existing ones in > /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-optic pst-optic is a pstricks-based bundle for drawing geometric optics diagrams. > Changes for this version: > > ---- pst-optic.tex > 0.95 2006-07-20 - fix spurious blanks > - use def instead of edef > for the keyval definitions > - some improvements to the code i've installed the update, and am updating the catalogue. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: minitoc version 46
by CTAN Announcements 20 Jul '06

20 Jul '06

Jean-Pierre Drucbert writes: > I have uploaded a new version (#46) of the minitoc package in > the /incoming directory of ftp.tex.ac.uk . > > This package should completely replace its previous version in > > tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/minitoc/ > > The licence is LPPL. > > This package allows the creation of mini-tables of contents, > lists of figures or lists of tables per part, chapter or > section, with language dependent titles. > > This new version has the following changes or improvements: > > ======================================================================= > Minitoc version #46 > -- Added a comment about the thailatex package. > -- Generation of some example files with minitoc.dtx/minitoc.ins: > 2c.tex, add.tex, addsec.tex, app-mem.tex, apx.tex, bo.tex, > ch0.tex, cri.tex, fo1.tex, fo2.tex, gaps.tex, hia.tex, hide1.tex, > hide2.tex, hir.tex, hop.tex, livre.tex, mem.tex, mem1.tex, > mini-art.tex, minitoc-ex.tex, mu.tex, scr.tex, second.tex, > subf.tex, tbi.tex, tlc.tex, tsfc.tex, and the resulting .pdf files. > Note that the code of theses example files is documented. > -- Added a chapter ``Examples of documents''. > -- Used the lipsum package in some of the examples of documents. > -- Corrections about the depth of minilofs, minilots and siblings. > -- Corrections in french2.mld. > -- Updated the jargon chapter and the bibliography. > -- In the history, the not released versions are now flagged by > extbf{ extreferencemark} in place of ensuremath{star} > (for released versions). > -- The ``About this document'' section becomes a starred first chapter. > It is VERY STRONGLY RECOMMENDED to read this short chapter. > -- Corrections in add.tex and addsec.tex for the index. > -- Added the xmk script to typeset the examples into PDF documents. > -- Updated the scripts to treat the examples. > -- Do not forget jobname.mtc1 in the list of files. > -- In the scripts, the backup directory (OLD) is now /tmp/USERNAME/OLD. > -- In the scripts, the repartition directories (CL[0-9]) are now > /tmp/USERNAME/CL[0-9]. > ======================================================================= > > The admistrative trivia are in the `catalog' file in the > distribution. > > Note that the documentation is mainly available in PDF form, > -- in english (not perfect): minitoc.pdf > -- in french: fminitoc.pdf > > The INSTALL file (and, better, the ``Installation'' chapter in the > documentation) describes the files of this package (the list > of files is in minitoc.l). i've installed the new version as requested, and pushed it out the the other ctan sites; i've also updated the tex catalogue entry. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: Finomaton
by CTAN Announcements 17 Jul '06

17 Jul '06

On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, Markus Triska submitted an update to the Finomaton package. Finomaton allows users to comfortably draw and typeset finite state machines (automata). The resulting graphs can be exported to plain MetaPost and subsequently be included in TeX and LaTeX documents for excellent typesetting quality. Contrary to many other packages, the mouse can be used to interactively move objects around. States are magnetic to facilitate connection, and any TeX command can be embedded in the labels of states and lines. Location on CTAN: /graphics/finomaton Summary description: Comfortably draw and typeset finite state machines License type: GPL Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Add spread functions, more keyboard shortcuts and rudimentary support for directed graphs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team, Joachim Schrod

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CTAN package update: ConTeXt
by CTAN Announcements 17 Jul '06

17 Jul '06

The package described below has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: ConTeXt Author's name: Taco Hoekwater Location on CTAN: /macros/context/current Summary description: ConTeXt 2006.07.14 release License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I am pleased to announce that the new ConTeXt release from Hans Hagen can be downloaded as of now. The current release has version 2006.07.14 A very short list of changes is given below. As usual, there is an html page with more detailed release notes available on the Wiki, see: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Release_Notes New features since 2006.05.11: * The use of sometxt in MetaPost figures (instead of extext) can (sometimes) remove the need for indirect texexec runs, resulting in a massive speed improvement for heavy documents. * Table splitting is reimplemented and improved * Initial support for the new TeXGyre font families * A new release of the bib module, with better support for interaction and per-chapter bibliographies * Some small extensions to framed * The database module now supports ASCII (non-TeX) files with CSV quoting * setupformulae accepts a conversion parameter now * More built in math support (matrices etc.) * A prerelease of the koeieletters font * A new module for R integration * Itemizations can be randomized (for multiple-choice courseware) * Support for typesetting OpenMath (via MathML) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/context/current . 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 update: bigfoot and perpage
by CTAN Announcements 17 Jul '06

17 Jul '06

On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, David Kastrup submitted the bigfoot package to CTAN. This will-publicized bundle is now available from CTAN for the first time. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/bigfoot Summary description: bigfoot bundle for typesetting footnotes License type: GPL Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the bigfoot bundle for critical typesetting, consisting of the packages bigfoot, perpage and suffix. The package aims to provide a one-stop solution to requirements for footnotes. It offers: -- Multiple footnote apparatus superior to that of manyfoot; -- Footnotes can be formatted in separate paragraphs, or be run into a single paragraph (this choice may be selected per footnote series); -- Things you might have expected (like verb-like material in footnotes, and colour selections over page breaks) now work. perpage supersedes perpage.sty in macros/latex/contrib/misc, the latter was removed to avoid confusion. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team, Joachim Schrod

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CTAN update: visualtex
by CTAN Announcements 14 Jul '06

14 Jul '06

On Thu, 13 Jul 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 Summary description: A TeX-oriented visual editor for Windows platforms License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- final version 3.0 I suppose that in nearest time it will remains without changes. Editor macro are editable now. Simple macro script compiler is added. Small bugs are fixed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team, Joachim Schrod

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CTAN update: nag
by CTAN Announcements 13 Jul '06

13 Jul '06

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 Martin Wiebusch submitted an update to the talk package. The talk document class allows you to create slides for screen presentations or printing on transparencies. It also allows you to print personal notes for your talk. You can create overlays and display structure information (current section / subsection, table of contents) on your slides. The main feature that distinguishes talk from other presentation classes like beamer or prosper is that it allows the user to define an arbitrary number of slide styles and switch between these styles from slide to slide. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/talk Summary description: A LaTeX class for presentations License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - bug concerning the papersize in screen mode when compiled under pdflatex was fixed - itle and author commands now support short versions as optional arguments The last version had a major bug in it that made the package useless when you are compiling with pdflatex. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Joachim Schrod

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CTAN package update: SIstyle 2.1
by CTAN Announcements 12 Jul '06

12 Jul '06

Danie Els provokes the system to mail me with: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: SIstyle 2.1 > Author's name: Danie Els > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/SIstyle > Summary description: Package to typeset SI units, numbers and angles > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The SIstyle package typeset SI units, numbers and angles according > to the ISO requirements. Care is taken with font setup and > requirements. > > Whats new?: Additional user configuration commands to work with > fonts such as arev. > > Help with the definition of more locales will be grately appreciated. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i've installed the package as requested, and am just now checking-in an update to the catalogue. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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New package at CTAN: qtree
by CTAN Announcements 12 Jul '06

12 Jul '06

I wake up to mail saying: > Name of contribution: qtree > Author's name: Alexis Dimitriadis > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/qtree > Summary description: A LaTeX package for drawing tree structures > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Qtree is a LaTeX package for drawing tree diagrams, and is > especially suitable for linguistics use. It allows trees to be > specified in a simple bracket notation, automatically calculates > branch sizes, and supports both DVI/PostScript and PDF output. > > This is Qtree version 3.1, 10 July 2006. Qtree is distributed under > the LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL). > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I've installed the package as suggested, and am making an entry in the catalogue; thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: ednotes for scholarly critical editions
by CTAN Announcements 10 Jul '06

10 Jul '06

On Sun, 9 Jul 2006, Uwe Lück submitted an update to the ednotes package. Ednotes is a macro package for typesetting scholarly critical editions. Provides macros for critical edition typesetting with LaTeX, including support for line numbers and layers of footnotes. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ednotes Summary description: Customizing footnote rules; overlapping moving lemmas License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Customizing (different) footnote rules -- as invented by Christian Tapp and Alex Rozhenko, implemented in manyfoot v1.5 -- is now supported by ednotes at last. To learn more on this new feature, please search ednotes.sty for `Customizing *footnote rules*'. One application for this is demonstrated in file varnrule.tex . 2. Overlapping lemmas work as I had desired for a long time -- especially in moving arguments (e.g. section titles). Moreover, my recent work on this had introduced another bug -- that is fixed only now. Macros IfLemmaTag and IfTypesetting become public in case you need something more special/general concerning overlapping lemmas and/or moving arguments than what has been provided so far. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: nag
by CTAN Announcements 08 Jul '06

08 Jul '06

On Sat, 8 Jul 2006 Ulrich M. Schwarz submitted an update to the nag package. This package provides routines to warn the user about the use of outdated and superseded commands, classes and packages. As an example, it provides an extension that detects many of the ``sins'' described in l2tabu. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/nag Summary description: Detecting obsolete commands and packages License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes in version 0.5: * new option orthodox finds even more reasons to bother the user: commands used as environments and vice versa. * fixed bug in package detection. * hopefully fixed scoping bug, yet again. * changed configuration file names to free up extension. * shuffled documentation to include the configuration files. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: l2picfaq
by CTAN Announcements 07 Jul '06

07 Jul '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at the mirror that you like best. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: l2picfaq Author's name: Dominik Bischoff Location on CTAN: /info/l2picfaq/german/ Summary description: LaTeX Bilder How-To (Häufigste Fragen und Antworten) License type: other Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- English: Collection of questions about LaTeX and pictures. The idea was, that every problem could be solved by giving a solution in form of some sample-code. Deutsch: Sammlung der häufigsten Fragen über Bilder, die im Zusammenhang mit LaTeX auftauchen. Die Idee dahinter: Jedes Problem kann gelöst werden, indem ein kurzer Beispielcode angegeben wird. Veröffentlicht unter der GNU free documentation license. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/l2picfaq/german/ . 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: visualtex
by CTAN Announcements 06 Jul '06

06 Jul '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: visualtex Author's name: Alex Romanenko Location on CTAN: systems/win32/visualtex Summary description: major upgrade (isspell functions added) License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Spell check functions are completely rewritten. Now there it is available to use ISSPELL/ASPELL/MYSPELL dictionaries together with simple word lists (like winedit dictionaries) with simple management. Automatic spell check is available. In addition if is possible to change manually cherecter set for automatic spelling (i.e. latin, non-latin or all letters). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 packages upgraded: FrenchPro and Frenchle V5,998
by CTAN Announcements 05 Jul '06

05 Jul '06

Bernard Gaulle writes: > I just upload to ftp.tex.ac.uk the archive frenchpro.tar.gz which > is the updated version V5,998 of FrenchPro. This is all the material > to replace the nonfree language/french/frenchpro. > FrenchPro is distributed as shareware with all source files ; it > is designed for typesetting professional French documents and can > work alone as a LaTeX package as well as an option of Babel or MLP. > This distribution is using the keyboard package along with the msg > package for localization. i-installers are included for all > platforms: Windows, Unix, macOs X, Linux and co. > This is an intermediate update with major changes, specially in the > FrenchPro shell to access to kpsewhich, for TeXshop too and bug correction > when using label in math mode or in equation environment. > The FrenchPro web site is at http://frenchpro6.com/french/ the new version of the frenchle package has merely cosmetic changes. i've installed the new versions of the two packages on ctan at: language/french/frenchle (licence lppl) nonfree/language/french/frenchpro (licence shareware) i've also updated their respective catalogue entries, in the repository. thanks for the uploads. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: draftwatermark
by CTAN Announcements 03 Jul '06

03 Jul '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon appear at your favorite mirror. Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: draftwatermark Author's name: Sergio Callegari Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/draftwatermark Summary description: Put a gray textual watermark on document pages License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The draftwatermark package extends LaTeX providing a means to add a textual, light gray watermark on every page or on the first page of a document. Typical usage may consist in writing words such as DRAFT or CONFIDENTIAL across document pages. The package may remind in some sense draftcopy by Dr. Juergen Vollmer, but its implementation is much lighter (as the reduced code footprint shows) and does not rely on postscript specials, making the package fully compatible with pdfLaTeX. The package depends on package everypage by the same author. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/draftwatermark . 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: flippdf
by CTAN Announcements 03 Jul '06

03 Jul '06

A new package has bee installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: flippdf Author's name: Sergio Callegari Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/flippdf Summary description: Horizontal flipping of pages with pdfLaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The flippdf package extends LaTeX making it possible to typeset a mirrored version of the document. This is sometimes required by publishers who want camera-ready documents to be printable on transparent films, so that one reads the pages correctly by looking through the film (i.e., with the unprinted side of the film towards his eyes. This package requires everypage by the same author and works with pdfLaTeX only. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/flippdf . 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: everypage
by Jim Hefferon 03 Jul '06

03 Jul '06

A new package has been installed 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: everypage Author's name: Sergio Callegari Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/everypage Summary description: Provides hooks to be run on every page of a document License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The everypage package extends LaTeX providing hooks to perform actions on every page or on the current page. Specifically, actions are performed after the page is composed, but before it is shipped, so they can be used to prepare the output page in tasks like putting watermarks in the background, setting the next page layout, etc. The package reminds in some sense bobhook.sty by Karsten Tinnefeld, but it differs in the way hooks are implemented, as detailed in the everypage documentation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/everypage . 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 update: bezos packages
by CTAN Announcements 01 Jul '06

01 Jul '06

The material described below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you again, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: CTAN update - bezos packages Author's name: Javier Bezos Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/bezos Summary description: Miscellaneous packages by Javier Bezos License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This directory contains several small packages by Javier Bezos: esindex, accents, tensind, dotlessi and checkend. What's new: - Updated contact address - Critical bug in esindex fixed: missing accents in multilevel entries. - Bug in accents fixed: misplaced accents with operators. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/bezos . 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: starfont
by CTAN Announcements 30 Jun '06

30 Jun '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: starfont Author's name: Matthew Skala Location on CTAN: /fonts/ps-type1/starfont Summary description: Support for the StarFont Sans astrological font License type: pd Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- StarFont Sans is a popular font of astrological symbols designed by Anthony I.P. Owen; this package provides macro support for using it with LaTeX. The font itself must be obtained separately. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/ps-type1/starfont . 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: the UK TeX FAQ
by CTAN Announcements 30 Jun '06

30 Jun '06

I am pleased to announce version 3.16 of the UK TeX FAQ; it has been installed at the Cambridge node, and should be somewhere near you really soon. The FAQ is LaTeX-oriented, but has a fair amount aimed to help and interest Plain TeX users. Users of other macro packages may not find it terribly helpful (but then, Context users always have contextgarden...). I append the changes file below. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team Changes in version 3.16 These are changes from 3.15a, which incorporated a couple of minor corrections made on the day 3.15 was uploaded New answers: Label chngmargonfly: changing the document's margins on the fly Label doc-wiki: catalogue of known tex-related WIKIs Label fonts-pln: sophisticated font selection macros in Plain TeX Label gutter: the problem with two-sided document margins Label marginmanual: setting up the document's margins by hand Label marginpkgs: packages for setting up the document's margins Label matchbrak: matching [] in optional arguments, etc. Label newfont: why shouldn't I use ewfont in LaTeX? Label poster: summary of the inadequate state of support for posters Label repeatgrf: repeated graphics in documents Label whatbst: choosing a BibTeX style Label whatpdftex: PDFTeX has entered the mainstream (actually, it did some time ago, but I've now recognised that in the FAQ) Answers removed: Label pdftex: I think pdftex is no longer research -- see label whatpdftex Revised answers: Label ant: correct home page reference Label changemargin: rehashed as intro and list of links to (new) instruction answers marginpkgs, marginmanual and chngmargonfly Label complist: mention multenum package Label cv: europecv has improved, and there's a new class moderncv Label dvipsgraphics: extend discussion of bitmap graphics in dvips Label drawing: correct URL for pstricks site Label findfiles: remove mention of the (long dead) quote site index, add the catalogue bytopic.html Label fmtconv: troff-to-latex no longer available Label newfunction: mention operatorname command Label labundef: mention labelcas package Label labelfig: mention iTe editor, correct URL on pstricks page Label man-tex: correct URL for Andy Roberts' page Label man-latex: add Chris Harrison's web manual Label rotating: mention rotfloat package Label seccntformat: correction of suggested code Label secthead: remove 2.09 font commands from simple example Label struttab: mention new cellspace package Label texsystems: mention w32tex (from japan) -- capable of being a minimal system Label tutbitslatex: correct URL for the pTeX description, add link to Smith's LaTeX for logicians Label usepictex: correct stuff about mathspic package Label verbwithin: make clear problems apply to verbatim environment, too Label xetex: simplify the answer (the details are all on the web site, anyway), and mention the new linux port Presentation: LaTeX ``...'' quotes in the source used to be converted to the ascii double-quote character in the HTML; this is changed to use the HTML entities for typographic quotes (similarly for single quotes and apostrophes). A minor change to html generation has been made, inserting paragraph elements after block quotes: this makes CSS-controlled display more regular (a CSS sheet is used in the code generated for the new CGI engine -- see below). Building the FAQ now requires e-TeX (or rather [pdf-]e-LaTeX); this should not be a problem unless your TeX distribution is a bit aged. Future releases: This release is wildly overdue (even making allowance for my extended illness). If I can find the time to do so, I intend in future to release anything that's available, around the end of each month. Full releases, with batches of new questions, may still be long delayed, but I hope not. Coming up (still): I have a far more efficient CGI engine for serving answers to the web; those of a strong constitution may view the experimental testbed at: URL http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html-gamma It is missing a search engine, various links and topping and tailing of answers; it uses Cambridge University's default CSS sheet in a non-standard way; and, crucially it lacks **SUPPORT**. I welcome suggestions for improving the way I do things, but I can't claim it will always work. Mechanisms whereby I can point to the CTAN catalogue from FAQ answers remains as a background task; I suggested several ways (last time) in which such links would be valuable.

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CTAN update: antt, iwona, kurier fonts
by CTAN Announcements 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, Staszek Wawrykiewicz submitted updates for the font packages antt (v2.06) iwona (v0.97) kurier (v0.97) All are located in CTAN'S fonts directory tree. See below for more information. Thanks for the upload. ------ Package: antt Version: 2.06 Author: Janusz Marian Nowacki License: GFNL (GUST-FONT-NOSOURCE-LICENSE based on LPPL) Location on CTAN: fonts/antt/ In the current version (2.06) some new glyphs were added: Breveinverted, Hbar.small, Ubreveinvertedlow, Ubreveinvertedlow.small, breveinverted, breveinvertedlow, dotlessi.small, dotlessj.small, ubreveinvertedlow. Also encoding files were corrected. ------ Package: iwona Version: 0.97 Author: Janusz Marian Nowacki License: GFNL (GUST-FONT-NOSOURCE-LICENSE based on LPPL) Location on CTAN: fonts/iwona/ Iwona is a two-element sans-serif typeface. It was created as an alternative version of the Kurier typeface, which was designed in 1975 for a diploma in typeface design at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts under the supervision of Roman Tomaszewski. Kurier was designed for linotype typesetting of newspapers and similar periodicals. The Iwona fonts are an alternative version of the Kurier fonts. The difference lies in the absence of ink traps which typify the Kurier font. This distribution contains a significantly extended set of characters covering the following modern alphabets: latin (including Vietnamese), cyrillic and greek as well as a number of additional symbols (including mathematical symbols). The fonts are prepared in Type 1 and OpenType formats. For use with TeX the following encoding files have been prepared: T1 (ec), T2 (abc), and OT2 -- cirilic, T5 (Vietnamese), OT4, QX, texansi and nonstandard (IL2 for the Czech fonts), as well as supporting macros and files defining fonts for LaTeX. The doc/fonts/iwona folder contains examples for plain TeX as well as for LaTeX and an example of typesetting mathematics. In the current version (0.97) some new glyphs were added: Breveinverted, Hbar.small, Ubreveinvertedlow, Ubreveinvertedlow.small, breveinverted, breveinvertedlow, dotlessi.small, dotlessj.small, ubreveinvertedlow. Also encoding files were corrected. ------ Package: kurier Version: 0.97 Author: Janusz Marian Nowacki License: GFNL (GUST-FONT-NOSOURCE-LICENSE based on LPPL) Location on CTAN: fonts/kurier/ Kurier is a two-element sans-serif typeface. It was designed for a diploma in typeface design at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts under the supervision of Roman Tomaszewski. The result was presented with other Polish typefaces at the ATypI conference in Warsaw in 1975. Kurier was intended for linotype typesetting of newspapers and similar periodicals. The design goals included resistance to technological processes destructive to the letter shapes. As a result, amongst others, the typeface distinguishes itself through intra- and extra-letter white spaces as well as ink traps at cross-sections of some elements constituting the characters. This distribution contains a significantly extended set of characters covering the following modern alphabets: latin (including Vietnamese), cyrillic and greek as well as a number of additional symbols (including mathematical symbols). The fonts are prepared in Type 1 and OpenType formats. For use with TeX the following encoding files have been prepared: T1 (ec), T2 (abc), and OT2 -- cirilic, T5 (Vietnamese), OT4, QX, texansi and nonstandard (IL2 for the Czech fonts), as well as supporting macros and files defining fonts for LaTeX. The doc/fonts/kurier folder contains examples for plain TeX as well as for LaTeX and an example of typesetting mathematics. In the current version (0.97) some new glyphs were added: Breveinverted, Hbar.small, Ubreveinvertedlow, Ubreveinvertedlow.small, breveinverted, breveinvertedlow, dotlessi.small, dotlessj.small, ubreveinvertedlow. Also encoding files were corrected. ---------------------------------- For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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