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Re: msg package update V 0.31
by CTAN Announcements 16 Mar '05

16 Mar '05

Bernard Gaulle writes: > I upload on ftp.tex.ac.uk an update of msg, the localization package > for LaTeX package/class writers. It should not change (if no bug...) > until any new language will be added. > > The upload on ftp.tex.ac.uk is: msg.tar.gz > Ctan directory: macros/latex/contrib/msg > > % This file may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of > % the LaTeX Project Public License as of http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt > % > % This file has the LPPL maintenance status maintained. > % The current maintainer is Bernard.Gaulle at idris.fr > > V 0.31 mods: added a noop option and a user's guide thanks for the upload. i've installed it in cambridge, and triggered mirroring. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: xcolor 2.01
by CTAN Announcements 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 Uwe Kern submitted version 2.01 of his xcolor package to CTAN. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/xcolor/ Summary description: Driver-independent color extensions for LaTeX and pdfLaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2005/03/15 v2.01 * New features: - `prologue' option for comprehensive `named' color support in conjunction with `dvips': on-the-fly generation of PostScript prologue files with all color definitions, ready for dvips inclusion and/or post-processing with device-specific parameters (e.g., spot colors); - dvips prologue file xcolor.pro to support additional `named' colors; - colorlet may now also be used to create named colors from arbitrary color expressions; - enhanced color definition syntax to allow for target-model specific color parameters, e.g. definecolor{red}{rgb/cmyk}{1,0,0/0,1,1,0}, facilitating the usage of tailor-made colors both for displays and printers; - `deferred definition' of colors: preparecolor and definecolors enable decoupling of color specification and control sequence generation, especially useful (= memory saving) for large lists of colors, of which only a few names are actually used; - `dvipsnames*' and `svgnames*' options to support deferred definition. * Changes: - higher accuracy: most complement calculations are now exact for all 5-digit decimals; - angeRGB and similar variables may now be changed at any point in a document; - aftergroupdef now performs only a first-level expansion of its code argument; - XCfileversion and similar internal constants removed from .sty and .def files; - improved memory management (reduced generation of `multiletter control sequences' by @ifundefined tests); - several internal macros improved and/or renamed. * Bugfixes: - XC@getcolor could cause unwanted spaces when psset was used inside |pspicture| environments (`pstricks'); - arithmetic overflow could happen when too many decimal digits were used within color parameters, e.g. as a result of `fp' calculations. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: BaKoMa TeX 7.10 - e-TeX for TeXWord - WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor.
by CTAN Announcements 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Basil Malyshev submitted an update to his bakoma package to CTAN. Location on CTAN: nonfree/systems/win32/bakoma > New version works with improved implementation of e-TeX > which supports following: > > 1) BaKoMa TeX Word -- True WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor; > 2) Dynamical Preview with support of dual caret; > 3) DVI Forward/Reverse Search with character precision positioning; > 4) E option at TeX error brings to proper column of source; > 5) Automatical generation of BB-files for imported graphics; > 6) TCX tables; > 7) It is based on TeX version 3.141592 (instead of 3.14159). > > See also: > <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/etex.html> > > More details about changes see at: > <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes7.html> > > Bye. > Basil K. Malyshev > 14-Mar-2005 > > > -------------------- About BaKoMa TeX 7.10 ------------------ > > BaKoMa TeX 7.10 supports two coexisting IDE: > 1) BaKoMa TeX Word - True WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor [New in V 7.0]. > 2) Text Editor + DVI Viewer - Clasical IDE. > > About BaKoMa TeX Word. > > BaKoMa TeX Word is True WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor. > > The word `True' is used to highlight two following facts: > > 1) It is True WYSIWYG Editor. > It means that display shows precisely the same what will be printed. > It looks such that you edit your document immediately in DVI Viewer. > 2) It is True LaTeX Editor. > It edits LaTeX source text without any import/export procedure. > It means that you can load and edit any LaTeX 2e document. > > BaKoMa TeX Word is built on top of BaKoMa TeX graphic engine and > consequently it inherits all features of BaKoMa TeX related > with import graphics, font support, and document export. > > It supports processors: > (1) Standard TeX and (2) e-TeX. > Other processors such Omega may be added in future. > > It imports: > EPS, PDF, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, > MSP, BMP, WMF, EMF, FIG, HPGL, and DXY. > It supports fonts: > OpenType (OTF/TTF), TrueType, PostScript Type1 (including MM), > PostScript Type 3, and TeX PK/VF. > It exports: > DVI, PDF, SVG, PS, PNG (with HTML wrapper), and HTML (TeX4HT). > > It includes built-in PostScript interpreter accessible via DVIPS > compatible special interface that supports such macro packages as: > Prosper, PSTricks, PSFrag, graphics (psfig), draftcopy, etc. > > Most important application of BaKoMa TeX Word is > final step corrections of LaTeX papers before publishing. > > Editing Prosper's slides in WYSIWYG interface > is another impressive feature of `BaKoMa TeX Word'. > > More information about `BaKoMa TeX Word' is at: > <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/texword.html> > > Some snapshots are available at: > <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/snapshots/> > > Root of BaKoMa TeX distributions is at: > <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/> > Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN upload: lshort-bulgarian
by CTAN Announcements 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 Stefka Karakoleva submitted to CTAN the bulgarian translation of The not so short introduction to LaTeX2e. Name of contribution: lshort-bulgarian Location on CTAN: info/lshort/bulgarian/ Summary description: Bulgarian translation of The not so short introduction to LaTeXe License type: pd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The booklet The not so short introduction to LaTeXe in Bulgarian language ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: etaremune v1.0
by CTAN Announcements 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, Hendri Adriaens submitted the new package etaremune to CTAN. Location on CTAN:/macros/latex/contrib/etaremune License: LPPL etaremune v1.0 --------------------------------------------------- This package implements the etaremune environment which is similar to the enumerate environment, except that labels are decreasing instead of increasing. This package provides an alternative to the revnum package which uses a lot of counters. See for more information the pdf documentation of this package. --------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN upload: breakurl
by CTAN Announcements 13 Mar '05

13 Mar '05

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 Vilar Camara Neto submitted a new package breakurl to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/breakurl Summary description: The breakurl is an extension to hyperref package that allows line-breakable url-like links when compiling via latex + dvips + ps2pdf. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package provides a command much like hyperref's url that typesets a URL using a typewriter-like font. However, if the dvips driver is being used, the original url doesn't allow line breaks in the middle of the created link: the link comes in one atomic piece. This package allows such line breaks in the generated links. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: isodate 2.27
by CTAN Announcements 13 Mar '05

13 Mar '05

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Harald Harders submitted version 2.27 of his package isodate to CTAN. >From the README: Tune the output format of dates. This package provides ten output formats of the commands oday, printdate, printdateTeX, and daterange (partly language dependent): ISO (yyyy-mm-dd), numeric (e.g. dd.,mm.~yyyy), short (e.g. dd.,mm.,yy), TeX (yyyy/mm/dd), original (e.g. dd. mmm yyyy), short original (e.g. dd. mmm yy), as well as numerical formats with Roman numerals for the month. The commands printdate and printdateTeX print any date. The date is given as an argument using the actual date format for output: printdate{yyyy-mm-dd}, printdate{dd.mm.yyyy}, or printdate{dd/mm/yyyy}, and printdateTeX{yyyy/mm/dd}. The command daterange prints a date range and leaves out unnecessary year or month entries. E.g. 2000-05-03 to 2000-05-08 leads to `2000-05-03 to 08'. ChangeLog: 2005/03/11 v2.27 Harald Harders (h.harders(a)tu-bs.de) - Add option british. 2005/03/10 v2.26 Harald Harders (h.harders(a)tu-bs.de) - Support different input formats containing slashes. - Force year in four digits for long formats. 2005/02/21 v2.25 Harald Harders (h.harders(a)tu-bs.de) - Changed year, month, and day from macros to counters. - Warning for unknown languages. - Fall-back format for unknown languages. Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: poemscol 2.02 (bug fix)
by CTAN Announcements 10 Mar '05

10 Mar '05

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 John Burt submitted version 2.02 of the poemscol package to CTAN. The poemscol package is a set of LaTeX macros for typesetting critical editions of poetry. Its features include automatic linenumbering, generation of separate endnotes sections for emendations, textual collations, and explanatory notes, special marking for cases in which page breaks occur during stanza breaks, running headers of the form ``Notes to pp. xx--yy''for the notes sections, index of titles and first lines, and automatic generation of table of contents. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/poemscol License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fixes bug in typesetting poems without formal titles. Customizes formatting of poem titles. Runover portions of verse lines can be flushed to the right rather than indented. Streamlined formatting of endnotes sections. Fixed a bug which requires an .aux file from a previous run to set endnotes sections. Titles with italics or international characters no longer need special handling. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: lineno 4.11 and ednotes 1.1
by CTAN Announcements 09 Mar '05

09 Mar '05

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 Uwe Lück submitted updates to his packages lineno and ednotes Locations on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/{lineno,ednotes} License type: LaTeX Project Announcement text for lineno: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Rows of `array' and similar math environments may be treated like usual lines, be numbered accordingly (included in the sequence of surrounding text lines), and be referred to by these numbers. Thus they also can be subject to ednotes.sty. To make use of this, please read the CHANGES.txt next. 2. linelabel produces an error outside line numbering mode. This may be helpful when you have forgotten to switch and wonder why all line numbers are 1, e.g. -- also with ednotes.sty. 3. Some explanations in lineno.sty/tex/pdf have been amended -- cf. CHANGES.txt for details. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Announcement text for ednotes: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This upgrade is mainly concerned with 1. the number of possible notes, 2. page break oscillations, 3. `array' and similar mathematical environments, and with 4. a hopefully helpful error message; also with 5. amendments of documentation. Namely (see CHANGES.txt for more details): 1. Reimplementation of `ednotes.sty' with version v1.1, vital for huge editions (commercial/professional applications). You can now make three times as many notes as before, regarding the memory compartment for multiletter control strings. One user exhausted this by 11.000 notes on 450 pages (recent MiKTeX installation). Now he can add another 22.000 notes ... Warning: Customizations of epeatref and linewithpage as well as option `countoccurrences' need updates. 2. A checking function has been added for finding startings of page break oscillations. These typically must be fixed for getting correct references to lemmas in the apparatus. Explanations in `lblchng1.sty' v0.2 needed to be replaced by some of v0.32. 3. The `edtable' option of `ednotes.sty' now supports math environments like `array'. Explanations (`edtable.sty' v1.3) have been extended considerably, structured more clearly, and supplied with examples. 4. You get an error message when you have forgotten to switch into line numbering mode. I generalize from my own experience that this may be useful when strangely everything refers to line no. 1 ... 5. Documentations in `lineno.sty/tex/pdf' and `ednotugb.pdf' have been amended (additionally). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN upload: plotting data in matlab style,with metapost
by CTAN Announcements 09 Mar '05

09 Mar '05

On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 Yang Yang submitted metapost macros to plot data in matlab style. Location on CTAN: /graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/matlab Summary description: MetaPost data plotting License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- matlab.mp ------- Metapost data plotting in matlab style Matlab has powerful data plotting ability, but one annoying problem prevents it from being perfect: when you increase the linewidth, the dotted line size stays the same, so the plotted line no longer looks like a dotted line. another problem is matlab bug: it oftern cuts away some curves and captions. plus, matlab is expensive. on the other hand, the free gnuplot also doesn't produce very satisfactory visual effects. I got accustomed to matlab's easy interface. so I want to integerate the powerful graphic function of Metapost and the easy interface of Matlab. so I wrote this script matlab.mp. this is based on graph.mp, I just collected the data into 2-D arrays, and remembered the line styles, so it's easy to plot out legends. FEATURES: all kinds of line color, width, style (dotted/dashed, etc), and markers. you can easily expand this by modifying the code. easy interface. very similar to matlab full power of latex in caption/legends, by using the latexmp package. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: lhfonts v3.5b
by CTAN Announcements 08 Mar '05

08 Mar '05

On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Olga Lapko submitted: The lhfonts package 3.5b Location on CTAN: fonts/cyrillic/lh Summary description: Cyrillic fonts with support of LaTeX standard encodings License type: lppl Abstract: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The lh fonts for the `T2'/X2 encodings (for cyrillic languages).. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes: - Added 4 new Unicode letters. Updated Unicode encoding/font. - Changed letter ukre_uml to erev_uml in Unicode font - Corrected some bad paths in low resolutions. - Deleted some code doubles in unusual encodings - Added support for cmtex* fonts (this font could be used too rarely but it more serious than cmdunh10) - Created Cyrillic letters for Concrete (Russian letters were loaded in previous version) - Added Support (creation of mf-headers) for Concrete fonts (added by V.Volovich) - Added Support (creation of mf-headers and some mf-files) for CMBright fonts (added by V.Volovich) - Restored italic Unicode Old Slav letters - Corrected some definitions of font parameters in ec-like T2 fonts The directory layout is changed, it follows the TDS structure. Thanks for the upload, For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: Updated mempatch.sty --- fixes for memoir class
by CTAN Announcements 08 Mar '05

08 Mar '05

Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded mempatch.sty to UK incoming. Please use this to replace > the current /macros/latex/contrib/memoir/mempatch.sty. > > Version 3.8 of mempatch fixes a problem with booktabs related code (see > thread Bug in booktabs' trim command?, 5 March on CTT). i have installed the file as requested; thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: attachfile
by CTAN Announcements 08 Mar '05

08 Mar '05

On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 Scott Pakin submitted a new version of his package attachfile to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/attachfile/ Summary description: Attach arbitrary files to a PDF document License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Starting with PDF 1.3 (Adobe Acrobat 4.0), PDF files can contain file attachments -- arbitrary files that a reader can extract, just like attachments to an e-mail message. The attachfile package brings this functionality to pdfLaTeX and provides some additional features not available in Acrobat, such as the ability to use arbitrary LaTeX code for the file icon -- including things like includegraphics, tabular, and math. Settings can be made either globally or on a per-attachment basis. attachfile makes it easy to attach files and customize their appearance in the enclosing document. (This is a bug-fix release.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: floatrow v0.1d
by CTAN Announcements 07 Mar '05

07 Mar '05

On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Olga Lapko submitted version 0.1d of the package floatrow Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/floatrow License type: lppl Abstract: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The floatrow package provides many ways to customise layouts of floating environments; it offers possibilities to put floats side by side, to put a caption beside a float. All floats of one type appear in one layout. Some floatrow settings could be expanded to rows of subfloats (subfig package). Package gets the best with co-operation with caption 3.x package. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes: - Bug fixing in counting of widths in float row and float box building. - Bug fixing: the color frames with color package get correct colours. - Restoring separate usage of floatbox command (outside of float environment) - Adjusting of floatsetup keys and options (naming and declaring). - Created new command DeclareFloatStyle command (instead of definefloatstyle), which uses floatsetup mechanism for float style building. - The lengths captionskip and floatfootskip became commands. - The floats with beside captions can be placed in floatrow environment. - The layout for floats with besdie captions advanced (added new possibilities of width setting). - The new sub-package fr-subfig (beta) with subfloatrow environment created: for usage with subfig package, this environment try to expand float style settings to subfloats. Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: europecv class
by CTAN Announcements 07 Mar '05

07 Mar '05

On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 Nicola Vitacolonna submitted an update to his package europecv an unofficial class for European curricula. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a major update of the europecv class. The standard European model for curricula vitae has been recently modified. This update implements such changes. Please be warned that the translations are not complete yet: I invite people to send me the definition files and templates for their languages, and any needed correction of the existing ones. A short description of the class follows. This class is an unofficial LaTeX implementation of the standard model for curricula vitae as recommended by the European Commission. Although primarily intended for users in the European Union, the class is flexible enough to be used for any kind of curriculum vitae. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: mempatch.sty --- fixes for memoir class
by CTAN Announcements 07 Mar '05

07 Mar '05

On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Peter Wilson uploaded mempatch.sty, patches for the memoir class. > I have uploaded mempatch.sty to UK incoming. Please use this to replace > the current /macros/latex/contrib/memoir/mempatch.sty. > > Version 3.8 of mempatch fixes a problem with booktabs related code (see > thread Bug in booktabs' trim command?, 5 March on CTT). Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN upload: WordML2LaTeX
by CTAN Announcements 07 Mar '05

07 Mar '05

On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 Ruggero Dambra submitted his package WordML2LaTeX to CTAN. WordML2LaTeX is a meeting point between two titans in word processing: Microsoft Word 2003 and LaTeX2e. It is a XSL stylesheet that transforms a Word document (WordML) in a LaTeX2e source. With it You can use Word as a front end for LaTeX. Location on CTAN: /support/WordML2LaTeX License type: gpl Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN upload notification: fontspec v1.6
by CTAN Announcements 07 Mar '05

07 Mar '05

On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 Will Robertson submitted version 1.6 of the package fontspec for xetex. fontspec is a LaTeX package for XeTeX, a Mac OS X only extension of TeX that supports unicode input and OpenType fonts natively. The package provides a simple interface for font selection and advanced feature selection for NFSS simple interface for font selection and advanced feature selection for NFSS. Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/latex/fontspec Summary description: Advanced font selection in XeTeX-based LaTeX License type: lppl Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: Tame The BeaST
by CTAN Announcements 07 Mar '05

07 Mar '05

On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 Nicolas Markey uploaded a new version of his package Tame The BeaST It is an (as complete as possible) tutorial about bibliographies in LaTeX, thus mainly about BibTeX. Location on CTAN: /info/bibtex/tamethebeast/ License type: dfsg Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: LM fonts
by CTAN Announcements 07 Mar '05

07 Mar '05

On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Staszek Wawrykiewicz uploaded version 0.98 of the Latin Modern font family to CTAN. Authors: JNSteam License: GPL Location on CTAN: fonts/lm The Latin Modern family of fonts are based on the Computer Modern fonts in the PostScript Type 1 format, released into public domain by the American Mathematical Society. The fonts, as compared to the CM family, contain a lot of additional characters, mainly accented ones, but not only. The current package for TeX users contains: Latin Modern fonts in the PostScript Type 1 format plus all requisites for using the fonts with TeX/pdfTeX; there is one set of PostScript fonts and five sets of TeX Font Metric files, corresponding to: -- EC (Cork) encoding (ec-*.tfm), -- QX encoding (qx-*.tfm), -- TeX'n'ANSI aka LY1 encoding (texnansi-*.tfm), -- T5 (Vietnamese) encoding (t5-*.tfm), -- Text Companion for EC fonts aka TS1 (ts1-*.tfm). LaTeX *.sty and *.fd files were also added plus a few test files. Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: preview-latex 0.9
by CTAN Announcements 04 Mar '05

04 Mar '05

On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, David Kastrup submitted version 0.9 of his package preview-latex and a separate package called preview Locations on CTAN: support/preview-latex and macros/latex/contrib/preview License: GPL Release notes for version 0.9 of the preview-latex package: preview-latex makes LaTeX a tightly integrated component of your editing workflow by visualizing selected source chunks (such as single formulas or graphics) directly as images in the source buffer. You get to have your eye candy and edit it, too. The employed style file preview.sty is independently useful for extraction of selected text elements as images. EPS Graphics that were created using dvips can now be used with the tightpage option, and some new commands and options are available for selecting previews. The package is released under the GNU Public License (GPL). At the current point of time, at least GNU Emacs-21.3 under the X window system or XEmacs-21 in version 21.4.10 or later, AUCTeX (11.51 or later required for PDF support), a working LaTeX installation and GhostScript are required. dvipng (version 1.4 or later: teTeX-3.0 works, TeXlive2004 not), a very fast dvi converter, can be used to speed up the conversion. For Windows, MacOS Carbon or native GTK+ toolkit support, a developer version of GNU Emacs (to be released as 22.1) is definitely required; for other platforms, use of it is advantageous. This version finally gets rid of all 8bit issues that plagued cooperation with several TeX distributions, and supports utf-8 and other multibyte input. X-Symbol (as of 4.5.1-beta) will still require an 8bit-transparent TeX executable. As a result of a drastic overhaul in image file allocation, all known GhostScript versions should now work for PostScript and PDF in SAFER mode. Icons now come in several sizes, blending better with the text display, and have been redesigned. The installation procedure has been made more flexible and robust, more conservative in the installation choices, and the Lisp startup file will now be installed automatically. It is strongly recommended that you remove a previous installation before installing this version to avoid keeping conflicting or unnecessary files. The README file provides adequate information for firing up preinstalled distributions, and pointers how to provide feedback. The INSTALL file contains a special section with advice for package providers. There is also a file INSTALL.windows detailing instructions for users of that operating system. The home page is <URL:http://preview-latex.sourceforge.net>, the SourceForge project page that among others offers anonymous CVS access is located at <URL:http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex>. However, development and CVS access are scheduled to be folded into the AUCTeX project (located at Savannah) shortly after this release. If you can spare the time, you can also comment on or rate this project at <URL:http://freshmeat.net/projects/preview-latex>. Paypal donations to the maintainer are possible directly or via SourceForge. Additional files can be found at <URL:http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/preview-latex>: * If you don't have texinfo 4.0 or later installed, prebuilt documentation files can be found there. * Tarballs of preview-latex for all users, alternatively RPMs for RedHat Linux. For the binary RPMs, you will need the preview-latex-common RPM as well as the Emacs-flavor specific RPM. * AUCTeX is now located at <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex>. The download area should also provide you with RPM files. * dvipng is currently available via its current project page <URL:http://sourceforge.net/projects/dvipng> and from CTAN. Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: mf2pt1
by Jim Hefferon 01 Mar '05

01 Mar '05

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you for the upload, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: mf2pt1 Author's name: Scott Pakin Location on CTAN: /support/mf2pt1/ Summary description: Produce PostScript Type 1 fonts directly from Metafont source License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mf2pt1 facilitates producing PostScript Type 1 fonts directly from a Metafont source file without losing quality to autotracers. mf2pt1 is not, as the name may imply, an automatic converter of arbitrary Metafont fonts to Type 1 format. The program imposes a number of restrictions on the Metafont input. If these restrictions are met, mf2pt1 will produce valid Type 1 output with more accurate control points than can be reverse-engineered by TeXtrace, mftrace, and other programs which convert bitmaps to outline fonts. Version 2.0 sports the following improvements over the previous version: * A new --rounding option enables control points to be placed with higher precision. * Fonts are automatically run through t1asm to convert them from disassembled format to true .pfb font files. * Fonts are automatically run through FontForge, if available, to clean up curves and automatically add font-hinting information. A new --ffscript option lets the user override the default FontForge script. * mf2pt1 includes a workaround for a MetaPost turningnumber bug. * A new glyph_name command and asis encoding vector enable font programs to specify their own encodings -- useful for creating a large font out of multiple 256-character fonts. * mf2pt1 now supports an encoding vector for TeX T1 (i.e., 8-bit) encoding. * There are various bug fixes, code cleanups, and documentation improvements. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/mf2pt1/ although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror of CTAN that is near to you; see http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors .

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CTAN update: ebezier v4
by CTAN Announcements 01 Mar '05

01 Mar '05

On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 Gerhard A. Bachmaier submitted version 4 of his package ebezier to CTAN. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ebezier Summary description: Picture enhancement License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ebezier supports device independent bezier curves e.g. for drawing larger circles. Additionally lengths of these curves can be calculated. This is update version 4 which corrects minor deficiencies. It includes the documentation as a PDF file. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: tif2eps 0.79
by CTAN Announcements 01 Mar '05

01 Mar '05

On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Staszek Wawrykiewicz sumitted version 0.79 of the package tif2eps to CTAN. Authors: Boguslaw Jackowski, P. Pianowski and P. Strzelczyk License: GPL Location on CTAN: support/pstools/tif2eps TIF2EPS is a PostScript program for the conversion of TIFF files (ver. 6.0) to EPS ones. Compression (LZW, CCITT Fax, RLE, Flate, DCT) and ASCII85 encoding is available. The package may be used for generating colour- separated EPSes, `EPS thumbnails,' and, moreover, little header EPSes, containing only a pointer to a source TIFF file. Employing Ghostscript guarantees portability and efficient processing. News in ver. 0.79: A bug in -o2 (ovewrite if newer) option fixed. Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: xmpincl
by Jim Hefferon 28 Feb '05

28 Feb '05

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should make its way to your favorite mirror real soon now. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: xmpincl Author's name: Maarten Sneep Location on CTAN: /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xmpincl Summary description: Include eXtensible Metadata Platform data in pdflatex License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The XMP (eXtensible Metadata platform) is a framework to add metadata to digital material to enhance the workflow in publication. References are given below, but the essenence is that the metadata is stored in an XML file, and this XML stream is then embedded in the file to which it applies. New in this version is that the <?xpacket ?> tags are automatically added, which makes the whole package much more standards compliant. The package checks the xmp file to see if it is used on an older file to avoid double inclusion of the <?xpacket ?> tags (no changes to older sources are needed). - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xmpincl although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror of CTAN that is near to you; see http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors .

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