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Re: cam.ctan.org upload: datetime
by Robin Fairbairns 28 Feb '05

28 Feb '05

Nicola Talbot writes, through the medium of http://www.tex.ac.uk/upload: > Name of contribution: datetime > Author's name: Nicola Talbot > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/datetime > Summary description: Change format of oday with commands for current time > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The datetime package can now be used with babel and LaTeX2HTML > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thanks for the upload. i've installed the updated package as requested, and triggered mirroring. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: WinShell 2.6 submission
by CTAN Announcements 28 Feb '05

28 Feb '05

On Sun, 27 Feb 2005, Ingo H. de Boer submitted version 2.6.0.4 of his winshell package to CTAN. Location on CTAN: systems/win32/winshell License: nosource --------------------------------------------------------------------------- WinShell is a graphical user interface for easy working with LaTeX or TeX. It includes a text editor, different tool bars and user configuration options. It is NOT a LaTeX system. An additional LaTeX package for Windows is needed. Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: upload
by Robin Fairbairns 28 Feb '05

28 Feb '05

Eitan Gurari writes: > > + what you've uploaded > > tex4ht-all.zip > > + which CTAN node you've uploaded to > > cam.ctan.org > > + where you want the files to go > > Replace > > /tex-archive/support/TeX4ht/tex4ht-all.zip > > + what licensing conditions you apply to your software (see list > below). > LPPL > > + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do. > (please note that the mail should be in english for speedy processing) > > Yearly update of the TeX4ht system for translating TeX-based > files to hypertext. i've installed the file as requested; thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: upload
by Robin Fairbairns 28 Feb '05

28 Feb '05

Eitan Gurari writes: > + what you've uploaded > > AlProTex.zip > > + which CTAN node you've uploaded to > > cam.ctan.org > > + where you want the files to go > > Replace > > /tex-archive/web/protex/AlProTex.sty > > + what licensing conditions you apply to your software (see list > below). > LPPL > > + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do. > (please note that the mail should be in english for speedy processing) > > Yearly update of the AlProTex system for literate programming. i've installed the new version; thanks for the update. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: Updated mempatch.sty --- fixes for memoir class
by Robin Fairbairns 27 Feb '05

27 Feb '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 3.7 of mempatch fixes a slight font leakage into memoir's > footnotes and adjust a change made by fixltx2e that is unwarranted for > memoir and which caused table* in twocolumn documents to fail. i've installed the file as requested. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN auto-archiving: the future
by Robin Fairbairns 26 Feb '05

26 Feb '05

Auto-archiving is the mechanism that allows you to get all of a directory's contents at once, by asking your ftp client for a download of <directory name>.zip or <directory name>.tar.gz . The ftp daemon creates these bundles on the fly. Auto-archiving is available at some CTAN sites and mirrors as a convience for users. The great advantage of auto-archiving is that it provides short-cuts for the ordinary user, who doesn't want to perform a retrieval operation for every file in a directory, or is concerned about how many files to download. An additional advantage is the simple fact of compression: there are savings in network bandwidth, and hence download time, to be had. The management of CTAN has been concerned, for some time, about auto-archive offered by the central CTAN nodes, for two reasons: a. Auto-archiving is offered by a small minority of mirror sites. While we have a script that checks, once a week, whether a site offers the service, the situation continues to provoke surprise. b. Auto-archiving is not possible using the newer generation of ftp daemon software. There are compelling reasons for us to try that software, but we can't do so while we claim to offer an auto-archive service. For these reasons, the CTAN team is considering withdrawing the auto-archive facility. However, we want to retain as many of the advantages of its availability as is possible. We are therefore populating CTAN with .zip archives of directories; so, for example, you will find 2005/02/17 | 8129 | macros/latex/contrib/alnumsec.zip 2005/02/16 | 862 | macros/latex/contrib/alnumsec/README 2005/02/16 | 20567 | macros/latex/contrib/alnumsec/alnumsec.dtx in FILES.byname; alnumsec.zip is a copy of the directory containing the other two files. We chose .zip as an archiving format since it's the nearest approach to a compression format that's (relatively) readily available on all common platforms. (Among other things, the free unzip application (from the info-zip project) has nice properties in dealing with different operating systems' text file formats.) Better compression performance is available with other formats, but we believe a conservative approach will serve the community better. Anyone with concerns about this move may either discuss the matter on the texhax mailing list or the comp.text.tex newsgroup, or they may mail their concerns to the CTAN team at the usual address: <ctan at dante dot de> Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN submission: csquotes 2.6
by CTAN Announcements 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Philipp Lehman uploaded version 2.6 of his package csquotes to CTAN. This package provides markup for inline quotations by means of control sequences and active quote characters. The quotation marks are context sensitive, they alternate for nested quotes and can adapt to the document language by interfacing with the babel package. The active quote characters and all quotation styles are fully configurable. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/csquotes/ License: LPPL Changes: * Always reset quote style, even for inner quotes * Fixed bug preventing hyphenation in certain places Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: cam.ctan.org upload: makedtx
by Robin Fairbairns 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

Nicola Talbot writes, through the medium of http://www.tex.ac.uk/upload/: > ====================================================================== > > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: makedtx > Author's name: Nicola Talbot > Location on CTAN: > Summary description: Perl script to help generate dtx and ins files > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The makedtx bundle is provided to help LaTeX2e developers to write > the code and documentation in separate files, and then combine them > into a single .dtx file for distribution. It automatically generates > the character table, and also writes the associated installation > (.ins) script. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i've installed the package in support/makedtx; it should make its way to the other ctan sites in the next few hours. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: r2bib
by Jim Hefferon 24 Feb '05

24 Feb '05

The package described below has been updated on CTAN. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: r2bib Author's name: Richard J. Mathar Location on CTAN: /biblio/bibtex/utils/r2bib Summary description: updated r2bib to work with EndNote License type: pd Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is an upgrade for the existing r2bib C coding which converts 'refer' bibliographies to BibTeX. The upgrade handles EndNote (its more versatile tags) differently and includes a filter for 8-bit Windows -> LaTeX characters. The original filter r2bib.c has just be left as with the 1990 version. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/r2bib 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 has a new package: robustindex
by Jim Hefferon 24 Feb '05

24 Feb '05

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and is even now making its way, throught the miracle of networking technology, to your favorite mirror. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: package robustindex Author's name: Wilberd van der Kallen Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/robustindex Summary description: index with pagerefs License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Third parties often change the page numbers without rerunning makeindex. One would like to make the page numbers in the index entries more robust. We use the pageref mechanism for that. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/robustindex 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: xkeyval v2.3, pst-xkey v1.5, xkvview v1.1
by CTAN Announcements 23 Feb '05

23 Feb '05

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Hendri Adriaens submitted updates to the following packages: xkeyval v2,3, pst-xkey v1.5 and xkvview v1.1 Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/xkeyval License: LPPL ----------------------------------------------- xkeyval v2.3 ----------------------------------------------- 1) Added choice keys which can only take a limited number of possible values. 2) Increased efficiency of loops. ----------------------------------------------- pst-xkey v1.5 ----------------------------------------------- 1) Increased efficiency of loops. ----------------------------------------------- xkvview v1.1 ----------------------------------------------- 1) Updated for xkeyval v2.3. 2) Improved tabulation of keys. 3) Increased efficiency of loops. ----------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update, for the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN upload notification: pst-vue3d
by CTAN Announcements 23 Feb '05

23 Feb '05

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 Herbert Voss submitted version 1.21 of the package pst-vue3d a package to draw perspective views of three dimensional objects. Authors' name: Manuel Luque and Herbert Voss Location on CTAN: /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-vue3d/ License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 1.21: - use always xkeyval (pst-xkey) and use def instead of edef for the parameter definitions - use always pst@object for the definition of the 3d objects - use the default macro style of pstricks ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: stage
by Jim Hefferon 22 Feb '05

22 Feb '05

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thank you for the upload, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: stage Author's name: Robert Jahrling Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/stage Summary description: A LaTeX class for stage plays License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- stage.cls is a LaTeX class for creating plays of any length in a standard manuscript format for production and submission. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/stage 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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Re: cam.ctan.org upload: hepunits
by Robin Fairbairns 22 Feb '05

22 Feb '05

Andy Buckley writes, via http://www.tex.ac.uk/upload: > Name of contribution: hepunits > Author's name: Andy Buckley > Author's email: andy(a)insectnation.org > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/hepunits > Summary description: A set of units useful in high energy physics > applications, for use with SIunits > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > hepunits is a LaTeX package built on the SIunits package which > adds a collection of useful HEP units to the existing SIunits > set. These include the energy units MeV, GeV, TeV and the derived > momentum and mass units MeVoverc, MeVovercsq and so on. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i've installed the package as suggested; thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: cam.ctan.org upload: hepnames
by Robin Fairbairns 22 Feb '05

22 Feb '05

Andy Buckley writes, through the medium of http://www.tex.ac.uk/upload > Name of contribution: hepnames > Author's name: Andy Buckley > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/hepnames > Summary description: A pair of packages providing a set of > pre-defined high energy particle names > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > hepnames is a pair of LaTeX packages, heppennames and hepnicenames, > providing a large set of pre-defined high energy physics particle > names built with the hepparticles package. > > heppennames re-implements the particle names in pennames.sty, with > some additions and alterations and greater flexibility and > robustness due to the hepparticles structures, which were written > for this purpose. > hepnicenames provides the main non-resonant particle names from > heppennames with more friendly names. > > These packages are based around pennames.sty by Michel Goosens and > Eric van Herwijnen i've installed the bundle as suggested; thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: hepparticles and maybemath
by Robin Fairbairns 22 Feb '05

22 Feb '05

Andy Buckley has submitted upgrades of the hepparticles and maybemath packages. Change information is: > ---- > maybemath provides macros for making math mode expressions bold, > upright, italic or sans-serif according to context. This release adds > the sans-serif feature and fixes several bugs which were affecting > robustness in specific nested contexts. > ---- > > ---- > hepparticles is a set of macros for typesetting high energy physics > particle names. This release largely overhauls the internal package > structure, providing extremely flexible particle typesetting structures > for standard particles, anti-particles, SUSY particles and their > anti-particles (both as generic labels and as concrete names) and for > constructing resonance specifiers. In addition, several low-level macros > are exposed for the few cases in which the package does not provide the > required semantic structures. Whether an upright or italic convention is > used for specific particle names can be specified as a package option. > ---- i've installed the two new versions in macros/latex/contrib/(hepparticles|maybemath)/ here at cambridge. they will be at the other ctan sites soon, and at mirrors over the next few days. thanks, Andy, for the updates. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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New archiving service for ctan-ann mails, RSS feed
by ctan-ann＠dante.de 22 Feb '05

22 Feb '05

The archive of ctan-ann mails can be seem and searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/ctan-ann@dante.de/ In addition, this site offers an RSS feed: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctan-ann@dante.de/maillist.xml For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN upload notification: rcsinfo
by CTAN Announcements 22 Feb '05

22 Feb '05

On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 Jürgen Vollmer submitted an update of his package rcsinfo to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/rcsinfo Summary description: Extract the revision and file information provided by the RCS revision control system License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is used to extract the revision and file information provided by the RCS revision control system. A PERL-package supporting rcsinfo and LaTeX2HTML is provided too. Changes to Version 1.9 1.10 : Added option scrpage2 It's just a minor update. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: pstricks-add
by CTAN Announcements 20 Feb '05

20 Feb '05

On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 Herbert Voss submitted version 2.37 of the package pstricks-add, additional macros for PSTricks Location on CTAN: /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pstricks-add License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- v 2.37 2005-02-20 drop support of tickstyle (pst-plot), fix several bugs in connection with the ticksize option minor code changes updated documentation ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: pst-3dplot
by CTAN Announcements 19 Feb '05

19 Feb '05

On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 Herbert Voss uploaded an update to the package pst-3dplot a PSTricks related package for three dimensional objects. Location on CTAN: /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-3dplot/ Summary description: Prarallel projection of three dimensional objects License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This version supports rotation around any axes and in any order of all objects. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN upload: lblchng1.sty -- fix oscillating pagebreaks
by CTAN Announcements 18 Feb '05

18 Feb '05

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 Uwe Lück submitted an addition to the ednotes package: Name of contribution: lblchng1.sty -- fix oscillating page breaks Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ednotes Summary description: Tool + discussion concerning unstable page breaks License type: LaTeX Project Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This LaTeX macro package is a (primitive) tool for fixing oscillating page breaks -- a problem that especially sometimes occurs in typesetting critical editions. Thus it addresses especially users of LaTeX packages lineno, ednotes, and ledmac (maybe even manyfoot and numline). When it has been invoked and some label(s) get an entry in .aux file differing, with respect to page number, to that of the previous run, the first such label is reported on screen (and in the .log), including the differing page numbers. This should help in finding the first unstable page -- which is vital. The file contains more detailed explanations and discussions. (For wizards: of course, it just refines LaTeX's @testdef a little.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: pst-3d
by CTAN Announcements 18 Feb '05

18 Feb '05

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 Herbert Voss submitted an update to the file pst-3d.tex. Location on CTAN: graphics/pstricks/generic/pst-3d License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- pst-3d ist a PSTricks related package with basic support for three dimensional views. It also supports titling and shading of PSTricks objects. This version is a bugfix, to make pst-3d run with the xcolor package. The original author of this package is Timothy Van Zandt. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: isodate
by CTAN Announcements 18 Feb '05

18 Feb '05

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Harald Harders uploaded an update to his isodate package. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/isodate License: LPPL >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: 2005/02/17 v2.24 Harald Harders (h.harders(a)tu-bs.de) - Add option frenchb. 2004/11/19 v2.23 Harald Harders (h.harders(a)tu-bs.de) - Avoid to use the exttt{calc} package since it causes problems with many other packages. Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN upload: Perl mathsPIC 1.00
by CTAN Announcements 18 Feb '05

18 Feb '05

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Apostolos Syropoulos submitted version 1.00 of the package mathspic-perl to CTAN. MathsPIC(Perl) is a development of the earlier <xref refid='mathspic-dos'>MathsPIC(DOS)</xref> program; implemented as a Perl script, it is much more portable than the earlier program. MathsPIC parses a plain text input file and generates a plain text output-file containing commands for drawing a diagram. Version 1.0 produces output containing PiCTeX and (La)TeX commands, which may then be processed by plain TeX or LaTeX in the usual way. MathsPIC also outputs a comprehensive log-file. MathsPIC facilitates creating figures using PiCTeX by providing an environment for manipulating named points and also allows the use of variables and maths (advance, multiply, and divide) - in short - it takes the pain out of PiCTeX. Location on CTAN: graphics/pictex/mathspic/perl (Location of older dos version: graphics/pictex/mathspic/dos) License type: dfsg Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: alnumsec
by CTAN Announcements 17 Feb '05

17 Feb '05

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 Frank Küster submitted an update of his package alnumsec to CTAN. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/alnumsec Summary description: alphanumeric sectioning numbering with standard sectioning commands License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package allows you to use alphanumeric section numbering, e.g.: A. Introduction; III. International Law. It s output is similar to alphanum.sty, but you can use the standard LaTeX sectioning commands. Thus it is possible to switch numbering schemes easily. Greek letters, double letters (bb) and different delimiters around them are supported. This version v0.02 includes one new feature: Full section numbers are always printed in references (e.g.: see A.II.3.b.), even if the section numbers do not include higher level numbers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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