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Re: Lshort Upload (note the quote)
by CTAN Announcements 08 May '05

08 May '05

Tobias Oetiker writes: > I have uploaded lshort-4.16 to ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming/lshort-4.16. note: skipping version 4.15 > If you think it is appropriate, announce it please. i think announcement is appropriate in this case. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: sketch
by Jim Hefferon 05 May '05

05 May '05

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: sketch Author's name: Eugene K. Ressler Location on CTAN: /graphics/sketch Summary description: 3d sketching in a PSTricks-like language generates PSTricks code License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sketch is a small, simple system for producing line drawings of three-dimensional objects and scenes. It began as a way to make illustrations for a textbook after we could find no suitable tool for this purpose. Existing scene processors emphasized GUIs and/or photo-realism, both un-useful to us. We wanted to produce finely wrought, mathematically-based illustrations with no extraneous detail and be able to easily overlay TeX math and text. The input language is reminiscent of PSTricks, so will be easy to learn for current PSTricks users. See http://www.frontiernet.net/~eugene.ressler . - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/sketch 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 package update: nomencl
by Jim Hefferon 03 May '05

03 May '05

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks for the update, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: nomencl Author's name: Lee Netherton Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/nomencl/ Summary description: Update to nomencl package License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the latest release for the nomencl package which includes an increased compatibility with other glossary packages, as well as minor updates and support requests. More information can be found at http://sarovar.org/projects/nomencl/ - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/nomencl/ 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: fontools
by Jim Hefferon 03 May '05

03 May '05

The package described below has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: fontools Author's name: Marc Penninga Location on CTAN: /fonts/utilities/fontools/ Summary description: Tools to simplify using fonts (especially Truetype/Opentype ones) with Latex and fontinst. License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package provides a few tools to ease using fonts (especially Truetype/Opentype ones) with Latex and fontinst: AFM2AFM - reencode .afm files; designed to replace fontinst's eencodefont for big .afm files. AUTOINST - simplify the use of the LCDF TypeTools by creating a command file for otftotfm, plus .fd and .sty files. CMAP2ENC - convert glyph indices in TrueType fonts without glyph names (such as Linotype Palatino) to Adobe glyph names. FONT2AFM - create font metrics; this is just a wrapper script around tools such as pf2afm, ttf2afm, pfm2kpx and ot2kpx. OT2KPX - extract all kerning pairs from an OpenType font. PFM2KPX - extract all kerning pairs from buggy .pfm files (the ones where pf2afm complains .notdef character occurred among kern pairs). SHOWGLYPHS - create a pdf file that shows all glyphs in a font. Please see the documentation of the individual programs for further information. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/utilities/fontools 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: Zigarettenschachtelhuellenzeichnung
by Jim Hefferon 02 May '05

02 May '05

The package described below has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon make it to your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: Zigarettenschachtelhuellenzeichnung - drawing of cigarette pack covers Author's name: Régis Lachaume Location on CTAN: /graphics/zigaretten Summary description: Allows the drawing of cigarette pack covers to hide ugly warnings and as License type: pd Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is meant to design cigarette pack covers that hide the death warnings and the advertising present on most packs. It imitates the original look of packs in the European Union by allowing the placement of fancy warnings (e.g. Caution: inflammable device) in the well-known black frames. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/zigaretten 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 Policy: Documentation of packages
by CTAN Announcements 02 May '05

02 May '05

For some time, the CTAN team has been asking those who submit to the archive to provide documentation files that can easily be read by archive browsers. We often find packages, which may be of real use to other users, for which there is little prospect of a new submission. We propose to reserve the right to generate a PDF documentation file from the author's original resources, in such cases. Note that we do not intend this to take the place of author-supplied documentation, but rather only that we may generate documentation where there is now none (notably on older packages). We remain eager to install documentation provided by authors themselves. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: juramisc
by CTAN Announcements 02 May '05

02 May '05

On Mon, 2 May 2005 cversion 0.76 (beta) of the juramisc package was uploaded to CTAN. Author's name: Axel Sodtalbers Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/juramisc Summary description: Typesetting German juridical documents License type: lppl Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN submission -- getfileversion
by CTAN Announcements 01 May '05

01 May '05

On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Harald Harders submitted a new package called gefileversion Location on CTAN: support/getfileversion/ License: LPPL >From the README: This simple shell script prints the version and date of a LaTeX class or style file. Syntax: getfileversion <file> This programme handles style files (extension .sty) and class files (extension .cls). If no extension is given, .sty is assumed. This is the initial version v0.1. Thanks for the submission. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN: Move of protext system image
by CTAN Announcements 29 Apr '05

29 Apr '05

Last night, protext-1.2.exe, the MiKTeX installer image, appeared on CTAN. Protext is distributed as part of the annual user group distribution of discs to members and others. This evening, the new image has been moved from systems/texlive/Images to a new directory systems/protext It was felt that the texlive location for a MiKTeX-derived product was anomalous. We trust that users will find the change helps them in browsing the archive. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: lineno.sty / ednotes.sty for criticaleditions
by CTAN Announcements 29 Apr '05

29 Apr '05

On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 Uwe Lück submitted an update to the lineno package to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/lineno Summary description: real update License type: LaTeX Project Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- lineno.sty as uploaded formerly was *not* the recent one with the announced features, so please download again if ... If you don't find v4.21, please ... [Sorry. But v4.2 was seriously flawed anyway.] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN upload: harmony
by CTAN Announcements 29 Apr '05

29 Apr '05

On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 Arnim Wegner submitted a new package harmony to CTAN. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/harmony Summary description: LaTeX2e package for typesetting harmony symbols etc. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LaTeX2e package for typesetting harmony symbols etc. in musicological texts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: xlop
by Jim Hefferon 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thank you for the contribution, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: xlop Author's name: Jean-Côme Charpentier Location on CTAN: /macros/generic/xlop Summary description: xlop (eXtra Large OPeration) calculates and displays operations License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- xlop allows to typeset operation ``as in school'' or inline. e.g opadd{2}{3} give 2 +3 or 2+3=5. - - --- 5 Furthermore, numbers could be very large, e.g 200 figures (with a very long compilation time). Many other features allow to deal with numbers (tests, display, some high level operations, etc.) - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/generic/xlop 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 package update: LaTeXPiX
by Jim Hefferon 27 Apr '05

27 Apr '05

The package described below has been updated on tug.ctan.org and will soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: LaTeXPiX Author's name: Nick van Beurden Location on CTAN: /systems/win32/latexpix Summary description: As is License type: nosource Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LaTeXPiX bugfix on CTAN17 release. Memory usage indicator didn't work in Windows 9x/2000. This caused LaTeXPiX not to start up, an error was displayed indicating that psapi.dll could not be found. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/latexpix 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: Maltese
by Jim Hefferon 27 Apr '05

27 Apr '05

The package described below has been installed at tug.ctan.org and will, through the magic of mirroring, soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: Maltese Author's name: Paulseph-John Farrugia Location on CTAN: /language/maltese Summary description: Package facilitating the input of Maltese non-Latin characters in Latex License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package facilitates the input of Maltese non-Latin characters in Latex. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/maltese 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: pst-func
by CTAN Announcements 27 Apr '05

27 Apr '05

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 Herbert Voss submitted an update to his pst-func package to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-func Summary description: plotting special mathematical functions License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 0.40 2005-04-09 new option xShift for psPolynomial and Gauss fix typos in the doc ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: mhchem bundle version 2.00
by CTAN Announcements 27 Apr '05

27 Apr '05

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 Martin Hensel submitted an update to the mhchem bundle to CTAN. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/mhchem/ Summary description: for typesetting chemical formulae, chemical equations and Risk and Safety (R and S) Phrases License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is an update to version 2.00. The mhchem bundle consists of two packages: mhchem and rsphrase. The mhchem package provides commands for typesetting chemical molecular formulae and equations. What's new? - a new versioning system that tries to incorporate old and improved syntax into one file. (usepackage[version=2]{mhchem}) - the command cee which can take & and \ as input, for use in equation environments - ce now works in text mode as well - new symbol added: ^. - basic support for bonds: A-B=C#D - math inside formulae can be achived using cmath - new option for reaction arrows: ->C[+H2O] is a shortcut for ->[ce{H2O}] The rsphrase package contains the text of all official Risk and Safety (R and S) Phrases that are used to label chemicals. At the time being, these phrases are available in Englisch, Danish, French and German (current spelling). What's new? - French phrases. Thanks to Dominique Richard for his work. - bugfixes ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: HLaTeX and HLaTeX fonts
by CTAN Announcements 27 Apr '05

27 Apr '05

On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 Koaunghi Un uploaded HLaTeX version 1.0.1 and HLaTeX fonts to CTAN. Location on CTAN: language/korean/HLaTeX/, fonts/korean/HLaTeX Summary description: LaTeX package for typesetting Korean documents License type: lppl Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: isodate package
by CTAN Announcements 25 Apr '05

25 Apr '05

On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Harald Harders submitted an update to the 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: 2005/04/15 v2.28 Harald Harders (h.harders(a)tu-bs.de) - Add Italian language by Philip Ratcliffe. - Introduce option cleanlook for English date format. 2005/03/11 v2.27 Harald Harders (h.harders(a)tu-bs.de) - Add option british. Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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New CTAN package: thmbox
by Robin Fairbairns 25 Apr '05

25 Apr '05

The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > Name of contribution: thmbox > Author's name: Emmanuel Beffara > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/thmbox > Summary description: a LaTeX package for fancy theorem outlining > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This package defines an environment thmbox aimed at presenting > theorems, definitions and similar objects in boxes decorated with > frames and various aesthetic features. The standard macro > ewtheorem is redefined to use this format. i have installed the package as suggested; thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: WinTeX XP
by Jim Hefferon 25 Apr '05

25 Apr '05

The package described below has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should by now have made ti to your favorite mirror. Thanks for the update, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: WinTeX XP Author's name: Michael Muecke Location on CTAN: /nonfree/systems/win32/wintex2000/ Summary description: Easy to use shell and editor for Windows. License type: shareware Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- New Version of WinTeX. Syntax highlighting for better readability of the TeX source Spell checking including automatic spell checking as you type your text with support for several languages English thesaurus for searching of synonyms Log file browser for for TeX and BIB log files makes bug fixing of your documents easy Special database like editor for BIB files with integrated description for all item types and fields Structure browser for TeX files for easy navigation in large documents WinTeX projects ... - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/nonfree/systems/win32/wintex2000/ 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: NEdit LaTeX-Mode 0.9.1
by CTAN Announcements 25 Apr '05

25 Apr '05

On Sun, 24 Apr 2005, Joerg Fischer submitted an update for his NEdit LaTeX-Mode to CTAN. Location on CTAN: support/NEdit-LaTeX-Extensions/ License: GPL Text for announcement: The NEdit LaTeX-Mode v0.9.1 is a package or set of macros, i.e. small programs, written in the NEdit scripting language. It will turn NEdit, the Nirvana text editor, into an advanced LaTeX editor. NEdit version 5.4 or later is required. The home page of the LaTeX-Mode is http://nedit.gmxhome.de/latexmode.html Changes from 0.9 to 0.9.1: ========================== - simple test if we are on MS Windows using MiKTeX (variable $windows was mistakenly set to true, which caused shell commands to fail on Unix/Linux) - enhancements for the spell-checking macro (following a user request) Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: User's Guide for AMS package (vietnamese version)
by Jim Hefferon 22 Apr '05

22 Apr '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: User's Guide for AMS package (vietnamese version) Author's name: kyanh Location on CTAN: /info/amslatex/vietnamese Summary description: User's Guide for AMS package (vietnamese version) License type: lgpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- User's Guide for AMS package (vietnamese version) - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/amslatex/vietnamese 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: pst-circ
by CTAN Announcements 22 Apr '05

22 Apr '05

On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 Herbert Voss submitted an update to the pst-circ package to CTAN. pst-circ is a package built above PSTricks and in particular pst-node. It can easily draw current dipoles, some tripoles and quadrupoles used in elecronic or electric theory. Authors' names: Christophe Jorssen, Herbert Voss Location on CTAN: graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-circ/ Summary description: A PSTricks package for drawing electrical circuits License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.39 2005-04-03 (hv) fixed introduced bug in wire 1.38 2005-03-07 (hv) added an option for the OA and some more types for dipoles 1.37 2005-03-06 (hv) fix bug with wire and arrows 1.36 2005-02-14 (hv) add another zener symbol 1.35 2005-02-06 (hv) fix some bugs in the documentation 1.34 2004-12-31 (hv) new transistormacro 1.33 2004-12-28 (hv) fix bug for specialCoor in transistor 1.32 2004-12-28 (hv) make transistor changeLR option run 1.31 2004-12-27 (hv) make transistor run 1.30 2004-12-28 (hv) make option arrows=... available, but transistor is broken for this version 1.22 2004-10-31 (hv) use pst-xkey instead of pst-key ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: noreinserts renamed tamefloats
by CTAN Announcements 21 Apr '05

21 Apr '05

On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 Uwe Lück submitted the package tamefloats (previously called noreinserts) to CTAN. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/tamefloats/ License type: LaTeX Project Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The former *noreins.sty* against bad interference of footnotes with figures, tables, and marginpar's has been renamed into `tameflts.sty' and appears in a new directory `tamefloats'. Command names have changed as well. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: svninfo
by CTAN Announcements 21 Apr '05

21 Apr '05

On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Achim D. Brucker submitted version 0.2.1 of the package svninfo to CTAN. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/svninfo/ License: LPPL Description: The svninfo package is used to extract the revision and file information provided by the subversion (svn) revision control system and provides commands for accessign them within LaTeX documents. Also support files for the latex2html converter is provided. Note, that this is an adaption of the rcsinfo package for rcs. So, if you know rcsinfo, you will also be familar with svninfo. This version removes the latex2html build-dependency and provides a new command svnId mimicking the behaviour of $Id:$ strings. Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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