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Re: Upload of archive teubner.zip
by Rainer Schöpf 12 Jun '03

12 Jun '03

On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Claudio Beccari wrote: > I just uploaded a new version of my previous teubner.zip package. It should > replace the existing package in the teubner folder that already exists on > the CTAN. > > The material as always is free under th lppl. > > The update corrects some small glitches, but most important of all refers > explicitely to the recently uploaded CB greek fonts in scalable pfb format > that are available since past november on CTAN. Thanks for the update, I installed it in macros/latex/contrib/teubner For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN submission: Euler-VM fonts 3.0
by Rainer Schöpf 12 Jun '03

12 Jun '03

On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Walter Schmidt wrote: > the ZIP archive file eulervm-30.zip has been uploaded to > the /incoming directory at dante.ctan.org. Please, unpack > it into the directory > > fonts/eulervm > > Doing so will update all files in this directory and in the > subdirectories tfm/, vf/ and fontinst/, and add also some new > files (in fontinst/). > > This is version 3.0 of the Virtual Euler Math fonts and the > related LaTeX macros. > > From the change log: > > * The symbols leq and geq now show the shape that is > preferred by DEK in conjunction with the Euler fonts. > (Credits to Frank Mittelbach for pointing me to this!) > The width of the symbols is unchanged. > > * The package option [small] now acts on the AMS fonts, > too, so there are no more restrictions affecting the > usage of amssymb.sty in conjunction with the Euler fonts. > > * Slightly changed mapping of font sizes to design sizes > used. Particularly, when a math font with a size of 8pt is > requested, we are now going to scale up a 7pt font, rather > than scaling down a 10pt one. This should improve the > apprearance of documents with a normal font size of 11pt, > where 8pt is used for super- and subscripts. Strictly > speaking, this is an incompatible change, but I hope that > the amount of practical problems is tolerable, as compared > with the improvement. > > * Fixed Makefile so as not to install the auto-generated FD > files, which are lacking the code for the [small] option. > > * VFs and TFMs were now generated using the latest version of > fontinst. As a result, the font metrics have changed slightly, > because of the improved rounding algorithm. This may cause > problems when procesing existing DVI files, but the metrics are > definitely correct now. Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN upload notification: savesym
by Rainer Schöpf 11 Jun '03

11 Jun '03

On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 Jürgen Göbel submitted the following contribution: > Name of contribution: savesym > Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/savesym > Summary description: saves and restores symbols > License type: LaTeX Project > > Announcement text: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > There are a number of symbols (e.g., Square) that are defined by multiple packages. In order to typeset all the > variants in a document, we have to give glyph a unique > name. To do that, we define savesymbol{XXX}, which renames a symbol from XXX to origXXX, and > estoresymbols{yyy}{XXX}, which renames origXXX back to > XXX and defines a new command, yyyXXX, which corresponds > to the most recently loaded version of XXX. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload, I installed the file in directory macros/latex/contrib/savesym For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN Submission -- Devanagari for TeX version 2.02
by Robin Fairbairns 11 Jun '03

11 Jun '03

Anshuman Pandey writes: > I have uploaded velthuis.zip to the 'incoming' directory at > ftp.tex.ac.uk. This zip archive contains version 2.02 of the > Velthuis Devanagari for TeX package. > > This package belongs in /language/devanagari. There are three > directories under this CTAN directory: 'contrib', 'distrib', and > 'omega'. Please remove the 'contrib' and 'distrib' directories. The > contents of those directories have been revised; some are included > in this latest update, some are obsolete. > > Please unpack velthuis.zip into a new directory called 'velthuis'. > > You may post a message to comp.text.tex informing readers of the new > release if you wish. i've installed the new files, and deleted the old, as requested. thanks for the upload. in summary, the whole of the old devanagari/contrib and /distrib directories are replaced (or superseded) by a new subtree devanagari/velthuis; the existing subtree devanagari/omega is untouched. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: ePiX
by Jim Hefferon 08 Jun '03

08 Jun '03

An update has been done of this package at tug.ctan.org and it should propagate to a mirror near you quite soon. Thanks for the material, Jim Hefferon ftpmaint(a)tug.ctan.org =================================================================== The following information was provided by our fellow contributor. Name of contribution: ePiX Author's name: Andrew D. Hwang Location on CTAN: graphics/epix Summary description: Utility for mathematically accurate, camera quality plots and line figures License type: gpl Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ePiX is now capable of true perspective drawing and plotting. Other new features are too numerous to announce; please see the documentation. - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: CTAN Submission -- lettrine
by Rainer Schöpf 06 Jun '03

06 Jun '03

On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Daniel Flipo wrote: > I have just uploaded into ftp.dante.de/incoming a file lettrine.tar.gz, > which contains an upgrade (V 1.4b) of the lettrine package designed to > typeset various sorts of dropped capitals. > > It should replace the old version in 'macros/latex/contrib/lettrine'. > > The license is unchanged (LPPL). > > This is a minor release, apart from cosmetic changes to the .dtx file, > a new demo file in German has been added (contribution of Georg Wagner), > the French demo file has been updated too. Thanks for the update, I installed it. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Updates by Heiko Oberdiek
by Rainer Schöpf 06 Jun '03

06 Jun '03

On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Heiko Oberdiek wrote: > I have uploaded pagesel.dtx and pagesel.ins in the > /incoming directory of ftp.dante.de. They update the > files in the directory > CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/oberdiek/ > > The licence: LPPL 1.2. > > Changes: > * Fix, if more than maxdeadcycles pages are omitted. > I have uploaded engord.sty in the /incoming directory > of ftp.dante.de. It replaces the file in > CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/oberdiek/ > > The licence remains LPPL 1.2. > > Changes: > * Bug fix for 30, 40, 50, ..., 100, 130, ... > * ordletters renamed to documented engordletters. Thanks for the updates, I installed the three files in macros/latex/contrib/supported/oberdiek For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN Upload - BaKoMa 5.50 - SVG/Animated Presentations
by Rainer Schöpf 06 Jun '03

06 Jun '03

Basil K. Malyshev submitted an update to the BaKoMa package. I installed all files in nonfree/system/win32/bakoma For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf > ------------------- ORIGINAL MESSAGE --------------------- > > I have uploaded to `ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma' directory > update for BaKoMa TeX 5.50 (issued 1-Jun-2003). > > Please put the files to 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' directory. > > BaKoMa TeX 5.50 introduces generation of SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) > from a DVI files. Ability to add animation to the SVG output, > makes it the best for producing high quality presentations. > > Sample of animated presentation is available at: > ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/samples/index.html > > Key Features: > SVG output is compatible with another output formats > (PDF, PS, HTML, View, and Print) so, that the same graphical > formats, font formats, and other features are supported. > In details: > * All TeX Formats (LaTeX 2e, LaTeX 2.09, AmSTeX, Plain TeX) are supported. > * TeX extensions (e-TeX and Omega) are supported. > * ALL LaTeX packages (including PSTricks, PSFrag, graphics, draftcopy, etc.) > are supported. > * Graphical formats: EPS, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, MSP, > BMP, WMF, EMF, HPGL, and DXY are supported. > * More generally, Any imported or embedded Postscript is supported. > * Hyperref is supported, including outline and links. For Acrobatmenu > most general commands (such as NextPage or PrevPage) are supported. > * Popular presentation packages: Prosper, PDFScreen, PDFSlide, Seminar, etc. > are supported. > *** The existing presentations can be enhanced by adding animation. > * All Font Types: OpenType (OTF/TTF), TrueType, Postscript Type1 > (including MM), Postscript Type 3, and TeX PK are supported. > > More information about adding animations is at: > <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes5.html> > > Bye. > Basil K. Malyshev > 2-Jun-2003 > > PS: Please send announce to appropriate mailing lists and news groups. > > --------------- About BaKoMa TeX 5.50 ---------------------- > > CONTENTS > * Highlights > * Graphical Capabilities > * Fonts > * User Interface > * PDF Generation Features > * HTML Generation features > * New Features of BaKoMa TeX 5.50 > > For more information about BaKoMa TeX see > <ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/index.html> > > BaKoMa TeX is a complete TeX system for Microsoft Windows XP/2000/NT/98/95 > > HIGHLIGHTS > > * BaKoMa TeX is PostScript enabled TeX system. > * Dynamical Preview allows the user to preview instantly selected region > of the file being edited. > (like to Instant Preview - http://www.activetex.org). > ** Generates *PDF* from documents with *PSTricks*, *PSfrag*, etc. > ** Generates HTML (TeX4HT, DVI2HTML), also supports Hevea and TTH. > * Supports using PostScript Type 1 fonts (including MM) *WITHOUT ATM*. > However, using ATM for font rendering is optionally available. > * Complete distribution includes about *1500* TeX Fonts (including EC/TC, LH) > in ATM Compatible PostScript Type 1 font format. > * Font Setup Wizard installs OpenType/TrueType/Postscript fonts in one click > * Consistent graphics and font support for all DVI back-ends. > * BibEdit - editor for LaTeX BIB files is included. > * Supports hyperlink text broken across lines and pages. > * Easy to install and use. > * Much less expensive than other analogues. > > GRAPHICAL CAPABILITIES > > BaKoMa TeX includes an interpreter for *PostScript Level 2*, > which is tested for compatibility with output from popular > software such as: MetaPost, Adobe Illustrator 10, Adobe Streamline 4.0, > Mathematica 4, MatLab, CorelDraw 10, CorelXARA, HIGZ, PageDraw, > FrameMaker, ImageMagick, etc. > > All DVI back-ends support the same special interface compatible > with well known Rokicki's DVIPS, including processing PostScript > embedded into DVI files (PSTricks, PSfrag, XyPic, etc.). > > The system includes Graphics Import Filters for the following formats: > PostScript, HPGL, DXY, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, MSP, BMP. > > FONTS > > BaKoMa TeX supports the following font formats: > * OpenType (both TTF and OTF are supported), > * PostScript Type 1 (including Multiple Masters), > * PostScript Type 3, > * TrueType, > * TeX PK/VF. > > The system includes about *1500* typefaces in PostScript Type 1 > and Type 3 font format including the following fonts: > * CM (including LaTeX and Logo fonts + vf for T1 with CX > * AMS Fonts (Euler, Math Symbols), > * EC/TC, > * LH (T2A), > * Concrete (Math, ECC), > * Malvern, > * CMCyr + vf for T2A/LCY > * Scripting fonts, CMPica, Punk. > Math Fonts: > * Stmaryrd, Wasy, Rsfs, YHMath, BlackBoard (bbm, doublestroke). > Diagram drawing fonts: > * Lams, Astro Symbols (cmastro, astrosym, moonphase), > * Barcodes (barcodes, wlean, wlc*), Logical (loggates, milstd), > * timing, MusiXTeX, Chess/CChess, Go, Backgammon, Dingbats/NiceFrame. etc. > > Any font type can be used for any output device/format. > This feature is supported by automatic font conversion > between font formats when needed. > This feature enables the rendering of Type 1 fonts *without ATM*. > On the other hand, it enables the use of TrueType/OpenType fonts > for generating PostScript printed even on PostScript Level 1 printers. > > In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use most of free Type 1 fonts > available on CTAN and Trutype fonts coming with MS Windows systems. > > Font Setup Wizard lets you to install most of commercial (and free) > OpenType, TrueType, and Postscript Type 1 fonts in almost one click. > > OpenType/Type1 fonts (OTF) are supported also under Windows 9x and NT 4.0 > even without ATM. > > USER INTERFACE > > * Dynamical Preview (Instant Preview) of selected part of a document. > It reformats (and preview) selected part of document on the fly, > when you edit it. This feature accelerates tuning paragraphs, > mathematics, pictures, etc. > * Flexible window docking lets you optimize splitting your screen > for using Dynamical Preview efficiently. > * One touch key for TeX + Preview + other customizable postprocessors, > * Quick navigation via document structure, > * DVI Forward/Reverse search (format independent), > * Powerful support for different input encodings, > * Project support, > * Graphics import assistant, > * Assitance for multi-file documents: > context sensitive openning of included text and graphics files, > * Searching for TeX errors using the TeX log file, > * Searching for help for TeX commands in entire document collection, > * Syntax highlighting is configurable for catcodes and command dictionaries, > * Customizable GUI Bars and menus for inserting Math Symbols and other commands, > * Automatic creation of a BB-file for non-PostScript graphics. > * Spell Checker: On-the-spot highlighting of misspelled words, > correction proposals, handling accents and babel shortcuts. > configurable for handling (La)TeX commands. > * BibEdit - editor for LaTeX BIB files is included. > * Syntax Completion is context sensitive and flexible. > * Support for Multi-User systems. > > OUTPUT DEVICES/FORMATS > > * View on Windows Display. > * Print on any printer supported by a MS Windows driver. > * PostScript (really scalable), > * PDF, > * HTML. > > Important feature of BaKoMa TeX is consistent graphics and font support > for all types of output. This means that all font formats mentioned > may be used for every type of output. This also means that all graphical > capabilities mentioned are supported for every type of output. > > PDF GENERATION FEATURES > > * Handling in-line PostScript in DVI files (PSTricks). > * Creating PDF files which share fonts. > Suitable for preparing CD-ROM based document libraries. > * Embedding fonts in CFF requires 2--3 times less space then other font forms. > * Embedding ToUnicode CMAPs to support search and copy-paste > of cyrillic and other international characters. > * Handling HyperTeX (HyperRef) and document outline. > > HTML GENERATION FEATURES > > BaKoMa TeX 5 supports several ways for conversion of (La)TeX > documents into HTML files. > * `TeX|Generate HTML ...' text editor menu command lets you launch > `TeX4HT' convertor with numerous options. > * `File|Generate HTML ...' DVI viewer menu command lets you convert > pages of a DVI file into PNG files wrapped into navigation HTML > pages. This approach is useful for documents with complex graphics, > such as slides. > > In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use `HEVEA' and/or `TTH' convertors. > Launching of these convertors is available via extra TABS of > `TeX|Generate HTML ...' editor command. > > Including graphics is well integreated with BaKoMa TeX graphical engine. > In this reason, you can insert everithing supported by BaKoMa TeX > into generated HTML pages. > > *** NEW FEATURES OF BAKOMA TEX 5.50 in comparison with BAKOMA TEX 5.40 *** > > BaKoMa TeX 5.50 introduces generation of SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) > from your DVI files. Animation is supported. > > For more information see > <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes5.html> > > ---------- End of BaKoMa TeX Information ----------

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Re: CTAN upload notification: ps4pdf v0.6a
by Rainer Schöpf 06 Jun '03

06 Jun '03

> Name of contribution: ps4pdf v0.6a > Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ps4pdf/ > Summary description: Using Postscript code in pdfLaTeX documents > License type: LaTeX Project > > Announcement text: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Changes: > o trim parameter and draft option can be used > with the inactive option > o Size and alignment after trimming changed. > o Parameter hpos and vpos removed. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update, it was installed as requested. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN upload: ttf2tex 0.6.1
by Rainer Schöpf 05 Jun '03

05 Jun '03

On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Philipp Lehman wrote: > I've put a new release of ttf2tex into the incoming directory on > ftp.dante.de. This is a documentation update only. Please unpack > ttf2tex.tar.gz into support/ttf2tex, replacing the contents of this > directory. Thank you in advance. > > From the README: > > ttf2tex is a Bash script which generates all files required to use > Truetype fonts with Tetex from a set of .ttf files. In short, it will > do for Truetype fonts what fontinst's latinfamily command usually > does for Type 1 Postscript fonts. > > The script is designed for Unix systems running Tetex. It was > reported to work under several Linux flavors, FreeBSD, and MacOS X > with Fink. > > From the CHANGELOG: > > 2003-06-04 v0.6.1 > * documentation update only > * added FAQ to manual Thanks for the update, it was installed in support/ttf2tex For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN submission -- pdfpages v0.2m
by Reinhard Zierke 04 Jun '03

04 Jun '03

----- Forwarded message from Andreas Matthias <amat(a)kabsi.at> ----- I have uploaded the archive file `pdfpages.tar.bz2' to ftp.dante.de/incoming. Please, extract this archive in /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pdfpages/ (formerly .../contrib/supported/pdfpages/) The `pdfpages' package makes it easy to insert pages of external PDF documents. Several logical pages can be arranged onto each sheet of paper. The package provides hypertext operations like hyperlinks and article threads. New feature of the version: * support of PDF documents with mixed landscape/portrait pages * support of reverse page order: pages=7-3 * support of graphicspath * new option `picturecommand'; its argument is executed within a picture environment on each sheet of paper It is distributed under the LPPL. ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the submission. I installed the new version as suggested in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/pdfpages/ Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN submission: russian translation of lshort
by Reinhard Zierke 04 Jun '03

04 Jun '03

----- Forwarded message from Boris Tobotras ----- I'm uploading lshort-ru-4.12.tar to ftp.dante.de/incoming. This is update of my translation of lshort; please place it to /info/lshort/russian, replacing its contents. License is GPL, like original text. ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the upload. This translation seems to be not so short anymore as the files have about doubled in size. Good work! Anyway, I installed it as suggested replacing the previous version in CTAN:info/lshort/russian/ Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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Re: Upload of urlbst-0.3
by Robin Fairbairns 04 Jun '03

04 Jun '03

Norman Gray writes: > + what you've uploaded > > urlbst-0.3.tar.gz > > + which CTAN node you've uploaded to > > ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming > > + where you want the files to go > > /tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/urlbst/ replacing the files there now > > + what licensing conditions you apply to your software (see list > below). > > gpl > > + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do. > > Adds functionality to urlbst, supporting eprint BibTeX field, and > adding --hypertex and --hyperref options. Documentation expanded, > explaining the difference between the goals of urlbst and those of > custom-bib. i've installed the package as requested (and i'll try and remember to get it in my faq for next time around). thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN upload notification: tpslifonts package v0.6
by Reinhard Zierke 02 Jun '03

02 Jun '03

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload ----- A submission was uploaded to nova.dante.de:/ftp/incoming/upload-20030530.001/. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: tpslifonts package v0.6 Name and email: Stephan Lehmke <Stephan.Lehmke(a)udo.edu> Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/exptl/texpower/tpslifonts Summary description: A LaTeX package for configuring presentation fonts License type: GNU Project Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- When I see a presentation which is a little demanding wrt fonts (especially when a lot of math is used), I'm usually disappointed by font readability. Most commercial `presentation tools' are completely out of the question because they don't have a clue about math formatting. But even when some LaTeX package is used, often the readability is not so good. cm math fonts at large design sizes are difficult to read from far away, especially at low resolutions and low contrast color choice. What is more, the LaTeX presentation packages do almost nothing for math readability. To name a few, combining cmr with cm math (seminar default), combining cmss with cm math (foils), or combining helvetica with cm math (prosper) doesn't help readability and sometimes leads to positively ugly results. It has to be said that real alternatives in the form of `presentation-friendly' math fonts freely available in PostScript Type1 format exist only since very recently. Thanks to Harald Harders for providing the hfbright collection and to Walter Schmidt for the cmbright fonts and for changing the license to make this possible. I hope that the ideas realised in the tpslifonts package lead to much better overall readability of some font combinations. The package tpslifonts offers a couple of `harmonising' combinations of text and math fonts from the (distant) relatives of computer modern fonts, with a couple of extras for optimising readability. The package offers the following features: 1) Text fonts from computer modern roman, computer modern sans serif, SliTeX computer modern sans serif, computer modern bright, or concrete roman. 2) Support for OT1 and T1 font encoding. 3) Math fonts from computer modern math, computer modern bright math, or Euler fonts. 4) Support of additional symbol fonts like AMS symbols or doublestroke. 5) All fonts configured for `smooth scaling' (like in the type1cm package). 6) Avoiding fonts not freely available in Type 1 format. 7) Careful design size selection for optimum readability. For some of the options to yield satisfying results, it is neccessary to install additional (free) Type1 fonts on your system. There's no intention to support other font families like the typical ``psnfss'' PostScript fonts, as they usually don't come in different design sizes, making the effort of tuning them for viewing futile. If you wish to use such a font, load it with the usual packages. tpslifonts is part of the TeXPower bundle, residing at http://texpower.sourceforge.net/ but is completely independent and can be used without texpower without problems. The example document slifontsexample.tex can also be compiled without TeXPower installed. A precompiled version of the example document (showing SliTeX computer modern sans serif text together with cmbright math) can be downloaded from http://texpower.sourceforge.net/doc/slifontsexample.pdf As I'm not really a font expert, I'm of course interested in opinions of the experts concerning the concepts behind tpslifonts and suggestions for improvement. regards Stephan Lehmke ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload; I installed it as suggested in CTAN:macros/latex/exptl/texpower/tpslifonts/ Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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new CTAN package: smalltableof
by Jim Hefferon 01 Jun '03

01 Jun '03

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should make its way to a mirror near you in the next day or two. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ftpmaint(a)tug.ctan.org ========================================================================== The following information was provided by our fellow contributor. Name of contribution: smalltableof Author's name: Boretti Mathieu Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/smalltableof Summary description: Package to create listoffigures, ... as section instance of chapter License type: lppl Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package allow creating list of figures, list of tables, ... that are section instance of chapter (You can make a chapter named List that contents section List of figure, section List of tables, ...) Ce package permet de gerer des tables/listes de figures/tables/... sous la forme de section et non pas de chapitre. - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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New CTAN package: proba
by Jim Hefferon 01 Jun '03

01 Jun '03

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should have by now made its way to your favorite local mirror. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ftpmaint(a)tug.ctan.org ====================================================================== The following information was provided by our fellow contributor. Name of contribution: proba Author's name: Laurent Nguyen-Ngoc Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/misc Summary description: Some shortcuts commands to symbols used in probability texts License type: lppl Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package includes some of the most often used commands in probability texts, e.g. probability, expectation, variance, etc. It also includes some short commands for set (blackboard) or filtrations (calligraphic) It requires Latex 2e and the amsfonts package - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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CTAN upload notification: The TeXPower bundle, alpha release 0.0.9d
by Reinhard Zierke 27 May '03

27 May '03

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload ----- The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: The TeXPower bundle, alpha release 0.0.9d. Name and email: Stephan Lehmke Suggested location on CTAN: tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/texpower Summary description: A bundle of LaTeX packages and classes for making pdf beamer presentations. License type: GNU Project Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- (Sorry, the summary is not brief. You can delete everything below and including Among other packages below if neccessary.) TeXPower is a bundle of packages intended to provide an `all-inclusive' environment for designing pdf `screen presentations' to be viewed with Adobe Acrobat[tm] reader in full-screen mode, especially for projecting `online' with a video beamer. The features provided include: * `dynamic' features like incremental building of pages, animated diagrams and such. * support for `navigation panels' * support for page backgrounds * advanced color management (`logical markup' for colors supplying `color sets' for different background colors, `dimming' and inverting of colors etc.) and color highlighting. * advanced font configuration. TeXPower is not so much meant as a help for _designing_ slides (a lot more in this direction is planned for the future, but it is not the main purpose of the package); instead, you can keep your favourite slide or presentation class (say, seminar or pdfscreen or ...) and add dynamic effects with usepackage{texpower}. The bundle does contain a documentclass powersem which is derived from seminar by a very limited number of fixes and extensions trying to make it a little more suited for presentations (and more friendly towards pdftex). The bundle is developed by myself (Stephan Lehmke) and Hans Fr. Nordhaug who is also running the SourceForge site. The development is coordinated by a SourceForge Project. The homepage is http://texpower.sourceforge.net/. There you'll find the newest sources in a CVS repository, bug and patch trackers, a user forum and mailing list, and pdf files for all examples. Among other packages for dynamic effects (most notably PPower4 http://www-sp.iti.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/software/ppower4/ and prosper http://prosper.sourceforge.net/), TeXPower is distinguished by INDEPENDENCE: There is no postprocessor, and also no dependence on the way in which pdf is produced. VERSATILITY: Everything is implemented entirely in LaTeX, hence you can use whatever LaTeX programming skills you have (and the numerous hooks provided) to design your own presentation effects. There are a lot of examples in the doc directory of this bundle, from very simple things (http://texpower.sourceforge.net/doc/simpledemo.pdf) to rather involved (and not completely serious :) examples of what can be done (http://texpower.sourceforge.net/doc/divexample.pdf, http://texpower.sourceforge.net/doc/panelexample.pdf, http://texpower.sourceforge.net/doc/fancystep.pdf). TeXPower contains a small number of simple and customizeable basic commands and a large number of derived commands for special purposes (for instance, dimming all colors on a page and then incrementally `undimming'). FRAGILITY (or maybe one should say BRITTLENESS): This is the backside of versatility I'm afraid. Unfortunately it is extremely easy to introduce errors and irritating spacing glitches (leading to parts of the page jumping and wobbling around during an incremental build). It is very helpful to have at least a basic understanding of the goings-on of LaTeX formatting for doing anything but the most basic things with TeXPower. While mostly the brittleness is inherent in the way texpower is implemented and can't be avoided at sustainable cost, it is our aim to reduce the impact by * `faultproof' customized environments like special list environments with automatical incremental display of items; * a large number of `ready-made' examples for most common uses; * an extensive FAQ list containing the most common blunders. Most of the above is unfinished in this alpha version. PRODUCTIVENESS: TeXPower tries to do a lot of things by itself, making it easier to design presentations. For instance, the stepwise command is similar to Prosper's overlays, but you don't have to count the steps yourself, stepwise will determine the number of steps quite reliably even if steps are nested inside of other steps etc. Furthermore, you _can_ say explicitly at which step something is to appear, but you don't have to; normally steps will just be executed in order. This makes it very easy to design and edit dynamic presentations. ROBUSTNESS: In spite of being alpha, the code is quite stable. In fact, no `real' bugs were found since november 2002. One note on the alpha status: TeXPower has been declared pre-alpha for several years, because I had promised myself to respect backwards-compatibility after alpha release and restrict distribution until this time. But then again, I had planned to get the alpha release out in 2000... As there are a lot of `faithful' users now, and as since GPLing TeXPower to put it on SourceForge, everybody is putting it in Linux distributions and such anyway, there is not much point in not declaring it alpha and putting it on CTAN also... This means the vow for backward-compatibility has to be renewed for the beta release... The alpha status is justified by the following problem areas: DOCUMENTATION: Part of the documentation, especially some of the examples and the FAQ, are still the same as for the much inferior version 0.0.8, partly invalidating them. Furthermore, the manual has been criticised for terseness and lack of examples. Currently, it is written for people who know quite a bit about LaTeX, complemented by the numerous demos showing usage of things. The documentation needs a lot of enhancement. CATCODE MONGERY: Currently stepwise takes everything to be displayed incrementally as a macro argument in the most naive way, destroying everything which needs to change catcodes, like language changes or verbatim printing. There are ways to remedy this, but all of them are complicated and/or awkward, so this need a bit of thought and might lead to backwards- incompatible changes of the basic commands for incremental display. BACKGROUNDS and PANELS: The support for page backgrounds and panels is preliminary at the moment. There will be a much more involved version which might not be completely backward compatibile. LABELS and LINKS: The basic idea for incremental display in TeXPower is to execute everything several times. This can lead to a lot of grief with duplicated links and labels. The most basic precautions are taken, so there shouldn't be any real problems in using links, but there will be a lot of warnings, and I didn't test yet what happens with bibliography and index. THUMBNAILS: No concept yet. PRESENTATION DESIGN: As mentioned above, TeXPower is not mainly design-oriented (and I myself don't really think a presentation gets better by fancy design), but there seems to be a definite need for this kind of thing. It is planned to add more `designish' document classes and provide a user interface for designing presentations. PDF GIMMICKS: With a little trickery with pdf forms, JavaScript and such, amazing things can be achieved which can be useful for presentations (most useful for me would be `popup boxes'). So far, no special pdf features (apart from what can be achieved in a generic way with hyperref) are supported. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- End forwarded message ----- Thank you very much for the upload. I installed it as suggested in CTAN:macros/latex/exptl/texpower/ Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN submision --- combine class and support packages
by Robin Fairbairns 23 May '03

23 May '03

Peter Wilson writes: > Dear CTAN/Robin, > > I have uploaded combine.tar to UK incoming. Please use this to > replace the current macros/latex/contrib/combine. The distribution > is under the LPPL. > > From the README: > > The combine class lets you bundle individual documens into a > single document, such as when preparing conference proceedings. > > The axiliary combinet package puts the authors and titles from > maketitle commands into the main document's ToC, and the combnat > package enables the combine class and natbib package to be used > harmoniously together. > > Changes in combnat package version 0.21 (2003/05/22) > o Removed extraneous space from year citation i've installed the files as requested. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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New CTAN package: tokenizer
by Jim Hefferon 23 May '03

23 May '03

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make its way, via the miracle of automatic mirroring, to your favorite local mirror. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ftpmaint(a)tug.ctan.org ==================================================================== The following information was provided by our fellow contributor. Name of contribution: tokenizer Author's name: Sascha Herpers Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/tokenizer Summary description: Package for tokenizing comma separated lists of strings. License type: lppl Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package provides a rather small command, which splits a comma separated list of strings into two tokens at the first encounter of a comma. Each token is saved to a arbitrarily named command. - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: labels.sty bugfix release
by Robin Fairbairns 22 May '03

22 May '03

Julian Gilbey writes: > + what you've uploaded > > labels.tar.gz > > + which CTAN node you've uploaded to > > ftp.tex.ac.uk > > + where you want the files to go > > replace the old ones in macros/latex/contrib/supported/labels/ > > + what licensing conditions you apply to your software (see list > below). > > lppl > > + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do. > > bugfix release so that the package works correctly with the color > package. thanks for the upload; i've actually installed it in macros/latex/contrib/labels, and deleted the old directory in contrib/supported. (ctan is losing the increasingly silly distinction between supported and other...) Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: update to cmap package
by Robin Fairbairns 22 May '03

22 May '03

Vladimir Volovich writes: > i've uploaded the file cmap.sty to ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/ > > Please replace the file CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/cmap/cmap.sty with > this new file. > > It fixes a typo due to which the package had no effect at all :) that's good. i've installed the file as requested. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN Upload: srhyphc.zip
by Robin Fairbairns 21 May '03

21 May '03

Aleksandar Jelenak writes: > FILE UPLOADED: srhyphc.zip > UPLOADED ON: ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming > FILE CONTENTS: One file -- `srhyphc.tex' > CTAN DESTINATION: tex-archive/languages/hyphenation > FILE LICENSE: GPL -- GNU General Public License > SUMMARY: The file `srhyphc.tex' provides hyphenation patterns > for Serbian language in Cyrillic alphabet and T2A TeX > font encoding. i have installed the file as requested. thanks for the upload. robin

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New CTAN package: eCards
by Jim Hefferon 20 May '03

20 May '03

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make its way to your favorite mirror in the next day or two. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ftpmaint(a)tug.ctan.org ================================================================== The following information was provided by our fellow contributor. Name of contribution: eCards Author's name: D. P. Story Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/eCards Summary description: Create electronic flash cards and have them viewed in random order License type: lppl Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The eCards package for LaTeX enables you to create a series of electronic (flash) cards. The document author provides questions, hints and answers to a series of questions. Question can be verbal-response, or multiple choice/fill-in. Users can test their knowledge by responding to the questions. The questions are delivered in random order. - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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New CTAN package: thrmappendix
by Jim Hefferon 20 May '03

20 May '03

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org. It will make its way to your local mirror in the next day or two. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ftpmaint(a)tug.ctan.org ================================================================= The following information was provided by our fellow contributor. Name of contribution: thrmappendix Author's name: Ben Klemens Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/misc Summary description: A macro package to facilitate moving proofs to an appendix. License type: gpl Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Long proofs break the flow of a paper, and should be moved to an appendix. However, this often means the reader has to flip back and forth between the statement of the theorem in the text and the proof in the appendix. This macro solves the problem by letting you write the theorem in the body, and repeat it verbatim just before the proof in the appendix. The abbreviated format for writing up theorems, lemmas, &c. may be useful even if you don't have any proofs in your paper. - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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CTAN upload notification: ps4pdf v0.5
by Reinhard Zierke 19 May '03

19 May '03

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload ----- The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: ps4pdf v0.5 Name and email: Rolf Niepraschk Suggested location on CTAN: CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ps4pdf/ Summary description: Using Postscript code in pdf documents License type: LaTeX Project Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes: o trim option: Scaling was wrong, corrected. o New options draft/final. o Improved test file. Please remove the all files from macros/latex/contrib/ps4pdf/ and unpack the archive `ps4pdf-030518.zip' to the same location. Thanks in advance, ...Rolf ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the upload. I installed it as suggested replacing the old version in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/ps4pdf/ Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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