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CTAN update: natbib
by CTAN Announcements 19 Aug '06

19 Aug '06

On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 Patrick Daly submitted an update to the natbib package. Natbib Provides a style with author-year and numbered references, as well as much detailed of support for other bibliography use. Provides versions of the standard BibTeX styles that are compatible with natbib - plainnat, unsrtnat, abbrnat. The bibliography styles produced by custom-bib are designed from the start to be compatible with natbib. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/natbib Summary description: Minor bug fix in natbib package License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 7.4, with a very small change to allow the nonamebreak option to work with numerical citations. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Sch�pf

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CTAN update: MiKTeX+Ghostscript+GSview+USB-drive-HOWTO
by CTAN Announcements 19 Aug '06

19 Aug '06

On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 Alexander Grahn submitted an update to the file info/MiKTeX+Ghostscript+GSview+USB-drive-HOWTO.txt on CTAN. This HOWTO provides instructions for setting up a portable installation of MiKTeX (>=2.5), Ghostscript and GSview on external storage devices, such as USB sticks or mapped network drives, for use with MS Windows (2000, 2003, XP, ...) computers. License: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This update accounts for the changes that came along with the new MiKTeX-2.5 release. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: Ebib
by CTAN Announcements 18 Aug '06

18 Aug '06

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: Ebib Author's name: Joost Kremers Location on CTAN: /biblio/bibtex/utils/ebib Summary description: A BibTeX database manager for Emacs License type: bsd Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a major update of the Ebib package. Ebib is a BibTeX database manager that runs in Emacs. The two major improvements of the current version are that it now runs in XEmacs as well, and that one can open multiple .bib-files simultaneously. For more information, see <http://ebib.sf.net>. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/ebib . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN package update: Stellenbosch 4.0
by CTAN Announcements 17 Aug '06

17 Aug '06

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: Stellenbosch 4.0 Author's name: Danie Els Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/stellenbosch Summary description: Typesetting dissertations, theses and reports of the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The usthesis class/style files are provided to typeset reports, theses and dissertations that conform to the requirements of the Engineering Faculty of the University of Stellenbosch. The class file usthesis.cls is based on the standard LaTeX book class, while usthesis.sty is a style file to be loaded on top of the very powerful memoir class. Both options give identical output, but the benefit of the using memoir is that it has many additional command and environments for formatting and processing of a document. Usthesis is primarily concerned with the formatting of the front matter such as the title page, abstract, etc. and a decent page layout on A4 paper. It also works together with the babel package to provide language options to typeset documents in Afrikaans or in English. Additional packages are provided for bibliographic matter, note title pages, lists of symbols, as well as various graphic files for logos. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/stellenbosch . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN package update: elsevier (elsart classes)
by CTAN Announcements 17 Aug '06

17 Aug '06

The elsevier classes have been updated: the directory macros/latex/contrib/elsevier now contains .cls files and documentation only. Simon Pepping (of Elsevier) writes: > Today I uploaded the file elsart.zip to the UK CTAN node, in the incoming > directory. > > The content of this zip file is meant to replace the content of the > directory macros/latex/contrib/elsevier/. > > This upload contains the following changes: > > Updated: elsart.cls. > > New: elsart1p.cls, elsart3p.cls, elsart5p.cls. > > Removed: elsart.sty, elsart12.sty. These are outdated. > > Rewritten: instructions-harv.pdf, instructions-harv.tex, > instructions-num.pdf, instructions-num.tex. These replace model-harv.pdf, > model-harv.tex, model-num.pdf, model-num.tex. > > Removed: instraut.*. These instructions are outdated. > > Modified: template-harv.tex, template-num.tex. thanks for the upload. i've installed the new version (and deleted all the old files), and updated the ctan catalogue. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: syntrace
by CTAN Announcements 17 Aug '06

17 Aug '06

The new package given below has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: syntrace Author's name: Mathieu Boretti Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/syntrace Summary description: Label for trace in syntaxic tree License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package add support for for trace in tree created using synttree package. It provide two commands ( raceLabel et raceReference) to set and use trace. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contryb/syntrace . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN has a new package: coollist
by CTAN Announcements 15 Aug '06

15 Aug '06

A new package now lives on tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thank you again, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: coollist Author's name: nsetzer Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/coollist Summary description: manipulation of lists License type: lgpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- manipulation of lists ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/coollist . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN has a new package: munich.bst
by CTAN Announcements 14 Aug '06

14 Aug '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you again. Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: munich.bst Author's name: Martin Brixner Location on CTAN: /biblio/bibtex/contrib/munich Summary description: Alternative name (year) Bibtex style useful for German or continental European authors License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Authors that are looking for an alternative to the Harvard or the Oxford Bibtex styles might find the Munich style (munich.bst) interesting. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/munich . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: pdftex.def v0.03t
by CTAN Announcements 14 Aug '06

14 Aug '06

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, Heiko Oberdiek submitted an update to the pdftex.def file. This file provides device-specific definitions for colour and graphics support when running pdf(La)TeX. Location on CTAN: graphics/pdftex/pdftex.def License: lppl Latest changes: % 2006/08/14 v0.03t % * Extensions added: .jpeg, .JPG, .JPEG, .PNG, .PDF % No variants for .tif, because TIFF support is no longer available. % No need for uppercase variant of .msp. Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: latex-tds
by CTAN Announcements 14 Aug '06

14 Aug '06

On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Heiko Oberdiek submitted the new package latex-tds. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/latex-tds/ > PS: Excerpt from readme.txt: > > B. PROJECT LATEX-TDS > ==================== > > How it has started > ------------------ > The project started as I wanted to install the new LaTeX release 2005/12/01 > that was announced at 2006/04/27. However the files aren't packed in > TDS format, ready for unpacking in the destination directory. And > the documentation files were not yet generated or the provided > PDF files are lacking of basic features such as bookmarks or link support. > Thus this project has started. I thought it could be finished during > the afternoon at the day of the announcement ... > > Goals of the project > -------------------- > * From the sources a TDS compliant tree is constructed and populated. > The zipped result is distributed. > * All the documentation is generated from the sources. The PDF files > are user friendly and provide navigational support with bookmarks > and links. > * The PDF files are post-processed to reduce the file size. > > Scope > ----- > I don't have the time to assemble a TeX distribution with > thousands of packages. Therefore I restricted me to the > LaTeX base distribution and the required bundles. > In the following I will use the term `module' for a package bundle. > > Module list > ----------- > * base CTAN:macros/latex/base.zip > * tools CTAN:macros/latex/required/tools.zip > * cyrillic CTAN:macros/latex/required/cyrillic.zip > * amslatex CTAN:macros/latex/required/amslatex.zip > ftp://ftp.ams.org/pub/tex/amslatex.zip > ftp://ftp.ams.org/pub/tex/amsrefs.zip > * psnfss CTAN:macros/latex/required/psnfss.zip > * babel CTAN:macros/latex/required/babel.zip > > Author > ------ > Heiko Oberdiek <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de> Thanks for the upload. I apologize for the delay in installing. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: pdfpages v0.4a
by CTAN Announcements 14 Aug '06

14 Aug '06

On Sat, 12 Aug 2006, Andreas Matthias submitted an update to the pdfpages package. This package simplifies the insertion of external multi-page PDF documents into LaTeX documents. Pages can be freely selected and similar to psnup it is possible to put several logical pages onto each sheet of paper. Furthermore a lot of hypertext features like hyperlinks and article threads are provided. This package supports pdfTeX (pdflatex) and VTeX. With VTeX it is even possible to use this package to insert PostScript files, in addition to PDF files. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/pdfpages License: LPPL Announcement text: Changes: -------- Since packages like pst-pdf must produce DVI output at the first run, it is no longer acceptable that pdfpages stops execution when running in DVI mode. Of course pdfpages cannot insert PDF documents in DVI mode but it will just insert empty pages. Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: sugconf
by CTAN Announcements 10 Aug '06

10 Aug '06

A new package has just been installed at tug.ctan.org and it should soon appear at your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: sugconf Author's name: Ronald J. Fehd Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/conferences/sugconf Summary description: SAS(R) user group conference proceedings document class License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This class may be used to typeset articles (output: Adobe v5 .pdf) to be published in the proceedings of SAS(R) User group conferences and workshops. The layout produced by the 'sugconf' class is based on the description contained in SUGI paper guidelines, published by SAS Institute: (2006) http://support.sas.com/usergroups/sugi/sugi31/package/WritersGuidelines.pdf ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/conferences/sugconf . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN has a new package: seqsplit
by CTAN Announcements 08 Aug '06

08 Aug '06

A new package has been put in place at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: seqsplit Author's name: Boris Veytsman Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/seqsplit Summary description: Splitting Long Sequences of Letters (DNA, RNA, Proteins, Etc.), v0.1 License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sometimes one needs to typeset long sentences of letters, which should not have spaces between them (like letters in words), but could be split between lines at any point, often without a hyphenation character. This problem was formulated at the PracticalTeX-2006 conference by Klaus Hoeppner. In the general discussion several solutions were suggested. This package implements the one belonging to, I believe, Peter Flynn. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/seqsplit . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN has a new package: Paper CD Case
by CTAN Announcements 07 Aug '06

07 Aug '06

On Mon, 7 Aug 2006 Tobias Dussa submitted the new package papercdcase to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/papercdcase Summary description: Origami-style folding paper CD case License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- papercdcase implements a LaTeX style file to produce origami-style folding paper CD cases. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Sch�pf

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CTAN package update: dvipsconfig
by CTAN Announcements 07 Aug '06

07 Aug '06

Volker Kuhlmann has provided a new version of his dvipsconfig package. > This is a set of PostScript header files which can be used to > control the printer, like simplex/duplex printing, or the printing, > like screen frequencies of images, or the addition of a grid > underlay. These header files can be inserted with dvips -P into > PostScript files generated by dvips, or with the addpsctrl script > into existing PostScript files. > > New in this version is an upgraded addpsctrl script, and the mmgrid > and a4grid grid underlays (grids are printed underneath the normal > page content). mmgrid has its origin in the bottom left corner, > a4grid in the top left corner. Grids are useful for checking page > layout designs or printing for correctness. thanks for the upload; i've replaced the existing dvipsconfig on ctan, and am updating the catalogue. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: Mathmode.pdf
by CTAN Announcements 03 Aug '06

03 Aug '06

Herbert Voss writes: > I uploaded mathmode.tgz to the uk mirror. > Please replace the files with the existing > ones in /info/math/voss/mathmode/ i've installed the updates as requested, and updated the catalogue repository. thanks for the upload. The mathmode bundle provides a comprehensive review of maths in latex. > Recent changes from this year are: > > 2.15 2006-08-03 some typos, adding the missing > index and bibliography > 2.14 2006-04-23 http://www.yandy.com is obsolete > 2.13 2006-05-29 typos and adding a font demo section > 2.12 2006-05-17 typos and changes to the bib file > 2.11 2006-03-12 fix bug with iggm Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: minitoc package upgrade to version 47
by Robin Fairbairns 03 Aug '06

03 Aug '06

Jean-Pierre Drucbert writes: > I have uploaded a new version (#47) of the minitoc package in > the /incoming directory of ftp.tex.ac.uk . The file is named > > minitoc.zip (5416619 bytes) > > This package should completely replace its previous version in > > tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/minitoc/ i've installed the update as requested, and modified the catalogue repository entry. thanks for the upload. further details of the package and its upgrade: > The licence is LPPL. > > This package allows the creation of mini-tables of contents, > lists of figures or lists of tables per part, chapter or > section, with language dependent titles. > > This new version has the following changes or improvements: > > _______________________________________________________________________ > Minitoc version #47 > --- Corrections in the documentation and the bibliography. > --- Update the bibliography. > --- Added arabi.mld and farsi3.mld (from the Arabi system by > Youssef Jabri). > --- Fixed l@xsection. > --- Fixed some spacings in mini-tables. > --- Added a kernafter... vertical kern between each minitable and > its bottom rule and added point~45 of the FAQ about that. > --- Fixed a bug in romanian2.mld and romanian3.mld. > --- Shortened the result of some example documents by using the > `report' class in place of the `book' class (using one side > printing). > _______________________________________________________________________ > > The administravive trivia are in the `catalog' file in the > distribution. > > Note that the documentation is mainly available in PDF form, > -- in english (not perfect): minitoc.pdf > -- in french: fminitoc.pdf > > The INSTALL file (and, better, the ``Installation'' chapter in the > documentation) describes the files of this package (the list > of files is in minitoc.l). Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: KOMA-Script
by CTAN Announcements 02 Aug '06

02 Aug '06

On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Markus Kohm submitted a new release of the koma-script package. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/koma-script Summary description: KOMA-Script is a versatil LaTeX2e bundle License type: lppl Announcement text: -------------------------------------------------------------------- KOMA-Script is a versatile bundle of LaTeX2e document classes and packages. It aims to be a replacement to the standard LaTeX2e classes. KOMA-Script does not stop with the features known from the standard classes, but it extends the possibilities in order to provide the user an almost complete working environment. After 4 years of development the release of the LaTeX bundle KOMA-Script 2.95b is available now. KOMA-Script 2.95 was tested for month and should be as stable as KOMA-Script 2.9u was. Nevertheless KOMA-Script 2.95 is a new implementation of the features of KOMA-Script 2.9u. Most important changes at KOMA-Script 2.95b: - ifthispageodd fixed. This fix also fixes inner/outer margin bug of captionbeside and addmargin. - Line breaks at some messages improved to avoid overfull message lines. - Font variable `sectioning' renamed to `disposition'. `sectioning' still may be used as an alias of the new name. Most important changes at KOMA-Script 2.95a: - addmargin does not longer damage list depth - switching off option tocleft or listleft does not longer result in an error - vertical alignment of caption fixed Most important changes at KOMA-Script 2.95: - new source base - bugfix at scrlttr2: foldmarks does not depend on type area - bugfix at scrbook: option oneside activates aggedbottom - english manual (scrguien): describes same features like german manual - manuals: optimized to be used on screen (either portrait screen or on 19 landscape screens together with an editor window) - manuals: html index of all commands, options, environments etc. available (see scrguide.html or scrguien.html) - Simple installation by unpacking koma-script-texmf.zip at any TEXMF root directory (see INSTALLD.txt or INSTALL.txt). NOTE: This feature depends on the distribution. Distributions made by the author (see <URL:http://developer.berlios.de/project/filelist.php?group_id=4307>) have this feature. - license: LPPL 1.3b (see lppl-de.txt or lppl.txt) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: kvoptions v2.2
by CTAN Announcements 02 Aug '06

02 Aug '06

On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Heiko Oberdiek submitted a new package called kvoptions to CTAN. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek License: lppl Abstract: This package is intended for package authors who want to use options in key value format for their package options. Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update -- hyperref v6.75a
by CTAN Announcements 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '06

Heiko Oberdiek writes: > I have uploaded the new hyperref version to the tug server: > ftp://ftp.tug.org/pub/tex/hyperref/ > AFAIK this will be automatically mirrored to > CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/hyperref/ i have forced the mirror to run, and pushed the result out to other ctan sites. (otherwise, the update would not have happened until some time in the small hours of tomorrow morning.) hyperref, as almost everybody probably knows, is the package of choice for constructing hyper-references within latex documents; changes in this latest version are listed below. thanks, Heiko, for this new version of your very important package. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team > Most important changes regarding installation: > * hyperref-tds.zip contains the files in a TDS tree. > * Additional dependencies: > CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek/refcount.pdf > CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek/kvoptions.pdf > > >From ChangeLog: > > 2006-08-01 6.75a Heiko Oberdiek > * 6.75a > * hyperref-tds.zip provided with files sorted in a TDS tree. > * New option defaults: > * plainpages=false > * pdfpagelabels=true > * Package kvoptions defines ProcessOptionsWithKV under > the name ProcessKeyvalOptions. It replaces > hyperref's macro ProcessOptionsWithKV. > * Some code for extracting reference information is put > into package refcount that is now loaded by nameref > and hyperref. > * setbookmarksdepth: The depth of the outline entries > can now set separatly from counter tocdepth, > see README. > * New option: pdfescapeform, see README. > * hyper@normalise for action attribute in forms. > * ProcessOptionsWithKV: letCurrentOption@empty added. > * bordercolor options now support package xcolor (>=1.11). > * color options also support the optional argument (color > model) of color. > * New option pdfborderstyle that allows the setting of the > border style dictionary. (Be aware that the support of this > feature by PDF viewers is limited.) > Example: underlined links can be obtained by > pdfborderstyle={/S/U} > * Direct low level bookmark support for usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} > and uftf8x of package ucs. Byte sequences until three > bytes are supported and e-TeX is required. > (No support for surrogates). > * Fix in addcontentsline, if option verbose is set. > * Better bookmark support for FrenchPro package > by use of if@mid@expandable (Bernard Gaulle <gaulle(a)idris.fr>). > * Options pdfcreationdate and pdfmoddate added. > * README: Section Limitations added with Broken Link Support. > * Default driver setting: added missed code of corresponding > options (Thanks for Arnaud Giersch <arnauld.giersch at free.fr>). > * penalty10000 added in Hy@raisedlink to cancel the > effect of smash in preventing hyphenation, e.g. a footnote > after a word. > * @classoptionslist can be elax (see psnfss/3773). > * ew@ifnextchar also disabled for bookmarks and > constructs such as letif...if{true,false} are catched, > see latex/3662. > * Bug fix: The case part without number by counter secnumdepth > was forgotten for the bookmarks (thanks to Rachel Elizabeth Dillon). > * Bug fix: vpageref defines undefined references with > empty anchor name that breaks autoref. > * Fix: Wrong message about setting of draft fixed, > if option final is used. > * Pdfmark driver: better removal of pdfmark stuff, > especially generated by forms, if the postscript > application does not define pdfmark, e.g. because the > output is not pdf (gs >= 8.0). > * New version numbering scheme of pdfTeX >= 1.30. > * Fix for hyper@normalise, if & is used inside href > in tabular environments. > * Fix: Setting pdfproducer in usepackage's option part > did'nt have an effect, because it was overwritten by > the default setting. > * Fix: pageanchor=false disabled @hyperfixhead and thus > many other features unrelated to pageanchor itself. > (Thanks to Hendri Adriaens for report and analysis.) > Now pageanchor can be changed during the document, too. > * Protection of strings that are written as PS/PDF strings. > * Hook Hy@setouterhbox for package setouterhbox. > * Option plainpages: hepage is run through pdfstringdef. > Helps in the case of spanish roman numbers. > * Deprecate warning for option 'dvipdf'. > * ding replaced by its code for dropping the dependency on > package pifont and a compatibility problem with package > pinyin (Werner Lemberg). > * hyper@normalise: \ is escape for (href, ...). > * Bug fix (debian 351260) in float support by Braun Gabor. > * Fix: Write register for bookmarks is only allocated if needed. > * Empty Unicode strings without Unicode header bytes. > * Fix for pdfmark+unicode+pdfpagelabels. > * Bug fix for empty destination names of pdfmark based drivers. > * Documentation: option hyperfootnotes added. > * French texts (HyLang@french) provided by Marc-Antoine Parent. > * README: compatibility entries for packages ellipsis, verse. > * hyper@normalize: support of active dollar. > * puenc.def: some fixes, reported by Ralf Stubner. > * Makefile no longer provided. > * nameref 2.24: Patch for ifthen moved from hyperref to nameref. > * nameref 2.24: Definitions of filedate and fileversion removed. > * nameref 2.23: Support for captions added. > * nameref 2.22: > Fix: @safe@activestrue limited to label name. > * backref 1.25: New feature ifbackrefparscan/ackrefprint > * backref 1.25: Definitions of filedate and fileversion removed. > * backref 1.24: [#1] --> [{#1}] > * Documentation: README.pdf and ChangeLog.pdf added.

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CTAN change: vpe
by CTAN Announcements 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '06

On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Heiko Oberdiek asked to move the files on the package vpe into its own directory on CTAN. New CTAN location: macros/latex/contrib/vpe Summary description: Source specials for PDF output License: lppl For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update -- refcount v3.0
by CTAN Announcements 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '06

On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Heiko Oberdiek submitted an update to his refcount package. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek/ Summary description: Counter operations with label references License: lppl Changes: [2006/06/20 v3.0] * Support for xpackage{hyperref} and xpackage{nameref} improved. * Support for xpackage{titleref} and xpackage{babel}'s shorthands added. * New: cs{refused}, cs{getrefbykeydefault} Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: xyling
by CTAN Announcements 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '06

On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Ralf Vogel submitted a new package called xyling to CTAN. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/xyling Summary description: Macros to draw syntactic trees and similar graphical objects used in linguistics literature, based on xypic. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The macros in this package model the construction of linguistic tree structures as a genuinely graphical problem: they contain two types of objects, BRANCHES and NODE LABELS, and these are positioned relative to a GRID. It is essential that each of these three elements is constructed independent of the other two, and hence they can be modified without unwanted side effects.The macros are based on the xypic package. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: pdftex.def v0.03s
by CTAN Announcements 31 Jul '06

31 Jul '06

On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Heiko Oberdiek submitted an update to the pdftex.def file. Location on CTAN: graphics/pdftex/pdftex.def License: lppl Latest changes: % 2006/07/16 v0.03s % * LPPL 1.3c. % * A little usage. % * Test for MessageBreak changed (comp.text.tex, % message id: <44baca88$0$10529$9b4e6d93(a)newsread4.arcor-online.net>). Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: SplitIndex
by CTAN Announcements 30 Jul '06

30 Jul '06

On Sun, 30 Jul 2006, Markus Kohm submitted an update to the splitindex package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/splitindex Summary description: Unlimited number of indexes. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SplitIndex consists of a LaTeX package, splitidx, and a small program, splitindex. The package may be used to produce one index or several indexes. Without splitindex (for example, using the index package), the number of indexes is limited by the number of TeX's output streams. But using the program you may use even more than 16 indexes: splitidx outputs only a single file jobname.idx and the program splits that file into several raw index files and calls your favorite index processor for each of the files. ----------------------------------------------------------- Main changes at this release: - index{...|format} handling was broken, if hyperref has been used ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Sch�pf

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Re: CTAN has a new package: arabi
by CTAN Announcements 28 Jul '06

28 Jul '06

On Wednesday, Jim Hefferon announced the release of a new package, arabi: > Name of contribution: arabi > Author's name: Youssef JABRI > Location on CTAN: /language/arabic/arabi > Summary description: A package toa add support of Arabic and Farsi to > (La)-TeX, compliant with BABEL > License type: lppl at the time, we (the CTAN team) were concerned about the licences of the available fonts to go with the package. fortunately, the author has been able to set our minds at ease about the fonts' licences, and i have therefore installed new subdirectories: language/arabic/arabi/fonts/type1/{arabeyes,farsiweb} of the package's basic language/arabic/arabi directory. once again, we are grateful to Youssef Jabri for his contributions (and for his patience with a very cautious ctan team!). Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package upgrade: microtype
by CTAN Announcements 28 Jul '06

28 Jul '06

R Schlicht has uploaded a new version (1.9e) of his microtype package (which provides a LaTeX interface to the micro-typographic extensions of pdfTeX). he writes: > Changes in version 1.9e: > ======================== > > * New key `inputenc' for the configuration commands > to specify an input encoding that should apply to > these lists (independent of the document's input > encoding) > * Compatibility with the `combine' class > > Protrusion: > * Settings for Euler Roman font > * Settings for Euler Fraktur and Script fonts completed > * Fix: missing comma in mt-mvs.cfg > * Adapt to marvosym's changed encoding (OT1 -> U) i've installed the new version and triggered the mirrors; i've also updated the catalogue. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: minipage-marginpar
by CTAN Announcements 28 Jul '06

28 Jul '06

On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Paul Ebermann submitted the new package minipage-marginpar to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/minipage-marginpar Summary description: new LaTeX package mpgmpar - minipages with marginals License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package allows marginpar-commands inside of minipages and other boxes. (It takes another approach than marginnote by Markus Kohm: it saves all marginpar-commands and typesets them outside (=after) the box.) The package defines an environment minipagewithmarginpars (to be used like minipage) - and the internal commands may be used by other packages to define similar environments or commands. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: The lhfonts package 3.5f
by CTAN Announcements 27 Jul '06

27 Jul '06

On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Olga Lapko submitted an update to the lh fonts package. Location on CTAN: /fonts/cyrillic/lh Summary description: CyrTUG Cyrillic alphabet fonts (LH) with support of LaTeX standard encodings License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CyrTUG Cyrillic alphabet fonts (LH) with support of LaTeX standard encodings. The LH fonts address the problem of the wide variety of alphabets that are written with Cyrillic-style characters. The fonts are the original basis of the set of T2* and X2 encodings that are now used when LaTeX users need to write in Cyrillic languages. LH offers the latex/lhfonts bundle of packages for standard LaTeX Cyrillic and traditional encodings. The fonts are available in Adobe Type 1 format, in the CM-Super family of fonts. See also cyrillic t2 ccfonts cmbright concrete ecc. The authors are Andrey Khodulev, Olga Lapko, Alexander Berdnikov and Vladimir Volovich. ----- Changes: Corrected mistakes in LaTeX installation files. I'm very sorry for my mistakes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: arabi
by CTAN Announcements 26 Jul '06

26 Jul '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thank you again for your upload, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: arabi Author's name: Youssef JABRI Location on CTAN: /language/arabic/arabi Summary description: A package toa add support of Arabic and Farsi to (La)-TeX, compliant with BABEL License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Arabi package provides the Arabic script support for TeX without the need of any external pre-processor. The Bi-directional capability supposes that the user has a TEX engine that knows the four primitives eginR, endR, eginL and endL. That is the case of the TeX--XeT and e-TEX engines. Arabi is fully compliant with the BABEL system. This adds one of the last major multilingual typesetting capabilities not yet supported by BABEL. It comes with about 30 GNU Arabic and 10 GNU Farsi good quality fonts and may also use the Arabic fonts of other com- mercial manufacturers. A limited support is already provided to use some widely used Arabic and Farsi fonts that come with such systems. The package is distributed under the LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL), and has the LPPL maintenance status Author-maintained. It can be used freely (including commercially) to produce beautiful texts that mix Arabic, Farsi and Latin (or other type) characters. You can simply type the text you want in 8-bit what you see is what you get text in many input encodings (actually, CP 1256, ISO 8859-6 and Unicode UTF-8 are supported) It can also typeset classical Arabic poetry, and has a limited, but almost good, capability of vocalizing. It is LaTeX2e and BABEL compliant! It has even an experimental module of transliteration! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/arabic/arabi . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: movie15
by CTAN Announcements 26 Jul '06

26 Jul '06

On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Alexander Grahn submitted an update to the movie15 package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/movie15/ Summary description: multimedia inclusion package License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This update of movie15 comes with support of overlays produced with the presentation making packages Beamer and Powerdot. See example: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/movie15/doc/overlay-ex… ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: glossary
by CTAN Announcements 26 Jul '06

26 Jul '06

Nicola Talbot has uploaded a new version of the glossary package: The package supports generation of a glossary with makeindex. It has a certain amount of flexibility allowing the user to customize the format of the glossary and define new glossary-style objects so that you can have more than one type of glossary in your document. > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Version 2.4: > > Fixed problems caused by @sanitize (storeglosentry is now robust). > > Extended package option number to be used with any counter (not > just page or section). > > Added number key to setglossarystyle. > > Removed some redundant code. > > Fixed problems caused with hyperlinks when using a mixture of > counters for individual entries. > > Added extra hyper<xx> page formats. > > Added hook to provide a sub header when using a tabular style glossary. > > Added means of specifying a column header for page list column. > > Added facility to insert text between groups. > > Fixed bug in documentation when omitting OnlyDescription > > *** Note that if you update to version 2.4, it *** > *** is advisable to delete your .gls etc files *** > *** before recompiling. *** i've installed the new version on top of the existing one at ctan macros/latex/contrib/glossary, and i've updated the catalogue. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: dante.ctan.org upload: The floatrow package 0.1j
by CTAN Announcements 25 Jul '06

25 Jul '06

On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Olga Lapko submitted an update to the floatrow package. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/floatrow Summary description: Modifying the layout of floats. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The floatrow package provides many ways to customize layouts of floating environments and has code cooperation with caption 3.x package. Package offers possibilities to put floats side by side, to put caption beside float. The floatrow settings could be expanded to the floats created by packages rotating, wrapfig, subfig (in the case of rows of subfloats), and longtable. Changes: Correction followed correction in caption3x of ProcessOptionsWithKV macro. Also added date request for caption package [with changed ProcessOptionsWithKV]. Added penalty mechanism for [H]-floats like in the lists. Added the package listpen which tries to manage list penalties in the same way as allowdisplaybreaks macro (amsmath package). The elowcaptionskip=captionskip for longtable environment. Added temporary sample-testing-[temporary]-package with loading of caption for last page in longtable. Corrections in documentation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Removal of lilypond from CTAN
by CTAN Announcements 24 Jul '06

24 Jul '06

For some time, CTAN has been holding an obsolete copy of the music package lilypond. After consulting the lilypond development team, I have now removed the old package. Potential users (inlcuding me ;-) should consult http://www.lilypond.org/web/ Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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

24 Jul '06

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

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

24 Jul '06

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

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

24 Jul '06

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

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

21 Jul '06

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: chessboard Author's name: Ulrike Fischer Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/chessboard Summary description: A package to print chessboards License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: No ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANGES I rearranged and rewrote the keys and commands for the pgf-pictures. Now all styles and marks can be used in the foreground and in the background. I added definitions for partial borders. I extended the trim and clip commands. xifthen is now required. ATTENTION Upgrading to this version can change the look of existing document. Notably two things can give problems: The value of the padding key now affects much more objects (marks) in the pgf pictures. So it could be necessary to reset the padding. And the applycolor has changed its behaviour. It will now also affect the foreground picture. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/chessboard . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .

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

21 Jul '06

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

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

20 Jul '06

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

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CTAN update: Finomaton
by CTAN Announcements 17 Jul '06

17 Jul '06

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

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

17 Jul '06

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

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CTAN update: bigfoot and perpage
by CTAN Announcements 17 Jul '06

17 Jul '06

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

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CTAN update: visualtex
by CTAN Announcements 14 Jul '06

14 Jul '06

On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Alex Romanenko submitted an update to the visualtex package. Visual-TeX is a TeX-oriented text editor which uses Neil Hodgson's Scintilla editing component as source code editor, and a TeX lexer by the package author. The editor has several valuable TeX-specific features, including forward search capability from YAP. Location on CTAN: /systems/win32/visualtex Summary description: A TeX-oriented visual editor for Windows platforms License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- final version 3.0 I suppose that in nearest time it will remains without changes. Editor macro are editable now. Simple macro script compiler is added. Small bugs are fixed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team, Joachim Schrod

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CTAN update: nag
by CTAN Announcements 13 Jul '06

13 Jul '06

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

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

12 Jul '06

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

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

12 Jul '06

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

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

10 Jul '06

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

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CTAN update: nag
by CTAN Announcements 08 Jul '06

08 Jul '06

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

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

07 Jul '06

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

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