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CTAN package update: biblatex 0.6
by CTAN Announcements 06 Jan '07

06 Jan '07

Philipp Lehman wrote: > I've uploaded `biblatex.tar.gz' to the incoming directory of the UK > node. This is an update for macros/latex/exptl/biblatex. Please > purge the old files, install the new ones, and announce the upload as > usual. > > Thank you very much. > > RELEASE NOTES > > See the file `RELEASE' for release notes. (see below for changes) I have installed this new version, as suggested by Philipp, on the LaTeX experimental tree on CTAN -- macros/latex/exptl/biblatex users may browse the package via its catalogue entry http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/biblatex.html or direct on CTAN via http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex/ Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team addendum: CHANGES > * Added package option 'sorting=none' > * Renamed package option 'block=penalty' to 'block=ragged' > * Changed data type of 'origlanguage' back to field > * Support 'origlanguage' field if 'translator' is present > * Renamed field 'articleid' to 'id' > * Support 'id' field in 'article' entries > * Support 'series' field in 'article' entries > * Support 'doi' field > * Updated documentation of all entry types > * Updated documentation of field 'series' > * Added field 'redactor' > * Added field 'shortauthor' > * Added field 'shorteditor' > * Improved support for corporate authors and editors > * Updated documentation of field 'labelname' > * Added field alias 'key' > * Added package option 'autocite' > * Added package option 'autopunct' > * Added citation command autocite > * Added command DeclareAutoCiteCommand > * Added command DeclareAutoPunctuation > * Added option 'filter' to printbibliography > * Added command defbibfilter > * Added package option 'maxitems' > * Added package option 'minitems' > * Added option 'maxitems' to printbibliography > * Added option 'minitems' to printbibliography > * Added option 'maxitems' to ibbysection > * Added option 'minitems' to ibbysection > * Added option 'maxitems' to ibbysegment > * Added option 'minitems' to ibbysegment > * Added option 'maxitems' to ibbycategory > * Added option 'minitems' to ibbycategory > * Added option 'maxitems' to printshorthands > * Added option 'minitems' to printshorthands > * Added counter 'maxitems' > * Added counter 'minitems' > * Added adapted headings for 'scrartcl', 'scrbook', 'scrreprt' > * Added adapted headings for 'memoir' > * Added citation command Cite > * Added citation command Textcite > * Added citation command Parencite > * Added citation command Footcite > * Added citation command Citeauthor > * Added citation command parencite* > * Added citation command supercite > * Added command ameyeardelim > * Added command multiitemdelim > * Added command multipubsdelim > * Added command multilangdelim > * Completed documenation > * Completed documenation > * Added command usecitecmd > * Added command hyphenate > * Added command hyphen > * Added command bhyphen > * Improved test ifsamepage > * Removed test ifnameequalstr > * Removed test iflistequalstr > * Added test ifcapital > * Added documentation of command MakeCapital > * Added starred variant to setunit > * Improved test ifterm > * Straightened out documentation of helist > * Straightened out documentation of hename > * Added command docsvfield > * Added command docsvlist > * Removed command CopyFieldFormat > * Removed command CopyIndexFieldFormat > * Removed command CopyListFormat > * Removed command CopyIndexListFormat > * Removed command CopyNameFormat > * Removed command CopyIndexNameFormat > * Added command savefieldformat > * Added command estorefieldformat > * Added command savelistformat > * Added command estorelistformat > * Added command savenameformat > * Added command estorenameformat > * Added command savebibmacro > * Added command estorebibmacro > * Added command savecommand > * Added command estorecommand > * Added documentation of 'shorthands' driver > * Rearranged, renamed, and extended localization keys > * Renamed counter 'citecount' to 'instcount' > * Added new counter 'citecount' > * Added counter 'citetotal' > * Rearranged and expanded documentation > * Expanded documentation > * Expanded documentation > * Expanded documentation > * Completed support for Spanish > * Added support for Italian (translations by Enrico Gregorio) > * Added language alias 'australian' > * Added language alias 'newzealand' > * Various minor improvements throughout

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CTAN Update: bmeps
by CTAN Announcements 06 Jan '07

06 Jan '07

On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Dirk Krause submitted version 2.0.0 of the bmeps package. Location on CTAN: /support/bmeps Summary description: Converter from PNG/JPEG/Tgb81AIFF/NetPBM to EPS and PDF License type: bsd Announcement text: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The bmeps program was rewritten completely. > Advantages from a users point of view: > - Bmeps can produce PS/EPS and PDF now. > - Easier configuration. Simply type > bmeps -leps2 input.png output.eps > instead of the former > bmeps -p 2 -c -e r8 input.png output.eps > - Better compression: > - Use of the multiple data sources feature > allows run-length compression of horizontal > lines in the same color. Previous versions > allowed run-length compression only for > gray lines. > - Pass-through of JPEG files. If bmeps successfully > analyzes a JPEG file it uses the file contents > directly as DCT-encoded data and only adds > ASCII-Hex- or ASCII85-encoding. If the analysis > function fails the program uses the JPEG library > to read the image and uses the combination of > run-length-, flate- and ASCII-Hex/ASCII85-encoding > to produce output. > Advantages from my point of view: > - Using the dklibs libary set allows to combine > different encoding/compression methods easier than > in previous versions of bmeps. > - Grouping image reading functions in a separated > library (dkbif library from the dklibs library set) > makes it easier to add new file types. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/bmeps . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=bmeps (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: dvisvgm 0.4.3
by CTAN Announcements 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Martin Gieseking submitted an update to the dvisvgm package. Dvisvgm is a command line utility that converts TeX DVI files to the XML-based Scalable Vector Graphics format. The initial (limited) realease 0.3 provides basic functionality that will be extended in future versions. Users will need a working TeX installation including the kpathsea library and Type 1 versions of the fonts used in the DVI file. Dvisvgm has been successfully tested with both teTeX and MikTeX. Location on CTAN: /dviware/dvisvgm Summary description: minor update of dvisvgm License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a minor dvisvgm update. I have added support for MiKTeX 2.5 and fixed a compilation issue caused by a freetype API change. Precompiled binaries for Windows can be downloaded from the project page http://dvisvgm.sourceforge.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/dviware/dvisvgm . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=dvisvgm (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: pdftex.def v0.04b
by CTAN Announcements 02 Jan '07

02 Jan '07

On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Heiko Oberdiek submitted a new version of pdftex.def Location on CTAN: graphics/pdftex/pdftex.def License: LPPL Latest changes: % 2007/01/01 v0.04a (HO) % * Support of color stack, introduced in pdfTeX 1.40.0. % * Support of transform matrix commands of pdfTeX 1.40.0. % * The argument for option `page' can be a register. * Internal change: Switching of color stacks is easier by using @pdfcolorstack for the stack number. Thus this command should be redefined, if someone wants to use another color stack (e.g. for footnotes). main@pdfcolorstack should not be changed for this purpose. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This file is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pdftex/pdftex.def . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=pdftex-def (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: tabularht v2.3, pdfcolmk v1.0
by CTAN Announcements 02 Jan '07

02 Jan '07

On Sun, 31 Dec 2006, Heiko Oberdiek submitted an update to the oberdiek bundle. Location on CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek/ License: LPPL > Changes: > * tabularht v2.3: > * Documentation fix. > * Fix in code of option vlines. > * pdfcolmk v1.0: > * If pdftex.def >= 2007/01/01 v0.04a is used with > pdfTeX 1.40.0, then package pdfcolmk is obsolete. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This bundle is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=oberdiek (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: pdftex 1.40.0
by CTAN Announcements 01 Jan '07

01 Jan '07

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: pdftex 1.40.0 Author's name: Martin Schröder Location on CTAN: /systems/pdftex Summary description: A new version of pdftex License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The pdfTeX team is happy to announce the release of a new stable version: =========================================================================== pdfTeX 1.40.0 =========================================================================== This is the announcement of pdfTeX 1.40.0, an extended version of TeX that can create PDF directly from TeX source files and enhance the result of TeX typesetting with the help of PDF. =========================================================================== Main changes of pdfTeX 1.40.0 =========================================================================== - pdfetex (as a separate binary/program) is gone; all extensions are now in pdftex. The make files still know about the target pdfetex, but it's just a copy of pdftex - The sources of TeX, eTeX and pdfTeX have been merged into one file pdftex.web and one change file pdftex.ch. The sources of TeX and eTeX distributed are just there for reference - New features: - pdfTeX can now generate PDF 1.5 object streams, which leads to smaller PDFs. This is controlled by setting pdfobjcompresslevel to a value >0 (3 compress everything, 2 don't compress /Info, 1 also don't compress embedded PDFs) and works only with PDF >=1.5 - pdfTeX now supports another image file format: JBIG2 files (.jbig2) - the memory allocated for objects and destination names now grows dynamically - pdfTeX now generates smaller PDFs since for char positioning the width of chars (/Widths) is stored with more precision and so the chars must rarely be positioned separately - the PK resolution is now taken from the pk_dpi parameter in texmf.cnf if it has not been set in the format file or by the user - pdfTeX now removes the generated pdf in case of a fatal error - pdfTeX now sets /ModDate and /Trapped in the InfoDict by default (the values can be overridden with pdfinfo) - the format of warnings and errors issued by pdfTeX has been changed and unified - the output of -version has been extended and now includes information about the libraries actually used, which can be handy when using shared libraries - rules and their positioning on the page are now inside a qQ group - New primitives: - pdfTeX can now handle colourstacks. - pdfcolorstackinit A stack is initialized by pdfcolorstackinit. It expands to the number of the new stack. The common case, the traditinal color stack is already initialized as first stack: pdfcolorstackinit page direct {0 g 0 G} The keyword page means that this stack is page based. At the start of the new page, the current stack value is automatically set. - pdfcolorstack pdfcolorstack <stack number> push {<new color>} pushes the current value on the stack and sets the <new color>. pdfcolorstack <stack number> pop pops and sets the current stack value. pdfcolorstack <stack number> current sets the current stack value without changing the stack. This is useful for stacks that are initialized without keyword page. Thus the page start setting can be set manually. pdfcolorstack <stack number> set {<new color>} The current value is set to <new color>. - Transformation matrices can now be manipulated more cleanly: Currently matrix changes are done and hidden inside pdfliteral nodes; pdfTeX doesn't parse its contents and does not know the new settings of the transform matrix. Thus the new primitives to save pdfTeX from parsing pdfliteral contents and to notify pdfTeX about matrix changes to use them in calculating link and anchor positions. - pdfsetmatrix{<a> <b> <c> <d>} is the equivalent to pdfliteral{<a> <b> <c> <d> 0 0 cm} - pdfsave is the equivalent to pdfliteral{q} - pdfrestore is the equivalent to pdfliteral{Q} - pdfprimitiveTeX-primitive executes the original TeX-primitive even if the command has been redefined since. E.g. let elaxundefinedpdfprimitive elax expands to elax. ifpdfprimitiveTeX-primitive is true if TeX-primitive has its original meaning - ifpdfabsnum and ifpdfabsdim are like ifnum and ifdim, but don't care about negative numbers - shell escape: if the first character of a filename for openin, openout input is a pipe symbol (|), the filename is assumed to be a request for a pipe to a command line that is given in the rest of the filename - draftmode: With pdfdraftmode=1 or the commandline switch -draftmode pdfTeX doesn't write the output pdf and doesn't actually read any images, thus speeding up compilations when you know you need an extra run but don't care about the output, e.g. just to get the BibTeX references right - pdfpxdimen (introduced in 1.30) is now a real dimension parameter. It allows one base dimensions on pixels. 1px defaults to 1bp (or 72dpi), but can be changed with the pdfpxdimen primitive: pdfpxdimen=1in % 1 dpi dividepdfpxdimen by 96 % 96 dpi hsize=1200px Now hsize is (1in/96)*1200 - pdflastlink returns the object number of the last pdfstartlink - pdfsavepos now works in DVI mode - Fonts: - support for subfonts: This creates all needed map entries for subfonts automatically and handles Unicode mappings - ToUnicode entries for Type1 fonts (patch 580) - HZ: - added patch 462: HZ font expansion in autoexpand mode now produces smaller pdf files, as it works by modififying the text matrix for single fonts instead of embedding many expanded font versions. Therefore HZ now can be used also for TrueType fonts and even for non-embedded fonts (e.g. Times-Roman) - Bugfixes: - the PDF statistics in the log are now correct - added JFIF detection patch to writejpg.c (bug 548) - bugfix: invalid pdf created if font name contains space (509) - bugfix: truetype OS/2 v3 fonts (594) - bugfix: Type1C (CFF) fonts of embedded pdfs didn't get replaced For complete release notes see http://www.pdftex.org/NEWS =========================================================================== Legal notice / license =========================================================================== pdfTeX is copyright (c) 1996-2007 Han The Thanh, <thanh(a)pdftex.org> pdfTeX is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. For a complete README (with a full discussion of the license) please look at http://www.pdftex.org/README =========================================================================== The files / installation =========================================================================== You should first try to get a new version of pdfTeX through your distribution. If you want to compile it yourself, have a look at http://www.pdftex.org -- there you can find links to the pdfTeX sources on CTAN. And some useful documentation. =========================================================================== Mailing lists / web pages: =========================================================================== Mailing list: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdftex Related web pages: http://www.pdftex.org http://sarovar.org/projects/pdftex/ http://www.tug.org/tex-live/ http://www.tug.org/tetex/ http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes http://www.dante.de/ http://tug.org/ http://www.pragma-ade.com/ Have fun! Martin Schröder (martin(a)pdftex.org) for the pdfTeX team, January 2007 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/pdftex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=pdftex (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are 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: refreshpdf
by CTAN Announcements 01 Jan '07

01 Jan '07

A new package has been put on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Happy new year, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ............................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: refreshpdf Author's name: Claus Gerhardt Location on CTAN: /support/refreshpdf Summary description: Refreshpdf refreshes a pdf file opened in Acrobat (Mac OS X) License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Refreshpdf is an Applescript that takes the path of a pdf file as argument and then opens the file in Acrobat. If the file is already open in Acrobat, then Acrobat is told to close and reopen the file and to go to the same page that was displayed in the closed file. The Applescript can also be called from the command line by a shell script refreshpdf. Refreshpdf only works on MacOS X. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/refreshpdf . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=refreshpdf (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are 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: pst-optic
by CTAN Announcements 28 Dec '06

28 Dec '06

On Wed, 27 Dec 2006, Herbert Voss submitted an update to the pst-optic PSTricks related package for drawing both reflective and refractive optics diagrams. Location on CTAN: /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-optic License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- version 0.96 of pst-optic has a new macro psprism which allows to draw a prism with light rays and calculated refractions. please replace all files with the existing ones. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-optic . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=pst-optic (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: classico
by CTAN Announcements 28 Dec '06

28 Dec '06

On Wed, 27 Dec 2006, Bob Tennent submitted the new classico package, providing four type-1 fonts with metrics and LaTeX support files. Location on CTAN: /fonts/urw/classico Summary description: URW Classico type-1 fonts and support files License type: nocommercial Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The archive provides four type-1 fonts with metrics and LaTeX support files. URW Classico is a clone of the Optima typeface, a very well-known sans serif face designed by Hermann Zapf. The fonts were made available for non-commercial distribution at www.artifex.com. The support files were generated using fontinst. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/urw/classico . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=classico (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: visualtex
by CTAN Announcements 28 Dec '06

28 Dec '06

On Mon, 25 Dec 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 License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- In ver 3.12: Fixed bug: after playing tex macro editor's window is focused correctly. Fixed bug: correct automatic scrolling is added. Fixed bug: incorrect editor macro executing is removed. Added feature: KBDC module of layout convertion ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/visualtex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=visualtex (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: TeX-GYRE fonts
by CTAN Announcements 28 Dec '06

28 Dec '06

On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Staszek Wawrykiewicz submitted a new package tex-gyre to CTAN. Location on CTAN: fonts/tex-gyre License: gfsl -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Package: TeX Gyre Bonum font > Authors: Bogusl{}aw Jackowski and Janusz M. Nowacki > Version: 1.000 > Date: 14 XII 2006 > License: > This work is released under the GUST Font License > This work has the LPPL maintenance status maintained. > The Current Maintainer of this work is Bogusl{}aw Jackowski > and Janusz M. Nowacki. > > The TeX Gyre Bonum family of fonts is based on the URW Bookman L family > (designed by Alexander Phemister), but heavily extended. The constituent > 4 standard faces contain nearly 1200 glyphs each and are available in > Postscript, TeX and Open Type formats. Please note that with the release > of this family the QuasiBookman fonts became obsolete. > The Vietnamese and Cyrillic characters were added > by Han The Thanh and Valek Filippov, respectively. > > =========== > Package: TeX Gyre Schola font > Authors: Bogusl{}aw Jackowski and Janusz M. Nowacki > Version: 0.995 > Date: 14 XII 2006 > License: > This work is released under the GUST Font License > This work has the LPPL maintenance status maintained. > The Current Maintainer of this work is Bogusl{}aw Jackowski > and Janusz M. Nowacki. > > The TeX Gyre Schola family of fonts is based on the URW Century > Schoolbook L family (designed by Morris Fuller Benton), but > heavily extended. The constituent 4 standard faces contain > nearly 1200 glyphs each and are available in Postscript, TeX > and Open Type formats. The Vietnamese and Cyrillic characters > were added by Han The Thanh and Valek Filippov, respectively. > > ============ > Package: TeX Gyre Pagella font > Authors: Bogusl{}aw Jackowski and Janusz M. Nowacki > Version: 1.000 > Date: 27 X 2006 > License: > This work is released under the GUST Font License > This work has the LPPL maintenance status maintained. > The Current Maintainer of this work is Bogusl{}aw Jackowski > and Janusz M. Nowacki. > > The TeX Gyre Pagella family of fonts is based on the URW Palladio L > family (designed by Hermann Zapf), but heavily extended. The > constituent 4 standard faces contain nearly 1200 glyphs each and are > available in Postscript, TeX and Open Type formats. > The Vietnamese and Cyrillic characters were added by Han The Thanh > and Valek Filippov, respectively. > Please note that with the release of this family the QuasiPalatino > fonts became obsolete. > > =========== > Package: TeX Gyre Termes font > Authors: Bogusl{}aw Jackowski and Janusz M. Nowacki > Version: 1.000 > Date: 27 X 2006 > License: > This work is released under the GUST Font License > This work has the LPPL maintenance status maintained. > The Current Maintainer of this work is Bogusl{}aw Jackowski > and Janusz M. Nowacki. > > The TeX Gyre Termes is based on the URW Nimbus Roman No9 L family > (designed by Stanley Morison together with Starling Burgess and > Victor Lardent), but heavily extended. The constituent 4 standard > faces contain nearly 1200 glyphs each and are available in Postscript, > TeX and Open Type formats. > The Vietnamese and Cyrillic characters were added > by Han The Thanh and Valek Filippov, respectively. > Please note that Termes obsoletes the QuasiTimes fonts. ----------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/tex-gyre . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=tex-gyre (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _____________________________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: Patches for memoir class (again) again
by CTAN Announcements 28 Dec '06

28 Dec '06

Peter Wilson wrote: > I have uploaded memfixesDec06b.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use the > contents to replace the corresponding files in macros/latex/contrib/memoir. > > Version 4.7 of mempatch.sty fixes some minor infelicities in version > 4.6. Mempatch provides fixes for the memoir class. i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue. Interested users may browse the memoir package (including its patch) direct at: http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memoir/ or via the catalogue entry: http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/memoir.html Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: pstricks
by CTAN Announcements 20 Dec '06

20 Dec '06

Herbert Voss wrote: > I uploaded pstricks.tgz to the uk mirror. > Please put all directories with it files below the directory > graphics/pstricks/ > > the version 1.15 of pstricks defines some more dot styles > (done by Etienne Riga). The documentation pstnews1-15.pdf > in graphics/pstricks/doc/ lists all old and new styles > and additional changes in the distribution. > > the files pst-dots.pro and pstricks.pro should go into > $TEXMF/dvips or $TEXMFHOME/dvips i have installed the package as requested. users may browse the package, embedded in a rather complicated structure on ctan at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks or they may browse via the catalogue at: http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pstricks.html thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: cmarrows
by CTAN Announcements 20 Dec '06

20 Dec '06

On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Tommy Ekola submitted the cmarrows package to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/cmarrows Summary description: MetaPost arrows and braces in the Computer Modern style License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This MetaPost package contains macros to draw arrows and braces in the Computer Modern style. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/cmarrows . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=cmarrows (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: mhchem bundle v3.05
by CTAN Announcements 20 Dec '06

20 Dec '06

On Sun, 17 Dec 2006, Martin Hensel submitted version 3.05 of his mhchem bundle. Currently, the mhchem bundle consists of two packages: mhchem and rsphrase. The mhchem package provides two commands: one for typesetting chemical molecular formulae and one for typesetting chemical equations with these formulae. The rsphrase package contains the text of all official Risk and Safety (R and S) Phrases that are used to label chemicals. At the time being, these phrases are available in Danish, English, French, German (current spelling), and Spanish. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/mhchem/ Summary description: for typesetting chemical formulae, chemical equations and Risk and Safety (R and S) Phrases License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - fixed: more complex structures (bonds, hyphens etc.) in TOC - changed: $...$ replaces cmath{...} - fixed: parenthesis, brackets, braces in corrent font ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mhchem/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=mhchem bundle v3.05 (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has new packages: gmutils, gmverb, gmiflink, gmdoc
by CTAN Announcements 20 Dec '06

20 Dec '06

On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Grzegorz `Natror' Murzynowski submitted new packages gmutils gmverb gmiflink gmdoc to CTAN. Information on the individual packages follows. gmutils ------- Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/gmutils Summary description: misc. macros used by other packages by Natror (GM) License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Miscellaneous macros used by other packages of Natror. Contents of the package: ewgif and Other Globals. @ifnextcat. afterfi and Pals. Almost an Environment or Redefinition ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/gmutils . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=gmutils gmverb ------ Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/gmverb Summary description: my version of verb and verbatim, provides also short verb License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A redefinition of verb and verbatim so that long lines are breakable before and after { with % as `hyphen'. Allows you to define your own verbatim-like environments (not too long!) and allows you to declare any single char as a shorthand for verb (cf. shortvrb.sty) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/gmverb . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=gmverb gmiflink -------- Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/gmiflink Summary description: 3 macros to simplify usage of hypertarget an hyperlink of hyperref.sty nad avoid error if there's no target License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Three hyperref-based macros that simplify usage of hypertarget and hyperlink: one argument instead of twice the same. And gmiflink and gmifref to typeset plain text instead of error or ?? if there's no respective hypertarget or label. I also used them in automatically generated hyperindex while documenting some database project. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/gmiflink . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=gmiflink gmdoc ----- Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/gmdoc Summary description: a package for documenting packages etc. with minimal markup of source and hyperlinks in pdf License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A .sty file and an example .cls (documentclass) for documenting (La)TeX packages, document classes, .dtx etc. providing hyperlinks, compatible with doc.sty (no warranty :-) and letting to mark up the code minimally (no macrocode env. necessary anymore). Needs hyperref and three 'basic' packages of mine: gmutils, gmverb and gmiflink. As a bonus, the driver files are added that typeset the LaTeX (TeXLive2005) Base. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/gmdoc . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=gmdoc (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: arabi version 1.1
by Jim Hefferon 18 Dec '06

18 Dec '06

The package below has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ............................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: arabi version 1.1 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Arabi package provides the Arabic script support for TeX without the need of any external pre-processor. The Bi-directional capability s that the user has a TeX--XeT or e-TEX engine. Arabi is fully compliant with the BABEL system. Among the new things with Version 1.1: ========================== + You can search and copy Arabic and Farsi text from PDF files generated by pdflatex (read the documentation to know how to) + You can use TeX4ht to make HTML files. + Now we can have Arabic in the bookmarks sidebar, although hyperref is still not fully supported yet. + In Farsi contexts, Digits (0, 1, . . . , 9) are written with the extended Indo-Arabic (Farsi) digits. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/arabic/arabi . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=arabi (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are 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: UK TeX FAQ v3.16c-1
by CTAN Announcements 18 Dec '06

18 Dec '06

I have installed a new version of the UK TeX FAQ on CTAN, in directory help/uk-tex-faq This new version includes some work on tidying the FAQ-as-a-whole, and a small number of improvements and additions (see extracts from the CHANGES file, copied below). (I did in fact install a new copy last week, but problems with it were detected almost immediately, so I delayed announcement until the problems were resolved and this replacement installed.) The FAQ appears on CTAN as http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/uk-tex-faq and in the catalogue as http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/faq.html However, browsing (and rather feeble searching) is best achieved via the web interface at http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq The CHANGES file for this release mentions: Changes in version 3.16c New answer: +Label isdef: is this command defined? tests Revised answers: +Label bibprefixsort: two new examples +Label citeURL: provide a list (rather than a bunch) of alternative styles, mention babelbib +Label multirow: mention the case of multicolumn-multirow +Label music: correct Web output of package list at end of answer +Label oarglikesect: mention kernel command @dblarg +Label secthead: rewritten accounts of sectsty & titlesec +Label tutbitslatex: added pointer to Fauske's page on PGF/TikZ +Label watermark: noted that package draftcopy doesn't work with pdflatex, +Label watermark: mention draftwatermark +Label whatbst: correct reed.edu link Bugfix: +Release dates are now represented in ISO format (yyyy-mm-dd) -- previously we used the LaTeX format, using solidus instead of hyphen Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: expl3 bundle
by CTAN Announcements 18 Dec '06

18 Dec '06

On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Morten Høgholm submitted an update to the expl3 bundle on behalf of the LaTeX Project. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/exptl/project/expl3 License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The expl3 bundle consists of the core files of the LaTeX3 kernel. The modules in this bundle can be used as add-on packages on top of LaTeX2e as well. All files are also available in the Subversion (SVN) repository of the LaTeX3 Project, which is located at http://www.latex-project.org/svnroot/experimental/trunk The bundle on CTAN is a snapshot of the SVN repository as of 2006/12/12. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/project/expl3 . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=expl3 (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new bundle: xbase
by CTAN Announcements 18 Dec '06

18 Dec '06

On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Morten Høgholm submitted the xbase bundle on behalf on the LaTeX Project. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/exptl/project/xbase License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The xbase bundle provides the packages xparse and template. xparse provides a high-level interface for declaring document commands, e.g., a uniform way to define commands taking optional arguments, optional stars (and others), mandatory arguments and more. template provides an interface for defining generic functions using a key=val syntax. All files are also available in the Subversion (SVN) repository of the LaTeX3 Project, which is located at http://www.latex-project.org/svnroot/experimental/trunk The bundle on CTAN is a snapshot of the SVN repository as of 2006/12/12. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/project/xbase . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=xbase (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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New CTAN documentation: pst-code
by CTAN Announcements 17 Dec '06

17 Dec '06

Herbert Voss wrote: > I have uploaded pst-code,tgz to the uk mirror. Please > create the new directory /graphics/pstricks/doc/code > and put all files in there. > > pst-code is the original code documentation of PSTricks > from Timothy Van Zandt from 1997. All macros, dimensions and > counters of the packages pstricks and pst-node are > explained in detail. i have installed the material as suggested: users may view the source, etc., via http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/doc/code/ the stuff appears in the catalogue as one of the documentation links in: http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pstricks.html thanks for the upload Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: patches for memoir class (again)
by Robin Fairbairns 15 Dec '06

15 Dec '06

Peter Wilson wrote: > I have done a terrible thing. The patch for memoir that you just put on > CTAN for me had one backslash too many. I have uploaded > memfixesDec06a.tar.gz which contains the correct versions of mempatch.sty > and mempatch.dtx. Could you please use these in macros/latex/contrib/memoir. > > My apologies to you and to any user who has been quick off the mark to > download the earlier incorrect version. i've installed this new patch; as before, browse the package at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memoir/ and view the catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/memoir.html Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update --- patches for memoir class
by Robin Fairbairns 14 Dec '06

14 Dec '06

Peter Wilson <herries.press(a)earthlink.net> wrote: > I have uploaded memfixesDec06.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use the > contents to update macros/latex/contrib/memoir. > > From the README > > The memoir class is for typesetting poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and > mathematical works. > > The normal font sizes range from 9 to 17pt. There is a range of > page-styles and well over a dozen chapter-styles to choose from and methods > for specifying your own layouts and designs. The class encompasses over > thirty of the more popular packages. > > Changes (2006/12/11) > o New version (4.6) of mempatch.sty providing bug fixes, options for wider > interlinear and interparagraph spacing, new style for trimmarks, over a > dozen new built-in chapterstyles, and some minor new commands. > > o New version (1.9) of memhfixc.sty. Thanks to Heiko Oberdiek versions of > the hyperref package dated 2006/11/15 or later now automatically use the > memhfixc package. > > o New version of the Addendum (memmanadd.pdf). > > o NO CHANGES TO THE MANUAL (memman.pdf) or memoir.dtx i have installed the updated files, and updated the catalogue. thank you for the upload. the memoir class is located at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memoir/ interested users may proceed via the catalogue page: http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/memoir.html Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: textpath v1.5
by CTAN Announcements 08 Dec '06

08 Dec '06

On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Stephan Hennig submitted an update to the textpath package. Location on CTAN: graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/textpath Summary description: typesetting text along a path with the help of LaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This MetaPost package provides macros to typeset text along a free path with the help of LaTeX, thereby preserving kerning and allowing for 8-bit input, e.g., accented characters. Changes: * Renamed macro textpathVar to textpathFont. * Added macro textpathRaw, that supports typesetting mathematical formulae along a path. * Added configuration variables textpathRepeat, textpathStretch, textpathHSpace, textpathShift, textpathFancyStrokes, textpathStrokePrecision, textpathCureSqrt. * Added more documentation and examples. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/textpath . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=textpath (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has new packages: centernot v1.0, stackrel v1.0
by CTAN Announcements 08 Dec '06

08 Dec '06

On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Heiko Oberdiek submitted new packages centernot, stackrel. * centernot v1.0 This package provides centernot that prints the symbol cs{not} on the following argument. Unlike ot the symbol is horizontally centered. * stackrel v1.0 This package adds an optional argument to stackrel for putting something below the relational symbol and defines stackbin for binary symbols. They are part of the oberdiek bundle. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek/ License: LPPL _______________________________________________ The oberdiek bundle is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=oberdiek . We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: BaKoMa TeX 7.80 - TeXWord improvements.
by CTAN Announcements 07 Dec '06

07 Dec '06

On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Basil Malyshev submitted an update to the bakoma package. Location on CTAN: systems/win32/bakoma License: shareware > Most noticeable improvements (in short): > > * Added keyboard shortcuts for symbol panels. > It enables to insert math via keyboard. > Alt+G - lowercase greek, Shift+Alt+G uppercase greek. > Alt+Q - Big Operators. > Alt+N - Binary Operators. > Alt+R - Binary Relations. > Alt+M - Mics Math Symbols. > > * Also added one shortcut for text mode. > Alt+T - Text Symbols > dots (d) vdots (v) S (q) P (p) copyright (c) > extregistered (r) exttrademark (t) > extdagger (g) extbullet (b) extsterling (s) > euro (e) > > * We have done pretest of BaKoMa TeX under VISTA beta. > Version 7.80 includes some performance improvements. > > * BaKoMa TeX Support Site (http://www.bakomatex.com) > is opened to provide News (RSS Feed) and > technical support via `Support Tickets'. > > More details about changes and another bug fixing see at: > > <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes7.html > > > > Bye. > Basil K. Malyshev > 4-Dec-2006 > > PS: Please send announce to appropriate mailing lists. > > -------------------- About BaKoMa TeX 7.80 ------------------ > > BaKoMa TeX 7.80 supports two coexisting IDE: > 1) BaKoMa TeX Word - Visual (True WYSIWYG) LaTeX Editor. > 2) Text Editor + DVI Viewer - Classical IDE. > > About BaKoMa TeX Word. > > BaKoMa TeX Word is True WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor. > > The word `True' is used to highlight two following > facts: > > 1) It is True WYSIWYG Editor. > It means that display shows precisely the same > what will be printed. It looks as if you edit > your document immediately in DVI Viewer window. > 2) It is True LaTeX Editor. > It edits LaTeX source text without any > import/export procedure. It means that > you can load and edit any LaTeX 2e document. > > BaKoMa TeX Word is built on top of BaKoMa TeX > graphic engine and consequently it inherits all features > of BaKoMa TeX related with import graphics, > font support, and document export. > > It supports processors: > (1) Standard TeX and (2) e-TeX. > Other processors such as Omega may be added in future. > > It imports: > EPS, PDF, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, > MSP, BMP, WMF, EMF, FIG, HPGL, and DXY. > It supports fonts: > OpenType (OTF/TTF), TrueType, PostScript Type1 (including MM), > PostScript Type 3, and TeX PK/VF. > It exports: > DVI, PDF, SVG, PS, PNG (with HTML wrapper), and HTML (TeX4HT). > > It includes built-in PostScript interpreter accessible via DVIPS > compatible special interface that supports such macro packages as: > PSTricks, PSFrag, graphics (psfig), draftcopy, > PowerDot, Prosper, Beamer, etc. > > Most important application of BaKoMa TeX Word is > final step corrections of LaTeX papers before publishing. > > Editing slides in WYSIWYG interface > (with such packages as PowerDot, Prosper, Beamer, etc.) > is another impressive feature of `BaKoMa TeX Word'. > > Beginner users of LaTeX may consider TeXWord as > good start point for learning LaTeX together with writing papers. > > TeXWord is transparent for cooperation. > TeXWord don't use additional macro packages. > So that documents made with TeXWord may be compiled > in any LaTeX setup without any adaptation. > In other side, TeXWord can handle arbitrary LaTeX documents. > So, that your coleagues may even don't know that you use > powerful WYSIWYG tool to edit your part of common work. > > More information about `BaKoMa TeX Word' is at: > > <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/texword.html> > > Some snapshots are available at: > <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/snapshots/> > > Root of BaKoMa TeX distribution is at: > <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ This package is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=bakoma (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: grffile v1.2
by CTAN Announcements 07 Dec '06

07 Dec '06

On Sat, 2 Dec 2006, Heiko Oberdiek submitted an update to the grffile package. The package extends the file name processing of package graphics to support a larger range of file names. For example, the file name may contain several dots. Or in case of pdfTeX in PDF mode the file name may contain spaces. The package is part of the oberdiek bundle. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek License: LPPL > Changes: > * grffile v1.2 > New option xoption{babel}. Before this feature was part > of option xoption{extendedchars}. _______________________________________________ This package is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=grffile (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: ijqc
by CTAN Announcements 07 Dec '06

07 Dec '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: ijqc Author's name: Richard J. Mathar Location on CTAN: /biblio/bibtex/contrib/ijqc Summary description: BibTeX style file for the Intl. J. Quantum Chem. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a BibTex style file for Wiley's Intl. J. of Quantum Chemistry. The publisher has multiple support for EndNote databases, but there seems to be no such functionality for LaTeX users. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/ijqc . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=ijqc (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are 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 updated: datetime
by CTAN Announcements 06 Dec '06

06 Dec '06

Cambridge upload daemon wrote: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: datetime > Author's name: Nicola Talbot > Author's email: > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/datetime > Summary description: Change format of oday with commands for current time > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Version 2.49: Fixed some of the multilingual problems, tidied up code > documentation. > > The catalogue description needs updating: > > Provides various different formats for the command oday, and also > provides commands for displaying the current time, either in 12hr, > 24hr or text format. Requires fmtcount package. i have installed the update as requested, at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/datetime/ and updated the catalogue; interested users may browse the package via the catalogue entry http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/datetime.html thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: Eplain 3.1
by CTAN Announcements 05 Dec '06

05 Dec '06

The package described below has been updated on CTAN. Thanks for the contribution, Jim Hefferon .................................................................. Name of contribution: Eplain 3.1 My name: Oleg Katsitadze My email: olegkat at gmail.com Summary description: Release 3.1 of Eplain License: Mostly public domain, some contributions GPL CTAN location: macros/eplain Announcement: Eplain is a set of TeX macros that expands on and extends the definitions in plain TeX in a style-neutral fashion. The areas addressed by the Eplain macros include: commutative or arrow-theoretic diagrams; verbatim listings; table of contents; indexing; bibliographies with BibTeX; cross-references; double-, triple-, quadruple-columns; hypertext links (pdfTeX, dvipdfm and HyperTeX are supported); and loading (a few) LaTeX packages under plain TeX. For more info please visit http://www.tug.org/eplain . News for this (3.1) release: General: * Rearranged the distro to comply with TDS. * Distro now includes PDF, HTML and INFO versions of the manual. * Removed etex.tex. LaTeX packages under Eplain: * When reloading LaTeX packages, warn and skip reloading, instead of giving an error. Suggested by Dan Luecking. * The primitive input is now restored after loading LaTeX packages. * Added more LaTeX defs needed by: the `draft' option to graphic{s,x}.sty; warnings from epstopdf.sty when graphics.sty is not loaded. Hyperlinks: * Added the `hypertex' driver, and made it the default driver. * Made footnote hyperlinks off by default. * Added the href macro. Suggested by Dorai Sitaram. * LABEL argument of the hyperlink macros now allow special characters like # and ~ (useful for URLs). Suggested by Dorai Sitaram. * Fixed a hyperlink-related bug in equation macros. * Fixed a bug in the `nolinks' driver. * Added writenumberedtocline macro, which is writenumberedtocentry with permuted parameters. Suggested by Dorai Sitaram. * Hyperlink macros now ignore leading spaces in option lists. * All hyperlink macros now report errors until links are enabled. Cross-references, TOC and indexing: * Added warnings about multiply defined xref labels. Suggested by Tomas Penicka. * Fixed definexref to (once again) ignore following spaces. * Indexing macros now read TERM, SUBTERM and SEE... arguments verbatim, to allow special characters and catcode changes. Suggested by Dorai Sitaram. * Extended the TOC macros: when given an INT for the type of a TOC entry, they write ocentry{NUM}... to the .toc file. Suggested by Dorai Sitaram. Programming defs: * Added ifinteger and isinteger macros. * Added For loop which strips off leading spaces from items. Manual: * Added demo subdir with demo files, and added new chapter `Demo files' to the manual. * Documented ifempty, the extended loop macro, and the new macros. * Many small improvements and additions to the manual. Other: * Added new olastlinelisting listing hook which omits the last (empty) line of the file. _______________________________________________ Ctan mailing list Ctan(a)dante.de https://lists.dante.de/mailman/listinfo/ctan

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CTAN package update: elsart-bst
by CTAN Announcements 04 Dec '06

04 Dec '06

Pepping, Simon (ELS-AMS) <S.Pepping(a)elsevier.com> wrote: > I just uploaded the zip file elsart-bst.zip. It contains four bst files, > to be published in bibliography/bibtex/contrib/elsevier/. These four > files replace the two bst files currently in that directory. Two files > are updates to the current files, two other files are variants to the > numeric style, one sorting alphabetically, the other generating > name,year labels in addition. as requested, i've installed the new version at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/elsevier/ interested users may also browse via the revised catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/elsevier-bib.html thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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New CTAN package: uml
by CTAN Announcements 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

Herbert Voss wrote: > I uploaded a new package uml.tgz to the uk ctan. > Please put all files in the new directory > /graphics/pstricks/contrib/uml > > uml.sty is a PSTricks related package for writing UML > (Unified Modelling Language) diagrams in LaTeX. Currently, > it implements a subset of class diagrams, and some extra > constructs as well. > This package cannot be used together with pst-uml. > > The author is Ellef Gjelstad thanks for the upload. i have installed the package as suggested, and updated the catalogue. interested users may browse the package directly at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/uml or via its catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/uml.html Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: minitoc version 50
by CTAN Announcements 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

cambridge's ctan-upload daemon spake thus: > An upload to cam.ctan.org is in /anfs/ctan-inc/upload-20061130-072753/ > > ====================================================================== > > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: minitoc version 50 > Author's name: Jean-Pierre F. Drucbert > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/minitoc > Summary description: mini-tables of contents (or LOF/LOT) per chapter, part or section > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Minitoc version #50 > -- Removed old examples of documents: mtc-adds, mtc-amem, > mtc-book, mtc-gaps, mtc-mem1, mtc-subf, and mtc-tsfc. > -- Updated the bibliography. > -- Added the ``tmk'' script and a table describing a TDS structure > for minitoc. > -- Added the file ``minitoc-texmf.zip'' (a ZIP archive of a > TDS-compliant hierarchy of all files of the package) to the > distribution. > -- Added an item about the TDS in the jargon. > -- Updated the INSTALL file and the ``Installation'' chapter. > -- Added the warning message W0094 with the list of the missing > minitoc languages files (.mld and .mlo). > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thanks for the upload. i've installed the package at cambridge; it will make its way to other ctan sites and to mirrors over the next 24 hours. interested users may browse the package via the catalogue entry http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/minitoc.html or on the archive at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/minitoc Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAn update: xcolor 2.10
by CTAN Announcements 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Uwe Kern submitted an update to the xcolor package. Xcolor provides easy driver-independent access to several kinds of color tints, shades, tones, and mixes of arbitrary colors. It allows a user to select a document-wide target color model and offers complete tools for conversion between eight color models. Additionally, there is a command for alternating row colors plus repeated non-aligned material (like horizontal lines) in tables. Colors can be mixed like color{red!30!green!40!blue}. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/xcolor/ License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2006/11/28 v2.10 * New features: - `fixinclude' option prevents dvips from explicitly resetting current color to `black' before actually inserting an .eps file via color{red}includegraphics{foo}. * Changes: - colorbox and fcolorbox made robust; - obsolete package option `pst' removed; - several changes to internal macros. * Bugfixes: - incorrect processing of cmyk-type current color `.'. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xcolor/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=xcolor 2.10 (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: textpath
by CTAN Announcements 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Stephan Hennig submitted the package textpath to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/textpath License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This MetaPost package provides macros to typeset text along a free path with the help of LaTeX, thereby preserving kerning and allowing for 8-bit input (accented characters). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/textpath . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=textpath (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ Thansk for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: prerex 3.6
by CTAN Announcements 29 Nov '06

29 Nov '06

The package below has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: prerex Author's name: Bob Tennent Location on CTAN: /graphics/prerex Summary description: Interactive editor for prerequisite charts, macro support. License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This implementation of prerex.sty is based on pgf rather than pstricks, allowing use of either latex->dvips or pdflatex. Some minor bugs in the editor have been fixed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/prerex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=prerex (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are 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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No FTP access to dante.ctan.org due to vulnerability
by CTAN Announcements 29 Nov '06

29 Nov '06

An exploitable programming error in the proftpd software has been announced. Until this is resolved, dante.ctan.org will not offer ftp access. Rainer Schöpf

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New CTAN package: gastex
by CTAN Announcements 28 Nov '06

28 Nov '06

The Cambridge upload daemon spake: > ====================================================================== > > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: gastex > Author's name: Paul Gastin > Author's email: ... > Location on CTAN: graphics > Summary description: GasTeX: Graphs and Automata Simplified in TeX > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > GasTeX is a set of LaTeX macros which allow to draw very easily graphs, > automata, nets, diagrams, etc... under the picture environment of LaTeX. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i have installed the package at ctan:graphics/gastex, and made a new entry in the catalogue. thanks for the upload. interested users may browse the package via its new catalogue page http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/gastex.html Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: auto-pst-pdf
by CTAN Announcements 28 Nov '06

28 Nov '06

The package below has been put in on tug.ctan.org and should soon be on your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ..................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: auto-pst-pdf Author's name: Will Robertson Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/auto-pst-pdf Summary description: Wrapper for pst-pdf (with some psfrag features) License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- auto-pst-pdf uses --shell-escape to execute pst-pdf when necessary. This makes it especially easy to integrate into the workflow of an editor with just LaTeX and pdfLaTeX buttons. Wrappers are provided for various psfrag-related features so that Matlab figures via laprint, Mathematica figures via MathPSfrag, and regular psfrag figures can all be input consistently and easily. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/auto-pst-pdf . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=auto-pst-pdf (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are 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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New CTAN package: pst-dbicons
by CTAN Announcements 27 Nov '06

27 Nov '06

Herbert Voss <LaTeX(a)zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > I uploaded pst-dbicons.tgz to the uk mirror. > Please put all files in the _new_ directory > /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-dbicons > > The pst-dbicons package provides some useful macros in the > database area. It focusses on typesetting ER-Diagrams in a > declarative style, i.e., by positioning some nodes and defining > the position of all other nodes relative to them by using the > standard database terminology. > > the author is Wolfgang May thanks for the upload; i have installed it as suggested. users who wish to browse the package may look at the catalogue entry i've created: http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pst-dbicons.html Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: pst-spectra
by CTAN Announcements 25 Nov '06

25 Nov '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and will soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College .................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: pst-spectra Author's name: Arnaud Schmittbuhl Location on CTAN: /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-spectra Summary description: Draw continuum, emission and absorption spectra License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This PSTricks extension, based on a NASA lines database, allows you to draw continuum, emission and absorption spectra. A Total of 16 880 visible lines from 99 elements can be displayed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-spectra . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=pst-spectra (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are 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: gu
by CTAN Announcements 25 Nov '06

25 Nov '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ...................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: gu Author's name: Stefan Lange Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/gu Summary description: Typeset crystallographic group-subgroup-schemes in Bärnighausen formalism License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The aim of the package gu.sty is to simplify typesetting of simple crystallographic group-subgroup-schemes in the Bärnighausen formalism. It defines a new environment stammbaum, wherein all elements of the scheme are defined. Afterwards all necessary dimensions are calculated and the scheme is drawn. Currently two steps of symmetry reduction are supported. Das Paket gu.sty erleichtert das Setzen von einfachen kristallographischen Gruppe-Untergruppe-Schemata im Bärnighausen-Formalismus und/oder Lagenfortführungstabellen. Die einzelnen Elemente und Abstände werden innerhalb einer neuen Umgebung namens stammbaum mittels vorgegebener Kommandos definiert. Anschließend werden alle Abstände automatisch berechnet und der Stammbaum und/oder die Tabellen ausgegeben. Momentan werden maximal zwei Abstiegsschritte unterstützt. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/gu . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=gu (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are 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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New CTAN package: pst-ob3d
by CTAN Announcements 25 Nov '06

25 Nov '06

Herbert Voss wrote: > I uploaded pst-ob3d.tgz to the uk mirror. > Please put all files in the _new_ directory > /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-ob3d > > pst-ob3d is a PSTricks based package for basic three > dimensional objects. Up to now only cubes (which can be > deformed to rectangular parallelipiped ones) and > dies (which are only a special kind of cubes) are defined. i've installed the package at Cambridge, as suggested, and created a catalogue entry. users who wish to browse the package may do so via its (processed) catalogue entry: http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pst-ob3d.html thanks for the upload, Herbert. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: vntex-3.1.1
by CTAN Announcements 23 Nov '06

23 Nov '06

On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Reinhard Kotucha submitted an update to the vntex package. Location on CTAN: /language/vietnamese/vntex Summary description: Support for typesetting Vietnamese License type: dfsg Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 3.1.1 fixes a severe bug in t5enc.def. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/vietnamese/vntex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=vntex-3.1.1 (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: savetrees
by CTAN Announcements 21 Nov '06

21 Nov '06

The package below has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Tnx, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ...................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: savetrees Author's name: Scott Pakin Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/savetrees Summary description: Pack as much text as possible onto each page of a LaTeX document License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The goal of the savetrees package is to pack as much text as possible onto each page of a LaTeX document. Admittedly, this makes the document far less attractive. Nevertheless, savetrees is a simple way to save paper when printing draft copies of a document. It can also be useful when trying to meet a tight page-length requirement for a conference or journal submission. Version 1.2 of savetrees adds code to discourage TeX from permitting paragraphs to end with a lone word. It also sets the top and bottom margins to nonzero values because that was too ugly even for savetrees. Finally, this version of savetrees improves the check for chapter-based document classes, making it more robust. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/savetrees . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=savetrees (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are 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: Technica
by CTAN Announcements 20 Nov '06

20 Nov '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Regards, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ..................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Technica Author's name: Gianfranco Boggio-Togna Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/technica Summary description: Typesetting for the Humanities License type: nocommercial Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A suite of LaTeX packages for typesetting literary texts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/technica . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=technica (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are 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: refman
by CTAN Announcements 19 Nov '06

19 Nov '06

On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 Axel Kielhorn submitted an update to the refman package. It contains document classes (report- and article-style) for writing technical reference manuals. It offers a wide left margin for notes to the reader, like some of the manuals distributed by Adobe. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/refman Summary description: The refman classes implement an layout suitable for reference manuals License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is an update to the refman classes. It contains additional command to pass the pagesize to the DVI-Viewer (DVIPS/GS, PDFTEX, DVIPDFMX) and a new option to reduce the size of the border for online viewing. Documentation in English and German is included. Note to users of the August 2006 beta: The implicit definition of the pagesize in the DVI output has been replaced by an explicit command. Add the pagesize option to pass the page size to the DVI-Viewer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/refman/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=refman (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: xkeyval 2.5f
by CTAN Announcements 19 Nov '06

19 Nov '06

On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, Hendri Adriaens submitted an update to the xkeyval package. This package is an extension of the keyval package and offers additional macros for setting keys and declaring and setting class or package options. The package allows the programmer to specify a prefix to the name of the macros it defines for keys, and to define families of key definitions; these all help use in documents where several packages define their own sets of keys. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/xkeyval License: lppl Announcement Text: --------------------------------------------------------------------- > xkeyval 2.5f: > 2 small bugs have been solved: > XKV@setkeys: Added reset of CurrentOption > XKV@srstate: Added XKV@tkey and XKV@rm to solve bugs --------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: utopia
by CTAN Announcements 17 Nov '06

17 Nov '06

The package below has been changed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Karl. Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: utopia Author's name: Karl Berry Location on CTAN: /fonts/utopia Summary description: utopia fonts license clarification License type: dfsg Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I am happy to announce that Adobe has graciously clarified the licensing terms of the Utopia font family, making it clear that the fonts can be modified, and such modifications can be redistributed (this was previously ambiguous, unfortunately). Therefore, the Utopia fonts can now be considered free (as in freedom), and will be included on the next TeX Live. I have updated the license terms in the original Utopia afm and pfb files, and the new files are available at http://tug.org/fonts/utopia, and soon from CTAN:fonts/utopia. The actual font information (glyphs, metrics, etc.) is entirely unchanged. For those who are concerned about such things, the precise license terms from Adobe and other legal information is also available at http://tug.org/fonts/utopia. Happy typesetting, Karl ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/utopia . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=utopia (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are 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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Re: CTAN upload TeXShell32
by CTAN Announcements 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Dirk Struve submitted an update to the texshell32 package, a free TeXShell for MS-Windows 95 and NT. It is a new release of the Windows TeXShell WinTeXShell32. It contains an important bug fix. The previous version often saved Unicode files in ANSI format. License: GPL Thanks for the update. This package is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/texshell32 . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=texshell32 (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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