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CTAN update: pdfcprot
by CTAN Announcements 10 Jun '05

10 Jun '05

On Thu, 9 Jun 2005 Tobias Schlemmer submitted an update to the pdfcprot package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/pdfcprot Summary description: pdfcprot is a packet that provides macros for switching on margin kerning License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This release fixes two critical typos. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: NCCTOOLS
by Jim Hefferon 09 Jun '05

09 Jun '05

A package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks for the update, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: NCCTOOLS bundle Author's name: Alexander I Rozhenko Author's email: roj(a)front.ru Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ncctools Summary description: Release 3.1 License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This release of the bundle contains many significant improvements listed below. Three new packages are introduced: the `ncccomma' package provides a smart comma that can work in math as an ordinary symbol or as a punctuation mark (this comma is a bit smarter than in the `icomma' package); the `mboxfill' package wraps TeX's hfill with leaders (all leader types are supported and one more case is provided --- stretched leaders); the `nccrules' package implements multiline dash rule command, dash rule fill command, and provides two commands generating new footnote rules (these rules are useful in the `manyfoot' package). In the `nccmath' package, new medium-size commands are introduced: mfrac is an intermediate fraction between dfrac and frac; mbinom is the medium-size binom; the medint and medop produce medium-size integrals and sum-like operators; mmatrix and medsize environments allow smaller matrices and formulas. In the `nccsect' package, the compatibility with the `supertabular' and `longtable' packages is provided; captions control is improved; epigraph and eforechapter hooks are introduced; StartFromTextArea and StartFromHeaderArea commands are introduced. In the `manyfoot' package, the SetFootnoteHook command is introduced. In the `dcounter' package, an existing counter can work now as a dynamic counter. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ncctools although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror of CTAN that is near to you; see http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors .

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CTAN update: poemscol 2.31
by CTAN Announcements 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 John Burt submitted an update to his package poemscol a package for critical editions of poetry. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/poemscol License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Poemscol 2.31 introduces a new way of capturing references to ranges of lines for multi-line lemmas using the label/ref mechanism. Lemmas can be nested or even overlapping with no special handling.The same mechanism is used to capture line ranges in verse sections and in prose sections. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: xcolor 2.03
by CTAN Announcements 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

On Tue, 7 Jun 2005 Uwe Kern submitted an update to the xcolor package, containing driver-independent color extensions for LaTeX and pdfLaTeX. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/xcolor/ License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2005/06/06 v2.03 * New features: - `fixpdftex' option loads `pdfcolmk' package in order to improve pdfTeX's color behaviour during page breaks. * Changes: - some minor changes to internal macros. * Bugfixes: - due to an incorrect if statement within XC@info, colorlet caused trouble whenever its second argument started with two identical letters, e.g., colorlet{rab}{oof}; - argument processing of XC@getcolor caused incompatibility with `msc' package; - `prologue' option caused incompatibility with `preview' package. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: BaKoMa TeX 7.30 - XP Style, support LY1 for YandY ussers.
by CTAN Announcements 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Basil Malyshev submitted version 7.30 of the bakoma package. > Most important improvements are: > > + XP Themes are supported under Windows XP. > + Support of LY1 encoding intended for users migrating from YandY TeX. > It includes Times/Helvetica/Courier in LY1 encoding, > ability of Font Setup Wizard to generate TFMs in LY1 encoding, > and importing DVIPS compatible font MAP files tested on YandY fonts. > + Numerous improvements in graphics engine: > Refined compatibility with EPS saved by CorelDraw 11 and Acrobat 6.0; > Refined embedding WMF files into PDF/SVG files; > Way to control Postscript languagelevel by choosing > extensions .ps1, .ps2, .ps3 for imported EPS files; > > 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 > 6-Jun-2005 > > > -------------------- About BaKoMa TeX 7.30 ------------------ > > BaKoMa TeX 7.30 supports two coexisting IDE: > 1) BaKoMa TeX Word - True WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor [New in V 7.0]. > 2) Text Editor + DVI Viewer - Clasical 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 such that you edit your document immediately in DVI Viewer. > 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: > Prosper, PSTricks, PSFrag, graphics (psfig), draftcopy, etc. > > Most important application of BaKoMa TeX Word is > final step corrections of LaTeX papers before publishing. > > Editing Prosper's slides in WYSIWYG interface > is another impressive feature of `BaKoMa TeX Word'. > > 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 distributions is at: > <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update, I installed it. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update --- booklet package manual extension
by CTAN Announcements 05 Jun '05

05 Jun '05

Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded booklet.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use this to > replace the current macros/latex/contrib/booklet > > >From the README: > booklet is a pure (pdf)LaTeX package that lets you produce booklets, or > signatures for longer books. > > Changes in version 0.7a (2005/06/01) > o No changes to the code > o For those who found three working usage examples were not real-life and > insufficient, further real-life examples have been added including how to > produce the manual as a booklet. i've installed the new version and updated the catalogue. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN updates --- ledpatch.sty and mempatch.sty
by CTAN Announcements 05 Jun '05

05 Jun '05

Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded mempatch.sty to UK incoming. Please use this to replace > the current macros/latex/contrib/memoir/mempatch.sty > > mempatch.sty (v3.11, 2005/05/23) provides patches for the memoir class. > In particular: > o Provides for the advertised partmark in part-like pages > o Enables the advertised method of changing the column separation in > indexes. > o Lets the pagesel package work correctly with memoir (there was never a > problem with the selectp package). and > I have uploaded ledpatch.sty to UK incoming. Please use this to replace > and macros/latex/contrib/ledmac/ledpatch.sty. > > ledpatch.sty (v0.4, 2005/06/02) provides patches for the ledmac package, > in particular it fixes problems when defining new familiar series footnotes. i have installed both files as required. thanks for the uploads. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package news: Malayalam
by Jim Hefferon 04 Jun '05

04 Jun '05

At tug.ctan.org the package that used to be at language/malayalam has been moved to obsolete/language/malayalam and a new package has been put into its place. These changes should soon make their way to your favorite mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon This is the information on the new package. ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: LaTeX for Malayalam Author's name: Alex A.J. Location on CTAN: /language/malayalam/ Summary description: A package for typesetting Malayalam using LaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package contains macros and fonts for typesetting Malayalam using LaTeX. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/malayalam/ although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror of CTAN that is near to you; see http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors .

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Updated package on CTAN: glossary
by CTAN Announcements 03 Jun '05

03 Jun '05

The upload daemon tells us: > Name of contribution: glossary > Author's name: Nicola Talbot > Summary description: Create a glossary > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The glossary package now includes LaTeX2HTML support. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > You can have a look at the package at > http://http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/glossary > although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror > of CTAN that is near to you; see > http://http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/README.mirrors i've installed the update as requested. thanks, Nicola, for the update. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: sides
by Jim Hefferon 03 Jun '05

03 Jun '05

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: sides Author's name: Wing L. Mui Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/sides Summary description: A LaTeX class for typesetting stage plays License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a free LaTeX class for typesetting stage plays, based on the plari class written by Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho in 1998. It has been updated and several formatting changes have been made to it---most noticibly there are no longer orphans. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive//macros/latex/contrib/sides although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror of CTAN that is near to you; see http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors .

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CTAN upload: fig2vect-1.0.0
by CTAN Announcements 02 Jun '05

02 Jun '05

On Wed, 1 Jun 2005 Dirk Krause submitted a new package fig2vect to CTAN. Name of contribution: fig2vect-1.0.0 Location on CTAN: /support/fig2vect Summary description: Yet another Fig to vector converter License type: bsd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The fig2vect program converts figures from jFig, XFig and WinFig to MetaPost, EPS, PDF, TeX and SVG. The primary web site for source and docu is http://fig2vect.sourceforge.net . Program highlights: - Designed for use with LaTeX/pdfLaTeX. Handling of special text is left up to LaTeX, for non-special text you can choose whether or not to use LaTeX. For text handled by LaTeX you have three choices: - Use the fonts exactly as specified in the Fig file. - Convert to use fonts in the same features (serif/sans-serif/monospaced, normal/bold, upright/italic). This allows to use the same font families in the graphics as in the document where the graphics is included. - Write no font selection commands (text contains commands itself if necessary). - X-splines are approximated by a sequence of Bezier spline segments. - Fill patterns are drawn by vector graphics operations. - Image width and height are found by inspecting graphics elements (except texts), the paper format name is not used here. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: etaremune v1.2
by CTAN Announcements 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Hendri Adriaens uploaded version 1.2 of his etaremune package to CTAN. This package implements the etaremune environment which is similar to the enumerate environment, except that labels are decreasing instead of increasing. This package provides an alternative to the revnum package which uses a lot of counters. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/etaremune License : LPPL Thanks for the update For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: poemscol 2.301
by CTAN Announcements 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

On Tue, 31 May 2005 John Burt uploaded an update to the poesmcol package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/poemscol Summary description: macros for critical editions of poetry License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- poemscol 2.301 fixes a small bug in the Table of Contents macros, and rewrites the manual for clarity ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: xkeyval v2.5a
by CTAN Announcements 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

On Tue, 31 May 2005, Hendri Adriaens submitted an update to the xkeyval package to CTAN. 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. ----------------------------------------------- xkeyval v2.5a ----------------------------------------------- Missing `%' added to @selective@sanitize macro to avoid spurious blanks. ----------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN files updated: ushyph
by Jim Hefferon 31 May '05

31 May '05

The material below has been changed on tug.ctan.org and those changes should soon propagate to your favorite mirror. Thank you for the work, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: ushyph Author's name: Karl Berry Location on CTAN: /language/hyphenation Summary description: repackaging of additional US hyphenation patterns License type: dfsg Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Some of the files of US hyphenation patterns have been adjusted slightly. There are no changes to the actual patterns. ushyph.tex - updated license and comments. ushyph1.tex - a symlink to Knuth's patterns in systems/knuth/lib/hyphen.tex ushyph2.tex - a symlink to ushyph.tex; before it was a bare list of patterns, but that's inconvenient to actually use in the distributions. ushyphmax.tex - includes DEK's original patterns + exceptions from hyphen.tex, so the file becomes self-contained, like ushyph.tex. Kuiken approved these changes. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at these files at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/hyphenation although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror of CTAN that is near to you; see http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors .

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CTAN has a new package: koma-script-SFS
by Jim Hefferon 31 May '05

31 May '05

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon appear at your favorite mirror. Thank you for the upload, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: SFS.lco Author's name: Markus Kohm Location on CTAN: /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/koma-script-SFS Summary description: KOMA-Script letter class option for finish letters License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a KOMA-Script letter class option to be used for writing finish letters with KOMA-Script letter class scrlttr2. Note: There's not support for this package by the KOMA-Script author, Markus Kohm. This package is authored and maintained by Hannu Väisänen <hvaisane[at]joyx.joensuu.fi>. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/koma-scrip… although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror of CTAN that is near to you; see http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors .

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CTAN deletion: gdgspace.sty
by Robin Fairbairns 30 May '05

30 May '05

Re: macros/latex/contrib/misc/gdgspace.sty This package was a version of what has now become setspace.sty, and has long been superseded by setspace. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: cclicenses
by Jim Hefferon 30 May '05

30 May '05

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org, from which it will soon propogate to your favorite mirror. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: cclicenses Author's name: Gianluca Pignalberi Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/cclicenses Summary description: A package to typeset Creative Commons licenses logos License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The cclicenses package helps users typesetting Creative Commons logos in LaTeX. It defines some commands useful to quickly write these logos, related to CC licenses versions 1.0 and 2.0. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/cclicenses although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror of CTAN that is near to you; see http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors .

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CTAN has a new package: xpdfopen
by Jim Hefferon 23 May '05

23 May '05

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: xpdfopen Author's name: Taco Hoekwater Location on CTAN: /support/xpdfopen Summary description: Pdfopen for X11 version 0.3 License type: pd Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The command-line programs pdfopen and pdfclose allow you to control the X Window System version of Adobe's Acrobat Reader from the command line or from within a (shell) script. Supports Acrobat Reader 5.0.10 and 7.0 for Linux. See README and xpdfopen.pdf for more details - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/xpdfopen although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror of CTAN that is near to you; see http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors .

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CTAN submission - titletoc patch
by CTAN Announcements 22 May '05

22 May '05

Javier Bezos writes: > I've uploaded to the UK server the file titlesec3.zip. > Please, replace the content of > > macros/latex/contrib/titlesec > > by the new one. > > It contains a new file titletoc.new which fixes a > major bug when partial tocs are used with include'd > files (a partial toc could appear in the wrong > context). Since it's a patch, the only change > required to fix the bug is to replace this patch > file. i've installed the update as requested; thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update - enumitem 1.1
by CTAN Announcements 22 May '05

22 May '05

Javier Bezos writes: > I've uploaded to the UK server the file enumitem.zip. > Please, replace the content of > > macros/latex/contrib/enumitem > > by the new one. > > This release fixes a bug (there could be a page break > after the description label with the style nextline) > and extends the property font to enumerate and > itemize, so that it can be applied to item[...]. i've installed the contents as requested. thanks for the upload Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: FeatPost 0.6.5
by CTAN Announcements 22 May '05

22 May '05

On Sun, 22 May 2005 L. Nobre G. submitted an update to the featpost package. Location on CTAN: /graphics/metapost/macros/featpost Summary description: FeatPost is an extension of the MetaPost language, works in two and three dimensions and has several features to facilitate the production of physics diagrams. License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tested with MetaPost 0.9 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: xkvview v1.4 (part of xkeyval bundle)
by CTAN Announcements 20 May '05

20 May '05

On Fri, 20 May 2005, Hendri Adriaens submitted an update to his package xkeyval to CTAN. 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 ----------------------------------------------------- Update information: 1) some examples for the default value system have been added to the docs 2) xkvview has been fully reimplemented; lots of new options (select columns, rows, write overviews to file, etc) ----------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: movie15
by CTAN Announcements 19 May '05

19 May '05

On Thu, 19 May 2005 Alexander Grahn submitted a new version of the movie15 package to CTAN. This package defines includemovie with PDF-1.5 compatibility. Option 'autoplay' causes the media clip to be started right after the page has loaded. This is useful for side by side movie clips to be played back synchronously. Location on CTAN: /CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/movie15/ Summary description: multimedia inclusion package License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a bugfix release. An incompatibility with the hyperref package has been removed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: poemscol 2.3
by CTAN Announcements 19 May '05

19 May '05

On Wed, 18 May 2005 John Burtsubmitted an update to his poemscol package, containing macros for critical editions of poetry. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/poemscol License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Poemscol 2.3 adds the ability make linenumbers for prose sections such as the author's introduction or for prose poems. Footnotes or endnotes of various kinds can be made for prose sections just as for poetry. Solved the problem which sometimes caused the ``missing number'' error on first runs. Changed the names of some counters, in order to make poemscol compatible with lineno. This makes version 2.3 slightly incompatible with versions 2.26 and earlier. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: png2pdf-1.0.9
by CTAN Announcements 19 May '05

19 May '05

On Wed, 18 May 2005 Dirk Krause submitted an update to his png2pdf package to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /support/png2pdf Summary description: PNG to PDF converter License type: bsd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The png2pdf program converts PNG images to PDF. An alpha channel in the PNG file can be used to mix against a specified background color and/or to create a PDF image mask or PDF alpha channel. The program may be of interest for pdfLaTeX users creating posters, flyers having colored background. This release contains a documentation update only, the program code was not changed. There was a question in comp.text.tex how to use png2pdf with the beamer document class. I added an example to the PDF manual. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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small babel update
by Johannes L. Braams 19 May '05

19 May '05

Hi, I have just refreshed the following files: - babel.dtx with a fix for PR3756 (clash with amsart, due to handling of marks) - hebrew.fdd with a fix for PR 3774 (unusable .fd files) - italian.dtx as was submitted by Claudio Beccari Johannes Braams

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Re: CTAN upload notification: lineno.sty/ednotes.sty (critical editions, revising submittings)
by CTAN Announcements 18 May '05

18 May '05

On Tue, 17 May 2005 Uwe Lück uploaded an update to his lineno package. This package adds line numbers to selected paragraphs with reference possible through the LaTeX ef and pageref cross reference mechanism. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/lineno License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANGES for lineno.sty v4.3 2005/05/16: 1. Option `displaymath' (proper numbering at paragraphs containing math displays) becomes default (`obsolete'. 2. Compatibility with hyperref now indeed (at least much more). 3. Tidied up documentation: terrible confusion of ewcounter vs. stepcounter; sections on the same matter written at different times; ... 4. Additional internal improvements that perhaps hardly are observable (no more spurious linenumbers in math displays from vertical mode; some compatibity with packages that use holdinginserts; linelabel in headings etc.). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update --- mempatch.sty
by CTAN Announcements 17 May '05

17 May '05

Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded mempatch.sty to UK incoming. Please use this to replace > the current macros/latex/contrib/memoir/mempatch.sty > > mempatch.sty v3.10 (2005/05/16) enables the memoir class and the xtab > package to work together. i've installed the file as requested; thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has three new packages: berling, frutiger, and palatinox
by Jim Hefferon 16 May '05

16 May '05

Three new packages have been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon appear at your favorite mirror. Thank you for the contribution, Jim Hefferon ========================================================== Name of contribution: palatinox Author's name: Marc Penninga Location on CTAN: /fonts/truetypemetrics/ Summary description: Metrics for TrueType versions of Monotype Berling, Linotype Frutiger, and Linotype Palatino License type: lppl ------------------------------------------------ These packages contain everything you need (apart from the fonts themselves) to use the Truetype version of these fonts in your Latex documents. ------------------------------------------------ You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/truetypemetrics although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror of CTAN that is near to you; see http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors .

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CTAN update: Bakoma 7.20
by CTAN Announcements 16 May '05

16 May '05

On Wed, 11 May 2005, Basil Malyshev uploaded an update to the bakoma package. > Most important improvements are: > > + `Options/Install DVIPS font MAP file' command > lets to setup packages of Type1 fonts preconfigured for DVIPS program. > + `Lat1-7' keyboard mapper lets to convenient way to convert input > eight-bit character codes into TeX's seven-bit codes like to U. > + Numerous improvements in graphics engine: > Robust extraction of bounding box from EPSF figures. > Importing PDF files with embedded TrueType/CID fonts. > Added processcolors key in statusdict to force use colors. > Added ScaleMatrix and OrigFont keys in font dict. > Added Predictor = 2, for Flate and LZW Decode filters. > PDF Generation Changes: > Version of generated PDF is 1.3 (gradient patterns). > Added `Embed even Base Fonts' option into generation dialog. > Enabled CMYK output option in PDF generation from TeXWord. > > More details about changes and another bug fixing see at: > <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes7.html> > > > -------------------- About BaKoMa TeX 7.20 ------------------ > > BaKoMa TeX 7.20 supports two coexisting IDE: > 1) BaKoMa TeX Word - True WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor [New in V 7.0]. > 2) Text Editor + DVI Viewer - Clasical 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 such that you edit your document immediately in DVI Viewer. > 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: > Prosper, PSTricks, PSFrag, graphics (psfig), draftcopy, etc. > > Most important application of BaKoMa TeX Word is > final step corrections of LaTeX papers before publishing. > > Editing Prosper's slides in WYSIWYG interface > is another impressive feature of `BaKoMa TeX Word'. > > 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 distributions is at: > <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: corrected map files for LM fonts
by CTAN Announcements 14 May '05

14 May '05

On Sat, 14 May 2005, Staszek Wawrykiewicz submitted a number of small corrections to some map files in fonts/lm/ 05.14.2005 corrected pltext-lm.map and vnrtext-lm.map and comment typos in cmtext-lm.map and cmtext-lm-interpolated 00readme and newmaps.zip updated accordingly Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: csquotes 2.8
by CTAN Announcements 14 May '05

14 May '05

On Wed, 11 May 2005, Philipp Lehman submitted version 2.8 of the csquote package. This package provides markup for inline quotations by means of control sequences and active quote characters. The quotation marks are context sensitive, they alternate for nested quotes and can adapt to the document language by interfacing with the babel package. The active quote characters and all quotation styles are fully configurable. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/csquotes License: lppl CHANGES * Added DisableQuotes * Fixed bug causing kerning restoration to fail in some rare cases Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: lineno.sty (ednotes.sty) -- LaTeX: critical editions, revising ...
by CTAN Announcements 14 May '05

14 May '05

On Wed, 11 May 2005 Uwe Lück submitted an update to the lineno package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ednotes Summary description: miscellaneous improvements License type: dfsg Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Restored global version of numbering lines of a parbox or minipage or ... (I had missed and disabled this in taking over lineno.sty, and disabled), explained in documentation. 2. Enabled flushbottom in two-column pagewise or switching mode. 3. Re-implemented modulo mode -- disabling certain users' tricks, see lineno.pdf sec. 5.5, also for a still supported substituting trick. 4. Tidied up setting the next line number globally vs. locally (TeXbook p. 301). 5. Tidied up discussions (in documentation) of possible changes in implementation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN upload: jcc.bst
by CTAN Announcements 14 May '05

14 May '05

On Wed, 4 May 2005 Antonio Cervellino submitted an update to jcc.bst a Bibtex style file for J. Comp. Chem. current (2005) style to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /biblio/bibtex/contrib/chem-journal/jcc.bst License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I made some modifications to the jcc.bst to make it really compliant with the journal's present style requirements, as : author's initials after the name, authors' names separated by ;, no brackets around the year... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: mfpic
by Jim Hefferon 14 May '05

14 May '05

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: mfpic Author's name: Daniel Luecking Location on CTAN: /graphics/mfpic Summary description: Macros to generate Metafont/Metapost for drawing pictures. License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mfpic is a package of (La)TeX macros that produce drawings by writing a Metafont/post file. This is a fairly major upgrade adding facilities to create MF loops, to create picture variables and place copies of them, and to read results of an MF expression into a TeX macro. Also 7 new curve creation macros, one new curve modifier and one new rendering macro (double-line) have been added. Plus new options for arc, circle and arrow. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/mfpic although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror of CTAN that is near to you; see http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors .

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CTAN has a new package: LEd (LaTeX Editor)
by Jim Hefferon 14 May '05

14 May '05

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: LEd (LaTeX Editor) Author's name: Sebastian Deorowicz and Adam Skorczynski Location on CTAN: /support/LEd Summary description: Environment for rapid TeX/LaTeX document development License type: nosource Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LEd (LaTeX Editor) is a free environment for rapid TeX/LaTeX document processing. The main goal of the development of the editor is to make the process of TeX/LaTeX document production easier thanks to the integration of most helpful tools in one application. HomePage: www.latexeditor.org - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/LEd although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror of CTAN that is near to you; see http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors

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CTAN update: harmony
by CTAN Announcements 12 May '05

12 May '05

On Tue, 10 May 2005 uploaded an update to the harmony package. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/harmony License type: lppl Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: The caption package v3.0e
by CTAN Announcements 12 May '05

12 May '05

On Tue, 10 May 2005 Axel Sommerfeldt submitted an update to the caption package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/caption/ Summary description: Customising captions in floating environments License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The caption package provides many ways to customise the captions in floating environments like figure and table and cooperates with many other packages. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is mainly a bugfix release of the caption package 3.0. Changes: - Increased compatibility: Behaviour of labelformat=default changed (algorithm2e package) (12.4.05) - Bugfix 05-04-28: labelformat=default,indention=<amount> works now again (28.4.05) - Code documentation & re-organisation (5.5.05) - Bugfix: caption{} now works correctly for sidecap captions, too. (5.5.05) - Bugfix: captionsetup[longtable]{width=...} overrides LTcapwidth now (5.5.05) - Bugfix: captionsetup[table/figure]{margin=...} has no effect on sidecaptions anymore and captionsetup[table/figure]{justification=...} will be overwritten by sidecap justification option, too. (5.5.05) - Improvement v3.0d: opcaption* and ottomcaption* implemented (5.5.05) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN UPDATE: msg package V 0.32
by CTAN Announcements 11 May '05

11 May '05

Bernard Gaulle writes: > I just upload on ftp.tex.ac.uk an update of msg, the localization package > for LaTeX package/class writers. It should not change (if no bug...) > until any new language will be added. > > The upload on ftp.tex.ac.uk is: msg.tar.gz > Ctan directory: macros/latex/contrib/msg > > % This file may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of > % the LaTeX Project Public License as of http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt > % > % This file has the LPPL maintenance status maintained. > % The current maintainer is Bernard.Gaulle at idris.fr > > V 0.32 mods in case of previously loaded inputenc package. I've installed the new version at the Cambridge CTAN; it will progress to the other ctan sites soon. Thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: MetaPost 0.901 announcement
by CTAN Announcements 11 May '05

11 May '05

Taco Hoekwater writes: > The MetaPost team is happy to announce a new release of MetaPost: > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > MetaPost 0.901 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > The sources, as well as binary packages for both fptex and miktex > installations can be downloaded immediately from > > http://sarovar.org/projects/metapost/ > > * The source package should compile normally on all systems that are > capable of compiling a modern web2c-based TeX distribution. > > * The web2c-win32 package is intended for fptex or a similar > web2c-based installation, and has been tested only with TeXLive 2003. > > * The miktex package contains macros and binaries for miktex 2.4, > kindly provided by Christian Schenk himself. > > Of course, we welcome any comments (either good or bad) that you may > have. Simply replying to this message is fine, but see the bottom of > this message for a more formal way to report bugs and feature requests. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Changes in version 0.901: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > * A corrected bugfix for the degerate path bug (the old fix > made metapost fail the trap test) > * Included mpost.mp for mem generation > * Updated trap test > * The mpost executable is now version 0.901 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Legal notice / license / bug reports > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > MetaPost is a system for producing graphics developed by John Hobby > at AT&T, based on Donald Knuth's Metafont. The MetaPost home page > is http://tug.org/metapost. > > MetaPost and related programs are in the public domain. > > The MetaPost development project is currently hosted at Sarovar, > http://www.sarovar.org/projects/metapost; please report bugs and > request enhancements through there if possible. Alternatively, you > can reach us through the <metapost(a)tug.org> mailing list as well. > (Please do not send bug reports or feature requests directly to > Dr. Hobby any more) > > > Have fun! > > Taco Hoekwater, for the MetaPost team, May 11, 2005 i've installed this new release on the cambridge ctan, in directory graphics/metapost -- it will make its way out to the rest of the world in due course. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: antomega, cm-lgc, grkfinst, ofntinst
by Jim Hefferon 10 May '05

10 May '05

The packages described below have been updated on tug.ctan.org and should make it to your favorite mirror real, real soon. Thanks for the updates, Jim Hefferon This is the update message from the package maintainer: ========================================================== I have just uploaded to tug.ctan.org/incoming new versions of my 4 packages, namely antomega v. 0.8, cm-lgc v. 0.5, ofntinst 0.2.2 and grkfinst 0.3.2. Please update the corresponding directories on CTAN (antomega is installed into systems/omega/contrib/antomega/, cm-lgc into fonts/ps-type1/cm-lgc/, and my fontinst packages into fonts/utilities/fontinst-contrib/). Note that cm-lgc 0.5 is a major new release, with a lot of new features added (the full list of enhancements is available in the HISTORY file inside the package). Antomega 0.8 is a great step to a really stable version, and, although I continue a sequential version numbering, it may be considered a major new release too. The following new features are most important ones: ======================================================= - -- added (experimental) support files for new languages (Spanish and Latin); - -- added special options allowing to use antomega with Scientific Word/Scientific Workplace; - -- added a concept of Unicode-based encoding definitions, so that standard encoding description files (like t1enc.def) are no longer used by antomega; - -- new concept of handling TeX accents and Unicode combining accent marks is introduced, allowing to workaround the known Omega problem. In Omega the accent command may produce correct results only if its second argument is given in document's output encoding; but this is no longer a problem for antomega. - -- Greek hyphenation patterns updated. - -- Thanks in advance, Alexej Kryukov

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CTAN update: pdfcprot
by CTAN Announcements 09 May '05

09 May '05

On Fri, 6 May 2005 Tobias Schlemmer uploaded an update to pdfcprot Author's name: Tobias Schlemmer Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/pdfcprot Summary description: pdfcprot does implement a package for the pdflatex margin kerning feature License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The new version implements access to different font encodings and provides some limited support for cyrillic encodings. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: mhchem bundle v2.01
by CTAN Announcements 09 May '05

09 May '05

On Sun, 8 May 2005 Martin Hensel submitted version 2.01 of mhchem to CTAN. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/mhchem/ Summary description: for typesetting chemical formulae, chemical equations and Risk and Safety (R and S) Phrases License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is an update to version 2.01. What's new? - rsphrase: Spanish R and S phrases. Thanks to Ignacio Fernández Galván. - mhchem: bugfix ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: movie15
by CTAN Announcements 09 May '05

09 May '05

On Wed, 4 May 2005 Alexander Grahn submitted an update to the movie15 package to CTAN. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/movie15/ Summary description: multimedia inclusion package License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This release removes a bug which occasionally produced unusable media inclusions. This issue occurred, when a TeX generated pagebreak fell in between two consecutive media inclusions and only if pdfLaTeX was used. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update:xkeyval v2.5 and extract v1.8
by CTAN Announcements 09 May '05

09 May '05

On Sat, 7 May 2005, Hendri Adriaens submitted updated versions of the packages xkeyval (v2.5) extract (v1.8) to CTAN. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/xkeyval macros/latex/contrib/extract > ------------------------------------------- > xkeyval v2.5 > ------------------------------------------- > 1) Added define@boolkeys, define@cmdkey > and define@cmdkeys > 2) Simplified setkeys internals > 3) Solved small bug in setkeys which allowed > families to take over save or preset key > settings when a key was defined in multiple > families > 4) Updated xkvview > 5) Restructured docs > 6) Some small things > ------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------------------- > extract v1.8 > ------------------------------------------- > 1) Added `copydocumentclass' option > 2) Changed option `no-header' to `header' > 3) Changed option `document-handles' to `handles' > 4) Revised docs and examples > 5) Solved a bug not extracting empty lines > ------------------------------------------- Thanks for the updates. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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

08 May '05

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

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

05 May '05

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

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CTAN package update: nomencl
by Jim Hefferon 03 May '05

03 May '05

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

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CTAN has a new package: fontools
by Jim Hefferon 03 May '05

03 May '05

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

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