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CTAN package update: textpos 1.6
by CTAN Announcements 30 Aug '05

30 Aug '05

Norman Gray writes: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: textpos 1.6 > Author's name: Norman Gray > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/textpos (replacing current version) > Summary description: Lay out text and graphics at arbitrary positions on the LaTeX page. > License type: gpl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Changes in 1.6, 2005 August 30 > ------------------------------ > > * Made {calc}-style dimensions to the {textblock*} > argument work again. > * Override the figure and table environments within textblock > environments, to avoid their surprising and undesirable interaction > with textblock. i've installed the package as requested, and updated the catalogue. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: bibhtml 1.2b2
by CTAN Announcements 30 Aug '05

30 Aug '05

Norman Gray wrote: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: bibhtml 1.2b2 > Author's name: Norman Gray > Location on CTAN: biblio/bibtex/contrib/bibhtml (replacing current version) > Summary description: Use BibTeX to maintain HTML bibliographies > License type: gpl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Bibhtml consists of a Perl script and a BibTeX style > file, which together allow you to compile a bibliography for a > collection of HTML files. The references in the text are linked > directly to the corresponding bibliography entry, and if a URL is > defined in the entry within the BibTeX database file, then the > generated bibliography entry is linked to this. > > bibhtml 1.2b2 adds features, and fixes some bugs in 1.1 i've installed the files, and updated the catalogue. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN upload: runtex
by CTAN Announcements 30 Aug '05

30 Aug '05

On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Bernd Becker submitted a new package called runtex to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /support/runtex/runtex.zip Summary description: runs TeX or a variant and various utils if needed (windows) License type: pd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A Win32 program(me) that tries to guess the number of times - if you neglected to tell it how often - [pdf][e][La]TeX should be executed and which other utilities - currently makeindex, xindy, MetaPost, MetaFont, and BibTeX - if at all are run after the first TeX run. Temporary files will be deleted if nothing went wrong and you told it to. Not all the functionality got tested (don't use BibTeX or glossaries currently) but it ought to work if I haven't overlooked any bugs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- In addition, the source code is available as /support/runtex/runtex_src.zip Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the ANSI/POSIX C source code for runtex. As I use MinGW I don't know if the makefile does anything useful if run with MSVC, but I have my doubts. It shouldn't take too much effort to port it to unix if one wants to, but some ANSI/POSIX functions were defined differently by MS so it won't compile out of the box, sorry. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN upload: symbolindex
by CTAN Announcements 30 Aug '05

30 Aug '05

On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 Frédéric Holzmann submitted a new package called symbolindex to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/symbolindex Summary description: Generate a list of symbols with different subgroups License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This extension can be used irregardless of the platform. It defines a new command addsymbol[group]{symbol}{description} and the list of the symbols sorted by groups and symbols can be shown with listofsymbols It needs an additional software which works directly under Dos or must be recompiled with the source code: makesym file It will generate the pages to integrate at the place of listofsymbols. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN upload: semioneside package
by CTAN Announcements 30 Aug '05

30 Aug '05

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 Stephan Hennig submitted a new package called semioneside to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/exptl/semioneside/ Summary description: Put only special contents on left-hand pages in two sided layout. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package supports the preparation of semi one sided documents. That is, two sided documents, where all text is output on right-hand pages---like in one sided documents---and only special contents is output on left-hand pages on user request, e. g., floating objects. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: IEEEconf
by FTP archive maintainer 29 Aug '05

29 Aug '05

The package below has been updated on tug.ctan.org. The changes should soon make their way to your favorite mirror. Thanks for the update, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: IEEEconf Author's name: Scott Pakin Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/IEEEconf Summary description: Class file for IEEE Computer Society Press conference proceedings License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The IEEEconf class implements the formatting dictated by the IEEE Computer Society Press for conference proceedings (http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm). IEEEconf.cls replaces latex8.sty and latex8.bst. The goal was to produce a more faithful implementation of the formatting rules and to do so with cleaner LaTeX code than that provided by the latex8.* files. This update implements the newly revised IEEE Computer Society Press formatting guidelines. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/IEEEconf . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN package update: ushyphex
by FTP archive maintainer 29 Aug '05

29 Aug '05

Barbara Beeton has updated her master list of hyphenation exceptions for U.S. English. The updates to the list will appear in the forthcoming issue of TUGboat. The complete list, with plurals and other variants included, is now available on CTAN, in info/digests/tugboat: ushyphex.tex - the generated list, suitable for passing to TeX tb0hyf.tex - the source for the list hyphenex.sh - the (shell/sed) script which generates the former from the latter, courtesy of Werner Lemberg. If you actually try to input the list unaltered, you will find that it is currently over 1000 exceptions, which will overflow the limit in many distributions (e.g., TeX Live 2004). The default limit will be increased in future releases; meanwhile, for Web2C-based distributions, you can increase hyph_size in texmf.cnf (8191 is a good number). If any questions or problems, or you find additional exceptions are needed, please email tugboa (at) tug.org. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/digests/tugboat . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: movie15
by CTAN Announcements 29 Aug '05

29 Aug '05

On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 Alexander Grahn submitted an update to the movie15 package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/movie15 Summary description: multimedia inclusion package License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Embedded media data are now re-used as file attachments, giving the user the possibility to extract and save the media file to disk for later playback with an external media player. This makes PDF documents a little more portable to Readers which do not ship with a multimedia plugin but which support embedded file attachments, such as Un*x versions of Adobe Reader. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: byzfonts
by CTAN Announcements 29 Aug '05

29 Aug '05

On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 Ioannis A. Vamvakas submitted an update to the byzfonts package. Location on CTAN: /fonts/byzfonts License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tabulated Byzantine Music Symbols. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the updates. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: pdftex 1.30.2
by FTP archive maintainer 27 Aug '05

27 Aug '05

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon appear at your favorite mirror. Thank you for the contribution, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: pdftex 1.30.2 Author's name: Martin Schröder Location on CTAN: /systems/pdftex Summary description: fixed some build problems and minor bugs introduced in 1.30.1 License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- fixed some build problems and minor bugs introduced in 1.30.1 - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/pdftex . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: byzfonts 2
by CTAN Announcements 27 Aug '05

27 Aug '05

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 Ioannis A. Vamvakas submitted a new version of the pacakge byzfonts to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /fonts/byzfonts Summary description: This is a new version of the byzantine fonts License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- An improved version of 'byzfonts' with which one can typeset byzantine musical phrases. Byzantine music is the one used by the Greek Orthodox Church for her litourgical needs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: movie15
by CTAN Announcements 26 Aug '05

26 Aug '05

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 Alexander Grahn submitted an update to the movie15 package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/movie15 Summary description: multimedia inclusion package License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Bugfix: The poster option was broken due to a small bug. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: latexdiff
by CTAN Announcements 26 Aug '05

26 Aug '05

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 Frederik Tilmann submitted an update to the latexdiff package. Location on CTAN: /support/latexdiff Summary description: Determine and mark up significant differences between latex files License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- latexdiff is a Perl script, which compares two latex files and marks up significant differences between them (i.e. a diff for latex files). Various options are available for visual markup using standard latex packages such as color.sty. Changes not directly affecting visible text, for example in formatting commands, are still marked in the latex source. A rudimentary revision facilility is provided by another Perl script, latexrevise, which accepts or rejects all changes. Manual editing of the difference file can be used to override this default behaviour and accept or reject selected changes only. This is a significant update (from version 0.2 to 0.3). Major changes are the introduction of CVS support, and much improved reliability for inlined math, plus several bug fixes ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: flagderiv
by FTP archive maintainer 26 Aug '05

26 Aug '05

A new package has been installed at 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: flagderiv Author's name: Paul van Tilburg Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/flagderiv/ Summary description: Flag style derivation package License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- First stable release and release into CTAN of the flagderiv package used to create mathematical derivations using the flag/flagpole notation. This release features an intuitive command syntax, opening & closing multiple flagpoles, different comment styles, customizable symbols and label namespaces. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/flagderiv/ . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN has a new package: Bibliography Builder for FileMaker Pro 7
by FTP archive maintainer 25 Aug '05

25 Aug '05

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon appear at your favorite mirror. Thank you for the contribution, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: Bibliography Builder for FileMaker Pro 7 Author's name: Steven Harrod Location on CTAN: /biblio/bibtex/utils/BibBuild Summary description: BibTex compatible citation database, graphical interface License type: other Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This database will record your bibliography entries and any notes you have, and allow you to group them by project. Entries that are used in more than one project need only be entered once. The database will then format the entries into BibTex compatible files, and provide other handy references such as a short index of citiation names or a LaTeX format summary of notes. The database is written in FileMaker Pro 7 and requires that software. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/BibBuild . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: movie15
by CTAN Announcements 25 Aug '05

25 Aug '05

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 Alexander Grahn submitted an update to his movie15 package. 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: /macros/latex/contrib/movie15 Summary description: multimedia inclusion package License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This release reimplements the `mouse' option to includemovie. Playback of 2D media can now be paused and continued by clicking into and clicking outside the media. Following options to the inclusion command have been added: startat, stopat, palindrome, rate. All of the added options, including `mouse', require JavaScript to be enabled in Adobe Reader. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: BaKoMa TeX 7.37 - TeXWord and DVIEW improvements.
by CTAN Announcements 25 Aug '05

25 Aug '05

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Basil Malyshev submitted an update to the bakoma package. Location on CTAN: systems/win32/bakoma License: shareware Most noticeable improvements are: * `View|Figures/Bounding Boxes' option in TeXWord and DVIEW include new choose - `show only BBox', that is useful for editing (in TeXWord) document with complex PostScript figures. * TeXWord: Inline math is marked by ( ... ) instead of egin{math} ... end{math}. * TeXWord: Fixed hanging with amsart, amsbook document classes. * TeXWord: Refined spell check of words with ligatures (i.e. Times fonts). * Refined Compatibility with EPS saved from Adobe Illustrator 12 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 7.37 ------------------ > > BaKoMa TeX 7.37 supports two coexisting IDE: > 1) BaKoMa TeX Word - True WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor. > 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: dvisvgm
by CTAN Announcements 25 Aug '05

25 Aug '05

On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, 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. New feature in this release: Fonts that are not available as PFB files are now vectorized by tracing Metafont's bitmap output. This function is not perfect yet but already usable. Location on CTAN: /dviware/dvisvgm License type: gpl Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: verse package
by CTAN Announcements 25 Aug '05

25 Aug '05

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Peter Wilson submitted an update to the verse package to CTAN. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/verse/ Summary: The verse package is for typesetting verse/poems/etc. License: lppl Changes in version 2.22 (2005/08/22) o Improved compatability with hyperref. Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: ledmac and ledpar patches/updates
by CTAN Announcements 25 Aug '05

25 Aug '05

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Peter Wilson submitted updates to his packages ledmac and ledpar to CTAN. ledmac is a macro package for typesetting scholarly critical editions. The ledmac package is a LaTeX port of the plain TeX EDMAC macros. It supports indexing by page and line number and simple tabular- and array-style environments. Ledpar provides parallel-text typesetting (either in parallel columns, or on opposing pages), for the ledmac package. The patches (ledpatch v0.5 and ledparpatch v0.3) do: o Fix an error reporting problem in the ledpar package o Provide and improved algorithm for (un)locking line numbering o Provide commands for controlling whether sidenotes are aligned on their top or their bottom line. Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: elpres v0.3
by CTAN Announcements 25 Aug '05

25 Aug '05

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Volker Kiefel submitted an update to his package elpres to CTAN. Elpres is a simple class for electronic presentations to be shown on screen or a beamer. Elpres is derived from article.cls and may be used with LaTeX or pdfLaTeX. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/elpres/ License: lppl Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: dvi2bitmap 0.13
by CTAN Announcements 23 Aug '05

23 Aug '05

On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 Norman Gray submitted version 0.13 of his package dvi2bitmap to CTAN. dvi2bitmap is a utility to convert TeX DVI files directly to bitmaps, without going through the complicated (and slow!) route of conversion via PostScript and PNM. The prime motivation for this is to prepare mathematical equations for inclusion in HTML files but there are many other uses beyond that. It can generate XBM and GIF bitmaps, plus PNG, if you have the libpng library installed. It uses the same kpathsea font-searching library as other TeX programs, again as long as you have the appropriate library installed. The program is written in C++, and incidentally provides a good object interface for DVI and PK files. Location on CTAN: dviware/dvi2bitmap License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- New stable release. Mainly bugfix changes to 0.12, but the source has moved to sourceforge, requiring a number of build system tweaks. See also <dvi2bitmap.sourceforge.net> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN upload: endheads 1.0a
by CTAN Announcements 23 Aug '05

23 Aug '05

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 John Burt submitted a new package called endheads to CTAN. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Endheads provides running headers of the form Notes to pp. xx--yy for endnotes sections. It also enables one to reset the endnotes counter, and put a line marking the chapter change in the endnotes, at the beginning of every chapter. Endnotes requires fancyhdr, ifthen, and endnotes ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/endheads Summary description: Running headers of the form Notes to pp.xx-yy License type: lppl Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: acronym-1.20
by CTAN Announcements 21 Aug '05

21 Aug '05

On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Tobias Oetiker submitted version 1.20 of the acronym package. This package ensures that all acronyms used in the text are spelled out in full at least once. It also provides an environment to build a list of acronyms used. The package is compatible with pdf bookmarks. License: lppl Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/acronym/ Recent Changes: --------------------------------------------------- Version 1.20 (August 2005): make the acused command actually work -- Richard Walker Richard.Walker there cs.anu.edu.au Version 1.19 (April 2005): three new commands acused (set-used), acsu (adds to used), aclu (adds to used) -- Lee Netherton ltn100 there ohm.york.ac.uk Version 1.18 (April 2005): added additional format option for Full Name (acfi) -- Manuel Gortz mgoertz there kom.tu-darmstadt.de Version 1.17 (November 2004): added don't use acronyms (dua) option -- Oliver Creighton Version 1.16 (November 2004): fix version number -- Oliver Creighton <creighto there in.tum.de> new option to suppress all acronym printing -- don't use acronyms (dua) Version 1.16 (November 2004): fix version number -- tobi there oetiker.ch Version 1.15 (November 2004): fix for acresetall to work when ac is called ------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: fontools
by CTAN Announcements 21 Aug '05

21 Aug '05

On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 Marc Penninga submitted an update to the fontools package. 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. Location on CTAN: fonts/utilities/fontools Summary description: Tools to simplify using fonts (especially TrueType/OpenType ones). License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - A few bugfixes - Added support files for a new encoding that may be useful for use with OpenType fonts, since it contains much more empty slots (for alternate glyphs and additional ligatures) than LY1. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: PSTricks
by CTAN Announcements 20 Aug '05

20 Aug '05

On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 Herbert Voss submitted an update to the pstricks package. Location on CTAN: /graphics/pstricks/ Summary description: bugfix to the main pstricks package License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- pstricks.tex v.1.10 - fix bug with multips (spurious blank) (hv) - allow empty optional arrow argument psline[..]{}(2,2) - redefined psarc@iv for negative loops of ccircle - introduce new options shift and showgrid for the main pspicture environment ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: poemscol 2.36
by CTAN Announcements 20 Aug '05

20 Aug '05

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 John Burt uplodaed an update to the poemscol package. Poemscol.sty is a set of LaTeX macros for typesetting critical editions of poetry. Its features include automatic linenumbering, generation of separate endnotes sections for emendations, textual collations, and explanatory notes, special marking for cases in which page breaks occur during stanza breaks, running headers of the form ``Notes to pp. xx--yy''for the notes sections, index of titles and first lines, and automatic generation of table of contents. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/poemscol Summary description: macros for critical editions of verse and prose License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Poemscol 2.36 adds the ability to annotate prose texts by sentence and paragraph number. Notes made using this reference system are stable even if the edition is reset in a different format. Overlapping lemmas are supported. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: vhistory
by CTAN Announcements 20 Aug '05

20 Aug '05

On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 Jochen Wertenauer submitted an update to the vhistory package. Vhistory simplifies the creation of a history of versions of a document. You can easily extract informations like the current version of a list of authors from that history. It helps you to get consistent documents. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/vhistory Summary description: Minor upgrade of vhistory License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Minor upgrade: I changed the directory structure of the documentation to make it compliant to the TeX Live standard. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: gost BiBTeX styles
by CTAN Announcements 20 Aug '05

20 Aug '05

On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Maksym Polyakov submitted a bug fix release of the gost package to CTAN. It contains BibTeX styles to format bibliography in English, Russian and Ukrainian according to GOST 7.1-84 and GOST 7.80-00. License: LPPL Location on CTAN: biblio/bibtex/contrib/gost Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: xkeyval v2.5d
by CTAN Announcements 20 Aug '05

20 Aug '05

On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, Hendri Adriaens submitted version 2.5d of 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. Changes: ------------------------------------------ Added a missing filename@area in document class retrieval in xkeyval.sty ------------------------------------------ Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: CJK 4.6.0
by CTAN Announcements 12 Aug '05

12 Aug '05

On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Werner LEMBERG submitted version 4.6.0 of the CJK package to CTAN. Location on CTAN: language/chinese/CJK/4_6.0 > ====================================================================== > > > Version 4.6.0: new: > 11-Aug-2005 CJKutf8.sty merges basic LaTeX's and CJK's UTF-8 support. > See CJKutf8.doc for details. > > The two new macros Thaispace and Thainospace can be > used to control the EOL behaviour in Thai text blocks > if processed with cjk-enc.el. > > There are now scripts (for Unix) to call pdflatex > instead of latex: bg5pdflatex, sjispdflatex, etc.; > all scripts now pass parameters to latex (the program). > > New documentation files giving hints how to set up the > CJK package for optimal PDF output. > > New documentation file `reftex.doc' describing > customization for RefTeX (which is part of Emacs). > > CJKfntef.sty provides more font effects specific to > CJK scripts. See the example file CJKfntef.tex for > typical usage. > > * All .fdv-files have been renamed to use the suffix > * `.fdx' since they are no longer restricted to vertical > * writing direction. See the new file `fdxfiles.doc' > * for more information. > > changed: > All plain text documentation files now have the suffix > `.txt'. > > * Thai support has been improved. > * > * . Internally, the font creation process now uses > * fontinst to create the TFM files. As a consequence, > * virtual fonts are no longer necessary. > * > * . Due to an uncertain license, the `dbtt' font family > * has been replaced with `garuda', taken from > * thailatex version 0.3.5.1 which you can find at > * > * http://linux.thai.net/plone/TLWG/thailatex > * > * . The directory tree below `utils/thaifont' has been > * updated to reflect TDS 1.1, as supported by the > * forthcoming TeXLive 2005 and teTeX 3.0. > * > * Please replace all files related to Thai fonts in your > * TEXMF tree with the new fonts and font support files. > > * HLaTeX support has been updated to handle fonts from > * version 1.0.1---there are no longer MF source files, > * only PS fonts. Support for non-uhc fonts have been > * removed; you should upgrade to the latest HLaTeX font > * archives from CTAN. Please consult CJK.txt, section > * `Korean input', for the (slightly) changed font names of > * HLaTeX support. > > errors: > Some characters in Big 5 encoding disappeared without > a warning if pseudo-vertical writing was active. > > pinyin.sty: > Umlaut u with diacritc appeared bold. > > Umlaut u with macron above was broken. > > CJKulem.sty: > User-defined CJKglue value was ignored. > > Line breaks before a post-punctuation CJK glyph > weren't disabled when uline and friends were used. > > MULEenc.sty: > extordfeminine and extordmasculine were exchanged > if used with cjk-enc.el. > > contrib/wadalab/*.fdx: > Handle Hiragana-Katagana prolongation mark correctly. > > cjk-enc.el: > Multifile support was partially broken. > > CJKvert.sty: > Both CJKvert and CJKhorz had both local and global > effects. Now they are completely local. Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: arev
by CTAN Announcements 12 Aug '05

12 Aug '05

On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Stephen Hartke submitted an update to his arev font package. Location on CTAN: /fonts/arev Summary description: Type 1 fonts, virtual fonts, and LaTeX support files for Arev Sans License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package arev provides Type 1 fonts, virtual fonts, and LaTeX packages for using Arev Sans for both text and mathematics. Arev Sans is a derivative of Bitstream Vera Sans created by Tavmjong Bah by adding support for Greek and Cyrillic characters. Bah also added a few variant letters that are more appropriate for mathematics. The primary purpose for using Arev Sans in LaTeX is presentations, particularly when using a computer projector. Arev Sans is quite readable for presentations, with large x-height, open letters, wide spacing, and thick stems. The style is very similar to the SliTeX font lcmss, but heavier. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN upload: vhistory
by CTAN Announcements 12 Aug '05

12 Aug '05

On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Jochen Wertenauer submitted a new package called vhistory to CTAN. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/vhistory Summary description: vhistory helps you to create a change log. Use the package sets for set operations. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Vhistory simplifies the creation of a history of versions of a document. You can easily extract informations like the current version of a list of authors from that history. It helps you to get consistent documents. The package sets, which is used be vhistory, allowes you to use sets containing text. You can use the usual operations to union sets, intersect sets etc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Upload: elpres
by CTAN Announcements 12 Aug '05

12 Aug '05

On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Volker Kiefel submitted a new package elpres to CTAN. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/elpres License: lppl Short description: Elpres is a simple class for electronic presentations to be shown on screen or a beamer. Elpres is derived from article.cls and may be used with LaTeX or pdfLaTeX. ------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN upload: plnfss
by CTAN Announcements 12 Aug '05

12 Aug '05

On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, The Thanh Han submitted a new package called plnfss to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /macros/plain/plnfss Summary description: limited NFSS support for plain License type: dfsg Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- plnfss is a set of macros to provide easy font access (somewhat similar to NFSS but with some limitations) with plain tex. plnfss can automatically make use of PSNFSS fd files, ie when a postscript font is used the relevant fd file will be loaded automatically. For cmr-like fonts (ec, vnr, csr or plr fonts), a special format called pfd (plain fd) is required and must be loaded manually. See ot1cmr.pfd for further information. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package upload: dvisvgm
by FTP archive maintainer 10 Aug '05

10 Aug '05

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you for the contribution, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: dvisvgm Author's name: Martin Gieseking Location on CTAN: /dviware/dvisvgm Summary description: This utility converts DVI files to the Scalable Vector Graphics format (SVG) License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dvisvgm is a command line utility that converts TeX DVI files to the XML-based Scalable Vector Graphics format. The initial release 0.3 provides basic functionality that will be extended in future versions. You need a working TeX installation including the kpathsea library and Type 1 versions of the referenced fonts. dvisvgm was successfully tested with teTeX and MikTeX. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/dviware/dvisvgm . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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Re: CTAN upload notification: abbr
by CTAN Announcements 10 Aug '05

10 Aug '05

On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 The Thanh Han submitted a new package called abbr to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /macros/generic/abbr Summary description: a simple macro supporting abreviations for plain and latex License type: pd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- abbr is a set of some simple macros to support abbreviations in plain or latex. It allows writting e.g. <TEX> instead of TeX, hence frees users from having to escape space after parematerless macros. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: exteps
by FTP archive maintainer 10 Aug '05

10 Aug '05

A new package has been installed at 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: exteps Author's name: Palle Jørgensen Location on CTAN: /graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/exteps Summary description: Tool for inclusion of EPS figures into MetaPost figures. License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- exteps is a module for inclusion of external EPS figures into MetaPost figures. It is written solely in MetaPost, and whence does not require any post processing of the MetaPost output. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/exteps . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN has a new package: dottex
by FTP archive maintainer 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should by now have made its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: dottex Author's name: Lars Kotthoff Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/dottex Summary description: Create dot graphs within LaTeX License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dottex allows you to create dot graphs (part of the graphviz package http://www.graphviz.org, creates directed graphs) within LaTeX documents. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/dottex . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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tug.ctan.org upload: TpX
by FTP archive maintainer 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

A major package update has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to all other CTAN sites. Thank you for the update, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: TpX Author's name: Alexander Tsyplakov Location on CTAN: /graphics/tpx/ Summary description: TpX: A LaTeX-friendly drawing tool for Windows License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TpX 1.2 is on CTAN TpX is a lightweight, easy-to-use graphical editor for Windows platform for creation of drawings and inclusion them into LaTeX files in publication-ready form. It can also be used as a stand-alone editor for vector graphics. The output is a file (with extension .TpX) containing the drawing as LaTeX code or as an includegraphics link to an external file created by the program. User can choose between several output formats. TpX saves its own data in TeX file comments so that the drawing could be loaded into TpX and edited again. This internal TpX format is based on XML and could be understood and edited easily. TpX can import EMF/WMF pictures created by other Windows applications, including many applications producing scientific graphs. In most cases the result is nice, though sometimes imported picture needs some manual editing. So TpX can be used as a EMF-to-any converter. Homepage: http://tpx.sourceforge.net/ Distributed under GNU Public License - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/tpx/ . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN has a new package: arev
by FTP archive maintainer 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon appear, as if by magic, at your favorite mirror. Thank you for the contribution, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: arev Author's name: Stephen Hartke Location on CTAN: /fonts/arev Summary description: Virtual fonts and LaTeX support files for Arev Sans License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package arev provides virtual fonts and LaTeX packages for using Arev Sans. Arev Sans is a derivative of Bitstream Vera Sans created by Tavmjong Bah by adding support for Greek and Cyrillic characters. Bah also added a few variant letters that are more appropriate for mathematics. The primary purpose for using Arev Sans in LaTeX is presentations, particularly when using a computer projector. Arev Sans is quite readable for presentations, with large x-height, open letters, wide spacing, and thick stems. The style is very similar to the SliTeX font lcmss, but heavier. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/arev . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN has a new package: talk
by FTP archive maintainer 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org from whence it will go forth into the world -- and in particular to your favorite mirror -- real soon. Thanks for the contribution, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: talk Author's name: Martin Wiebusch Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/talk Summary description: A LaTeX class for presentations License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The talk document class allows you to create slides for screen presentations or printing on transparencies. It also allows you to print personal notes for your talk. You can create overlays and display structure information (current section / subsection, table of contents) on your slides. The main feature that distinguishes talk from other presentation classes like beamer or prosper is that it allows the user to define an arbitrary number of slide styles and switch between these styles from slide to slide. This way the slide layout can be adapted to the slide content. For example, the title or contents page of a talk can be given a slightly different layout than the other slides. The talk class makes no restrictions on the slide design whatsoever. The entire look and feel of the presentation can be defined by the user. The style definitions should be put in a separate sty file. Currently the package comes with only one set of pre-defined slide styles (greybars.sty). Contributions from people who are artistically more gifted than me are more than welcome! - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/talk . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN has a new package: volumes
by FTP archive maintainer 29 Jul '05

29 Jul '05

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks again. Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: volumes Author's name: Frank Küster Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/volumes Summary description: Typeset only parts of a document, with complete indices etc. License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package tries to help you if you want to produce separate printed volumes from one LaTeX document, as well as one comprehensive, all-inclusive version. It suppresses the part of the table of contents that are not typeset, while counters, definitions, index entries etc. are kept consistent throughout the input file. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/volumes . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: BaKoMa TeX 7.36 - TeXWord and DVIEW improvements.
by CTAN Announcements 29 Jul '05

29 Jul '05

On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Basil Malyshev submitted an update for the bakoma package. Location on CTAN: systems/win32/bakoma License: shareware Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf > Most noticeable improvements are: > > * Instant update of source text window in TeXWord. > [problem remarked in `bakoma micro-review' in comp.text.tex] > * Changed default of hash_extra from 0 to 10000 in order > to support more packages (i.e. beamer) > without additional configuration. > * Remove selected text at entering letters in source text window. > * Fixed bug in DVI Forward/Inverse Search in Math (DVIEW). > * Fixed erasepage in View/Orientation = landscape (TeXWord). > * Support of clipsave/cliprestore Postscript Level 3 operators. > > 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 7.36 ------------------ > > BaKoMa TeX 7.36 supports two coexisting IDE: > 1) BaKoMa TeX Word - True WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor. > 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/> >

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New CTAN package: pst-barcode
by CTAN Announcements 28 Jul '05

28 Jul '05

Herbert Voß writes: > Authors: Terry Burton and Herbert Voß > > pst-barcode is a new package which allows > printing of barcodes. > Possible barcodes are: > isbn; ean13; ean8; ean5; ean2; upca; upce; code128; > code93; code39; code11; interleaved2of5; code2of5; > rationalizedCodabar; postnet; royalmail; msi; plessey. > > As part of the PSTricks bundle, it requires the main > pstricks package. pst-barcode uses PostScript for > calculating the bars. For a PDF output use ps2pdf. the package was installed this morning, so will already be available from the other ctan sites, and many mirrors. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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New CTAN package: flowfram
by CTAN Announcements 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

> An upload to cam.ctan.org is in /anfs/ctan-inc/upload-20050727-162648/ > > ====================================================================== > > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: flowfram > Author's name: Nicola Talbot > Author's email: ... > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/flowfram > Summary description: Create text frames for posters, brochures or magazines > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The flowfram package is designed to enable you to create > frames in a document such that the contents of the document > environment flow from one frame to the next in the order in which > they were defined. This is useful for creating posters, brochures > or magazines or any other form of document that does not conform to > the standard one or two column layout. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > You can have a look at the package at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/flowfram/ > or download the whole thing via > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/flowfram.zip i've installed the package at cambridge: it should be at the other two main ctan sites pretty soon. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: pdfbook
by FTP archive maintainer 26 Jul '05

26 Jul '05

A new package has been installed at 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: pdfbook Author's name: Jaap Eldering Location on CTAN: /support/pdfbook Summary description: Rearrange pages for booklet printing License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Rearrange pages in a PDF file into signatures and (optionally) rescale to fit 2 original pages on 1 physical one. Allows one to easily convert pdf documents to booklet format, e.g. transform from A4 paper to A5 pages on A4 paper, such that one can fold the pages and obtains a small booklet. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/pdfbook . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN TUG node has a new look
by FTP archive maintainer 23 Jul '05

23 Jul '05

The TeX Users Group branch of the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network http://tug.ctan.org has a new web interface. When you visit you will notice a new look, including a wonderful drawing by Duane Bibby. You will also notice an improved organization: directory browsing now includes more information about packages, an introduction for newbies to TeX is right up front, and there is a way to search all package documentation. Many more features will come online in the future. For example, we will have a keyword search of packages, but as yet the packages do not have keywords, so that search is disabled for the moment. Another example is that we will have a more sophisticated upload facility, that for one thing allows authors to enter keywords for their package. There are also some incomplete links, etc. We are working on these features, but rather than wait longer, now is the right time to bring this new system online -- for one thing, the functioning features are already an improvement over what was there. These improvements would not be possible without the support of the user groups, including Dante's travel support for three maintainer's meetings and TUG's purchase of a new site machine with increased power. We gratefully acknowledge that without this support by user groups, this development would not have happened. No doubt people will find bugs, and have comments and feature requests. In particular, the first few days might be rocky :-} We apologize for shortcomings and thank you for your patience. We have set up a mailing list for discussion of this project; see https://lists.dante.de/mailman/listinfo/ctanweb/ . Because archives of this list are available for public viewing you can see if there has already been a discussion of the point. Finally, note that the web interface to other two CTAN core nodes http://www.cam.ctan.org and http://dante.ctan.org/ remain stable throughout this change. Also stable are the FTP and rsync interfaces to all three sites, and of course all of our mirrors. Thank you, Jim Hefferon, for the CTAN team

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CTAN update: poemscol 2.35
by CTAN Announcements 20 Jul '05

20 Jul '05

On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, John Burt submitted an update to the poemscol package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/poemscol Summary description: Macros for typesetting critical editions of poetry License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Poemscol 2.35 provides easier ways of handling long titles of poems and of volumes in a collected poems, in the main text as well as in the table of contents. It also provides simpler ways of customizing the table of contents. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: floatrow v0.1g
by CTAN Announcements 19 Jul '05

19 Jul '05

On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Olga Lapko submitted an update to the floatrow package. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/floatrow Summary description: Customising layouts for floating environments License type: lppl Abstract: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The floatrow package provides many ways to customise layouts of floating environments; it offers possibilities to put floats side by side, to put caption beside float. All floats of one type appear in one layout. Some floatrow settings could be expanded to rows of subfloats (subfig package). Package co-operates with caption 3.x package. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes: - Moving user documentation in the same file with style code; - The support of NON-caption3.x usage ceased; - Redefinitions of any float/caption stuff localized: used inside supported float environments only; - floatrow package tries to follow support for hyperref/hypcap packages, created by caption3.x (now 3.0g) package; - Support for subfloatrow environment (subfig package) moved inside floatrow package; - Added option for longtable which allows to set width of caption equal to table width; ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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