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CTAN has a new package: chessfss
by Jim Hefferon 05 Apr '05

05 Apr '05

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thank you for the contribution, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: chessfss Author's name: Ulrike Fischer Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/chessfss Summary description: a package to handle chess fonts License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package offers commands to use and switch between chess fonts. It use the LaTeX font selection scheme (nfss). The package doesn't parse, format and print PGN input like e.g. the packages skak or texmate. The aim of the package is to offer writers of chess packages a bundle of commands for fonts, so that they don't have to implement all this commands for themselves. A normal user can use the package to print e.g. single chess symbols and simple diagrams. The documentation contains also a section about installation of chess fonts. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/chessfss 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: Formatting Information v3.6
by Jim Hefferon 04 Apr '05

04 Apr '05

The package described below 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: Formatting Information v3.6 Author's name: Peter Flynn Location on CTAN: /info/beginlatex Summary description: New edition of the document License type: gpdl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a revised edition (v3.6) of Formatting Information (the document formerly known as Beginning LaTeX) in PDF (275pp) and HTML. Source is included. License is GPDL. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/beginlatex 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: preview-latex 0.9.1
by CTAN Announcements 03 Apr '05

03 Apr '05

On Sun, 3 Apr 2005, David Kastrup uploaded a new version of preview-latex to CTAN. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/preview, support/preview-latex License: gpl Here are the release notes: > Release notes for version 0.9.1 of the preview-latex package: > > preview-latex makes LaTeX a tightly integrated component of your > editing workflow by visualizing selected source chunks (such as single > formulas or graphics) directly as images in the source buffer. > You get to have your eye candy and edit it, too. > > The employed style file preview.sty is independently useful for > extraction of selected text elements as images. > > The package is released under the GNU Public License (GPL) and can be > downloaded from <URL:ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/auctex/> as a tarball > or as RPM files. At the current point of time, at least GNU > Emacs-21.3 under the X window system or XEmacs-21 in version 21.4.10 > or later, AUCTeX (11.51 or later required for PDF support), a working > LaTeX installation and GhostScript are required. dvipng[1] (version > 1.4 or later: teTeX-3.0 works, TeXlive2004 not), a very fast dvi > converter, can be used to speed up the conversion. For Windows[2], > MacOS Carbon[3] or native GTK+ toolkit support[4], a developer > version[5] of GNU Emacs (to be released as 22.1) is definitely > required; for other platforms, use of it is advantageous. > > The installation procedure has been further improved: more > configurations should now be detected automatically. It is strongly > recommended that you remove any previous installation before > installing this version to avoid keeping conflicting or unnecessary > files. In particular version 0.9 has been known to install into > strange (but working) places at times and will likely render later > installed versions inoperative. > > The quality of multibyte and image support in the current > implementations and the responsiveness of the developers to problem > reports does not recommend the use of XEmacs at the current point of > time. > > The encoding support of preview-latex has been refined: the run buffer > will now yield readable output again in most situations where it can > be reasonably expected to do so. > > The installation no longer requires Makeinfo or Perl as long as you > don't touch source files: precompiled documentation is included in the > distribution by default and no longer available as a separate archive. > > The README file provides adequate information for firing up > preinstalled distributions, and pointers how to provide feedback. The > INSTALL file contains a special section with advice for package > providers. There is also a file INSTALL.windows detailing > instructions for users of that operating system. > > preview-latex has now been moved into the AUCTeX project. As a > consequence, its web site has become > <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/#preview-latex>, the project > page (with browsable CVS repository) is that of AUCTeX at > <URL:http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/auctex>. Starting with release > 11.80, preview-latex will come bundled with AUCTeX. > > If you can spare the time, you can also comment on or rate this > project at <URL:http://freshmeat.net/projects/preview-latex>. > > Paypal donations to the maintainer are possible directly or via > SourceForge. > > Footnotes: > [1] dvipng is currently available via its current project page > <URL:http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/dvipng> and from CTAN. > > [2] You can get a precompiled version of CVS Emacs for Windows at > <URL:http://nqmacs.sourceforge.net>. > > [3] <URL:http://members.shaw.ca/akochoi-emacs/stories/faq.html> > contains build instructions. > > [4] For Debian, precompiled GTK+ Emacs packages can be found at > <URL:http://sadleder.de/debian/>, for Fedora at > <URL:http://people.redhat.com/petersen/emacs/>. > > [5] If making use of the precompiled variants is not an option for > you, instructions for checking out the CVS version straight from the > GNU's mouth can be found at > <URL:http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=emacs> Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN submission --- hieroglf bundle
by CTAN Announcements 03 Apr '05

03 Apr '05

Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded hieroglf.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use this to > replace the current fonts/archaic/hieroglf. > > >From the README: > The hieroglf bundle provides a Postscript Type1 version of about 80 > Egyptian Hieroglyphs, plus code for typesetting cartouches and > transliteration. The bundle is not for serious Egyptologists. > > Changes in version 1.3 (2005/04/02) > o Font supplied as Type1 instead of Metafont thanks for the upload; i've installed the files as requested. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN submission --- oands bundle
by CTAN Announcements 03 Apr '05

03 Apr '05

Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded oands.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use this to replace > the current fonts/archaic/oands. > > >From the README > The oands bundle provides a Postscript Type1 version of some odd > characters used in transliterating ancient scripts. The bundle is part of a > series for archaic scripts. > > Changes in version 1.1 (2005/04/02) > o Font supplied as Type1 instead of Metafont > o Improved glottal stop glyph thanks for the upload; i've installed the files as requested. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN submission --- sqrcaps bundle
by CTAN Announcements 02 Apr '05

02 Apr '05

Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded sqrcaps.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use this to > replace the current fonts/bookhands/sqrcaps. > > >From the README > The sqrcaps bundle provides packages and fonts for a script based on the > Square Capitals manuscript bookhand used from the 1st century AD. The bundle > is one of a series for bookhand scripts. > > Changes in version 1.1 (2005/03/31) > o Fonts supplied as Postscript Type1 instead of MetaFont thanks for the upload; i've installed the files as requested. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN submission --- runic bundle
by CTAN Announcements 02 Apr '05

02 Apr '05

Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded runic.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use this to replace > the current contents of fonts/archaic/runic. > > >From the README > The runic bundle provides font and packages for the Anglo-Saxon futharc > script, used in England until just after printing was established. The > bundle is one of a series for archaic scripts. > > Changes in version 1.1 (2005/03/31) > o Font supplied as Postscript Type1 instead of MetaFont. thanks for the upload; i've installed the files as requested. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN upload: nag
by CTAN Announcements 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 Ulrich M. Schwarz submitted a new package nag to CTAN. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/nag/ Summary description: Detecting and warning about obsolete commands License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Old habits die hard. All the same, there are commands, classes and packages which are outdated and superseded. nag provides routines to warn the user about the use of those. As an example, we provide an extension that detects many of the ``sins'' described in l2tabu. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: xkeyval v2.4 and extract v1.7
by CTAN Announcements 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Hendri Adriaens submitted new versions of xkeyval and extract to CTAN. The xkeyval 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 ------------------------------------------------------ xkeyval v2.4 ------------------------------------------------------ 1) Added `default value' column to xkvview tables. 2) Added nesting protection for internal conditionals. 3) Changed define@boolkey to have an explicit key function. 4) Extended boolean keys. 5) Extended choice keys. 6) Inserted pst-xkey in xkeyval source. 7) Removed command keys. 8) Revised documentation and examples. 9) Simplified some code. 10) Updated xkvview. 11) Solved small bug related to XKV@rm. 12) Redid XKV@wh@list without using groups. The extract package provides the means to extract specific content from a source document and write that to a target document. One could, for instance, use this to extract all exercises from lecture notes and generate an exercises book on the fly. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/extract License: LPPL ------------------------------------------------------ extract v1.7 ------------------------------------------------------ 1) Revised documentation. 2) Solved small bug with the `no-header' option. ------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the updates. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: stdpage
by CTAN Announcements 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 Georg Verweyen submitted version 0.6 of the package stdpage to CTAN. For translations, proofreading, journal contributions etc. standard pages are used. Those standard pages consist of a fixed number of lines and characters per line. This package produces pages with n lines of at most m characters each. For instance the German Normseite: 60 lines of 30 characters each. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/stdpage License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I fixed /several/ serious bugs and added a new option which creates the real-typewriter-look(tm). The package now comes with a testfile to try the options easiely. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN submission --- ledpar package updates
by CTAN Announcements 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded ledfixes.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use the contents > of this (ledpar.(dtx|pdf) and README) to replace the corresponding files in > macros/latex/contrib/ledmac. > > Changes in ledpar v0.3a (2005/03/30) > o Fix for line number margins when setting parallel texts. i've installed the files as requested. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: outlines
by Jim Hefferon 30 Mar '05

30 Mar '05

A new package has appeared on tug.ctan.org and should spread to your favorite mirror within a day or two. Thanks for the contribution, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: outlines Author's name: Charles Pecheur Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/outlines Summary description: An environment for outline-style indented lists with freely mixed levels. License type: pd Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The outlines package - - ---------------------- Charles Pecheur, March 25, 2005 The outlines package defines the outline environment, that allows outline-style indented lists with freely mixed levels up to four levels deep. It replaces the nested begin/end pairs by different item tags 1 to 4 for each nesting level. This is very convenient in cases where nested lists are used a lot, such as for to-do lists or presentation slides. This package is built on top of the standard list environments and has no specific pre-requisite. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive//macros/latex/contrib 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: IEEEconf
by Jim Hefferon 30 Mar '05

30 Mar '05

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should by now have found 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: IEEEconf Author's name: Scott Pakin Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/IEEEconf/ Summary description: Class for typesetting IEEE Computer Society Press conference papers 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 (v1.2) improves the formatting of the author blocks, laying them out in a more aesthetic manner. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/IEEEconf/ 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
by CTAN Announcements 30 Mar '05

30 Mar '05

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 John Burt submitted version 2.22 of the poemscol package to CTAN. 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 License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This upgrade to poemscol adds multilevel footnotes, ability to define new kinds of endnote, crossreferencing by line, and easier customization. Removes dependence upon marn.sty ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: TeXshade v1.10
by CTAN Announcements 30 Mar '05

30 Mar '05

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 Eric Beitz submitted a new version of texshade to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/texshade/ Summary description: Update of the DNA and protein sequence alignment LaTeX package TeXshade License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is an update of the DNA and protein alignment shading package TeXshade (v1.10). Major changes are: The plotting speed of bar graphs and color scales along the alignment has been massively accelerated, a new feature style 'restriction' has been implemented as well as more color definitions, a new labeling mode 'tint' has been introduced. Bugs were fixed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN upload notification: bmeps-1.2.4
by CTAN Announcements 30 Mar '05

30 Mar '05

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 Dirk Krause submitted version 1.2.4 of bmeps to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /support/bmeps Summary description: Converter from PNG/JPEG/NetPBM to EPS License type: bsd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- License change and bugfix. The project uses a BSD-style license now. After successfully processing a NetPBM file the program did not set the exit status code to indicate success. This is fixed now. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: latexMP
by CTAN Announcements 30 Mar '05

30 Mar '05

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 Jens-Uwe Morawski submitted versiopn 1.2.0 of latexmp to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/latexmp/ Summary description: LaTeX based typesetting in MetaPost License type: pd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This update keeps the MP prologues variable untouched. Furthermore, the compatibility with MPs btex..etex has been improved. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN submission --- Updated ccaption package
by CTAN Announcements 30 Mar '05

30 Mar '05

Peter Wilson writes: > I have just uploaded ccaption.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use this to > replace the current macros/latex/contrib/ccaption. > > Changes in ccaption v3.2a (2005/03/29) > o Fixed a labelling problem with bilingual captions i've installed the new version as requested; thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN submission --- Proto-Semitic font
by CTAN Announcements 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

Peter Wilson writes@ > I have uploaded protosem.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use this > to replace the current fonts/archaic/protosem. The distribution is > under the LPPL. > > >From the README: > The protosem package provides fonts for the Proto-Semitic script in use > about 1600BC, and which may be a very early ancestor of many of the world's > alphabets. Files for using the font with LaTeX are also included. This is > one of a series of archaic script fonts. > > Changes in version 1.2 (2005/03/18) > o Font supplied as Postscript Type 1 instead of MetaFont. I've installed the files as requested. thanks for the upload. > A SPECIAL REQUEST TO FONT EXPERTS: This is my first attempt at producing > a Type 1 font from one of my original MetaFont sources. I would be very > grateful if you could check this out and let me have any suggestions before > I tackle the other fonts in the set. > > On a Linux box I used mftrace and FontForge to go from MetaFont *.mf to > T1 *.afm & *.pfb files. I tried afm2pfb to get a *.pfb file but the program > stopped with a segmentation fault. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN submission --- ledmac package extensions
by CTAN Announcements 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

Peter Wilson writes: > I am uploading ledmac.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use this to > replace the current macros/latex/contrib/ledmac. The distribution is > under the LPPL. > > >From the README: > The ledmac package is for typesetting critical editions and is a LaTeX > port, and extension, of the plain TeX EDMAC, TABMAC and EDSTANZA macros. The > ledpar package is an extension of ledmac enabling parallel typesetting in > columns or on facing pages. The ledarab package is a further extension > enabling the use of arab script, as implemented by ArabTeX, in critical > editions (temporarily afoot.sty is provided to support regular footnotes in > ArabTeX). > > Changes: > o First public release of ledarab (v0.1) > o ledpar (v0.3) and ledmac (v0.7) reorganized and recoded to improve > efficiency and support ledarab. i've installed the upload as requested; thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN submission --- docmfp package update
by CTAN Announcements 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded docmfp.tar.gz.2nd to UK incoming (upload of > docmfp.tar.gz failed with a timeout). Please use this to replace the current > macros/latex/contrib/docmfp. The distribution is under the LPPL. > > >From the README: > The package extends the doc package to cater for documenting non-LaTeX > code, such as Metafont or Metapost, or even C or Java code. > > Changes in this version: > o Corrected minor typos. i've installed the package as requested; thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: xcolor 2.02
by CTAN Announcements 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 Uwe Lück uploaded version 2.02 of the package xcolor to CTAN. Xcolor provides easy driver-independent access to several kinds of color tints, shades, tones, and mixes of arbitrary colors. It allows a user to select a document-wide target color model and offers complete tools for conversion between eight color models. Additionally, there is a command for alternating row colors plus repeated non-aligned material (like horizontal lines) in tables. Colors can be mixed like color{red!30!green!40!blue}. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/xcolor/ Summary description: Driver-independent color extensions for LaTeX and pdfLaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2005/03/24 v2.02 * New features: - aftergroupedef command to reproduce aftergroupdef's behaviour prior to v2.01; - xcolor's homepage www.ukern.de/tex/xcolor.html now provides also a ready-to-run TDS-compliant archive containing all required files. * Changes: - owcolors and friends are solely enabled by the `table' option; - @ifxempty changed back to more robust variant of v2.00. * Bugfixes: - psset{linecolor=ifcasefoo redor greenor bluefi} did not work with `pstricks' (error introduced in v2.01). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: microtype
by Jim Hefferon 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

The package described below 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: microtype Author's name: R Schlicht Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/microtype Summary description: An interface to the micro-typographic extensions of pdfTeX License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes in version 1.7: * Possibility to specify ranges of font sizes in the set declarations and protrusion/expansion settings * Always take font size into account when trying to find protrusion/expansion settings * New command LoadMicroTypeFile to manually load a font configuration file * New option `verbose=errors' to turn all warnings into errors * Compatibility with the `chemsym' and `statex' packages * Disable expansion inside showhyphens * Warning when running in draft mode * Hook for font package authors - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/microtype 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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Re: cam.ctan.org upload: Feyn
by CTAN Announcements 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

Norman Gray, through the oracular source http://www.tex.ac.uk/upload, writes: > An upload to cam.ctan.org is in /anfs/ctan-inc/upload-20050324-123949/ > > ====================================================================== > > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: Feyn > Author's name: Norman Gray > Location on CTAN: fonts/feyn (replacing current contents) > Summary description: A Metafont for Feynman diagrams > License type: gpl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The Feyn font can be used to produce relatively simple Feynman > diagrams within equations in a LaTeX document. > > Version 0.2 is a substantially restructured release, now with arrows > integrated into the majority of the characters, and with annotation > (with momenta) easier than before. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thanks for the upload; i've installed the files as requested. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN submission --- Updated ccaption package
by CTAN Announcements 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded ccaption.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use this to > replace the current macros/latex/contrib/ccaption. The distribution is under > the LPPL. > > >From the README: > The ccaption package provides commands for `continuation captions', > unnumbered captions and legends. Methods are provided to define captions for > use outside float environments, and to define new float environments and > subfloats. Tools are provided for defining your own captioning styles. > > Changes in version 3.2 (2005/03/21) > o New commands for bilingual captions in longtables. i've installed the revised package as requested: thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN submission --- Updated booklet package
by CTAN Announcements 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded booklet.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use this to > replace the current macros/latex/contrib/booklet. The distribution is under > the LPPL. > > >From the README: > booklet provides some aids for printing simple booklets or signatures > for longer books. > > Changes in version 0.7 (2005/03/23) > o Cleaner interface with the memoir class i've installed the replaced package as requested: thanks for the upload Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN submission --- Updated mempatch.sty --- fixes for memoir class
by CTAN Announcements 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '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 > > This version stops packages used with the memoir class from whinging about > the ifpdf package. i've installed the file as required; thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: cam.ctan.org upload: Textpos
by CTAN Announcements 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

Norman Gray spake, through the medium of http://www.tex.ac.uk/upload, thus: > ====================================================================== > > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: Textpos > Author's name: Norman Gray > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/textpos > Summary description: Provides absolute positioning of text on the LaTeX page > License type: gpl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Version 1.5 implements a TPMargin command, which causes a margin to > appear round the blocks of text within textblock environments. This makes it > easy to use blocks of colour which are larger than the block of text by a > decent margin, or to put a border round textblocks by setting a suitably- > sized margin and using the showboxes package option. > > This is a long-overdue implementation of a feature-request. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i've installed the new version here at cambridge, as suggested. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: breakurl
by Jim Hefferon 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

This package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should within a day or two make its way to your preferred mirror. Thanks for the update, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: breakurl 0.03 Author's name: Vilar Camara Neto Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/breakurl Summary description: The breakurl is an extension to hyperref package that allows line-breakable url-like links when compiling via latex + dvips + ps2pdf. License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This version corrects a bug that prevented the use of the pdfeTeX engine (which is the default for some teTeX distributions). Also, there's a new package option, `vertfit', which controls the behaviour of the link rectangle's height (and depth). - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/breakurl 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: DTK book reviews
by CTAN Announcements 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Juergen Fenn uploaded four PDFs with book reviews that were published in DANTE's journal Die Technische Komödie (DTK) in 2004: > dtk_jetztlerne.pdf > Markus Kohm: > Jetzt lerne ich LaTeX2e von Thomas Demmig > DTK 1/2004, S. 61--67. > > Zilm_Das_Einsteigerseminar.pdf > Christian Faulhammer und David Kastrup: > LaTeX -- Das Einsteigerseminar von Thorsten Zilm > DTK 3/2004, S. 51--57. > > Wilms_LaTeX_echt_einfach.pdf > Blandyna Bogdol und Christian Faulhammer: > LaTeX echt einfach (3. Aufl.) von Roland Willms > DTK 3/2004, S. 57--62. > > Niedermair_Praxisbuch.pdf > Juergen Fenn und David Kastrup: > LaTeX. Das Praxisbuch von Elke und Michael Niedermair > DTK 4/2004, S. 45--51. Location on CTAN: digests/dtk/book_reviews/ License: unknown Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: breakurl
by Jim Hefferon 22 Mar '05

22 Mar '05

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and by now should have made its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks for the package, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: breakurl Author's name: Vilar Camara Neto Version: 0.02 Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/breakurl Summary description: The breakurl is an extension to hyperref package that allows line-breakable url-like links when compiling via latex + dvips + ps2pdf. License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This version adds two main benefits to the initial release: * Contiguous link segments are now condensed into only one clickable rectangle, allowing the use of link borders; * The user can now enable line breaks after hyphens. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/breakurl 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: eso-pic v1.1b
by CTAN Announcements 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 Rolf Niepraschk uploaded eso-pic v1.1b, a package to add picture commands or backgrounds to every page. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/eso-pic License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This version adds the new package options texcoord and pscoord and the picture command AtPageLowerLeft. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: Latin Modern 0.982
by CTAN Announcements 19 Mar '05

19 Mar '05

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Staszek Wawrykiewicz uploaded version 0.982 of the Latin Modern font family to CTAN. Authors: JNSteam License: GPL Location on CTAN: fonts/fm Note that the directory contains an extra file lm0982mt1.zip, containing fonts sources for MetaType1. > The Latin Modern family of fonts is based on the Computer Modern fonts > in the PostScript Type 1 format, released into public domain by the > American Mathematical Society. The fonts, as compared to the CM family, > contain a lot of additional characters, mainly accented ones, but not only. > The current distribution contains: > Latin Modern fonts in the PostScript Type 1 and OpenType formats, > source files for MetaType1 plus all requisites for using the fonts with > TeX/pdfTeX; there is one set of PostScript fonts and five sets of TeX Font > Metric files, corresponding to: > -- EC (Cork) encoding (ec-*.tfm), > -- QX encoding (qx-*.tfm), > -- TeX'n'ANSI aka LY1 encoding (texnansi-*.tfm), > -- T5 (Vietnamese) encoding (t5-*.tfm), > -- Text Companion for EC fonts aka TS1 (ts1-*.tfm). > LaTeX *.sty and *.fd files were also added plus a few test files. > Most important recent changes concerned the addition of Vietnamese > characters and the dvips support for the substitution for CM, CS, PL, > and VN fonts. The current release (version 0.982) was revised and corrected > after EuroTeX2005. Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: pdfrack
by Jim Hefferon 19 Mar '05

19 Mar '05

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon appear on your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: pdfrack Author's name: Marc Boyer Location on CTAN: /support/pdfrack Summary description: A hack for using psfrag and pdflatex License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A hack for using psfrag and pdflatex (Unix only). - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/pdfrack 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: TeXmate
by Jim Hefferon 19 Mar '05

19 Mar '05

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thank you for the package, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: TeXmate Author's name: Federico Garcia Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/texmate Summary description: Comprehensive Chess Annotation in LaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TeXmate formats chess games from very simple ascii input. The clean 1. e4 e5; 2. Nf3 Nc6; 3. Bb5 a6 will produce the same results as the sloppier 1 e4 e5; Nf3 Nc6 3.. Bb5 a6. The resulting format is fully customizable. There are 4 levels of commentary: 1 is the main game, 2-3 are commentaries. Each has its fonts, punctuation marks, etc., and these are also customizable. The package includes a tool for the creation of diagrams. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/texmate 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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footmisc package: bug fix
by CTAN Announcements 17 Mar '05

17 Mar '05

a user reported on comp.text.tex that the footmisc para option produced overflow errors on very wide pages (such as those used by the a0poster class). the new version of the footmisc package uses e-tex facilities, if they're available, to replace the previously vulnerable code (the bug is still there, for latex systems not built using e-tex). Robin Fairbairns (in personal capacity)

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CTAN package update: LaTeXPiX
by Jim Hefferon 16 Mar '05

16 Mar '05

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: LaTeXPiX Author's name: N.J.H.M. van Beurden Location on CTAN: /As is Summary description: As is License type: nosource Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The sixteenth CTAN release has the following improvements: * Shifting of scrollbars from the main menu did not work. Added mousewheel support to scroll the canvas vertically. * Preview of PGF drawings by using PDFLaTeX is now possible. * Added more support for PGF: plain/shaded/color polygons, Bezier curves and arrows. * Coordinate editing added (CTRL+F2). * Transferred cm/inch selection to toolbar. * Added log file viewing of output preview. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/latexpix 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: complexity
by Jim Hefferon 16 Mar '05

16 Mar '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: complexity Author's name: Chris Bourke Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/complexity Summary description: complexity is a LaTeX package that defines commands to typeset Computational Complexity Classes such as $P$ and $NP$ (as well as hundreds of others). License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- complexity is a LaTeX package that defines commands to typeset Computational Complexity Classes such as $P$ and $NP$ (as well as hundreds of others). It also offers several options including which font classes are typeset in and how many are defined (all of them or just the basic, most commonly used ones). No dependencies other than the standard ifthen package. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/complexity 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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Re: msg package update V 0.31
by CTAN Announcements 16 Mar '05

16 Mar '05

Bernard Gaulle writes: > I 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 0.31 mods: added a noop option and a user's guide thanks for the upload. i've installed it in cambridge, and triggered mirroring. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: xcolor 2.01
by CTAN Announcements 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 Uwe Kern submitted version 2.01 of his xcolor package to CTAN. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/xcolor/ Summary description: Driver-independent color extensions for LaTeX and pdfLaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2005/03/15 v2.01 * New features: - `prologue' option for comprehensive `named' color support in conjunction with `dvips': on-the-fly generation of PostScript prologue files with all color definitions, ready for dvips inclusion and/or post-processing with device-specific parameters (e.g., spot colors); - dvips prologue file xcolor.pro to support additional `named' colors; - colorlet may now also be used to create named colors from arbitrary color expressions; - enhanced color definition syntax to allow for target-model specific color parameters, e.g. definecolor{red}{rgb/cmyk}{1,0,0/0,1,1,0}, facilitating the usage of tailor-made colors both for displays and printers; - `deferred definition' of colors: preparecolor and definecolors enable decoupling of color specification and control sequence generation, especially useful (= memory saving) for large lists of colors, of which only a few names are actually used; - `dvipsnames*' and `svgnames*' options to support deferred definition. * Changes: - higher accuracy: most complement calculations are now exact for all 5-digit decimals; - angeRGB and similar variables may now be changed at any point in a document; - aftergroupdef now performs only a first-level expansion of its code argument; - XCfileversion and similar internal constants removed from .sty and .def files; - improved memory management (reduced generation of `multiletter control sequences' by @ifundefined tests); - several internal macros improved and/or renamed. * Bugfixes: - XC@getcolor could cause unwanted spaces when psset was used inside |pspicture| environments (`pstricks'); - arithmetic overflow could happen when too many decimal digits were used within color parameters, e.g. as a result of `fp' calculations. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: BaKoMa TeX 7.10 - e-TeX for TeXWord - WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor.
by CTAN Announcements 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Basil Malyshev submitted an update to his bakoma package to CTAN. Location on CTAN: nonfree/systems/win32/bakoma > New version works with improved implementation of e-TeX > which supports following: > > 1) BaKoMa TeX Word -- True WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor; > 2) Dynamical Preview with support of dual caret; > 3) DVI Forward/Reverse Search with character precision positioning; > 4) E option at TeX error brings to proper column of source; > 5) Automatical generation of BB-files for imported graphics; > 6) TCX tables; > 7) It is based on TeX version 3.141592 (instead of 3.14159). > > See also: > <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/etex.html> > > More details about changes see at: > <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes7.html> > > Bye. > Basil K. Malyshev > 14-Mar-2005 > > > -------------------- About BaKoMa TeX 7.10 ------------------ > > BaKoMa TeX 7.10 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 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 upload: lshort-bulgarian
by CTAN Announcements 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 Stefka Karakoleva submitted to CTAN the bulgarian translation of The not so short introduction to LaTeX2e. Name of contribution: lshort-bulgarian Location on CTAN: info/lshort/bulgarian/ Summary description: Bulgarian translation of The not so short introduction to LaTeXe License type: pd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The booklet The not so short introduction to LaTeXe in Bulgarian language ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: etaremune v1.0
by CTAN Announcements 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, Hendri Adriaens submitted the new package etaremune to CTAN. Location on CTAN:/macros/latex/contrib/etaremune License: LPPL etaremune v1.0 --------------------------------------------------- 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. See for more information the pdf documentation of this package. --------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN upload: breakurl
by CTAN Announcements 13 Mar '05

13 Mar '05

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 Vilar Camara Neto submitted a new package breakurl to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/breakurl Summary description: The breakurl is an extension to hyperref package that allows line-breakable url-like links when compiling via latex + dvips + ps2pdf. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package provides a command much like hyperref's url that typesets a URL using a typewriter-like font. However, if the dvips driver is being used, the original url doesn't allow line breaks in the middle of the created link: the link comes in one atomic piece. This package allows such line breaks in the generated links. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: isodate 2.27
by CTAN Announcements 13 Mar '05

13 Mar '05

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Harald Harders submitted version 2.27 of his package isodate to CTAN. >From the README: Tune the output format of dates. This package provides ten output formats of the commands oday, printdate, printdateTeX, and daterange (partly language dependent): ISO (yyyy-mm-dd), numeric (e.g. dd.,mm.~yyyy), short (e.g. dd.,mm.,yy), TeX (yyyy/mm/dd), original (e.g. dd. mmm yyyy), short original (e.g. dd. mmm yy), as well as numerical formats with Roman numerals for the month. The commands printdate and printdateTeX print any date. The date is given as an argument using the actual date format for output: printdate{yyyy-mm-dd}, printdate{dd.mm.yyyy}, or printdate{dd/mm/yyyy}, and printdateTeX{yyyy/mm/dd}. The command daterange prints a date range and leaves out unnecessary year or month entries. E.g. 2000-05-03 to 2000-05-08 leads to `2000-05-03 to 08'. ChangeLog: 2005/03/11 v2.27 Harald Harders (h.harders(a)tu-bs.de) - Add option british. 2005/03/10 v2.26 Harald Harders (h.harders(a)tu-bs.de) - Support different input formats containing slashes. - Force year in four digits for long formats. 2005/02/21 v2.25 Harald Harders (h.harders(a)tu-bs.de) - Changed year, month, and day from macros to counters. - Warning for unknown languages. - Fall-back format for unknown languages. Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: poemscol 2.02 (bug fix)
by CTAN Announcements 10 Mar '05

10 Mar '05

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 John Burt submitted version 2.02 of the poemscol package to CTAN. The poemscol package 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 License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fixes bug in typesetting poems without formal titles. Customizes formatting of poem titles. Runover portions of verse lines can be flushed to the right rather than indented. Streamlined formatting of endnotes sections. Fixed a bug which requires an .aux file from a previous run to set endnotes sections. Titles with italics or international characters no longer need special handling. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: lineno 4.11 and ednotes 1.1
by CTAN Announcements 09 Mar '05

09 Mar '05

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 Uwe Lück submitted updates to his packages lineno and ednotes Locations on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/{lineno,ednotes} License type: LaTeX Project Announcement text for lineno: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Rows of `array' and similar math environments may be treated like usual lines, be numbered accordingly (included in the sequence of surrounding text lines), and be referred to by these numbers. Thus they also can be subject to ednotes.sty. To make use of this, please read the CHANGES.txt next. 2. linelabel produces an error outside line numbering mode. This may be helpful when you have forgotten to switch and wonder why all line numbers are 1, e.g. -- also with ednotes.sty. 3. Some explanations in lineno.sty/tex/pdf have been amended -- cf. CHANGES.txt for details. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Announcement text for ednotes: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This upgrade is mainly concerned with 1. the number of possible notes, 2. page break oscillations, 3. `array' and similar mathematical environments, and with 4. a hopefully helpful error message; also with 5. amendments of documentation. Namely (see CHANGES.txt for more details): 1. Reimplementation of `ednotes.sty' with version v1.1, vital for huge editions (commercial/professional applications). You can now make three times as many notes as before, regarding the memory compartment for multiletter control strings. One user exhausted this by 11.000 notes on 450 pages (recent MiKTeX installation). Now he can add another 22.000 notes ... Warning: Customizations of epeatref and linewithpage as well as option `countoccurrences' need updates. 2. A checking function has been added for finding startings of page break oscillations. These typically must be fixed for getting correct references to lemmas in the apparatus. Explanations in `lblchng1.sty' v0.2 needed to be replaced by some of v0.32. 3. The `edtable' option of `ednotes.sty' now supports math environments like `array'. Explanations (`edtable.sty' v1.3) have been extended considerably, structured more clearly, and supplied with examples. 4. You get an error message when you have forgotten to switch into line numbering mode. I generalize from my own experience that this may be useful when strangely everything refers to line no. 1 ... 5. Documentations in `lineno.sty/tex/pdf' and `ednotugb.pdf' have been amended (additionally). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN upload: plotting data in matlab style,with metapost
by CTAN Announcements 09 Mar '05

09 Mar '05

On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 Yang Yang submitted metapost macros to plot data in matlab style. Location on CTAN: /graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/matlab Summary description: MetaPost data plotting License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- matlab.mp ------- Metapost data plotting in matlab style Matlab has powerful data plotting ability, but one annoying problem prevents it from being perfect: when you increase the linewidth, the dotted line size stays the same, so the plotted line no longer looks like a dotted line. another problem is matlab bug: it oftern cuts away some curves and captions. plus, matlab is expensive. on the other hand, the free gnuplot also doesn't produce very satisfactory visual effects. I got accustomed to matlab's easy interface. so I want to integerate the powerful graphic function of Metapost and the easy interface of Matlab. so I wrote this script matlab.mp. this is based on graph.mp, I just collected the data into 2-D arrays, and remembered the line styles, so it's easy to plot out legends. FEATURES: all kinds of line color, width, style (dotted/dashed, etc), and markers. you can easily expand this by modifying the code. easy interface. very similar to matlab full power of latex in caption/legends, by using the latexmp package. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: lhfonts v3.5b
by CTAN Announcements 08 Mar '05

08 Mar '05

On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Olga Lapko submitted: The lhfonts package 3.5b Location on CTAN: fonts/cyrillic/lh Summary description: Cyrillic fonts with support of LaTeX standard encodings License type: lppl Abstract: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The lh fonts for the `T2'/X2 encodings (for cyrillic languages).. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes: - Added 4 new Unicode letters. Updated Unicode encoding/font. - Changed letter ukre_uml to erev_uml in Unicode font - Corrected some bad paths in low resolutions. - Deleted some code doubles in unusual encodings - Added support for cmtex* fonts (this font could be used too rarely but it more serious than cmdunh10) - Created Cyrillic letters for Concrete (Russian letters were loaded in previous version) - Added Support (creation of mf-headers) for Concrete fonts (added by V.Volovich) - Added Support (creation of mf-headers and some mf-files) for CMBright fonts (added by V.Volovich) - Restored italic Unicode Old Slav letters - Corrected some definitions of font parameters in ec-like T2 fonts The directory layout is changed, it follows the TDS structure. Thanks for the upload, For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: Updated mempatch.sty --- fixes for memoir class
by CTAN Announcements 08 Mar '05

08 Mar '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. > > Version 3.8 of mempatch fixes a problem with booktabs related code (see > thread Bug in booktabs' trim command?, 5 March on CTT). i have installed the file as requested; thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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