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

24 Jul '06

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

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

21 Jul '06

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

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

21 Jul '06

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

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

20 Jul '06

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

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CTAN update: Finomaton
by CTAN Announcements 17 Jul '06

17 Jul '06

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

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

17 Jul '06

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

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

17 Jul '06

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

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CTAN update: visualtex
by CTAN Announcements 14 Jul '06

14 Jul '06

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

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CTAN update: nag
by CTAN Announcements 13 Jul '06

13 Jul '06

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

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

12 Jul '06

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

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

12 Jul '06

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

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

10 Jul '06

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

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CTAN update: nag
by CTAN Announcements 08 Jul '06

08 Jul '06

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

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

07 Jul '06

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

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CTAN package update: visualtex
by CTAN Announcements 06 Jul '06

06 Jul '06

The package described below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: visualtex Author's name: Alex Romanenko Location on CTAN: systems/win32/visualtex Summary description: major upgrade (isspell functions added) License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Spell check functions are completely rewritten. Now there it is available to use ISSPELL/ASPELL/MYSPELL dictionaries together with simple word lists (like winedit dictionaries) with simple management. Automatic spell check is available. In addition if is possible to change manually cherecter set for automatic spelling (i.e. latin, non-latin or all letters). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/visualtex . 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 packages upgraded: FrenchPro and Frenchle V5,998
by CTAN Announcements 05 Jul '06

05 Jul '06

Bernard Gaulle writes: > I just upload to ftp.tex.ac.uk the archive frenchpro.tar.gz which > is the updated version V5,998 of FrenchPro. This is all the material > to replace the nonfree language/french/frenchpro. > FrenchPro is distributed as shareware with all source files ; it > is designed for typesetting professional French documents and can > work alone as a LaTeX package as well as an option of Babel or MLP. > This distribution is using the keyboard package along with the msg > package for localization. i-installers are included for all > platforms: Windows, Unix, macOs X, Linux and co. > This is an intermediate update with major changes, specially in the > FrenchPro shell to access to kpsewhich, for TeXshop too and bug correction > when using label in math mode or in equation environment. > The FrenchPro web site is at http://frenchpro6.com/french/ the new version of the frenchle package has merely cosmetic changes. i've installed the new versions of the two packages on ctan at: language/french/frenchle (licence lppl) nonfree/language/french/frenchpro (licence shareware) i've also updated their respective catalogue entries, in the repository. thanks for the uploads. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: draftwatermark
by CTAN Announcements 03 Jul '06

03 Jul '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon appear at your favorite mirror. Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: draftwatermark Author's name: Sergio Callegari Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/draftwatermark Summary description: Put a gray textual watermark on document pages License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The draftwatermark package extends LaTeX providing a means to add a textual, light gray watermark on every page or on the first page of a document. Typical usage may consist in writing words such as DRAFT or CONFIDENTIAL across document pages. The package may remind in some sense draftcopy by Dr. Juergen Vollmer, but its implementation is much lighter (as the reduced code footprint shows) and does not rely on postscript specials, making the package fully compatible with pdfLaTeX. The package depends on package everypage by the same author. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/draftwatermark . 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: flippdf
by CTAN Announcements 03 Jul '06

03 Jul '06

A new package has bee installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: flippdf Author's name: Sergio Callegari Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/flippdf Summary description: Horizontal flipping of pages with pdfLaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The flippdf package extends LaTeX making it possible to typeset a mirrored version of the document. This is sometimes required by publishers who want camera-ready documents to be printable on transparent films, so that one reads the pages correctly by looking through the film (i.e., with the unprinted side of the film towards his eyes. This package requires everypage by the same author and works with pdfLaTeX only. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/flippdf . 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: everypage
by Jim Hefferon 03 Jul '06

03 Jul '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: everypage Author's name: Sergio Callegari Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/everypage Summary description: Provides hooks to be run on every page of a document License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The everypage package extends LaTeX providing hooks to perform actions on every page or on the current page. Specifically, actions are performed after the page is composed, but before it is shipped, so they can be used to prepare the output page in tasks like putting watermarks in the background, setting the next page layout, etc. The package reminds in some sense bobhook.sty by Karsten Tinnefeld, but it differs in the way hooks are implemented, as detailed in the everypage documentation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/everypage . 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: bezos packages
by CTAN Announcements 01 Jul '06

01 Jul '06

The material described below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you again, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: CTAN update - bezos packages Author's name: Javier Bezos Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/bezos Summary description: Miscellaneous packages by Javier Bezos License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This directory contains several small packages by Javier Bezos: esindex, accents, tensind, dotlessi and checkend. What's new: - Updated contact address - Critical bug in esindex fixed: missing accents in multilevel entries. - Bug in accents fixed: misplaced accents with operators. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/bezos . 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: starfont
by CTAN Announcements 30 Jun '06

30 Jun '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: starfont Author's name: Matthew Skala Location on CTAN: /fonts/ps-type1/starfont Summary description: Support for the StarFont Sans astrological font License type: pd Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- StarFont Sans is a popular font of astrological symbols designed by Anthony I.P. Owen; this package provides macro support for using it with LaTeX. The font itself must be obtained separately. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/ps-type1/starfont . 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: the UK TeX FAQ
by CTAN Announcements 30 Jun '06

30 Jun '06

I am pleased to announce version 3.16 of the UK TeX FAQ; it has been installed at the Cambridge node, and should be somewhere near you really soon. The FAQ is LaTeX-oriented, but has a fair amount aimed to help and interest Plain TeX users. Users of other macro packages may not find it terribly helpful (but then, Context users always have contextgarden...). I append the changes file below. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team Changes in version 3.16 These are changes from 3.15a, which incorporated a couple of minor corrections made on the day 3.15 was uploaded New answers: Label chngmargonfly: changing the document's margins on the fly Label doc-wiki: catalogue of known tex-related WIKIs Label fonts-pln: sophisticated font selection macros in Plain TeX Label gutter: the problem with two-sided document margins Label marginmanual: setting up the document's margins by hand Label marginpkgs: packages for setting up the document's margins Label matchbrak: matching [] in optional arguments, etc. Label newfont: why shouldn't I use ewfont in LaTeX? Label poster: summary of the inadequate state of support for posters Label repeatgrf: repeated graphics in documents Label whatbst: choosing a BibTeX style Label whatpdftex: PDFTeX has entered the mainstream (actually, it did some time ago, but I've now recognised that in the FAQ) Answers removed: Label pdftex: I think pdftex is no longer research -- see label whatpdftex Revised answers: Label ant: correct home page reference Label changemargin: rehashed as intro and list of links to (new) instruction answers marginpkgs, marginmanual and chngmargonfly Label complist: mention multenum package Label cv: europecv has improved, and there's a new class moderncv Label dvipsgraphics: extend discussion of bitmap graphics in dvips Label drawing: correct URL for pstricks site Label findfiles: remove mention of the (long dead) quote site index, add the catalogue bytopic.html Label fmtconv: troff-to-latex no longer available Label newfunction: mention operatorname command Label labundef: mention labelcas package Label labelfig: mention iTe editor, correct URL on pstricks page Label man-tex: correct URL for Andy Roberts' page Label man-latex: add Chris Harrison's web manual Label rotating: mention rotfloat package Label seccntformat: correction of suggested code Label secthead: remove 2.09 font commands from simple example Label struttab: mention new cellspace package Label texsystems: mention w32tex (from japan) -- capable of being a minimal system Label tutbitslatex: correct URL for the pTeX description, add link to Smith's LaTeX for logicians Label usepictex: correct stuff about mathspic package Label verbwithin: make clear problems apply to verbatim environment, too Label xetex: simplify the answer (the details are all on the web site, anyway), and mention the new linux port Presentation: LaTeX ``...'' quotes in the source used to be converted to the ascii double-quote character in the HTML; this is changed to use the HTML entities for typographic quotes (similarly for single quotes and apostrophes). A minor change to html generation has been made, inserting paragraph elements after block quotes: this makes CSS-controlled display more regular (a CSS sheet is used in the code generated for the new CGI engine -- see below). Building the FAQ now requires e-TeX (or rather [pdf-]e-LaTeX); this should not be a problem unless your TeX distribution is a bit aged. Future releases: This release is wildly overdue (even making allowance for my extended illness). If I can find the time to do so, I intend in future to release anything that's available, around the end of each month. Full releases, with batches of new questions, may still be long delayed, but I hope not. Coming up (still): I have a far more efficient CGI engine for serving answers to the web; those of a strong constitution may view the experimental testbed at: URL http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html-gamma It is missing a search engine, various links and topping and tailing of answers; it uses Cambridge University's default CSS sheet in a non-standard way; and, crucially it lacks **SUPPORT**. I welcome suggestions for improving the way I do things, but I can't claim it will always work. Mechanisms whereby I can point to the CTAN catalogue from FAQ answers remains as a background task; I suggested several ways (last time) in which such links would be valuable.

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CTAN update: antt, iwona, kurier fonts
by CTAN Announcements 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, Staszek Wawrykiewicz submitted updates for the font packages antt (v2.06) iwona (v0.97) kurier (v0.97) All are located in CTAN'S fonts directory tree. See below for more information. Thanks for the upload. ------ Package: antt Version: 2.06 Author: Janusz Marian Nowacki License: GFNL (GUST-FONT-NOSOURCE-LICENSE based on LPPL) Location on CTAN: fonts/antt/ In the current version (2.06) some new glyphs were added: Breveinverted, Hbar.small, Ubreveinvertedlow, Ubreveinvertedlow.small, breveinverted, breveinvertedlow, dotlessi.small, dotlessj.small, ubreveinvertedlow. Also encoding files were corrected. ------ Package: iwona Version: 0.97 Author: Janusz Marian Nowacki License: GFNL (GUST-FONT-NOSOURCE-LICENSE based on LPPL) Location on CTAN: fonts/iwona/ Iwona is a two-element sans-serif typeface. It was created as an alternative version of the Kurier typeface, which was designed in 1975 for a diploma in typeface design at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts under the supervision of Roman Tomaszewski. Kurier was designed for linotype typesetting of newspapers and similar periodicals. The Iwona fonts are an alternative version of the Kurier fonts. The difference lies in the absence of ink traps which typify the Kurier font. This distribution contains a significantly extended set of characters covering the following modern alphabets: latin (including Vietnamese), cyrillic and greek as well as a number of additional symbols (including mathematical symbols). The fonts are prepared in Type 1 and OpenType formats. For use with TeX the following encoding files have been prepared: T1 (ec), T2 (abc), and OT2 -- cirilic, T5 (Vietnamese), OT4, QX, texansi and nonstandard (IL2 for the Czech fonts), as well as supporting macros and files defining fonts for LaTeX. The doc/fonts/iwona folder contains examples for plain TeX as well as for LaTeX and an example of typesetting mathematics. In the current version (0.97) some new glyphs were added: Breveinverted, Hbar.small, Ubreveinvertedlow, Ubreveinvertedlow.small, breveinverted, breveinvertedlow, dotlessi.small, dotlessj.small, ubreveinvertedlow. Also encoding files were corrected. ------ Package: kurier Version: 0.97 Author: Janusz Marian Nowacki License: GFNL (GUST-FONT-NOSOURCE-LICENSE based on LPPL) Location on CTAN: fonts/kurier/ Kurier is a two-element sans-serif typeface. It was designed for a diploma in typeface design at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts under the supervision of Roman Tomaszewski. The result was presented with other Polish typefaces at the ATypI conference in Warsaw in 1975. Kurier was intended for linotype typesetting of newspapers and similar periodicals. The design goals included resistance to technological processes destructive to the letter shapes. As a result, amongst others, the typeface distinguishes itself through intra- and extra-letter white spaces as well as ink traps at cross-sections of some elements constituting the characters. This distribution contains a significantly extended set of characters covering the following modern alphabets: latin (including Vietnamese), cyrillic and greek as well as a number of additional symbols (including mathematical symbols). The fonts are prepared in Type 1 and OpenType formats. For use with TeX the following encoding files have been prepared: T1 (ec), T2 (abc), and OT2 -- cirilic, T5 (Vietnamese), OT4, QX, texansi and nonstandard (IL2 for the Czech fonts), as well as supporting macros and files defining fonts for LaTeX. The doc/fonts/kurier folder contains examples for plain TeX as well as for LaTeX and an example of typesetting mathematics. In the current version (0.97) some new glyphs were added: Breveinverted, Hbar.small, Ubreveinvertedlow, Ubreveinvertedlow.small, breveinverted, breveinvertedlow, dotlessi.small, dotlessj.small, ubreveinvertedlow. Also encoding files were corrected. ---------------------------------- For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: The makecell package 0.1c
by CTAN Announcements 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Olga Lapko submitted an update to the makecell package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/makecell Summary description: Tabular column heads and multilined cells License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package offers a command, based on one-column tabular environment, which allows to support a common layout for tabular column heads in whole document. Another offered command is for creation of multilined tabular cells. There are also: 1) a macro, which changes vertical spaces around all cells in tabular (like in tabls package) but based on macros of array package; 2) macros for multirow cells/heads, which use macro from multirow package. ----- Changes: Added macros for skipping and numbering of similar cell rows. Corrections in documentation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: TeXshade v1.15
by CTAN Announcements 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, Eric Beitz submitted an update to the texshade package. TeXshade is an alignment shading software completely written in TeX/LaTeX which can process multiple sequence alignments in the .MSF and the .ALN file format. It provides in addition to common shading algorithms special shading modes featuring functional aspects, e.g. charge or hydropathy, and a plenitude of commands for handling shading colors, text styles, labels, legends and even allows the user to define completely new sha- ding modes. TeXshade combines highest flexibility and the habitual TeX output quality--with reasonable time expenditure. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/texshade/ License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TeXshade sequence and subfamily logos do not need pstricks anymore. Bug fixes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: mhchem bundle v3.03
by CTAN Announcements 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Martin Hensel submitted an update to the mhchem bundle for typesetting chemical formulae, chemical equations and Risk and Safety (R and S) Phrases. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/mhchem/ Summary description: for typesetting chemical formulae, chemical equations and Risk and Safety (R and S) Phrases License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- most significant change: - option to render reaction arrows using the pgf package further changes: - H2_{(aq)} now adds a small space before the (aq) - bugfix: line height of formulae with <-> was too large ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: ednotes package for scholarly critical editions
by CTAN Announcements 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Uwe Lück submitted and update to the ednotes package for scholarly critical editions. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ednotes License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANGES for ednotes.sty v1.23b 2006/01/26: 1. Remarks in documentation: how not to suppress hyphenation of first word in a lemma tag. (I prefer explaining customization to changing the default -- which some users may prefer.) 2. Package option `edmacpara' adapted to nccfoots v1.2 -- this requires updating mfparptc.sty as well. 3. Occasionally LPPL v1.3a -> v1.3c . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: PerlTeX
by CTAN Announcements 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

This package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you Scott. Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: PerlTeX Author's name: Scott Pakin Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/perltex Summary description: Define LaTeX macros in terms of Perl code License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PerlTeX is a combination Perl script (perltex.pl) and LaTeX2e style file (perltex.sty) that, together, give the user the ability to define LaTeX macros in terms of Perl code. Once defined, a Perl macro becomes indistinguishable from any other LaTeX macro. PerlTeX thereby combines LaTeX's typesetting power with Perl's programmability. PerlTeX v1.3 adds code to work around a limitation of the Perl sandbox (i.e., that certain constructs fail even when perltex is run with the --nosafe option) and introduces a perldo macro that enables the execution of Perl code outside of any subroutine. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/perltex . 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: acronym-1.26
by CTAN Announcements 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

Tobias Oetiker writes: > I have uploaded acronym-1.26 to ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming/acronym-1.26. > > As usual, this is a minor update. Only announce it if it strikes you as important. > > Recent Changes: > --------------------------------------------------- > Version 1.26 (June 2006) supress lone item when nolist is in effect > -- Immo Köster <Immo.Koester there rwth-aachen.de> > > Version 1.25 (November 2005) properly handle acronyms in pdfbookmarks > -- Heiko Oberdiek <oberdiek there uni-freiburg.de> > [...] i've installed the replacement package and updated the catalogue. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: The lhfonts package 3.5d
by CTAN Announcements 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Olga Lapko submitted an update to the lh package. Location on CTAN: /fonts/cyrillic/lh Summary description: Cyrillic fonts with support of LaTeX standard encodings License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The LH fonts address the problem of the wide variety of alphabets that are written with Cyrillic-style characters. The fonts are the original basis of the set of T2* and X2 encodings that are now used when LaTeX users need to write in Cyrillic languages. The fonts are available in Adobe Type 1 format, in the CM-Super family of fonts. ----- Changes: Added directories in fonts/source/lh directory for Concrete boldface fonts. The TeX source files for creation of METAFONT files moved to source/fonts/lh directory to follow TeX Directory Structure rules. Added minor LaTeX support for standard LaTeX and traditional Cyrillic encodings (for SliTeX, CM Bright, Concrete fonts). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: digiconfigs
by CTAN Announcements 22 Jun '06

22 Jun '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and will soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: digiconfigs Author's name: Lars Madsen Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/digiconfigs Summary description: Small package for easily writing 'configurations', i.e. special circ + ullet matrices. License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- digiconfigs provide an easy way to create 'configurations' i.e. matrices of circ's and ullet's See documentation for more info. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/digiconfigs . 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: juramisc
by CTAN Announcements 22 Jun '06

22 Jun '06

On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Axel Sodtalbers submitted an update to the juramisc package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/juramisc Summary description: typesetting juridicial dissertations and documents (german only) License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- jurabook 0.90 (beta) (2006/05/28) new: jbook.dtx commented example file ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: hrlatex
by CTAN Announcements 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: hrlatex Author's name: Marcel Maretic Location on CTAN: /language/croatian/hrlatex Summary description: LaTeX package for typical setup for croatian users License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Package HRLaTeX is meant to help creating new LaTeX documents/classes for the (average) croatian user. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/croatian/hrlatex . 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: pkfix-helper
by CTAN Announcements 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to the mirror that you like best. Thank you, Scott. Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: pkfix-helper Author's name: Scott Pakin Location on CTAN: /support/pkfix-helper Summary description: Help pkfix process PostScript files produced by ancient versions of dvips License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- pkfix is a useful utility for replacing resolution-dependent bitmapped fonts in a dvips-produced PostScript file with the corresponding resolution-independent vector fonts. Unfortunately, pkfix needs to parse certain PostScript comments that appear only in files produced by dvips versions later than 5.58 (ca. 1996); it fails to work on PostScript files produced by older versions of dvips. pkfix-helper is a program that attempts to insert newer-dvips comments into an older-dvips PostScript file, thereby making the file suitable for processing by pkfix. pkfix-helper can sometimes process documents fully autonomously but does require the user to verify and, if needed, correct its decisions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/pkfix-helper . 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: ednotes for scholarly critical editions -- upgrade, bug fixes
by CTAN Announcements 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Uwe Lück submitted an update to the ednotes bundle. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ednotes/ Summary description: New features, bug fixes License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The ednotes package/bundle supports scholarly critical editions with LaTeX -- cf. http://ednotes.sty.de.vu . The present update deals with includeonly, counting of small possible lemmas in a line, oscillating page breaks, ... Namely: 1. ednotes now works with includeonly. This may be helpful with editing a work consisting of books (libri) or a collection of rather large single works. 2. The mechanism for identifying a word in a lemma when it occurs multiply in a line (option `countoccurrences') didn't work when the first countword appeared in a lemma tag -- fixed. 3. Additional screen (.log) messages concerning not-yet- working (properly) (line/place number) references. 4. Concerning oscillating page breaks (also certain effects of marginpar on footnotes), a variant warningpagebreak of pagebreak has been added for reminding you of checking whether your manual page breaks are still appropriate when preceding page breaks have changed. 5. I have changed the algorithm of displaying page numbers when a lemma crosses a page break. The difference anyway should show up only when, due to some LaTeX bug, a footnote doesn't start on the page where the lemma starts to which it refers. (In this case the page number of the lemma end is displayed in any case. This aims at a future feature of referring to edited passages from comments.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: pstricks-add
by CTAN Announcements 18 Jun '06

18 Jun '06

Herbert Voss writes: > I uploaded pstricks-add.tgz and pstricks-add-doc.pdf > to the UK mirror. Please replace the files with the > existing ones in > /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pstricks-add/ pstricks-add is a collection of bugfixes and minor improvements to pstricks. > The changes are as follows > > pstricks-add.pro ----------- > v 0.08 2006-06-17 more improvements to the code (hv) > v 0.07 2006-04-03 remove whitespace (dr) > v 0.06 2006-01-16 EXP -> Exp, to prevent missmatch with pst-math (hv) > > pstricks-add.tex ----------- > v 2.75 2006-06-17 - plot a derivative of a function by the > equation or numerical > (psplot and paramericplot) > - delete macro psLineIII and the two > special options > - add macro psMatrixPlot > - option trigLabelBase for advanced > setting of trogonometrical > x-axis labels > - option labelFontSize > - fix introduced bug with Hook arrow and (-) > - fix bug for Hook arrow with ArrowInside option > - fix bug with readdata > - revert all changes > - fix a bug with lines and psgraph > v 2.74 2006-01-02 - add psdice thanks for the upload: i've installed the new version and updated the catalogue. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: dvdcoll
by CTAN Announcements 18 Jun '06

18 Jun '06

On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 Josef Kleber submitted a new pacakge called dvdcoll to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/dvdcoll/ Summary description: A new class dvdcoll.cls for typesetting DVD archives License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- One day i lost the overview over my DVD archives. I simply could not remember, if i already recorded the documentary running on TV that day. This had to be changed and why not use LaTeX. So, i was dreaming of a hyperlinked and full searchable PDF-document listing my DVDs with all titles, lengths and so on. And the icing on the cake would be a list with all faulty or missing programs for rerecording. That’s exactly what dvdcoll.cls is providing. dvdcoll.cls is following the structure <number><title><length>. Therefore dvdcoll.cls is not limited to DVDs. You can of course typeset archives of CD-ROMs, Audio-CDs and so on. Supported languages at the moment: english, german. Some help is needed for other languages! ;-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Sch�pf

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CTAN has a new package: thailatex
by CTAN Announcements 16 Jun '06

16 Jun '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: thailatex Author's name: Theppitak Karoonboonyanan Location on CTAN: /language/thai/thailatex Summary description: Babel-based Thai support with fonts License type: bsd Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thailatex is a Thai package which enables typesetting Thai with LaTeX's standard document classes. It is meant to become a part of babel, a multilingual package for LaTeX which supports a lot of non-American languages. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/thai/thailatex . 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: thaifonts-scalable
by CTAN Announcements 16 Jun '06

16 Jun '06

A new package has been put into place at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you again for the contribution. Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: thaifonts-scalable Author's name: Theppitak Karoonboonyanan Location on CTAN: /fonts/thai/thaifonts-scalable Summary description: Make scalable Thai fonts License type: dfsg Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thaifonts-scalable is a collection of Thai scalable fonts available in free licenses. Its goal is to provide fonts that conform to existing standards and recommendations, so that it can be a reference implementation. This package provides fontforge files for producing fonts shipped in the thailatex package. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/thai/thaifonts-scalable . 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: sciposter.cls v1.17
by CTAN Announcements 15 Jun '06

15 Jun '06

The package described below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: sciposter.cls v1.17 Author's name: Michael H.F. Wilkinson Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/sciposter/ Summary description: Make posters of ISO A3 size and larger (new version: babel aware) License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- New version of sciposter.cls, now correctly changes captions labels of figures and tables if language is set to other than English using babel. Hook for algorithm caption label provided. Some formatting errors of figures and captions removed. page margin setting made easier. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/sciposter/ . 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: orderer
by CTAN Announcements 15 Jun '06

15 Jun '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: Orderer Author's name: M. Siddikov Location on CTAN: /support/orderer Summary description: Order references in TeX file License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The script re-orders references in the .tex file (in the order as they appear in the text). This is REQUIRED by most of the journals, this is TEDIOUS to do manually (in average each article contains ~50 citations) and unfortunately none of the LateXs which I know can do this job. The script is written in Perl (pre-installed on most Linux OS), but can be easily rewritten in other languages. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/orderer . 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: ifxetex
by CTAN Announcements 12 Jun '06

12 Jun '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: ifxetex Author's name: Will Robertson Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/latex/ifxetex Summary description: Provides the ifxetex conditional License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Provides an analogue to ifpdf for XeTeX; this package works for either LaTeX or Plain using eTeX extensions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/ifxetex . 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: l2tabuen
by CTAN Announcements 12 Jun '06

12 Jun '06

On Sun, 11 Jun 2006, Juergen Fenn submitted an update to the l2tabuen package, containing v1.8.5.5 of his English translation of Mark Trettin's guide to LaTeX called `l2tabu' v1.8, giving a lot of practical advice about how to avoid the most common mistakes a user is prone to make (i.e., obsolete commands and packages). Location on CTAN: info/l2tabu/english Changes: - Minor fix in the section on graphicspath as to the correct notation regarding Mac OS~X. Thanks to Stephen Eglen. - Adapted to the UK TeX FAQ v3.15a. Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: dante.ctan.org upload: devanagari
by CTAN Announcements 12 Jun '06

12 Jun '06

On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Zdenek Wagner submitted an update to the velthuis package. Location on CTAN: /language/devanagari Summary description: Update to Velthuis devanagari, version 2.14 License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Release 2.14 with enhancements in the preprocessor and better Type 1 fonts ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: sanhyph
by CTAN Announcements 09 Jun '06

09 Jun '06

A new package has been put up on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: sanhyph Author's name: Yves Codet Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/hyphenation/sanhyph Summary description: Sanskrit hyphenation License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Unicode hyphenation patterns for Sanskrit and Prakrit in Devanagari, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam and Telugu scripts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/hyphenation/sanhyph . 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: preview
by CTAN Announcements 09 Jun '06

09 Jun '06

On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, David Kastrup submitted version 11.83 of the preview package. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/preview License: gpl Thanks for the update. > > Release notes for AUCTeX 11.83 with preview-latex > ================================================= > > AUCTeX provides by far the most wide-spread and sophisticated > environment for editing LaTeX, TeX, ConTeXt and Texinfo documents with > Emacs or XEmacs. Combined with packages like RefTeX, flyspell and > others it is pretty much without peer as a comprehensive authoring > solution for a large variety of operating system platforms and TeX > distributions. It supports document-dependent completion and syntax > highlighting, easily accessible menus, jumping to error locations in > the source file, a number of editing shortcuts, intelligent > indentation and filling of text during entry, and WYSIWYG previews of > graphical elements like math formulas right in the Emacs source > buffer, by virtue of its preview-latex component. > > One part of the preview-latex subsystem is the central `preview.sty' > file that is independently useful for a number of applications and is > available in unbundled form from CTAN.[1] > > Interfaces and installation procedures in this release remain a moving > target. If you feel you need to consult third-party installation > instructions for some reason, be sure that they refer to the same > version of AUCTeX as you are installing. For installing AUCTeX > itself, the installation instructions in the AUCTeX package should be > preferred. > > AUCTeX needs volunteers in particular for non-programming tasks: > documentation writing, tutorials, translations, reference material, > sleuth work, testing. > > > New features and fixed bugs in this release > ------------------------------------------- > > The new function `TeX-doc' provides easy access to documentation about > commands and packages or information related to TeX and friends in > general. It is accessible with the key binding `C-c ?' or the `Find > Documentation...' entry in the mode menus. > > You can now get rid of generated intermediate and output files by > means of the new `Clean' and `Clean All' entries in `TeX-command-list' > accessible with `C-c C-c' or the Command menu. > > Support for forward search with PDF files was added. That means you > can jump to a place in the output file corresponding to the position > in the source file. Currently this only works if you use the pdfsync > LaTeX package and xpdf as your PDF viewer. The accuracy is in the > range of +/-1 page. > > Adding support for this feature required the default value of the > variable `TeX-output-view-style' to be changed. Please make sure you > either remove any customizations overriding the new default or > incorporate the changes into your customizations if you want to use > this feature. > > The error parsing of AUCTeX as well as preview-latex now deals with > -file-line-error type messages from newer web2c versions (earlier > versions would omit the traditional error context, which will not > work). > > The LaTeX tool bar is now enabled by default. > > A problem in preview-latex in connection with XyMTeX has been fixed. > > IMPORTANT: Many of the new features in the 11.x series rely on special > properties in the variable `TeX-command-list' and will not work if you > customized this variable for a pre-11.5x release of AUCTeX. If this > is the case for you, please re-initialize the variable by erasing the > customization, thereby setting the variable to the new default, and > re-adding your changes afterwards. > > > Requirements > ------------ > > It is required that you use at least GNU Emacs 21 or XEmacs 21.4. > XEmacs requires at least version 1.84 of the xemacs-base package > (released on 01/27/2004) or a sumo tarball dated 02/02/2004 or newer > for compiling AUCTeX: please use the XEmacs package system for > upgrading if necessary. Warning: release 21.4.16 of XEmacs is > severely broken. This leads to crashes and hangs; don't use it. > > The preview-latex subsystem requires image support. This is available > with GNU Emacs 21.3 under the X window system. 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. A recent > developer version of GNU Emacs appears like the best choice even on > X11, however. If you prefer XEmacs-21, it will work in version > 21.4.10 or later. > > You'll also need a working LaTeX installation and Ghostscript. > dvipng[6] (version 1.4 or later: teTeX-3.0 works, TeXlive2004 not), a > very fast dvi converter, can be used to speed up the conversion. > > Availability > ------------ > > AUCTeX can be downloaded in various formats from > <URL:ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/auctex/>. At release time, we provide > the source tarball, source and binary RPMs for Emacs under Fedora > and SUSE, and a platform-independent XEmacs package file (which you > have to install yourself using XEmacs' own package system, after using > it for removing the previous version of AUCTeX). There are also RPMs > just for installing the LaTeX part of preview (AUCTeX itself does not > need them, but possibly other applications). The easiest way for > using AUCTeX, of course, is using versions of Emacs that already > include AUCTeX (check the footnotes below). > > RPMs with minor version 1 are built from the spec file in the tarball which > should work on both SUSE as well as Fedora. The source RPMs should also work > for rebuilding RPMs on other RPM-based distributions. (We have only tested > SUSE and Fedora, though.) > > The XEmacs package file can be discerned by `pkg' in its name. It is > usually more recent and functional than what gets distributed from > XEmacs servers and as part of the Sumo tarball. > > A separate directory for each release contains some stuff from the > tarball, such as ChangeLog, printable manuals, and a reference sheet. > The download area is mirrored to the directory support/auctex on CTAN. > AUCTeX is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2. > > You'll find more information at the web site of AUCTeX > <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/>, including its mailing list > addresses. > > > Future development and additional information > --------------------------------------------- > > AUCTeX is proceeding as a GNU project with the long-term intent of > merging it into Emacs. For that reason, all new contributors need to > assign copyright to their contributions to the FSF (the usual > procedure for Emacs contributors). The same holds for past > contributors. The principal authors and maintainers have already done > so, but it would require a diligent and diplomatic volunteer to find > and ask the rest. > > Current project manager is David Kastrup. Paypal contributions to > <URL:mailto:auctex@gnu.org> would be appreciated in order to > compensate for time, money and hardware required for presenting AUCTeX > at conferences. Extensions may be commissioned: enquire on the > developer list (see above). Other than that, volunteering for tasks > remains the most effective way of helping AUCTeX development. > > The following people contributed to this release series (in > alphabetical order): Ralf Angeli, Masayuki Ataka, Thomas Baumann, > Berend de Boer, Miguel Frasson, Peter S. Galbraith, Patrick Gundlach, > Yvon Hevel, Arne Jørgensen, David Kastrup, Ikumi Keita, Frank Küster, > Jan-Åke Larsson, Dan Nicolaescu, Piet van Oostrum, Davide > G. M. Salvetti, Mike Sperber, Reiner Steib, Christian Schlauer, Shiro > Takeda, Mark Trettin (Please accept our apologies if we forgot > somebody.) > > Footnotes: > > [1] <URL:ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/preview/> > > [2] You can get a precompiled version of CVS Emacs for Windows e.g. at > <URL:http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/EmacsW32.html>. A version with > AUCTeX preinstalled can be found at > <URL:ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/auctex/>. > > [3] Precompiled versions of Emacs for Mac OS X can be found e.g. at > <URL:http://yaced.sf.net/> (including AUCTeX) and > <URL:http://homepage.mac.com/zenitani/emacs-e.html>. > > [4] Debian provides precompiled GTK+ Emacs packages in its `unstable' > distribution (look for `emacs-snapshot-gtk'). Packages for Fedora can > be found 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> > > [6] dvipng is available via its project page > <URL:http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/dvipng> and from CTAN. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package upgrade: minitoc package v45
by CTAN Announcements 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

Jean-Pierre Drucbert writes: > I have uploaded a new version (#45) of the minitoc package in > the /incoming directory of ftp.tex.ac.uk . The file is named > > minitoc.zip (3576583 bytes) > > This package should completely replace its previous version in > > tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/minitoc/ > > The licence is LPPL. > > This package allows the creation of mini-tables of contents, > lists of figures or lists of tables per part, chapter or > section, with language dependent titles. > > This new version has the following changes or improvements: > > ======================================================================= > Minitoc version #45 > Suppression of the PostScript versions of the documentation, because > the CTAN archives have depreciated this format (but I disagree, IMHO). > You can prepare them from the source files or request them to me. > Added arab2.mld, bicig3.mld, buryat2.mld, swedish2.mld, xalx2.mld, > xalx3.mld, uighur.mld, uighur2.mld, and uighur3.mld. These > are minor variants for some languages. > Fixes in the `insection' package option. > The chapters of the ``Users'Manual'' (first part of the > documentation) are re-ordered. > Fixes in the mtchideinmaintoc environment (and siblings). > Added hints about compatibility with some packages. > Added FAQ 44 and the mtcgapbeforeheads and mtcgapafterheads commands. > Added some new example files. > Spacing correction in french2.mld. > Corrections and updates in the documentation and the > bibliography. > ======================================================================= > > The admistravive trivia are in the `catalog' file in the > distribution. > > Note that the documentation is mainly available in PDF form, > -- in english (not perfect): minitoc.pdf > -- in french: fminitoc.pdf > > The INSTALL file (and, better, the ``Installation'' chapter in the > documentation) describes the files of this package (the list > of files is in minitoc.l). i've installed the new version, and pushed it out to the other archives; i've also updated the catalogue. thanks for the upload Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: xltxtra
by CTAN Announcements 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: xltxtra Author's name: Will Robertson Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/latex/xltxtra Summary description: Extras and fixes for the LaTeX/XeTeX format License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The xltxtra package provides a few small features that are useful for LaTeX on XeTeX, which has recently been released for Linux (and possibly already ported to Windows). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/xltxtra . 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: grchyph
by CTAN Announcements 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: grchyph Author's name: Yves Codet Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/hyphenation/grchyph Summary description: Unicode hyphenation patterns for ancient Greek License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ancient Greek hyphenation patterns for XeTeX, a Unicode implementation of TeX running on Mac OS X and Linux. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/hyphenation/grchyph . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: pdftex.def v0.03r
by CTAN Announcements 07 Jun '06

07 Jun '06

On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Heiko Oberdiek submitted v0.03r of pdftex.def Location on CTAN: graphics/pdftex/pdftex.def Latest changes: % 2006/06/06 v0.03r % * opagecolor/ o@page@color added. opagecolor disables the effect of pagecolor. Use pagecolor again to turn page coloring on. Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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