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CTAN update: isodate
by CTAN Announcements 18 Feb '05

18 Feb '05

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Harald Harders uploaded an update to his isodate package. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/isodate License: LPPL >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: 2005/02/17 v2.24 Harald Harders (h.harders(a)tu-bs.de) - Add option frenchb. 2004/11/19 v2.23 Harald Harders (h.harders(a)tu-bs.de) - Avoid to use the exttt{calc} package since it causes problems with many other packages. Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN upload: Perl mathsPIC 1.00
by CTAN Announcements 18 Feb '05

18 Feb '05

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Apostolos Syropoulos submitted version 1.00 of the package mathspic-perl to CTAN. MathsPIC(Perl) is a development of the earlier <xref refid='mathspic-dos'>MathsPIC(DOS)</xref> program; implemented as a Perl script, it is much more portable than the earlier program. MathsPIC parses a plain text input file and generates a plain text output-file containing commands for drawing a diagram. Version 1.0 produces output containing PiCTeX and (La)TeX commands, which may then be processed by plain TeX or LaTeX in the usual way. MathsPIC also outputs a comprehensive log-file. MathsPIC facilitates creating figures using PiCTeX by providing an environment for manipulating named points and also allows the use of variables and maths (advance, multiply, and divide) - in short - it takes the pain out of PiCTeX. Location on CTAN: graphics/pictex/mathspic/perl (Location of older dos version: graphics/pictex/mathspic/dos) License type: dfsg Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: alnumsec
by CTAN Announcements 17 Feb '05

17 Feb '05

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 Frank Küster submitted an update of his package alnumsec to CTAN. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/alnumsec Summary description: alphanumeric sectioning numbering with standard sectioning commands License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package allows you to use alphanumeric section numbering, e.g.: A. Introduction; III. International Law. It s output is similar to alphanum.sty, but you can use the standard LaTeX sectioning commands. Thus it is possible to switch numbering schemes easily. Greek letters, double letters (bb) and different delimiters around them are supported. This version v0.02 includes one new feature: Full section numbers are always printed in references (e.g.: see A.II.3.b.), even if the section numbers do not include higher level numbers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Upload - BaKoMa TeX 7.04 - avoiding conflict with WinLyx fonts under Win 9x.
by CTAN Announcements 17 Feb '05

17 Feb '05

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Basil Malyshev uploaded bakoma 7.04 to CTAN. The update fixes one problem related with conflict of fonts used by BaKoMa TeX and WinLyx program under Windows 95/98 or with disabled OTF-fonts. For more details about changes see: <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes7.html> > -------------------- About BaKoMa TeX 7.0 ------------------ > > BaKoMa TeX 7.0 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 imports: > EPS, PDF, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, > MSP, BMP, WMF, EMF, FIG, HPGL, and DXY. > It supports fonts: > OpenType (OTF/TTF), TrueType, PostScript Type1 (including MM), > PostScript Type 3, and TeX PK/VF. > It exports: > DVI, PDF, SVG, PS, PNG (with HTML wrapper), and HTML (TeX4HT). > > It includes built-in PostScript interpreter accessible via DVIPS > compatible special interface that supports such macro packages as: > Prosper, PSTricks, PSFrag, graphics (psfig), draftcopy, etc. > > Most important application of BaKoMa TeX Word is > final step corrections of LaTeX papers before publishing. > > Editing Prosper's slides in WYSIWYG interface > is another impressive feature of `BaKoMa TeX Word'. > > More information about `BaKoMa TeX Word' is at: > <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/texword.html> > > Some snapshots are available at: > <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/snapshots/> > > Root of BaKoMa TeX distributions is at: > <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: png2pdf 1.0.6
by CTAN Announcements 17 Feb '05

17 Feb '05

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 Dirk Krause uploaded version 1.0.6 of his png2pdf package. Location on CTAN: /support/png2pdf Summary description: Converter from PNG to PDF, Update and Bugfix License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The png2pdf program converts PNG images to PDF. An alpha channel in the PNG file can be used to mix against a specified background color and/or to create a PDF image mask or PDF alpha channel. An option -n or --interpolation was created to add an /Interpolate true entry to the image dictionary. This suggests PDF viewers to show an interpolated image on screen. Previous versions possibly crashed/dumped core when problems occured while reading PNG files. The libpng routines use the setjmp()/longjmp() mechanism on errors but png2pdf did not set up a jump buffer. This is fixed now. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: bmeps 1.2.0
by CTAN Announcements 17 Feb '05

17 Feb '05

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 Dirk Krause submitted version 1.2.0 of his bmeps package. A library and a command line tool for conversion of different bitmap graphics types to EPS. It can produce EPS levels 1, 2 and 3. Level 2 allows the use of run-length compression and ASCII-85-encoding instead of ASCII-Hex-encoding, while level 3 allows the use of flate compression. TIFF- and PNG-alpha channels can be converted into EPS level 3 image masks. Modified dvips sources are included to allow image conversion directly from dvips. Location on CTAN: /support/bmeps Summary description: Converter from PNG/JPEG/NetPBM to EPS, Upgrade and Bugfix License type: lgpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A library and a command line tool for conversion of different bitmap graphics types to EPS. It can produce EPS levels 1, 2 and 3. Level 2 allows the use of run-length compression and ASCII-85-encoding instead of ASCII-Hex-encoding, while level 3 allows the use of flate compression. PNG-alpha channels can be converted into EPS level 3 image masks. Modified dvips sources are included to allow image conversion directly from dvips. An option -V (or EPSOUTPUT character V) was added to run in verbose mode. Previous versions (without verbose mode) did not write messages on errors, only the exit code was set. Previous versions possibly crashed/dumped core on problems in PNG files. The libpng routines use the setjmp()/longjmp() mechanism on errors but libbmeps did not set up the jump buffer. This is fixed now. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: xkeyval v2.2 and extract v1.6
by CTAN Announcements 15 Feb '05

15 Feb '05

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Hendri Adriaens submitted new versions of his packages xkeyval and extract. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/xkeyval macros/latex/contrib/extract ---------------------------------------------------- xkeyval v2.2 ---------------------------------------------------- 1) Added a viewer utility for generating tables with defined keys per family or all families together. 2) Improved nesting mechanism. ---------------------------------------------------- extract v1.6 ---------------------------------------------------- 1) Added optional information header for extracted files. 2) Improved options section. ---------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the updates. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: minitoc package, update to version 41
by CTAN Announcements 15 Feb '05

15 Feb '05

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Jean-Pierre Drucbert submitted version 41 of his package minitoc. This package is useful to add mini-tables-of-contents (minitocs) at the beginning of every chapter. They are also minilofs and minilots. At the part level, they are parttocs, partlofs and partlots. If the type of document does not use chapters, they are section level secttocs, sectlofs and sectlots. Location on CTAN : macros/latex/contrib/minitoc/ Kicence: LPPL updates versus version 40: ======================================================================= Version #41 Corrections in documentation. Message added if some sectionning commands are not available. Replaced ypeout commands in minitoc.sty by PackageInfo or PackageWarning commands. Hence, the package is less verbose (PackageInfo writes only in the .log file, not on the terminal). Added mtcsetfont (for Benjamin Bayart) and mtcsettitlefont. Added bibliography. Added test on amsart, amsproc and amsbook packages. The first two are incompatible with minitoc, the third needs precautions. Added mtcsetformat and: ptc | pnumwidth mtc | tocrmargin stc | dotsep plf | mlf | slf | plt | mlt | slt | Added mtcsettitle. Added a hint for recommending the insection option. Added a hint about the presence of dominitoc & co. Added a hint about coherence dominitoc/minitoc & co. Improved documentation about hints. Added a hint about more that 99 parts/chapters/sections with short extensions. ptifont: Hugefseries becomes LARGEfseries. Added mtcsetpagenumbers. Added serbianc.mld. Added chinese1.mld, chinese2.mld, hangul1.mld, hangul2.mld, hangul3.mld, hangul4.mld, hanja1.mld, hanja2.mld, japanese2.mld, japanese3.mld, japanese4.mld, japanese5.mld, thai.mld. Added mtcsetrules. Added plfrule, oplfrule, mlfrule, omlfrule, slfrule, oslfrule. Added pltrule, opltrule, mltrule, omltrule, sltrule, osltrule. Added the mtchideinmaintoc environment. Added latvian.mld and letton.mld. Added greek-mono.mld, greek-polydemo.mld, greek-polykatha.mld, polish2.mld, russian2m.mld, russian2o.mld. Added the mtchideinmainlof and mtchideinmain environments. Added mtcfixindex. ======================================================================= Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN upload notification: TeXshade v1.9
by CTAN Announcements 15 Feb '05

15 Feb '05

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 Eric Beitz submitted version 1.9 of his TeXshade package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/texshade/ Summary description: Update of the nucleotide and protein alignment LaTeX package TeXshade License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is version 1.9 of the TeXshade package for setting nucleotide and protein sequence alignments. New features cover: novel types of arrow labels, bounding boxes around sequence blocks, new input format HMMTOP, short version of the caption and bug fixes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: virtualfontshowto
by Jim Hefferon 14 Feb '05

14 Feb '05

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should have by this time made its way to your favorite mirror. Thank you for the upload, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: virtualfontshowto.txt Author's name: Thomas A. Schmitz Location on CTAN: /info/virtualfontshowto Summary description: Tutorial on creating virtual fonts License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This file gives a brief step-by-step tutorial on how virtual fonts can be created and used. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/virtualfontshowto 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 0.30
by CTAN Announcements 14 Feb '05

14 Feb '05

Bernard Gaulle writes: > Volunteers are really welcome to translate the short (13 lines) > default messages file in their own language. > Currently msg is localized in French, English, Norsk and German. > > The msg package is a LaTeX package designed to localize any > document class or package. Very usefull for end-users who could > obtain messages in their own prefered language. It is also really > easy to use by class/package writers. > > Please, be free to try/test it on any existing package/class and > report any pb. No pb reported at that time. > > 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 0.30 mods: added hook for possible keyboard output reencoding; > few documentation changes. i've installed the new version as requested -- thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: TeXtopo v1.4
by CTAN Announcements 14 Feb '05

14 Feb '05

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 Eric Beitz submitted version 1.4 of his TeXtopo package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/textopo/ Summary description: Update of the protein topology plotting LaTeX package TeXtopo License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is version 1.4 of the TeXtopo package for plotting transmembrane protein topologies. A new input format has been implemented: HMMTOP; and bugs have been fixed especially a rotation issue with classical flat helical wheels. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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New version (3.13b) of faq released to ctan and web
by CTAN Announcements 14 Feb '05

14 Feb '05

this is an interim release, provoked by the discovery of a serious bug in the code that generates 'static' html files (see html.tar.gz in the distribution). Other changes of note: Revised answers: Label conditional: changes to cope with new release of extract package Label commercial: mention the self-help group for users of Y&Y TeX Label RCS: extend to cover subversion (packages svn and svninfo) Label spell: slightly restructured for CTAN changes New or revised packages (or just ones never before mentioned): pseudocode (mentioned in label algorithms) svn (mentioned in label RCS) svninfo (mentioned in label RCS) Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: ps4pdf v0.6i
by CTAN Announcements 14 Feb '05

14 Feb '05

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 Rolf Niepraschk submitted an update for ps4pdf Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ps4pdf/ Summary description: Using Postscript commands inside a pdfLaTeX processed document License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This version has the new package option notightpage (needs additional external cropping after the `ps2pdf' call). And a small bug with the PfP@container macro is corrected. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: The caption package 3.0d
by CTAN Announcements 13 Feb '05

13 Feb '05

On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Axel Sommerfeldt uploaded version 3.0d of his package caption Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/caption License type: lppl (maintained) Abstract: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The caption package provides many ways to customise the captions in floating environments like figure and table and cooperates with many other packages. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is mainly a bugfix release of the caption package 3.0. Changes: - Design change: Split package into two parts, caption.sty (package) and caption3.sty (kernel) - New option name= - sets float name, for use with captionsetup[] - New options figurename= and tablename= - New option type= - sets caption type, for use inside floats/environments - Bugfix in sidecap support: @captype will be defined so captionsetup[] works for these environments, too - Bugfix 04-08-04: . abovecaptionskip & elowcaptionskip will be used for longtables, too . position= will be taken into account (default for longtables: position=top; position=auto will usually not work) - Bugfix 04-10-26: Skips (margin/indention) will only be typeset if set - Bugfix: captionmargin will be set twice now (left+right of the caption) - Bugfix 04-12-19: vrule@heighthtstrutbox@widthz@ will be used instead of strut - Bugfix 05-01-23: @finalstrutstrutbox added - New option strut= - switches the use of the struts on/off (default=on) - Bugfix in single-line-check: captionwidth will be used for the check instead of hsize = width of the vbox Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: FPL Fonts
by CTAN Announcements 13 Feb '05

13 Feb '05

On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 Ralf Stubner submitted version 1.002 of the FPL fonts package. The FPL Fonts provide a set of SC/OsF fonts for URW Palladio L which are compatible with respect to metrics with the Palatino SC/OsF fonts from the original Adobe fonts. The SC and OsF in the FPL Fonts were designed with the glyphs from URW Palladio L as starting point. For some glyphs (eg 'o') I got the best result by scaling and boldening. For others (eg 'h') shifting selected portions of the character gave more satisfying results. All this was done using the free font editor FontForge (http://fontforge.sf.net). The kerning data in these fonts comes from Walter Schmidt's improved Palatino metrics. Location on CTAN: /fonts/fpl/ Summary description: FPL Fonts -- SC/OsF for URW Palladio L License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Minor change in the internal font structure: Refrain from using 'div' for compatibility reasons. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: tif2eps
by CTAN Announcements 13 Feb '05

13 Feb '05

On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Staszek Wawrykiewicz uploaded version 0.78 of the tif2eps package. Authors: Boguslaw Jackowski, P. Pianowski and P. Strzelczyk License: GPL Location on CTAN: support/pstools/tif2eps TIF2EPS is a PostScript program for the conversion of TIFF files (ver. 6.0) to EPS ones. Compression (LZW, CCITT Fax, RLE, Flate, DCT) and ASCII85 encoding is available. The package may be used for generating colour- separated EPSes, `EPS thumbnails,' and, moreover, little header EPSes, containing only a pointer to a source TIFF file. Employing Ghostscript guarantees portability and efficient processing. Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update notification: ltxdiff
by CTAN Announcements 13 Feb '05

13 Feb '05

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 Bernd Becker submitted an update to his ltxdiff package. Location on CTAN: /support/ltxdiff Summary description: A Win32 program(me) that compares tokens in two .tex files (or directories [+subdirectories] containing .tex files) and marks them if it thinks it can License type: nosource Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A Win32 program(me) that compares tokens in two .tex files (or directories [+subdirectories] containing .tex files) and may mark differences according to the options set by using GNU Diff to find tokens to be marked. It tries to be clever at this and won't mark something if it thinks it shouldn't, ie. \[10mm] won't be marked as changed if it was \[8mm]. The number of commands and environments it knows is small (the ones I use in my game design) and include some of my own, which might lead to strange behaviour or even crashes or endless loops - being able to interrupt the program(me) with CTRL+C comes in handy in such cases - if you use commands/environments of the same name but different definition. An other diff program(me) may be used if it has the switches -b, -B, -d, and -E and they are compatible to GNU Diff's. Changes: 1. corrections and additions to readme.txt (you shouldn't write in a second language if you've fever) it should make a bit of sense now at least. 2. -b and -c switches compiled in ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN upload: URW Letter Gothic fonts
by CTAN Announcements 11 Feb '05

11 Feb '05

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Walter Schmidt upoloaded a bundel called lettergothic containing: (1) the PostScript font family Letter Gothic, which URW has made available for free under the Aladdin Free Public License, see <http://www.artifex.com/downloads/> (2) font metrics, macros etc. to use the fonts with LaTeX; this material is released under LPPL Because of the Aladdin license, the bundle has been installed in: nonfree/fonts/urw/lettergothic Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN upload: ltxdiff
by CTAN Announcements 11 Feb '05

11 Feb '05

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 Bernd Becker uploaded a new package called ltxdiff Location on CTAN: /support/ltxdiff Summary description: Win32 program(me) to mark differences between two files, or all .tex files in the passed directory and subdirectories thereof License type: nosource Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A Win32 program(me) that compares tokens in two .tex files (or directories [+subdirectories] containing .tex files) and may mark differences according to the options set by using GNU Diff. An other diff program(me) may be used if its -b, -B, -d, and -E switches are compatible with GNU Diff. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update -- tabvar
by CTAN Announcements 09 Feb '05

09 Feb '05

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Daniel Flipo submitted version 0.9 of his package tabvar, a LaTeX package to ease the typesetting of tables showing variations of functions as they are used in France. The documentation is in French. License: lppl Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/tabvar/ What is new in version 0.9: -- Bug correction for classes that do not define @ptsize (like beamer for instance) -- Two new package options have been added to choose between type 1 and metapost arrows. -- The default has changed : arrows are now taken by default from the type 1 font. Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: xkeyval v2.1 and extract v1.5
by CTAN Announcements 09 Feb '05

09 Feb '05

On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Hendri Adriaens submitted updates to his package extract and xkeyval. Locations on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/xkeyval macros/latex/contrib/extract xkeyval v2.1 ---------------------------------------------------------- Added `immediate' versions of several macros that execute key macros directly instead of appending them to a list. These macros allow for interactive systems, but should not be nested, whereas the normal versions can be nested. ---------------------------------------------------------- extract v1.5 ---------------------------------------------------------- 1) Solved a bug in the options section 2) Avoided using to many counter registers ---------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the updates. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf Diese E-Mail enthält vertrauliche und/oder rechtlich geschützte Informationen. Wenn Sie nicht der richtige Adressat sind oder diese E-Mail irrtümlich erhalten haben, informieren Sie bitte sofort den Absender und vernichten Sie diese Mail. Das unerlaubte Kopieren sowie die unbefugte Weitergabe dieser Mail ist nicht gestattet. This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorized copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden.

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Re: CTAN submission --- updated mempatch.sty --- fixes for memoir class
by Robin Fairbairns 08 Feb '05

08 Feb '05

Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded mempatch.sty to UK incoming. Please use (and rename) > this to replace the current macros/latex/contrib/memoir/mempatch.sty. > > This version, v3.6, refixes the v3.5 fix for the chapter command. > > Apologies for bothering you so soon after the last time. [good to see a package being actively installed...] i've installed the file as requested. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: antt fonts version 2.02
by CTAN Announcements 07 Feb '05

07 Feb '05

On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Staszek Wawrykiewicz submitted an update to the antt fonts. Antykwa Torunska is a serif font designed by the late Polish typographer Zygfryd Gardzielewski, reconstructed and digitized as as Type 1. Font author: Janusz Marian Nowacki Location on CTAN: fonts/antt License: GPL The current distribution (ver. 2.02) contains slightly corrected Polish diacritical letters in caps and small caps. Moreover, Vietnamese letters were added with encoding and map files, as well as LaTeX support for T5 encoding. Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: pdftex 1.21a
by CTAN Announcements 07 Feb '05

07 Feb '05

On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 Martin Schroeder submitted a new version 1.21a of pdftex. Location on CTAN: /systems/pdftex Summary description: An extended version of TeX that can create PDF directly from TeX source files and enhance the result of TeX typesetting with the help of PDF. License type: gpl =========================================================================== Main change of pdfTeX 1.21a: =========================================================================== - ttf2afm 1.0: - added support for refering to glyphs via unicode in encoding files (ie 'uniXXX') - added some more info to the AFM output - some minor bug fixes - a short documentation available - pdftex now understand forms 'uniXXXX' in encoding files (only makes sense with TrueType fonts) - added subset tag for TrueType fonts - Fixed a bug in the scanning of map lines introduced in the the fix of bug #242 in 1.20b. - Fixed three problems in xpdf; xpdf is now 3.00pl3 - ifeof18 is a simple method to test if write18 is enabled. - a few extensions in pdfxtex: - pdflastximagecolordepth returns the last color depth - pdfximage supports a keyword colorspace following an object number representing a ColorSpace object - pdfstrcmp compares two strings - pdfescapestring/pdflastescapedstring provide a mean to escape string - pdffirstlineheight/pdflastlinedepth/pdfeachlineheight/pdfeachlinedepth allow fixing line dimen - patches from Taco - px dimen unit - tagcode patch - quitvmode patch ********************************************************************** Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update - BaKoMa TeX 7.03 - Font Setup Improvements.
by CTAN Announcements 07 Feb '05

07 Feb '05

On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Basil Malyshev submitted an update to his bakoma package. Location on CTAN: nonfree/systems/win32/bakoma > Update includes following refinments: > > + Font Setup > Refined generation Omega Font Metrics (OFM) > -- using OFM Level 1 instead of Level 0, fixed bug in OVP2OVF. > -- It sis intended to support OTF fonts coming with Acrobat 7.0. > Refined installation of Type 1 Expert fonts with AFM files. > Accepts AFM files from MAC (CR/CRLF). > More robust diagnostic of referencing absent encoding vector. > > + Options/Document Properties (DVIEW, TeXWord) HyperLinks tab: > new flag `Consider missed extension as Generic extension' > enables replacing empty extension with extension of generated file. > > + TeXWord: Inserts blank line after `egin{document}' at openning already > existing LaTeX file, that improves editing document title, etc. > > + Installation program includes option `Create icons in Start menu'. > > More details about changes see at: > <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes7.html> > > Bye. > Basil K. Malyshev > 7-Feb-2005 > > > -------------------- About BaKoMa TeX Word ------------------ > > BaKoMa TeX 7.0 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 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. > > Editing Prosper's slides in WYSIWTYG interface > is one impressive feature of `BaKoMa TeX Word'. > > Another important application of `BaKoMa TeX Word' is > final step corrections of LaTeX papers before publishing. > > More information about `BaKoMa TeX Word' is at: > <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/texword.html> > > Some snapshots are available at: > <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/snapshots/> > > Root of BaKoMa TeX distributions is at: > <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update notification: FPL Fonts
by CTAN Announcements 07 Feb '05

07 Feb '05

On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 Ralf Stubner submitted an update to his fpl fonts. The FPL Fonts provide a set of SC/OsF fonts for URW Palladio L which are compatible with respect to metrics with the Palatino SC/OsF fonts from Adobe. Note that it is not my aim to exactly reproduce the outlines of the original Adobe fonts. The SC and OsF in the FPL Fonts were designed with the glyphs from URW Palladio L as starting point. For some glyphs (eg 'o') I got the best result by scaling and boldening. For others (eg 'h') shifting selected portions of the character gave more satisfying results. All this was done using the free font editor FontForge (http://fontforge.sf.net). The kerning data in these fonts comes from Walter Schmidt's improved Palatino metrics. Location on CTAN: /fonts/fpl/ License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a bug fix release of the FPL fonts, which corrects the lcaron glyph in the SC font. For compatibility reasons, references are no longer used for the accented characters in the SC font. Also some internal changes have been made. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update notification: ednotes.sty -- minimal updates / warning
by CTAN Announcements 07 Feb '05

07 Feb '05

On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 Uwe Lück submitted an update to his 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. License: LPPL Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ednotes Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Minimal news: 1.) Fix of warnings that turned into undefined errors. 2.) EdnoTUGb.pdf now acknowledges that the most recent version of LEDMAC reported is v0.6 (e.g.: if you want to tell somebody ...). BTW: Roy Flechner succeeded in producing oscillating page breaks with pagewise line numbering. Until I can help considerably, please care yourself of the problem -- please ask at uwe.lueck at web.de if you're afraid of being another victim. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: extract v1.4
by CTAN Announcements 07 Feb '05

07 Feb '05

On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Hendri Adriaens submitted version 1.4 of his package extract. The 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. License: LPPL Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/extract Update info: ----------------------------------------------- 1) Added `extractskip' environment 2) Allowed for filenames with non-tex extension 3) Updated the options section to conform with xkeyval ----------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: Fw: CTAN submission --- updated mempatch.sty --- fixes for memoir class
by Robin Fairbairns 06 Feb '05

06 Feb '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 (v3.5) of mempatch fixes some minor irritations with the > memoir class. It alse defines em(ph) to match the latest fixltx2e.sty > including the eminnershape macro. I've installed the file as requested (some time ago). Thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: LaTeXPiX
by Jim Hefferon 05 Feb '05

05 Feb '05

The package below has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should make its way to your favorite mirror real soon. Thanks for the upload, 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: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Another update of the CTAN 15 release. This is a bugfix for the following: * Offset of horizontal and vertical scrollbars caused shifting of the converted drawing. This bug was found by Robert Rutten. * Moving the text form caused an incorrect setting of the object coordinates. The new object got the same coordinated as the last object drawn. This bug was found by Robert Rutten. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: forindex
by Jim Hefferon 03 Feb '05

03 Feb '05

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and by now should be at your favorite mirror. Thank you for the upload, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: forindex Author's name: Guido Milanese Location on CTAN: /indexing/forindex Summary description: Generation and maintenance of index entries License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package contains two programs: (1) doindex reads a list of index entries (simple or nested) and enters index information in a LaTeX file. Existing indexing entries are left unchanged. (2) cleanindex removes all the indexing information from a file. The syntax in the output is designed to be processed by makeindex. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/indexing/forindex 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: URW Garamond
by CTAN Announcements 03 Feb '05

03 Feb '05

On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Walter Schmidt uploaded a bundle called garamond, containing: (1) the PostScript font family Garamond No8, which URW has made available for free under the Aladdin Free Public License, see <http://www.artifex.com/downloads/>. (2) font metrics, macros etc. to use the fonts with LaTeX; this is material which I have added; it is released under LPPL. Because of the Aladdin license, the bundle has been installed in: nonfree/fonts/urw/garamond Annoncement text: > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% snip %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > > URW has released a number of PostScript Type1 font families > available under the Aladin Free Public License. In a first > step, the font family > > URW Garamond No8 > > is now made available from the CTAN directory > > nonfree/fonts/urw/garamond > > The fonts are accompanied by all files required to use them > with (La)TeX. > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% snap %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package upgrade: LaTexMng
by Jim Hefferon 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and by now should have already made 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: LaTexMng (version 1.2) Author's name: Petr Vabishchevich Location on CTAN: systems/win32/latexmng Summary description: LaTexMng integrates all the tools needed to the creation of LaTeX documents. License type: shareware Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 1.2 Enhancements: Add dictionary files (American, Brazilian, British, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, South-African, Spanish, Swedish) Fixes problems: Fix problem with line numbers in the active view LaTeX is a high-quality typesetting system, with features designed for the production of technical and scientific documentation. LaTeX is the de facto standard for the communication and publication of scientific documents. LaTexMng is easy to use product of integrated development environment software for Windows. This application integrates all the tools, needed to the creation of LaTeX documents. LaTexMng requires Windows 2000 or XP, or later editions of MS Windows. We do not warrant that the software is error free. This is not free software. Subject to the terms below, you are hereby. Licensed to use Shareware Version of this software for evaluation purposes without charge for a period of 30 days. The free evaluation period starts at the moment of installation of the software. Installation LaTexMng is distributed as LaTexMngSetup.exe. Run LaTexMngSetup.exe and simply follow the on-screen instructions to install LaTexMng. LaTexMng is copyright (C) 2004-205, by VNP Comp. Contact: Home Page: http://www.latexsoft.com e-mail: latexmng(a)latexsoft.com - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/nonfree/systems/win32/latexmng although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror of CTAN that is near to you; see http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors

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CTAN Update - BaKoMa TeX 7.01 - TeX Word fixes.
by CTAN Announcements 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Basil Malyshev submitted an update to his bakoma package. The update includes minor refinements related to BaKoMa TeX Word. > -------------------- About BaKoMa TeX Word ------------------ > > BaKoMa TeX 7.0 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 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. > > Editing Prosper's slides in WYSIWTYG interface > is one impressive feature of `BaKoMa TeX Word'. > > Another important application of `BaKoMa TeX Word' is > final step corrections of LaTeX papers before publishing. > > 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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Re: CTAN update: ednotes -- README.txt
by CTAN Announcements 30 Jan '05

30 Jan '05

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 Uwe Lück submitted a new README file for his ednotes package. Main change is a pointer to the homepage: http://ednotes.sty.de.vu/ Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: xkeyval v2.0
by CTAN Announcements 30 Jan '05

30 Jan '05

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, Hendri Adriaens submitted version 2.0 of his package xkeyval This package is an extension of the keyval package and offers additional macros for setting keys and declaring and setting class or package options. The package allows the programmer to specify a prefix to the name of the macros it defines for keys, and to define families of key definitions; these all help use in documents where several packages define their own sets of keys. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/xkeyval License: LPPL Update info: --------------------------------------------- 1) setkeys ismade nestable. This solves an issue with PSTricks. 2) Several macros have been simplified. --------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update -- pkfix 1.2
by CTAN Announcements 29 Jan '05

29 Jan '05

On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, Heiko Oberdiek submitted version 1.2 of the package pkfix Short description of pkfix: Some PostScript files with bitmapped fonts contain comments, added by dvips. Then pkfix tries to find the type 1 versions of the font and replaces them. License: LPPL Location on CTAN: support/pkfix/ Changes of v1.2: * Bug fix: Merging is now based on type 1 names. This solves the problem, if different bitmap fonts maps to the same type 1 font, eg. (ecrm1000, larm1000) -> SFRM1000. * Suppression of PK generation, if environment variable MKTEXPK is supported. * If output file is - (standard output) then messages of pkfix are written to standard error output, resulting in better pipe support. Changes of v1.1: * Bug fix: embedded encodings are now detected and used. * The temporary dvi files are now written directly. Thus pkfix does not depend on TeX (but on dvips) and runs faster. Thanks for the update, I installed it. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update -- pkfix 1.1
by CTAN Announcements 29 Jan '05

29 Jan '05

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Heiko Oberdiek submitted version 1.1 of his pkfix package. License is LPPL. Location on CTAN: support/pkfix/ Short description of pkfix: Some PostScript files with bitmapped fonts contain comments, added by dvips. Then pkfix tries to find the type 1 versions of the font and replaces them. Changes of v1.1: * Bug fix: embedded encodings are now detected and used. * The temporary dvi files are now written directly. Thus pkfix does not depend on TeX (but on dvips) and runs faster. Thanks for the update, I installed it. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: PSNFS 9.2 update (encoding vector 8r.enc)
by CTAN Announcements 27 Jan '05

27 Jan '05

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Walter Schmidt submitted an updated version of the file 8r.enc containing a PostScript encoding vector for the TeX Base 1 encoding. Announcement: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The update affects the comment (file header) only: The version number has been changed from 2.0pre to 2.0. Rationale: Initially, this version of 8r.enc was meant to be a _preliminary_ release only. However, no further changes turned out to be necessary ever, so I always forgot to remove the pre from the version string. This sloppiness of mine may have contributed to some recent confusion regarding the correct version of the file. Note that the date string in the file header is unchanged, i.e, 30 October 2002, because it should stay in sync with the change log of the corresponding encoding file 8r.etx in the Fontinst distribution. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload, I installed the file. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf Diese E-Mail enthält vertrauliche und/oder rechtlich geschützte Informationen. Wenn Sie nicht der richtige Adressat sind oder diese E-Mail irrtümlich erhalten haben, informieren Sie bitte sofort den Absender und vernichten Sie diese Mail. Das unerlaubte Kopieren sowie die unbefugte Weitergabe dieser Mail ist nicht gestattet. This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorized copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden.

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CTAN upload: lipsum
by CTAN Announcements 26 Jan '05

26 Jan '05

On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 Patrick Happel submitted a new package called lipsum giving easy access to 150 paragraphs of Lorem Ipsum dummy text. Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. See http://lipsum.com/ for more information. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/lipsum/ License type: lppl Thanks for the upload, I installed it. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Upload - BaKoMa TeX Word - True WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor
by CTAN Announcements 26 Jan '05

26 Jan '05

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Basil Malyshev submitted an update for BaKoMa TeX 7.0 (issued 23-Jan-2004). Location on CTAN: nonfree/systems/win32/bakoma Announcement text: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important feature of BaKoMa TeX 7 is one new program: `BaKoMa TeX Word'. Key Features: 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. So, 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), 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. Editing Prosper's slides in WYSIWTYG interface is one impressive feature of `BaKoMa TeX Word'. Another important application of `BaKoMa TeX Word' is final step corrections of LaTeX papers before publishing. More information about `BaKoMa TeX Word' is at: <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/texword.html> Some snapshots are available at: <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/snapshots/> Root of BaKoMa TeX distributions is at: <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update, I installed it. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: LaTeXPiX
by Jim Hefferon 26 Jan '05

26 Jan '05

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks for the update, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: LaTeXPiX Author's name: N.J.H.M. van Beurden Location on CTAN: systems/win32/latexpix Summary description: As Is License type: nosource Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The fifteenth CTAN bugfix 1 release has the following improvements: * Picture dimensions when converting to EEPIC and PGF were incorrect. * Added some more support for the PGF conversion: colour and grayscale now fully supported, conversion of plain/shade/colour rectangles, conversion of plain/shade/colour squares, conversion of plain/shade/colour ellipses, conversion of plain text, conversion of plain lines. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 package upgrade: microtype
by Jim Hefferon 26 Jan '05

26 Jan '05

A package has been upgraded 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: 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 v1.6: - - ------------------ * New option `factor to influence protrusion resp. expansion of all characters of a font (set) * When pdfTeX is too old to expand fonts automatically, font expansion has to be enabled explicitly * Protrusion: + improved digits + added italic uppercase Greek letters + tuned CMR math letters * Use e-TeX extensions, if available - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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CTAN has a new package: evweek
by Jim Hefferon 24 Jan '05

24 Jan '05

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make its way to your favorite mirror in the next day or two. Thank you for the upload, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: evweek Author's name: Emanuele Vicentini Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/calendar/contrib/evweek Summary description: Weekly calendar format License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This class, a simple spinn-off of the official weekly, incorporates small bug-fixes and some extensions. To use it you have to install the LaTeX Calendar Bundle and, optionally, the evautofl package. Changes in v0.4 (2005/01/23) o Added a little, stupid example of use. o Added a control on evautofl availability. o Added the compact option. o Added the ferial option. Changes in v0.3 (2003/11/28) o Added three new calendar options to enable printing of lines in every day's box. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/calendar/contrib/evweek 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 0.20
by CTAN Announcements 24 Jan '05

24 Jan '05

Bernard Gaulle writes: > I have uploaded on ftp.tex.ac.uk an update of msg, the localization package > for LaTeX package/class writers. > > Volunteers are really welcome to translate the short (13 lines) > default messages file in their own language; you will find it below. > Currently msg is localized in French, Englisk, Norsk and German. > > The msg package is a LaTeX package designed to localize any > document class or package. Very usefull for end-users who could > obtain messages in their own prefered language. It is also really > easy to use by class/package writers. > > Please, be free to try/test it on any existing package/class and > report any pb. No pb reported at that time. > > 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 0.20 mods: bug correction: e removed in edef #1. > documentation changes incl. a Migration scheme section. i've installed hte new version as requested; thanks for the upload Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team > HERE ARE THE few lines to translate in all other languages: > %%%%%%% > msg{1}{filedatespace fileversionspace package to issue localized % > messages, now loaded.}{} > msg{2}{invalid optional parameter provided:}{} > msg{3}{invalid language requested: ``CurrentOption''}{} > msg{4}{This is to test the #1 feature}{} > msg{5}{``msg'' package line number }{msgparti{issues #msgid #1 message}} > msg{6}{msg package: UNUSUAL end of file reached % > when loading msg@filenamespace file!}{} > msg{7}{stringmsgspace syntax error}{help{last % special test case > argument is missing.}} > msgheader{MESSAGEspacemsgid:space``}msgtrailer{''} > msg{8}{here is a customized message}{}% > msg{9}{here is a customized message % > MessageBreak which continuation is aligned}{} > msgheader{Messagespacemsgidspace(msg):space}msgtrailer{} > msg*{10}{****** I emphasize: this is a WARNING! ****** % > MessageBreak ****** Be careful.^^J}{} > msgheader{}msgtrailer{} > msg{11}{The msg package is in use with ``tracefiles'' option.}{} > msg{12}{A risk of infinite loop arose; % > MessageBreak % > please check the message file: msg@filename}% > {help{Look at rules to apply in messages files.}} > msg{*}{erroneous message id ``msgid''}{} > %%%%%%%

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Re: CTAN update - titlesec 2.6/titletoc 1.5
by CTAN Announcements 24 Jan '05

24 Jan '05

Javier Bezos writes: > I've uploaded to the UK server the file titlesec.zip > with a new release of titlesec and titletoc. Please > replace the contents of CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/titlesec > by the new ones. License is still LPPL. > > The main new feature is a preliminary support for > partial LOFs and LOTs in titletoc. As with partial > TOCs, you may even create several sets of intermixed > partial lists. > > Bug fixes (titlesec) > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > - drop and margin did not worked (period :-(). > - \ allowed a page break (not exactly a > titlesec bug, but...) > - block does not give the error of hmode any > more, as it's a general purpose shape. > > Other new features (titlesec) > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > - A new argument in float pagestyles to add, > say, rule settings. > - ...break in top shape (eg, chapterbreak). > - toctitles changes the behaviour of optional > argument so that the TOC entry is always the > full title. > - newlinetospace replaces \ with spaces in > TOC and running heads. > > Other new features (titletoc) > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > - package options rigidseps, to ease fitting to a > grid. i've installed the packages as requested; thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: lineno / ednotes for critical editions
by CTAN Announcements 24 Jan '05

24 Jan '05

On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Uwe Lück uploaded updates to the lineno and ednotes packages. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ednotes License type: LaTeX Project Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Thanks to Alexander Rozhenko, you now can download most recent unpacked versions of manyfoot.sty and nccfoots.sty -- no more generating procedure. 2. The README.txt addresses indexing with line numbers. 3. The original TUGboat article `tb77lueck.pdf' has been corrected and updated -- resulting in `ednotugb.pdf'. 4. `ednotes.sty' and `ednotugb.pdf' refer to the `ellipsis' package concerning spacing with the ellipsis dots. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: esint
by CTAN Announcements 20 Jan '05

20 Jan '05

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 Eddie Saudrais uploaded an update to the esint package, a solution to access to alternate integral symbols using the Computer Modern fonts. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/esint License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Change of the fd file in order to avoid an error using align environment when esint package in loaded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: l2tabuen
by CTAN Announcements 19 Jan '05

19 Jan '05

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Jürgen Fenn uploaded v1.8.5 of the 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: - References adapted to the UK TeX FAQ v3.13 - Licence changed to GNU Free Documentation Licence Thanks for the update, I installed it. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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