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CTAN update: PGF and TikZ version 1.01
by CTAN Announcements 16 Nov '05

16 Nov '05

On Wed, 16 Nov 2005, Till Tantau submitted an update to the pgf package. PGF is a macro package for creating graphics directly in TeX and LaTeX. Its usage is similar to pstricks and the standard picture environment. Unlike pstricks, it produces both PostScript and PDF output and works together with latex, dvips, pdftex, and pdflatex. PGF is used extensively with beamer for production of presentations. This version is a bugfix version. Version 1.01 of pgf/TikZ: - Added textures support. - Added text opacity option. - Fixed bug in pgfbasesnakes.code.tex causing lot's of 'missing = in nullfont' message in log file. - Fixed bug that made plain tex mode unusable. - Fixed missing pgfsys-vtex.def in FILES. - Fixed wrong box placements in compatibility mode. - Fixed SVG support to create legal xml. - Moved documentation to doc/generic/pgf. Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: mentis v1.4
by CTAN Announcements 15 Nov '05

15 Nov '05

On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, Georg Verweyen submitted an update to the mentis package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/mentis/ Summary description: Update for the mentis-class that will basically reduce silly warnings. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Minor update for mentis.cls -- a class for publishing at mentis, Paderborn Germany and maybe a blueprint for a humanities book class. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: fig2vect 1.1.1
by CTAN Announcements 15 Nov '05

15 Nov '05

On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Dirk Krause submitted an update to the fig2vect package. The fig2vect program converts figures from jFig, XFig and WinFig to MetaPost, EPS, PDF, TeX and SVG. Location on CTAN: /support/fig2vect Summary description: Yet another Fig to vector converter License type: bsd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Bugfix: Previous versions of fig2vect cut the wrong end of an arc if only one arrowhead was attached to the arc. This is fixed now. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: exteps
by CTAN Announcements 14 Nov '05

14 Nov '05

The package described below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks for the update, Jim ==================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: exteps Author's name: Palle JÃ¸rgensen Location on CTAN: /graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/exteps/ Summary description: Update -- including adding advanced clipping of the EPS picture License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 0.2 of the exteps module for MetaPost. exteps is a module for inclusion of external EPS figures into MetaPost figures. It is written solely in MetaPost, and whence does not require any post processing of the MetaPost output. Changes: I have eliminated the 'showpage' issue, and I have added the possibility advanced clipping of the EPS picture. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/exteps/ . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: xcolor 2.07
by CTAN Announcements 13 Nov '05

13 Nov '05

On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 Uwe Kern submitted an update of the xcolor package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/xcolor/ Summary description: Driver-independent color extensions for LaTeX and pdfLaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2005/11/12 v2.07 * New features: - color model `Hsb' allows to specify hue in degrees; - color model `tHsb' (`tuned Hsb') for user-defined hue configuration on color wheels; - easy generation of color harmonies derived from `Hsb' or `tHsb' color wheels, e.g., color{red>wheel,1,12} yields an `analogous' color to `red' on a 12-spoke wheel; - additional 317 predefined color names according to rgb.txt, which is part of Unix/X11 distributions; - `svgnames' option extended by 4 colors taken from rgb.txt; - enhanced syntax for immediate conversion, e.g., definecolor{foo}{rgb:gray}{0.3} or color[rgb:wave]{478}; - @ifundefinedcolor and @ifundefinedmodel commands; * Changes: - enhanced documentation; - several changes to internal macros. * Bugfixes: - wrong calculation of color series components in some cases of negative step parameters. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: babelbib bundle
by CTAN Announcements 13 Nov '05

13 Nov '05

On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, Harald Harders submitted an update of the babelbib bundle. License: LPPL Location on CTAN: CTAN/biblio/bibtex/contrib/babelbib >From the README: This package enables to generate multilingual bibliographies in cooperation with babel. Two approaches are possible: Each citation may be written in another language, or the whole bibliography can be typeset in a language chosen by the user. The current version supports Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish. In addition, the package supports commands to change the typography of the bibliographies. Many of the standard and extended bibliography styles are available. ChangeLog: 2005/11/13 1.20 Harald Harders (h.harders(a)tu-bs.de) - Add Greek language. - Change method to write urldate to enable to write it in brackets. - Bugfix in names writing of abbreviated styles. - Ensure to write URL's in latin font. - Numerals for French and Spanish. - Add the fields ANNOTE and ANNOTELANGUAGE to all bibTeX styles and introduce the command txannotation which prints the annotations on request. - Add the package options isbn, noisbn, issn, noissn, varlanguage, nolanguagenames, annote, and noannote. - Add new font jtitle for titles of journal articles. - Fix a bug with additional spaces after names. Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN bundle update --- archaic fonts (several)
by CTAN Announcements 13 Nov '05

13 Nov '05

Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded archaic.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use the contents > to replace the equivalent files in /fonts/archaic (and asamples.pdf > replacing asamples.ps). There are no technical changes but a *.map file has > been provided covering all my archaic fonts. > > I have also uploaded the following .tar.gz files: > hieroglf, > protosem, > phoenician, > greek4cbc, > greek6cbc, > etruscan, > runic, > nabatean, and > oands. > Theses should replace the corresponding subdirectores under fonts/archaic. > The revisions to the bundles are essentially new *.pfb and *.afm files with > FontNames matching the *.map files. The FontName for font Font now follows > the scheme Archaic-Font. i've installed the lot (whew!), and am updating the catalogue for every font in the entire bundle (since they used to refer to archaic/asample.ps...) thanks for the uploads. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: acronym-1.25 uploaded
by CTAN Announcements 12 Nov '05

12 Nov '05

Tobias Oetiker writes: > I have uploaded acronym-1.25 to ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming/acronym-1.25. > > As usual, this is a minor update. Only announce it if it strikes you as important. following a few recent messages on comp.text.tex, perhaps now is a good moment to get a summary of recent changes into the open. > Recent Changes: > --------------------------------------------------- > Version 1.25 (November 2005) properly handle acronyms in pdfbookmarks > -- Heiko Oberdiek <oberdiek there uni-freiburg.de> > > Version 1.24 (October 2005) ac* commands are now not fragile anymore ... > -- José Emilio Vila Forcén jose.vila there cui.unige.ch > > Version 1.23 (October 2005) fixed typo in nolist option. added > comment about fragility of ac commands. > -- Tobias Oetiker (oetiker with ee.ethz.ch) > > Version 1.22 (October 2005) added starred versions of ac(p), acf(p), acs(p), > acl(p), acfi, acsu & aclu > -- Stefan Pinnow (Mo-Gul here gmx.net) > > Version 1.21 (September 2005): fixed the acused command again ... broke it > in 1.20 (this time I amended the docs, so that the intention becomes clear). > Set acronyms as used in the first run, not only in the second one. > -- Tobi Oetiker oetiker there ee.ethz.ch > > added new option nolist to suppress printing the acronym list all together > -- José Emilio Vila Forcén jose.vila there cui.unige.ch > ... > ------------------------------------------------- i've installed the files and updated the catalogue. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: pst-geo (mostly documentation)
by CTAN Announcements 12 Nov '05

12 Nov '05

Herbert Voss writes: > I uploaded pst-geoDOC.tgz to the uk mirror. > Please > > - replace the files > Changes > pst-map2d.tex > with the ones in /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-geo > - delete doc/doc.tgz > - put all documentation files of doc/* in there > > There are only small fixes to the layout in the > documentations. They are now unzipped. i've installed the package, and am in the process of rewriting the catalogue entry. thanks for the upload: we always prefer to have documentation visible, like this (even if it does mean lots of catalogue work!). Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: svninfo
by CTAN Announcements 12 Nov '05

12 Nov '05

On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 Achim Brucker submitted an update of the svninfo package. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/svninfo/ Summary description: A LaTeX package for accessing svn keywords License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The svninfo package is used to extract the revision and file information provided by the subversion (svn) revision control system and provides commands for accessign them within LaTeX documents. Also support files for the latex2html converter is provided. Note, that this is an adaption of the rcsinfo package for rcs. So, if you know rcsinfo, you will also be familar with svninfo. This version fixes a problem with '_' in file names and adds support for several new package options: draft, final, eso-foot, and scrpage. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: pst-geo
by CTAN Announcements 10 Nov '05

10 Nov '05

Herbert Voss writes: > I uploaded pst-geo.tgz to the uk mirror. > Please replace all files with the existing ones in > /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-geo note: this upload does not affect the data, doc or examples directories. > pst-geo is a bundle of PSTricks related packages for > various cartographic projections of the terrestrial > sphere. The projections can be of Mercator, Lambert, > cylindrical etc). > > this new versions now use pst-xkey, the extended > key value interface. i've installed the new version and updated the catalogue. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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New CTAN package: pst-calendar
by CTAN Announcements 10 Nov '05

10 Nov '05

Herbert Voss writes: > I uploaded the new package pst-calendar.tgz to the uk mirror. > Please put all files into the new dir > /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-calendar > > pst-calendar is a PSTricks based package for calculating > and plotting calendars in the range 2000-2099. The output > can be in a plain format or as a 3D-dodecaeder for a whole > year with a month on every side. > http://PSTricks.tug.org/November.pdf > > The authors are Manuel Luque and Herbert Voss i have installed the new package and updated the catalogue. access the package via http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-calendar/ or download it via http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-calendar.zip thanks, herbert, for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package upgrade: pst-osci
by CTAN Announcements 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

Herbert Voss writes: > I uploaded pst-osci.tgz to the uk mirror. > Please replace all files with existing ones in > /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-osci/ > > this new version 2.82 uses pst-xkey, the extended > key value interface. > > pst-osci is a PSTricks package to draw easily > oscilloscope screen shots. Three channels can be used > to represent the most common signals (damped or not): > namely sinusoidal, rectangular, triangular, dog's tooth > (left and right oriented). The third channel allows > you to add, to subtract or to multiply the two other > signals. Lissajous diagrams (XY-mode) > can also be obtained. > > the authors are Manuel Luque and Christoph Jorssen i have installed the new version of the package, and updated the catalogue to record information about the new documentation. thanks for the upload. new version urls http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-osci/ http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-osci.zip Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Experimental CTAN Tree: commercial/
by CTAN Announcements 07 Nov '05

07 Nov '05

The CTAN team has, over the years, had requests to hold sample packages from, or limited-use versions of, commercial products. Because these may be of interest to our visitors, we have decided to try providing such a facility. We will be creating a new tree commercial/ in the near future. Commercial suppliers of TeX-related material will be welcome to make submissions for such a tree via our usual upload mechanism. We expect to eventually migrate all of the shareware that we hold to this tree, as time permits. We are aware of potential pitfalls arising from this expansion, so we wish to note two cautions. (1) We cannot operate as a sales site. In particular, we are unable under any circumstances to take money for this service. (2) All Internet users are aware of the explosion of programs that steal from users, whether by stealing personal information, or credit card numbers, or passwords, or by stealing the user's system resources. One reservation that we have is that a commercial/ tree would carry with it a greater potential for us to inadvertently add to this explosion. Therefore, we retain the right to reject any materials that we judge to be malware, or to remove it from the archive when it is reported to us. Malware includes software containing viruses or trojans. It also includes spyware, i.e., software components that transmit personal or system information without knowledge or approval of the user. Judgement as to what software falls into this category will be at the sole discretion of the CTAN team. Jim Hefferon for the CTAN team comments to: ctan (at) dante.de

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CTAN update: babelbib
by CTAN Announcements 06 Nov '05

06 Nov '05

On Sat, 5 Nov 2005, Harald Harders submitted an update to the babelbib package. License: LPPL Location on CTAN: biblio/bibtex/contrib/babelbib > >From the README: > > This package enables to generate multilingual bibliographies in > cooperation with babel. Two approaches are possible: Each citation > may be written in another language, or the whole bibliography can > be typeset in a language chosen by the user. The current version > supports Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Finnish, French, > German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish. > In addition, the package supports commands to change the typography > of the bibliographies. > Many of the standard and extended bibliography styles are available. > > > ChangeLog: > > 2005/11/05 1.17 Harald Harders (h.harders(a)tu-bs.de) > - Change the language in alpha-numerical bib items. > - Handle numerical edition numbers. > > 2005/10/31 1.16 Harald Harders (h.harders(a)tu-bs.de) > - Allow to alter space between two abbreviated forenames. > > The change of the language in alpha-numerical bib items (babalpha) will > enable the use of non-latin alphabets in bibliographies (greek, cyrillic) > when they will be available. > > Numerical edition numbers are only handled by German 3. Auflage and > English 3rd edition right now. Please give me advice for other languages > how to translate edition = 3 to an ordinal number. Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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New class on CTAN: hepthesis
by CTAN Announcements 06 Nov '05

06 Nov '05

Andy Buckley writes (by the medium of the cambridge upload script): > Name of contribution: hepthesis > Author's name: Andy Buckley > Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/hepthesis > Summary description: LaTeX class for typesetting masters and PhD theses > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > hepthesis is a LaTeX class for typesetting large academic reports, > in particular PhD theses. It was originally developed for > typesetting the author's high-energy physics PhD thesis and includes > some features specifically tailored to such an application. In > particular, hepthesis offers: > > * Attractive semantic environments for various rubrik sections; > * Extensive options for draft production, screen viewing and binding-ready output; > * Helpful extensions of existing environments, including equation and tabular; > * Support for quotations at the start of the thesis and each chapter; > * And more :) > > This is the first public release of hepthesis after approximately > two years of development and recent user testing. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thanks for the upload: i've installed it, and updated the catalogue. copies should be at the other two ctan sites within a few hours, and at mirror sites somewhat later. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: The caption package v3.0h
by CTAN Announcements 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 Axel Sommerfeldt submitted an update to the caption package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/caption/ Summary description: Customising captions in floating environments License type: lppl 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, so for example using it together with the french(le) package or endnotes package should not result in errors anymore. Furthermore the code documentation is finally complete now. Additionally the compatibility to the caption2 package was increased, so migrating simply means replacing caption2 by caption in most cases. (See changelog for details.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: lineno v4.41 and ednotes
by CTAN Announcements 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Uwe Lück submitted updates to the lineno and ednotes packages. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/lineno /macros/latex/contrib/ednotes Summary description: update (bug fix) License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Loadable after amsmath.sty. 2. Undid some nonsensical change of documentation. 3. Better vertical spacing when a math display or a list meets a heading; or when a paragraph ends together with a column. (This had been announced 2005/10/28 vor lineno.sty v4.4, yet I failed to upload the latter. v4.4 was attached at least to some e-mails from me.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: lineno.sty v4.4 (revised announcement; supporting ednotes.sty for criticial editions)
by CTAN Announcements 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Uwe Lück submitted a revised announcement for lineno. Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Better vertical spacing when a math display or a list meets a heading; or when a paragraph ends together with a column. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: LM fonts 0.99.3
by CTAN Announcements 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Staszek Wawrykiewicz submitted an update to the lm fonts package. > Package: Latin Modern fonts > Authors: JNSteam > License: GUST Font Source License > Location on CTAN: fonts/lm > > The Latin Modern family of fonts is based on the Computer Modern fonts > in the PostScript Type 1 format, released into public domain by the > American Mathematical Society. The fonts, as compared to the CM family, > contain a lot of additional characters, mainly accented ones, but not only. > The current distribution contains: > Latin Modern fonts in the PostScript Type 1 and OpenType formats, > source files for MetaType1 plus all requisites for using the fonts with > TeX/pdfTeX; there is one set of PostScript fonts and five sets of TeX Font > Metric files, corresponding to: > -- EC (Cork) encoding (ec-*.tfm), > -- QX encoding (qx-*.tfm), > -- TeX'n'ANSI aka LY1 encoding (texnansi-*.tfm), > -- T5 (Vietnamese) encoding (t5-*.tfm), > -- Text Companion for EC fonts aka TS1 (ts1-*.tfm). > LaTeX *.sty and *.fd files were also added plus a few test files. > > Most important recent changes: > We fixed some annoying bugs (e.g., improper positioning of some accents > in our lovely ;-) lmtlc10 and discrepancies between widths of oldstyle > and normal digits in several fonts) and added a ``dense'' or Euro Letter > encoding on Hans' demand. Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: Updates to custom-bib collection
by CTAN Announcements 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Patrick Daly submitted an update to the custom-bib collection. Custom-bib is a package generating customized BibTeX bibliography styles from a generic file using docstrip. Includes support for the Harvard style. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/custom-bib Summary description: Customizing bibtex style files License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Some additions to the merlin.mbs (making version 4.14) and some corrections to the dansk.mbs language file. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: MnSymbol 1.3
by CTAN Announcements 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Achim Blumensath submitted an update to the mnsymbol package. Location on CTAN: fonts/mnSymbol Summary description: math symbol font for MinionPro License type: pd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MnSymbol is a symbol font designed to be used in conjunction with Adobe MinionPro. This is the first stable release. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: pdf-trans 2.2
by CTAN Announcements 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Staszek Wawrykiewicz submitted version 2.2 of the pdf-trans package. Pdf-trans is a set of macros for various transformations of TeX boxes (based on plain and pdfeTeX primitives). It was initially inspired by trans.tex, remade to work with pdfTeX. Author: Pawe{l} Jackowski License: Public Domain Location on CTAN: macros/generic/pdf-trans/ News: Version 2.2 was reworked and added: - boxtrans vs cboxtrans switches - oxext* stuff; yet another scaling approach. Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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New CTAN package: pst-pdf
by CTAN Announcements 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

Herbert Voss writes: > I uploaded the new package pst-pdf.tgz to the uk mirror. > > % The package pst-pdf simplifies the use of graphics from > % PSTricks and other PS code in PDF documents. As in building a > % bibliography with BibTeX additional external programmes are being > % invoked. In this case they are used to create a PDF file > % PDFcontainer that will contain all this graphics material. In the > % final PDF document this contents will be inserted instead of the > % original PS code. > > > the files should go into > /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-pdf/ > > the authors are > Rolf Niepraschk and Hubert Gäßlein i've installed the package and updated the catalogue; the package will propagate to other ctan sites fairly soon, the catalogue changes take rather longer. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN upload: lshort-vietnamese
by CTAN Announcements 31 Oct '05

31 Oct '05

On Sat, 29 Oct 2005, Reinhard Kotucha submitted a Vietnamese translation of lshort, the not so short introduction to Latex to CTAN. Description: The not so Short Introduction to LaTeX, Vietnamese edition. Original Author: T.Oetiker, H.Partl, E.Schlegl, I.Hyna Translator: Nguyen Tan Khoa License of the translation: LPPL, version 1.3 or newer, according to http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: microtype
by CTAN Announcements 28 Oct '05

28 Oct '05

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: microtype Author's name: R Schlicht Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/microtype Summary description: An interface to the micro-typographic extensions of pdfTeX License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes in version 1.9 ======================= * Support for context-sensitive setup; different settings may be applied to different parts of the document (e.g. depending on the language); new command microtypecontext to change the configuration context; new key `context' for the configuration commands * New command DisableLigatures to disable ligatures of a font or set of fonts; this is especially useful for T1 encoded typewriter fonts (requires pdfTeX version 1.30 or later) * New key `font' to add single fonts to the font sets * New key `preset' to set all characters to the specified value before loading the lists * Support for the Polish OT4 encoding (protrusion, expansion, inheritance) * Support for the Vietnamese T5 encoding (protrusion, expansion, inheritance) * `unit=relative' renamed to `unit=character' * `DVIoutput' will work with TeXLive 2004 A preview of the next version is also included, which supports the new experimental extensions of pdfTeX: adjustment of interword spacing (glue) and the possibility to specify additional character kerning. The former may improve the appearance of the text even more, the latter allows for instance to insert small spaces before certain characters (e. g., for typesetting in the French tradition) without having to use active characters; also, letterspacing can be implemented in a robust way (albeit prohibiting hyphenation -- this may change in the future!). Currently, these extensions are only available through patches from http://pdftex.sarovar.org/. To generate the extended version of the `microtype' package and its documentation, simply remove the comments before `etatrueâ€™ near the beginning of microtype.ins and microtype.dtx. Changes in version 2.0-beta ============================ * Support for the new experimental extensions of pdfTeX: adjustment of interword spacing (glue), and additional kerning (requires pdfTeX 1.30.3 plus patches); new commands SetExtraSpacing and SetExtraKerning; new options `spacing', `kerning' * New option `babel' to activate automatic adjustment to the `babel' package * New commands extls and lsstyle for letterspacing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive//macros/latex/contrib/microtype . 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: LaTeXPiX
by CTAN Announcements 28 Oct '05

28 Oct '05

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you for the material, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: LaTeXPiX Author's name: N.J.H.M. van Beurden Location on CTAN: /As is Summary description: As is License type: nosource Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The nineteenth CTAN release has the following improvements: * Zoom functionality started (use + and - keys). Selecting, moving, resizing and drawing objects in zoomed position is possible. * Open/close polygon/spline worked also on other objects, causing strange behaviour. * Offset of horizontal and vertical scrollbars caused wrong preview markers when moving splines. * Logfile automatically saved on exit or exception when logging is put on in the preferences menu. * Program hanged when text form is closed by pressing the close window icon on the form. * Added quick editing for ovals. * Strange resize boxes appearing, bug reported by Robert Rutten. * Line number visible on viewer for script and converted files. * Changed coordinates (via edit coordinates) were not shown and screen was not refreshed. Bug reported by Steven Harrod. * Opening preview log file had some bugs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/latexpix . 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: lineno.sty v4.4 (revising submissions; supporting ednotes.sty for criticial editions)
by CTAN Announcements 28 Oct '05

28 Oct '05

On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Uwe Lück submitted updates to the lineno and ednotes packages. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/lineno/ and /macro/latex/contrib/ednotes Summary description: Update: more natural spacing License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Better vertical spacing when a math display or a list meats an equatation; or when a paragraph ends together with a column. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: References v4.2
by CTAN Announcements 28 Oct '05

28 Oct '05

On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Volker Kiefel submitted a new version of the references package. Location on CTAN: support/references License: gpl Summary: REFERENCES is bibliographic software for authors of scientific manuscripts and for management of bibliographic data of ARTICLES IN JOURNALS, of BOOKS, of CHAPTERS IN BOOKS and other document types including notes and electronic documents. REFERENCES supports LaTeX including BibTeX. Bibliographic records in MEDLINE format are easily imported. Retrieval of references is possible by keywords, authors' or editors' names, date of publication, title of article, book title, journal name and other data fields. Lists of references can be compiled in any bibliographic style required by the publishers of scientific journals. At present, REFERENCES is provided with a text based console interface compiled for win32-systems, an external text editor is required for editing data. New in References version 4.2: New field IDNR (``identification numbers'') will contain DOI, url and other identification numbers as the PubMed identification numbers. These numbers can be addressed by bibliographic/macro format definitions and they can be searched from search commands. Width of the field for the journal code has been enlarged from 4 to 10 characters. Changes in the structure of the table for format definitions: field width changed from 14 to 24 characters AWK-scripts for text manipulation (accessible through the [edit-main-p] option) are debugged and rewritten so that the output file name can be selected. Scripts are now more `portable', they do no longer depend upon gawk, but may now also be used with awk (Kernighan) or mawk. Kernighan's awk is now included instead of gawk. The function for selection of files by the user now asks for initial characters. New command [edit-main-h] calls PDF viewer with the References documentation (refsdok.pdf). Change in user interface: if the variable OPEN_EDITOR_YN is set to `1' (default) in the configuration file, References prompts the user to open a previously created/changed text file with the message: open editor with ``name-of-text-file''? [y/n] This makes the References user interface more comfortable. You may turn off this behaviour by setting `OPEN_EDITOR_YN=0' in refs.cfg, then References will work like v4.1j and earlier. -- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: fig2vect 1.1.0 - Yet another Fig to vector converter
by CTAN Announcements 27 Oct '05

27 Oct '05

On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Dirk Krause submitted an update to his fig2vect package. The fig2vect program converts figures from jFig, XFig and WinFig to MetaPost, EPS, PDF, TeX and SVG. Program highlights: - Designed for use with LaTeX/pdfLaTeX. Handling of special text is left up to LaTeX, for non-special text you can choose whether or not to use LaTeX. For text handled by LaTeX you have three choices: - Use the fonts exactly as specified in the Fig file. - Convert to use fonts in the same features (serif/sans-serif/monospaced, normal/bold, upright/italic). This allows to use the same font families in the graphics as in the document where the graphics is included. - Write no font selection commands (text contains commands itself if necessary). - X-splines are approximated by a sequence of Bezier spline segments. - Fill patterns are drawn by vector graphics operations. - Image width and height are found by inspecting graphics elements (except texts), the paper format name is not used here. Location on CTAN: /support/fig2vect Summary description: Conversion program from *.fig to *.mp, *.eps, *.pdf, *.svg and *.tex License type: bsd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Changed behaviour: Running with default settings the program now produces best quality instead of smallest output files. When upgrading from 1.0.x and below you should create a new fig2vect.cfg file based on fig2vect.cfg.sample. Bugfix: In earlier versions there were compilation errors when zlib or libbz2 were not found. This is fixed now. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package upgrade: pstricks
by CTAN Announcements 25 Oct '05

25 Oct '05

Herbert Voss writes: > I have uploaded pstricks.tgz to the uk mirror. > Please repcae all files with the ones in > > Changes -> /graphics/pstricks/generic/ > pstricks.tex -> /graphics/pstricks/generic/ > pstricks.sty -> /graphics/pstricks/latex/ > pstricks.pro -> /graphics/pstricks/dvips/ > > pstnews* -> /graphics/pstricks/doc/ i've installed the files and updated the catalogue. > this new update (1.12) has > > > pstricks.sty -------- > - a new option plain for only input{pstricks} > - drop support for scalebox check, it is now renamed > in pstricks.tex (hv) > - option DIA to prevent a clash with scalebox (hv) > > > pstricks.tex -------- > - spurious blank for multirput > - shift only for an absolute length > - add the missing arrows ]-[)-( > - rename otateleft | right | down to > psrotateleft | right | down to be consistant to the > other PSTricks macro names > - new fillstyle options > - move the code for arcs of an ellipse into pstricks.pro > - fix bug with multips (spurious blank) (hv) > - allow empty optional arrow argument psline[..]{}(2,2) > - redefined psarc@iv for negative loops of ccircle > - introduce new options shift and showgrid for the > main pspicture environment > - rename scalebox and scaleboxto to > psscalebox(to) to be consistant to the > other PSTricks macro names > > ---- pstricks.pro > - move the code for arcs of an ellipse from the main pstricks.tex into > this pro > - added new fillstyles thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package upgrade: pst-barcode
by CTAN Announcements 24 Oct '05

24 Oct '05

Herbert Voss writes: > I have uploaded pst-barcode.tgz to the uk mirror. > Please replace all files with the ones in > /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-barcode/ i've done that, and triggered the mirroring. > The changes in this release are as follows: > A new encoder for the bar codes used by the Australian Postal Service > was added. > > Project description: > Barcode Writer in Pure Postscript implements the printing of many > barcode formats entirely within level 2 PostScript, so that the > process of converting the input string into the printed output is > performed by the printer itself. This avoids the need to re-implement > the barcode generation process whenever your language needs change. > The project supports most major barcode formats including EAN-13, > EAN-8, UPC-A, UPC-E, ISBN, Code 128 (A, B, and C), Code 39, > Interleaved 2 of 5, Postnet, Code 2 of 5, and Codabar. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: beamer version 3.06 and pgf 1.00
by CTAN Announcements 24 Oct '05

24 Oct '05

On Sun, 23 Oct 2005, Till Tantau submitted updates to the beamer and pgf packages. PGF is a macro package for creating graphics directly in TeX and LaTeX. Its usage is similar to pstricks and the standard picture environment. Unlike pstricks, it produces both PostScript and PDF output and works together with latex, dvips, pdftex, and pdflatex. PGF is used extensively with beamer for production of presentations. The beamer LaTeX class can be used for producing slides. Its functionality is similar to Prosper but does not need any external programs and can directly produce a presentation using pdflatex. Beamer uses pgf for pdf/ps independent graphics. Frames are created using frame{...}, and a frame can build multiple slides through a simple notation for specifying material for each slide within a frame. Beamer supports bibliographies, appendicies and transitions. Short versions of title, authors, institute can also be specified as optional parameters. A plainframe{} allows a picture, for example, to fill the whole frame. Support figure and table environments, transparency effects, a ransduration command, animation commands, a pauses environment. Beamer also provides compatibility with other packages like prosper. Here are the annoucements for the packages: -- latex-beamer 3.06: This release is now the official first version for use with the new pgf 1.00. This combination is now quite stable, so users are encouraged to switch over to 3.06. However, this is not yet a real new version 3.10 since there are still too many (known) problems. I'll try to work on these during the next months. Note that you *need* pgf version 1.00 (actually, 0.95 will do, but then you will *want* 1.00 instead) to use this version of beamer. Changes since latex-beamer 3.01: - Fixed bug in drawing of buttons. - Version for use with pgf version 1.00. - Added color theme wolverine and presentation theme AnnArbor, submitted by Madhusudan Singh <madhusudan.singh(a)gmail.com>. - Added two screen options. - Added subsubsections (evil!). - Added egin{frame}{Title}{Subtitle} syntax. - setbeamercovered is now scoped. - Fixed location of navigation symbols on plain frames. - Fixed wrong frame number in conjunction with fragile option. - Fixed compatibility definitions like eamertemplateballtoc. - Fixed compatibility definitions for eamersetleftmargin. - Fixed wobbling height of frametitle in default theme. - Fixed problem with serif theme and onlymath option. - Fixed problem with >127 characters and fragile option. - Fixed problem with activation of Chinese characters - Fixed problem with spaces in semiverbatim. -- pgf 1.00: Compared to the last stable version of pgf, namely version 0.65, this is almost a new program. The changes are so broad and fundamental that it does not really make sense to list them all. However, despite all the changes, this version should be fully compatible with the version 0.65. Here is an overview of the most important changes since 0.65: - The documentation is completely new and somewhat expanded. - There is now a package called TikZ that makes using pgf really easy. - pgf is no longer a pure latex package, it now also works with plain TeX and (thereby) ConTeXt. - pgf now supports not only pdftex and latex+dvips, but also dvipdfm, tex4ht (where it produces svg output) and vtex. - pgf is now layered and new backend drivers can be added much more easily. - The power of pgf has been vastly increased. It can now has a sophisticated coordinate system management, node management, supports opacity, has a new arrow management, and more. If you have been using versions 0.95 or higher, this is just the hopefully quite bugfree version of the versions sind 0.95. Note on the installation: Since pgf is no longer a latex package, it should now be unpacked in the generic part of the texmf tree, that is, as texmf/tex/generig/pgf. You *may* need to create a link in the latex part of the texmf tree at texmf/tex/latex/pgf pointing to /texmf/tex/generic/pgf/latex/pgf. This link is necessary if TeX finds an old version of pgf instead of the current one. Changes since pgf 0.65: - Added vtex support (finally!). - Added multi part mechanism to nodes. - Added very simple pgflibraryautomata. - Changed coordinate shape such that it now never produces a text label. - Renamed pgfshapebox to pgfnodeparttextbox (made necessary by the node part mechanism). - Added transparency to PGF (quite nice...). - Added foreach option to child path operation (also nice...). - Fixed problem with \ in centered text. - Fixed problem with hyperlinks in nodes. - Fixed wrong arrows in trees. - Reorganised directory structure of documentation. - Added tree mechanism. - Added snake mechanism. - Added layer mechanism. - Added new shapes: cross out, strike out, forbidden sign. - Added some more documentation. - Added none drawing and filling colors. - Added pgflibrarytikzbackgrounds. - Changed syntax of pgfqbox. - Changed syntax of several pgfsys@xxxx commands. - Added SVG support / a tex4ht backend. (Complicated text inside svg graphics is not supported well, but that's mainly a shortcoming of the svg specification.) - Fixed spacing problem in dvips. - Changed syntax of plot and plot marks. - Changed syntax of ellipse and elliptical arc options. - Fixed baseline bug in tikz. - Fixed bug in pgfpages. - Introduced every xxxx styles, got rid of shape actions option. - Added intersection of syntax for coordinates. - Started revising the documentation. - Changed names of some pgfpages commands. - Changed syntax of parabola command. - Proof read documentation. - Introduced three layers: system, basic, frontends. - Wrote two frontends: TikZ (*most* useful!) and pgfpict2e (a demonstration). - Largely rewrote the basic layer. - Largely rewrote the system layer. - Completely rewrote the documentation. - Added two utilities: pgfpages and pgffor. - Made macro naming more consistent. - Added plain tex support. - Added dvipdfm support. - Restructured directory structure. - Zillions of small bugfixes. -- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: pst.labo
by CTAN Announcements 23 Oct '05

23 Oct '05

Herbert Voss writes: > I have uploaded pst-labo.tgz tu the UK mirror. > Please replace the files with the ones in > /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-labo/ > > > The documentation of pst-labo, a PSTricks related > package for drawing various assemblies of chemical objects, > is now available in three languages: > English, French, German i've installed the replacement files for mirroring by all CTAN sites. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: lineno.sty/ednotes.sty (critical editions, revising submittings)
by CTAN Announcements 20 Oct '05

20 Oct '05

On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Uwe Lück submitted an update to the lineno and ednotes packages. The lineno package adds line numbers to selected paragraphs with reference possible through the LaTeX ef and pageref cross reference mechanism. Ednotes is a macro package for typesetting scholarly critical editions. It provides macros for critical edition typesetting with LaTeX, including support for line numbers and layers of footnotes. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ednotes macros/latex/contrib/lineno Summary description: lineno.sty v4.32: bug fix License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mainly, a bug in vertical spacing has been fixed -- when a math display or a list meets a heading, or a heading meets a sub-heading [addvspace had been disabled]. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: pstricks-add
by CTAN Announcements 20 Oct '05

20 Oct '05

Herbert Voss writes: > I uploaded pstricks-add.tgz to the uk mirror. > Please replace all files with the ones in > /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pstricks-add/ > > this new version has > - use def instead of edef for X|YAxisLabel > - make psgraph correct use of the origin values > - added a new macro psLNode and lput for a > node label with absolute position > - moving the basic arrows into pstricks.tex )-(,]-[ > bugfix for hook arrow > - fix a bug with trigLabels and showorigin i've installed the file and updated the catalogue. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package updated: pst-barcode
by CTAN Announcements 20 Oct '05

20 Oct '05

Herbert Voss writes: > I uploaded pst-barcode.tgz to the uk mirror. > Please replace all files in > /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-barcode/ > > this new version has > - A checksum was added to the Code 2 of 5 encoder. > - A checksum was added to the Code 11 encoder. > - adding a PS-option width for the codes i've installed the new version and updated the catalogue. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: amsldoc-vi
by CTAN Announcements 19 Oct '05

19 Oct '05

On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Reinhard Kotucha submitted an update for the AMSLaTeX Manual v2.0, Vietnamese edition. to CTAN. Location on CTAN: info/amslatex/vietnamese. Description: AMSLaTeX Manual v2.0, Vietnamese edition. Original Author: American Mathematical Society Translator: Ky Anh <kyanh(a)o2.pl> License of the translation: LPPL, version 1.3 or newer, according to http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: dante.ctan.org upload: pdftex 1.30.4
by CTAN Announcements 18 Oct '05

18 Oct '05

On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 Martin Schröder submitted a new version of pdftex Location on CTAN: /systems/pdftex Summary description: fixed some bugs License type: gpl > Announcement text: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The pdfTeX team is happy to announce the release of a new stable version: > > =========================================================================== > pdfTeX 1.30.4 > =========================================================================== > > This is the announcement of pdfTeX 1.30.4, 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. > > =========================================================================== > Main changes of pdfTeX 1.30.4 > =========================================================================== > > - bugfix: whitespaces in filenames didn't work on Unix anymore (bug 377) > - bugfix: two immediates cancel themselves (bug 437) > - bugfix: wrong file name in error messages of image inclusion (bug 435) > > For complete release notes see http://www.pdftex.org/NEWS > > =========================================================================== > Legal notice / license > =========================================================================== > > pdfTeX is copyright (c) 1996-2005 Han The Thanh, <thanh(a)pdftex.org> > > pdfTeX is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the > terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software > Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later > version. > > For a complete README (with a full discussion of the license) > please look at http://www.pdftex.org/README > > =========================================================================== > The files / installation > =========================================================================== > > You should first try to get a new version of pdfTeX through your > distribution. > > If you want to compile it yourself, have a look at http://www.pdftex.org -- > there you can find links to the pdfTeX sources on CTAN. And some useful > documentation. > > =========================================================================== > Mailing lists / web pages: > =========================================================================== > > Mailing list: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdftex > > Related web pages: > http://www.pdftex.org > http://sarovar.org/projects/pdftex/ > http://www.tug.org/tex-live/ > http://www.tug.org/tetex/ > http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes > http://www.dante.de/ > http://tug.org/ > http://www.pragma-ade.com/ > > Have fun! > > Martin Schröder (martin(a)pdftex.org) for the pdfTeX team, October 2005 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: fonts from GUST on dante/incoming
by CTAN Announcements 17 Oct '05

17 Oct '05

On Sat, 8 Oct 2005, Staszek Wawrykiewicz submitted a number of font files to CTAN: > ------ > Package: antt > Version: 2.04 > Author: Janusz Marian Nowacki > License: GFNL (GUST-FONT-NOSOURCE-LICENSE based on LPPL) > Location on CTAN: fonts/antt/ > > The current release (v. 2.04) corrected some glyphs, > normalized again .map end .enc files names, and also added the support > for mathematical typeseting in LaTeX. > > ------ > Package: iwona > Version: 0.92 > 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. > > > ------ > Package: kurier > Version: 0.92 > 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. Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: tabularht v2.0
by CTAN Announcements 17 Oct '05

17 Oct '05

On Sun, 16 Oct 2005, Heiko Oberdiek submitted an update to his tabularht package. The tabularht package defines some environments that add a height specification to tabular and array environments. The default set of new environments take a value for their height in the first argument: defined environments are: tabularht, tabularht* and arrayht. If package <xref refid='tabularx'>tabularx</xref> is also loaded, the package also defines environments tabularxht and tabularxht*. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek/ License remains LPPL 1.3. > Changes: > * New option vlines with drives pdftex and dvips. > It tries to solve the problem of interrupted vertical > lines in tabularht environments, if the space between > the rows is inserted, e.g. by oalign{vspace{...}}. > * New commands for interrow space with support for > option vlines: > interrowspace, interrowfill, interrowstart ...interrowstop > * The height of the table can also be given by spread. Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: dante.ctan.org upload: xcolor 2.06
by CTAN Announcements 17 Oct '05

17 Oct '05

On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Uwe Kern submitted an update to the xcolor package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/xcolor/ Summary description: Driver-independent color extensions for LaTeX and pdfLaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 2005/10/15 v2.06 > * New features: > - color model `wave' for (approximate) visualisation of light > wavelengths, still somewhat experimental; > - pseudo-model `ps' for colors defined by literal PostScript code > in conjunction with `pstricks and `dvips'; an illustrative > example for a gamma-correction approach is given in xcolor2.tex; > - substitutecolormodel command for replacement of missing or > faulty driver-specific color models; > - improved detection and handling of driver-specific color models; > - `dvipdfmx' and `xetex' options to support these drivers; > - generic driver test file xcolor4.tex. > * Changes: > - XC@strip@comma doesn't generate a trailing space anymore, which > improves also the output of the `testcolors' environment. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN submission: Word2LaTeX
by CTAN Announcements 14 Oct '05

14 Oct '05

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Ingo H. de Boer submitted the new package word2latex to CTAN. The wsW2LTX library is an application programming interface (API) designed to translate a MS Word document to LaTeX and converts MS Word documents up to version 9, which is MS Word 2000. The library is based on libwv and on several other - mostly Unix based - libraries. Location on CTAN: support/word2latex License type: nosource Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: WinShell 3.0
by CTAN Announcements 14 Oct '05

14 Oct '05

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Ingo H. de Boer submitted version 3.0 of the winshell package. Location on CTAN: systems/win32/winshell Summary description: WinShell is a free integrated development environment (IDE) for easy working with LaTeX or TeX. License type: nosource Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WinShell is a free integrated development environment (IDE) for easy working with LaTeX or TeX. It includes a text editor, different tool bars and user configuration options. It is NOT a LaTeX system. An additional LaTeX package for Windows is needed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: movie15
by CTAN Announcements 14 Oct '05

14 Oct '05

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Alexander Grahn submitted an update to the movie15 package. This package defines includemovie with PDF-1.5 compatibility. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/movie15/ Summary description: multimedia inclusion package License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.) The image file argument of the `poster' option has become optional with this update. This new variant of the `poster' option causes the player plugin of Adobe Reader to show the very first frame of the movie or to show the frame at the beginning of a movie segment, which has been specified with the `startat' and `endat' options. 2.) A new user macro has been added: movieref It allows embedded movies and sounds to be referenced from any location within the document. `movieref' creates a hyperlink to either stop, pause or resume the media, or to restart it at different settings, such as frame rate, volume and start/end positions. Furthermore, clicking the hyperlink opens the page containing the media it is pointing to. 3.) Compatibility commands `movie' and `hyperlinkmovie' have been added such that `movie15' can be used as a replacement for Till Tantau's `multimedia' package, which is part of his Beamer-Class. The benefits are fully embeddable media files and more accepted media formats. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: outerhbox
by CTAN Announcements 10 Oct '05

10 Oct '05

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: outerhbox Author's name: Jonathan Fine Location on CTAN: /macros/generic/misc/outerhbox.sty Summary description: outerhbox.sty - collect horizontal material for contributing to a paragraph License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Collects horizontal mode material into an hbox, suitable for later unhbox'ing into a paragraph. For use with plain, LaTeX, ConTeXt, etc. Provides outerhbox, which is roughly similar to hbox, except that material is set in outer horizontal mode. This prevents TeX from optimising away math penalties and the like, that are needed when the material is unhbox'ed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/generic/misc/outerhbox.sty . 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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New CTAN package: pst-labo
by Robin Fairbairns 10 Oct '05

10 Oct '05

Herbert Voss writes: > I uploaded a new package pst-labo.tgz to the uk mirror. > Please create a new directory and put all files in there > > /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-labo/ > > pst-labo is a PSTricks related package for > drawing basic and complex chemical objects. > The documentation is in german, but all examples > with the source code are self explanatory. > > the authors are Denis Girou, Manuel Luque, > Christophe Jorssen and Herbert Voss I've installed the package as requested, and updated the catalogue. Thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: pdf-trans 2.1
by CTAN Announcements 10 Oct '05

10 Oct '05

On Sat, 8 Oct 2005, Staszek Wawrykiewicz submitted an update to the pdf-trans package. Version: 2.1 Author: Pawe{l} Jackowski License: Public Domain Location on CTAN: macros/generic/pdf-trans/ A set of macros for various transformations of TeX boxes (based on plain and pdfeTeX primitives). It was initially inspired by trans.tex (BOP, bop(a)bop.com.pl), remade to work with pdfTeX. News: Version 2.1 added some new macros: - ransround <0..4> sets pdf dimen rounding precision - oxgobble <box> macro swallows <box> and returns hbox{} Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: powerdot v1.2
by CTAN Announcements 10 Oct '05

10 Oct '05

On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Hendri Adriaens submiited an uüpdate to the powerdot package. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/powerdot > powerdot v1.2: > 1) Added upen and bframe styles > 2) Simplified coding of most styles > 3) Solved some small bugs > 4) Speeded up compilations Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN submission --- mempatch v4.1 (patches for memoir class)
by Robin Fairbairns 07 Oct '05

07 Oct '05

Peter Wilson writes: > Dear Robin/CTAN, > > I have uploaded mempatch.sty and memmanadd.pdf to UK incoming. Please > put these as replacements in macros/latex/contrib/memoir. > > mempatch.sty v4.1 (2005/10/06) provides minor fixes to the memoir class, > and also new macros for typesetting captions, legends, etc., at the side of > a float in addition to the regular top and bottom positions. > > memmandadd.pdf is an addendum to the manual (memman) for memoir and > includes descriptions of the latest macros. i've installed the files as requested, and updated the catalogue with the new patch number. Peter adds (for the benefit of his users): > In a few days I will be offline, not returning until early November, so > put any questions to the comp.text.tex newsgroup rather than directly to me. thanks for the upload -- have a good time away! Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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