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CTAN has a new package: microtype
by Jim Hefferon 11 Sep '04

11 Sep '04

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon get 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: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The `microtype' package provides a LaTeX interface to pdfTeX's micro-typographic extensions: character protrusion and font expansion. It allows to restrict character protrusion and/or font expansion to a certain set of fonts, and to configure micro-typographic aspects of the fonts in a straight-forward and flexible way. Settings for various fonts are provided. Note: Font expansion and character protrusion only works with the pdfTeX compiler, at least version 0.14f, resp. version 1.20a, for automatic font expansion. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 package update: LaTeXPiX
by Jim Hefferon 08 Sep '04

08 Sep '04

A package update has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: LaTeXPiX Author's name: Nick van Beurden Location on CTAN: systems/win32/latexpix Summary description: As Is License type: pd Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The thirteenth CTAN release has the following improvements: * Multi-line framebox text is now possible. * Registration key can now be entered by hand. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Re: CTAN upload -- listings 1.3
by Rainer Schöpf 07 Sep '04

07 Sep '04

On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Carsten Heinz submitted an update to his package `listings'. It has been installed in: macros/latex/contrib/listings > Abstract > The listings package is a source code printer for LaTeX. You can > typeset stand alone files as well as listings with an environment > similar to verbatim as well as you can print code snippets using > a command similar to verb. Many parameters control the output and > if your preferred programming language isn't already supported, > you can make your own definition. > > News > - LPPL 1.3 compliant > - new output routine for improved compatibility > - new language definitions for Awk (Gnu and Posix), Gnuplot, > Handel-C, ByteCode Java (JVMIS), Plasm, Promella, and RSL; > improved definitions for AspectJ, HTML, and MetaPost > - small add-ons for keywordstyle, texcs, and texcsstyle > - bugfixes For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: ibycus-babel
by Jim Hefferon 06 Sep '04

06 Sep '04

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and the changes should soon appear at your favorite mirror. Thank you for the update, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: ibycus-babel Author's name: Peter Heslin Location on CTAN: language/greek/package-babel/ibycus-babel Summary description: Integrates the Ibycus font for ancient Greek into Babel License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This update is based on version 4 of Dimitrios Filippou's hyphenation patterns for ancient Greek. Since those patterns are now distributed under LaTeX Project Public License, they are now the default and are the only patterns supported explicitly by this package. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/greek/package-babel/ibycus-babel 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: CTAN upload notification: datetime
by Rainer Schöpf 06 Sep '04

06 Sep '04

On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 Nicola Talbot submitted a new version of his package datetime. Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Provides various different formats for the command oday, and also provides the command currenttime to display the current time (in various formats). The commands ewtimeformat and ewdateformat are provided to allow the user to customise oday and currenttime. The command pdfdate is provided for use in pdfinfo. In addition, there are macros for displaying the value of LaTeX counter as an ordinal (e.g. ordinal{page} would print 3rd if the current value of page is 3, and ordinalstring{page} would print third) as well as macros for displaying the value of LaTeX counter as a string hange format of oday with commands for current time. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package was installed in macros/latex/contrib/datetime the license type is lppl. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: upload of cbgreek21.zip
by Rainer Schöpf 06 Sep '04

06 Sep '04

On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Claudio Beccari uploaded an upgrade of the package teubner and its documentation. The teubner package contains an extension for philological typesetting. It was installed in macros/latex/contrib/teubner For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN upload notification: Tapir Font
by Rainer Schöpf 05 Sep '04

05 Sep '04

Summary description: The 'Tapir' is a simple geometrical font mostly created of line and circular segments with con stant thickness. License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 0.2 contains new characters needed for polish language. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The fonts is installed in fonts/tapir. Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: gellmu, version 0.8, uploaded
by Robin Fairbairns 03 Sep '04

03 Sep '04

William F Hammond writes: > I've uploaded version 0.8 of the GELLMU tarball to > ftp.tex.ac.uk. > > GELLMU stands for Generalized Extensible LaTeX-Like MarkUp. > > I suggest that it be placed in support/gellmu. > > License: GPL > > This supersedes version the three-year old version 0.74. > > This is the first version that provides translation of gellmu article > (which may be written very much the way LaTeX article is written > though it is not LaTeX) to the XML form of HTML extended by MathML. > There is a new user document in addition to a slightly revised version > of the project manual. > > The new HTML + MathML form of the user doc at > > http://www.albany.edu/~hammond/gellmu/igl/userdoc-ht.xml > > has a significant number of mathematical examples, and at > the same place may be found its gellmu source (userdoc.glm) and > PDF (userdoc.pdf) made from the same source with pdflatex. > > Other examples with significant mathematical content are: > > http://www.albany.edu/~hammond/gellmu/examples/f356g-ht.xml > http://www.albany.edu/~hammond/gellmu/examples/confrac-ht.xml i've installed the upload as suggested; thank you very much for it -- i (at least) have been waiting ;-) i took the liberty of extracting README and doc/userdoc.pdf to appear separately on the archive, the .pdf to appear in the catalogue and the README also to appear in browsers wandering through the archive. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN upload: TeXmacs 1.0.4
by Reinhard Zierke 31 Aug '04

31 Aug '04

----- Forwarded message from Joris van der Hoeven ----- I just uploaded the new GNU TeXmacs distribution in ftp.dante.de/incoming/TeXmacs The new distribution contains the files TeXmacs-1.0.4-3.i386.rpm TeXmacs-1.0.4-3.src.rpm TeXmacs-1.0.4-R3-src.tar.gz TeXmacs-1.0.4-R3-static-gnu-linux.tar.gz The files should be put into the directory systems/unix/TeXmacs ----------------------------------------------------------- Full announcement ----------------------------------------------------------- I am happy to announce the new stable release 1.0.4 of TeXmacs. The main improvements with respect to TeXmacs-1.0.3 are: * A (very) experimental Windows version (alpha) http://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/download/windows.en.html as well as the official inclusion of TeXmacs into Cygwin. * Higher reactivity for editing large documents and faster booting and loading of files. * A lot of new documentation about the TeXmacs document format, environment variables and tags. * Possibility to work with TrueType fonts instead of Type 3 fonts. * New interfaces with Python, Clisp, Cmucl and Matlab. * Thorough reorganization of the style files, implementation of mutator tags, and location-awareness of internal trees. * Support for the Danish language and partial translation of the documentation into Polish. ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the upload. I installed it as suggested replacing the previous version in CTAN:systems/unix/TeXmacs/ Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN upload notification: TeXshade v1.8
by Reinhard Zierke 31 Aug '04

31 Aug '04

> Name of contribution: TeXshade v1.8 > Name and email: Eric Beitz <eric.beitz(a)uni-tuebingen.de> > Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/texshade/ > Summary description: Update v1.8 of the TeXshade package for setting sequence alignments > License type: gpl > > Announcement text: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This is version 1.8 of the nucleotide and protein sequence alignment setting > package TeXshade. New powerful feature styles have been implemented, > which allow one to plot sequence related numeral data, such as hydropathy or > solvent accessibility etc., as bar graphs or color scales along the alignment. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. I installed it as suggested replacing the previous version in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/texshade/ Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN submission -- contour.sty v2.12
by Reinhard Zierke 31 Aug '04

31 Aug '04

----- Forwarded message from Harald Harders ----- I have uploaded contour-v2_12.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de. It contains the new version of the contour page. Please replace all files in CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/contour by the archive's contents. License stays LPPL. >From the README: This package generates a colored contour around a given text in order to enable printing text over a background without the need of a color box around the text. By default this is done by placing copies of the text around the text itself and can be switched to use real outlines if supported by the backend driver. The new feature is to enable vector outlines for backend driver that support this when using vector fonts. Supported are dvips, pdftex, and vtex. Switch on outlines by using the package option 'outline'. ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the update. I installed the new version as suggested in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/contour/ Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN has two new packages: jurarsp and juraabbrev
by Jim Hefferon 31 Aug '04

31 Aug '04

Two new packages have been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon 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: jurarsp and juraabbrev Author's name: Lucas Wartenburger Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/jurarsp/ and macros/latex/contrib/juraabbrev Summary description: another two packages for typesetting (german) juridical documents License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- These new packages should be helpful for people working on (German) law. - package juraabbrev helps you to handle abbreviations and creates a list of those (pre-defined) abbreviations that have actually been used in the document - package jurarsp (ab)uses BibTeX for citations of judgements and official documents. For this purpose, a special BibTeX-style is provided. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/jurarsp and http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/juraabbrev 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: Vancouver
by Jim Hefferon 28 Aug '04

28 Aug '04

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon appear on your favorite mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: Vancouver Author's name: Folkert van der Beek Location on CTAN: biblio/bibtex/contrib/vancouver Summary description: bibliographic style file (for LaTeX/BibTeX) to meet the ``Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals'' (aka the Vancouver style) License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This `vancouver.bst' bibliographic style file (for LaTeX/BibTeX) is generated with the docstrip utility and modified manually to meet the ``Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals'' as published in N Engl J Med 1997;336:309-315. (also known as the Vancouver style) - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/vancouver 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: sanskrit-t1
by Jim Hefferon 27 Aug '04

27 Aug '04

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should make its way to your favorite mirror very soon. Thank you for the upload, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: sanskrit-t1 font package Author's name: Sergey Korop Location on CTAN: fonts/ps-type1/sanskrit Summary description: sanskrit-t1: Type 1 version of Charles Wikner's 'skt' font series for Sanskrit language License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sanskrit-t1 font package provides Type 1 version of Charles Wikner's 'skt' font series for Sanskrit language. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/ps-type1/sanskrit or (via a soft link) at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/sanskrit/ps-type1 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: Upload
by Robin Fairbairns 27 Aug '04

27 Aug '04

Herbert Voss writes: > I just uploaded pstricks-add.tgz to the IK mirror. > > Please delete all files in > graphics/pstricks/contrib/pstricks-add > and put the new ones in there. > > From the README: > > pstricks-add collects a lot of the code which was posted > to the pstricks mailing list and has some more new features: > > pstricks-add: > - pstricks > o braces as node connection/linestyle > o arrows, arrows, arrows, ... > > - pst-plot > o new environment psgraph > o new macro pstScalePoints > o new option for logarithmic axes > o new macro and options for ticklines > o new options step, start end for plotting data files > o new options xLabel, yLabel > o new option plotNo for multiple data files x y1 y2 y3 ... > o new macro psplotPolynomial[coeff=<0 a1 a2 ...>]{<xStart>}{<xEnd>} > o new optional input of arithmetic notation instead of the > default PostScript one > > - pst-node > o bugfixes > o new macro nclineII for a two-colored line > o new option lineAngle for ncdiag > o new macros for interpolation nodes > and linear combination of two vectors i've installed the files as requested. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: OSA
by Jim Hefferon 26 Aug '04

26 Aug '04

A new package has been put on tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon =================================================== Information about the package: This material pertains to publications of the Optical Society of America. These are the latest LaTeX, REVTeX, and BibTeX tools for OSA journals * Primary print journals (J. Opt. Soc. Am A, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, Applied Optics) * Optics Letters * Optics Express * Journal of Optical Networking You can have a quick look by following http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/osa .

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CTAN package update: newlfm
by Jim Hefferon 26 Aug '04

26 Aug '04

A package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks for the update Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: newlfm Author's name: Paul Thompson Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/newlfm Summary description: Letter, fax, memo License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 8.2 is announced. This includes several important bug fixes and a variety of other improvements. For newlfm users, this is a recommended upgrade. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/newlfm 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: tt2001
by Jim Hefferon 25 Aug '04

25 Aug '04

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and will appear at your favorite mirror soon. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: tt2001 font package Author's name: Szabó Péter Location on CTAN: fonts/ps-type1/tt2001 Summary description: Type1 EC fonts generated by TeXtrace License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- tt20001 is a TeX font package with CM (EC) in Type1 in T1, TS1 encoding. It contains Type 1 fonts converted from METAFONT fonts and covers entire EC/TC fonts. The glyph CharStrings are not optimized for size, and there are even some minor visual distortions from the original. For an alternative, see the cm-super package. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/ps-type1/tt2001 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: hyphenation-greek
by Jim Hefferon 25 Aug '04

25 Aug '04

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and will soon make 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: hyphenation-greek Author's name: Dimitrios Filippou Location on CTAN: language/hyphenation/elhyphen Summary description: Hyphenation patterns for ancient and modern Greek License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This set of files contains the hyphenation patterns for typesetting Ancient and Modern Greek texts with TeX/LaTeX. The patterns are suitable for the LGR encoding (cb -- babel -- and kd fonts). They can be easily converted for use with the ibycus fonts (look for the ibycus-babel package in CTAN), or with Omega/Lambda (look for the antomega package in CTAN). For a few more details, read the readme.txt in this set of files. - - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/hyphenation/elhyphen 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 notification: Ednotes update
by Reinhard Zierke 25 Aug '04

25 Aug '04

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload ----- Name of contribution: [many names ... files for the Ednotes bundle] Name and email: Uwe Luck Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ednotes/ Summary description: Extension, fix, further changes of the Ednotes bundle. License type: LaTeX Project Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Ednotes bundle for critical editions under LaTeX gets a functionality extension (notes from math mode), a fix (notes from center environments), and further minor changes. The math mode thing can also just be used for extending the linelabel command from Stephan Boettcher's lineno.sty. For further details, see file CHANGES in the Ednotes CTAN folder. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. I installed the new and changed files as suggested in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/ednotes/ Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN submission: updates of xkeyval and HA-prosper
by Reinhard Zierke 25 Aug '04

25 Aug '04

----- Forwarded messages from Hendri Adriaens ----- I just uploaded an update of the xkeyval package to ftp.dante.de. Since the package is now TeX compatible, please install it in the dir macros/generic/xkeyval (as discussed some time ago). Thanks! Main new features in version 1.4: 1) TeX compatible 2) big extensions to the syntax for defining and setting keys to allow for a wide range of key name structures 3) added pointer syntax to copy key values 4) increased efficiency in xsetkeys 5) improved ProcessOptionsX I just uploaded HA-prosper 4.21 to ftp.dante.de Please install it in the existing dir macros/latex/contrib/ha-prosper Changes: 1) added two new styles: Capsules and Ciment 2) updated for xkeyval 1.4 ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the upload. I installed the packages as suggested in CTAN:macros/generic/xkeyval and CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/ha-prosper and removed the old version in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/xkeyval. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN upload notification: ltabptch.sty, ltabtest.tex
by Reinhard Zierke 25 Aug '04

25 Aug '04

----- Forwarded message from Uwe Lück ----- Name of contribution: ltabptch.sty, ltabtest.tex Name and email: Uwe Lück Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ltabptch/ Summary description: [update:] diagnosis motivating longtable patches improved; +demonstrating .tex License type: LaTeX Project Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Recall: According to tools/3180/3485, there is more space below than above a longtable. ltabptch.sty fixes this. However, the diagnosis it presented before was not quite correct concerning one reason. This is fixed in the present version. Explanations should appear more clear now, and a through-going discussion of possible effects has been added. The patch code was not affected. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the upload. I removed macros/latex/contrib/misc/ltabptch.sty and installed the new files in macros/latex/contrib/ltabptch/ as suggested. I added a short README file (containing just the first few lines of ltabptch.sty). Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN upload notification: KOMA-Script rev. 2.9s
by Reinhard Zierke 24 Aug '04

24 Aug '04

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload(a)nova.dante.de ----- Name of contribution: KOMA-Script Name and email: Markus Kohm <komascript(a)gmx.info> Suggested location on CTAN: tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/koma-script Summary description: KOMA-Script, a versatile LaTeX2e bundle License type: LaTeX Project Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The KOMA-Script team is happy to announce the August '04 Release of the KOMA-Script bundle aka scrpage2 improvement. -------------------------------------------------------- What is KOMA-Script -------------------------------------------------------- KOMA-Script is a versatile bundle of LaTeX2e document classes and packages. It aims to be a replacement to the standard LaTeX2e classes. KOMA-Script does not stop with the features known from the standard classes, but it extends the possibilities in order to provide the user an almost complete working environment. -------------------------------------------------------- Versions of classes and packages at this release: -------------------------------------------------------- scrartcl.cls 2004/08/11 v2.9s scrbook.cls 2004/08/11 v2.9s scrreprt.cls 2004/08/11 v2.9s scrlttr2.cls 2004/08/11 v2.9s scrlettr.cls 2002/05/24 v2.6e (obsolete) scrtime.sty 2002/02/02 v1.1m scrdate.sty 2002/02/02 v1.1m scrpage2.sty 2004/07/05 v2.2 typearea.sty 2004/08/11 v2.9s scrlfile.sty 2004/08/11 v2.9s scrpage.sty 2001/06/22 v1.3c (obsolete) scraddr.sty 2002/06/02 v1.1b -------------------------------------------------------- What is new in this KOMA-Script release -------------------------------------------------------- This is mostly a scrpage2-improvement release: - pre-set-line-commands, which may be used to colorize the lines at head and foot - part may be used at running head, if the class provides this (the KOMA-Script classes do so) - fix: captions at longtables improved (thanks to Axel Sommerfeldt) Go discover. -------------------------------------------------------- XML file with infromations for The TeX Catalogue: -------------------------------------------------------- See koma-script.xml at the distribution. -------------------------------------------------------- Distributors note: -------------------------------------------------------- Removing any of the files of the distribution made by the KOMA-Script maintainers prevents the users from using the provided makefile mentioned at the installation documentation: INSTALL.TXT or INSTALLD.TXT. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the upload. As usual, I installed is replacing the previous version in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/koma-script. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: exercise
by Jim Hefferon 23 Aug '04

23 Aug '04

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should by now have made it to your favorite mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: exercise Author's name: Paul Pichaureau Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/exercise Summary description: A package to typeset exercises, problems, etc. and their answers. License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package helps to typeset exercises or list of exercises within any document. Exercises, questions, sub-questions are automatically numbered. It is possible to put answers in the same document, and display them immediatly, later in the document or not at all. The layout of exercise is fully customisable. It is then possible to typeset long problems, short exercises, questionnaires, etc. Usage of the babel package is detected, but not fully supported by now (only english and french are implemented). See documentation for more information. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/exercise 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 submission -- hfoldsty virtual font
by Reinhard Zierke 23 Aug '04

23 Aug '04

----- Forwarded message from Harald Harders ----- I have uploaded hfoldsty-v1_11.tar to ftp.dante.de. It contains the new version of the hfoldsty virtual font package. Please replace all files in CTAN/fonts/hfoldsty by its contents. Please do not unpack the zip archives. License stays GPL. >From the README: The hfoldsty package provides virtual fonts for using oldstyle (0123456789) figures with the European Computer Modern fonts. It does a similar job as the eco package by Sebastian Kirsch <skirsch(a)t-online.de> but includes a couple of improvements, e.g., better kerning with guillemets, support for character protruding using the pdfcprot package, arbitrary font sizes in conjunction with fix-cm.sty. The new version provides the possiblity to reduce the number of used design sizes and to use arbitrary font sizes as done by the fix-cm package. Some missing fd files have been added, too. ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the upload. I installed the new version as suggested in CTAN:fonts/hfoldsty/. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN upload notification: pittetd
by Reinhard Zierke 23 Aug '04

23 Aug '04

A new package found its way on CTAN: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Name of contribution: pittetd Name and email: Federico Garcia Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/pittetd Summary description: Class for Electronic Theses and Diss. at Univ. of Pittsburgh License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A class that formats documents for submission as ETD's (Electr. Theses and Diss.) to the University of Pittsburgh. Creates a PDF file with all the required bookmarking (including bookmarks for each table and figure, within the bookmark for the corresponding List, a possibility that hyperref doesn't offer directly), checks for the required `preliminary pages', etc. It could be of use for writers of similar classes at other institutions. More and more universities are adopting some form of ETD every day, so I would expect more and more 'etd' LaTeX classes will come out. This one has some tricks that solve 'generic' needs of the kind. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I installed this as suggested in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/pittetd and created a PDF documentation from the pittetd.dtx file. Note that there already is another University of Pittsburgh thesis class in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/pitthesis. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN upload notification: Voss-mathCol.pdf
by Reinhard Zierke 23 Aug '04

23 Aug '04

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload ----- Name of contribution: Voss-mathCol.pdf Name and email: Herbert Voss Suggested location on CTAN: /tex-archive/info/math/voss Summary description: Article from the german dtk of colored math License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Voss-mathCol.pdf is the pdf version of the article Farbige Mathematik (Colored math) in the journal Die TeXnische Komödie of DANTE, the german TeX users group ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. I installed this article as suggested in CTAN:info/math/voss/ next to the other articles living there. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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Re: OzTeX 5.2
by Robin Fairbairns 20 Aug '04

20 Aug '04

Andrew Trevorrow writes: > OzTeX 5.2 is now available at all the main CTAN sites: > > ftp://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/systems/mac/oztex/oztex52.sit > ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/mac/oztex/oztex52.sit > ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/mac/oztex/oztex52.sit > > OzTeX is a stand-alone Mac implementation of TeX, or it can be used as > a front-end to teTeX on OS X. > > I try to keep the above download version as small as possible (the .sit > archive is 13.2MB). OzTeX 5.2 is also available on a CD packed with > extra fonts, macros and TeX-related software, including Gerben Wierda's > teTeX/Ghostscript installer. More details here: > > http://www.trevorrow.com/oztex/ozcd.html andrew -- thanks for the contribution. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: t1infos
by Jim Hefferon 19 Aug '04

19 Aug '04

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thank you for the upload, Jim Hefferon The author provides this information: ====================================================== Two little programs written in C (using the t1lib) for scanning Type 1 fonts, and doing: a) compute the black area of each glyph, with how much percent of the square containing the glyph is black. b) checking if the extremas (see Adobe Type 1 specifications) of the outline are correct, and tell which one are missing. A postscript dictionary containing three algorithms for automatic kerning (the kerning is computed on the fly instead of being pre-computed by an external software like TeX, groff or lout; very useful for some PostScript hacking); two of them are quite classical ; one is original and is Postscript-optimized. The postscript file contains both a demonstration code and the dictionary itself; thus it can be previewed with gv.

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Re: Update to register package
by Rainer Schöpf 19 Aug '04

19 Aug '04

Matt Lovell submitted an update of his package register. This package is designed for typesetting the programmable elements in digital hardware, i.e., registers. Such registers typically have many fields and can be quite wide; they are thus a challenge to typeset in a consistent manner. Register is similar in some aspects to the bitfield package by Reuben Thomas. Anyone doing hardware documentation using LaTeX should examine both packages. Register requires a fairly recent version of the float package. This update provides a new boolean which can be used to test against being within the context of a register diagram. The accompanying Perl script and module have also been modified to allow extraction of LaTeX dependencies for Makefiles. Thanks for the upload, I installed it in macros/latex/contrib/register For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: the exam document class
by Jim Hefferon 19 Aug '04

19 Aug '04

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and will by now be at your favorite mirror. Thank you for the update. Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: The exam document class Author's name: Philip Hirschhorn Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/exam Summary description: A document class that makes it easy for even a LaTeX novice to prepare exams. License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is version 2.2 of the exam documentclass, a major extension of version 2.01. Version 2.2 is fully backward compatible with version 2.01. The exam documentclass, together with its documentation file examdoc.tex, attempts to make it easy for even a LaTeX novice to prepare exams. Simple commands are provided to: 1. Create questions, parts of questions, subparts of parts, and subsubparts of subparts, all with optional point values. 2. Create a grading table, indexed either by question number (listing each question and the total possible points for that question) or by page number (listing each page with points and the total possible points for that page). 3. Create headers and footers that are each specified in three parts: One part to be left justified, one part to be centered, and one part to be right justified. 4. Headers and/or footers can be different on the first page of the exam, can be different on the last page of the exam, and can vary depending on whether the page number is odd or even, or on whether the current page continues a question from a previous page, or on whether the last q uestion on the current page continues onto the following page. 5. Multiple line headers and/or footers are allowed, and it's easy to increase the part of the page devoted to headers and/or footers to allow for this. The documentation file examdoc.tex attempts to explain all of the possibilities in a readable way, with many specific examples. - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- The main features of version 2.2 that are new since version 2.01 are: 1. Grading tables can be created automatically, formatted either horizontally or vertically, and indexed by either question number or page number. 2. Point values can be allocated in half points. 3. Headers and footers can know whether the current page continues a question begun on an earlier page (and, if so, the number of that question). 4. Headers and footers can know whether last question on the current page continues onto a later page (and, if so, the number of that question). 5. Point values for question, parts, subparts, or subsubparts can appear either in the text of the question, in the left margin, in the right margin on the first line of the question (or part, etc.), or in the right margin on the last line of the question (or part, etc.). 6. The format of the line containing the question number can be totally reformatted. 7. There are two environments for listing the possible answers to multiple choice questions: One lists the choices as items in a list, and the other lists all the choices in a single paragraph. There is also a command to print an answer line for a short answer question. 8. There is an environment for printing ruled lines to be used for answers. 9. There is a solution environments in which one can type the solution to a problem and have it printed or not printed depending on a single command near the beginning of the file. These environments can (optionally) leave either blank space or ruled lines when solutions are not being printed. 10. All of the labels for questions, parts, subparts, and subsubparts and all of the words used in grading tables can be completely customized, allowing for use in languages other than English. 11. There is a coverpages environment to print one or more cover pages numbered separately from the main pages of the exam. 12. The exam documentclass is compatible with hyperref.sty. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/exam 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 notification: sauerj (several small packages)
by Reinhard Zierke 19 Aug '04

19 Aug '04

Name of contribution: sauerj (several small packages) Name and email: Jonathan Sauer Suggested location on CTAN: tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/sauerj Summary description: Update for sauerj: optparams (new), parcolumns, processkv, zahl2string License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- These are a few LaTeX2e-packages for a variety of tasks: - optparams provides a small macro for creating macros with multiple optional parameters. Current version: 0.9 - parcolumns provides an environment for typesetting text in two or more columns columns in parallel. Requires the processkv-package (below). Current version: 1.0.1 - processkv provides macros for processing of key-value-lists by calling a user-defined macro for each key-value-pair. Requires the keyval-package dated 1999/03/16 or later. Current version: 1.0.1 - zahl2string provides macros for formatting numbers as german words, i.e. `1' gets formatted as `eins'. Current version: 1.1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. I installed the new and updated packages as suggested in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/sauerj. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN package upgrade: filecontents
by Jim Hefferon 18 Aug '04

18 Aug '04

A package has been upgraded at tug.ctan.org and should soon 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: filecontents Author's name: Scott Pakin Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/filecontents Summary description: Improved version of LaTeX2e's filecontents environment License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LaTeX2e's filecontents and filecontents* environments enable a LaTeX source file to generate external files as it's run through latex. However, there are two limitations of these environments: They refuse to overwrite existing files; and, they can be used only before the documentclass declaration. The filecontents package removes these limitations, making it possible to overwrite existing files and to use filecontents/filecontents* anywhere. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/filecontents 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 license clarification: tex_converter
by Jim Hefferon 16 Aug '04

16 Aug '04

The CTAN package tex_converter license has been set to be an X11 license, and so the package now does not live in nonfree. See http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/tex_converter . Thank you, Jim Hefferon

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CTAN package update: ushyph
by Jim Hefferon 16 Aug '04

16 Aug '04

A package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and teh changes should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you for the upload, Jim ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: ushyph Author's name: Gerard Kuiken Location on CTAN: language/hyphenation Summary description: extended US hyphenation patterns freely available License type: dfsg Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- In 1990, Gerard Kuiken published extended patterns for hyphenation of US English (TUGboat 11(1)). Gerard has now graciously agreed to release them under a Debian/FSF free license, hence this update. The patterns themselves are unchanged since 1990, though Gerard may release updates in the future for other incorrect hyphenations which have come to light. The ushyphmax.tex file was previously known as ushyphen.max. Thanks Gerard! Happy hyphenating, Karl Berry (just the release droid) - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/hyphenation 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: polynom
by Jim Hefferon 16 Aug '04

16 Aug '04

A package upgrade has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: polynom Author's name: Carsten Heinz Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/polynom Summary description: Macros for manipulating polynomials License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The polynom package implements macros for manipulating polynomials, for example it can typeset polynomial long divisions and synthetic divisions (Horner's scheme). The main test case and application is the polynomial ring in one variable with rational coefficients. Multivariate polynomials are currently not supported. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/polynom 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: CTAN upload notification: movie15
by Rainer Schöpf 13 Aug '04

13 Aug '04

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 Alexander Grahn submitted a new version of his package `movie15'': > Name of contribution: movie15 > Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/movie15 > Summary description: PDF-1.5 compatible multimedia inclusion package > License type: lppl > > Announcement text: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This package defines the command 'includemovie' for > inclusion of media files (movies and sound) following > Adobe's PDF-1.5 specification. PDF-1.5 allows for a larger > variety of file types to be included. Moreover, multiple > media clips can be played back at the same time. The > package can be used with LaTeX and pdfLaTeX, the latter > being the preferred method. If LaTeX source is processed > by pdfLaTeX, media file data are incorporated into PDF > output by default, thus producing selfcontained PDF > documents. Several options, e.g., autoplay, autostop, > autoresume and autopause, repeat and volume have been > provided. > > pdfLaTeX support has been added. > ********************************************************************** Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN ahs a new package: FigBib
by Jim Hefferon 12 Aug '04

12 Aug '04

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and it should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you for the contribution, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: FigBib Author's name: Jan Poland Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/figbib Summary description: organize figure databases with BibTeX License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- FigBib lets you organize your figures in BibTeX databases. Some FigBib features are: - - - Store and manage figures in a BibTeX database - - - Include figures in your LaTeX document with one short command - - - Generate a List of Figures containing more/other information than the figure captions - - - Control with one switch where to output the figures, either as usual float objects or in a separate part at the end of your document FigBib is for LaTeX authors who have to organize many figures. In this case, it may not be convenient to manage all information in a ``low level manner directly in the documents. Instead, it would be desirable to have a database which contains the images, corresponding captions and additional information in a bundled form. Then, a ``high-level command is issued each time a figure needs to be included. FigBib provides such a mechanism. If the user wants to include a figure with the label ``MyFigure:1 as a float object on the top of the page with a width of 5cm, then he writes fbEpsfig{MyFigure:1}{5cm}{t} The corresponding data for the figure, such as caption, name of the eps file etc., is stored in a BibTeX data base. There, the entry could be for example @fig{MyFigure:1, main = {This is the description/caption}, file = {myfigure1} - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/figbib 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: CTAN upload notification: linenox0.sty, linenox1.sty
by Rainer Schöpf 12 Aug '04

12 Aug '04

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 Uwe Lück uploaded to CTAN: > Name of contribution: linenox0.sty, linenox1.sty > Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ednotes/ > Summary description: bug fix, opagebreak under lineno.sty > License type: LaTeX Project > > Announcement text: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Former revival of opagebreak at paragraph ends with lineno.sty (which > ednotes.sty calls) worked as if *each* paragraph had been closed by > opagebreak. Here is a fix.---However, we are planning to dissolve > these packages linenox0f..sty in lineno.sty in August anyway, at its > author's, Stephan Boettcher's, offer. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update, I installed the two files in macros/latex/contrib/ednotes/ For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN submision: DictSym font and macro package
by Rainer Schöpf 09 Aug '04

09 Aug '04

On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Walter Schmidt wrote: > I have uploaded the ZIP file dictsym-dist.zip to the /incoming > directory at dante.ctan.org. Please, create a new directory > > fonts/dictsym > > > This is the DictSym Type1 font designed by Georg Verweyen, > accompanied by a number of files to use it with LaTeX on the > Un*x or PC platform. The font provides a number of symbols > commonly used in dictionaries. Thanks for your upload. As requested, I installed the files in fonts/dictsym For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN submission -- numprint.sty and nbaseprt.sty
by Rainer Schöpf 09 Aug '04

09 Aug '04

On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Harald Harders wrote: > I have uploaded numprint-v1_22-v0_10.tar.gz which contains a new version > of numprint and the new package nbaseprt. Please replace the files in > CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/numprint by the contents of the archive. License > is LPPL. > > >From the README: > > numprint.sty: > Print numbers with a separator every three digits and convert numbers > given as 12345.6e789 to 12,345,6cdot 10^{789}. Numbers are printed > in the current mode (text or math) in order to use the correct font. > Many things, including the decimal sign, the thousand separator, as > well as the product sign can be changed by the user, e.g., to reach > 12,345.6 imes 10^{789}. If requested, numprint can round numbers to > a given number of digits. > If an optional argument is given it is printed upright as unit. > Numbers can be rounded to a given number of digits. > The package supports an automatic, language-dependent change of the > number format. > Tabular alignment using the tabular(*), array, tabularx, and longtable > environments (similar to the dcolumn and rccol packages) is supported > using all features of numprint. Additional text can be added before and > after the formatted number. > > If you prefer to use the old version 0.32 you may use numprint032.sty > which will stay fixed. > > nbaseprt.sty: > This package prints INT numbers in different bases (octal, > decimal, hexadecimal, binary) similarly to the numprint package. > But here, the number of digits within one group depends on the > base. > This version of nbaseprt.sty is a BETA VERSION. The main command > baseprint will stay stable but all configuration commands and the output > of baseprint may change in future. Please give me feedback what can be > improved and if the abbreviations for the different number bases are > correct. > > > ChangeLog.numprint: > > 2004/08/08 v1.22 Harald Harders (h.harders(a)tu-bs.de) > - Use punitcommand to typeset units. > - Produce a warning rather than an error when using extdegree as > unit. > - Enable to use extcelsius, extohm, extmu, extperthousand > in the unit. > - Print sign in a group to avoid additional space for an operator > (for nbaseprt). > - Restrain empty color command to exponent. > > > ChangeLog.nbaseprt: > > 2004/08/08 v0.10 Harald Harders (h.harders(a)tu-bs.de) > - New Implementation > > > nbaseprt is a beta version. Please give me feedback what can be improved > and if the input and output is correct. Thanks for your upload. I installed the package in macros/latex/contrib/numprint For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: fontinst upload
by Rainer Schöpf 09 Aug '04

09 Aug '04

On Sun, 8 Aug 2004, Lars Hellström wrote: > I have to ftp.dante.de uploaded an archive fontinst.tar.gz into /incoming. > It contains the new fontinst release (v1.927), and the license is as usual > the LPPL. > > The main differences to the previous version are: > * A bug that prevented running fontinst on eTeX has been fixed. > * The manual has been revised (and is available also as PDF). > > Short quote from the README: > > Fontinst is a program that helps with installing fonts > for (La)TeX. Since it is written entirely in TeX macros, > it is completely portable. > > More precisely, fontinst helps mainly with the number > crunching and shoveling parts of font installation. This > means in practice that it creates a number of files which > give the TeX metrics (and related information) for a font > family that (La)TeX needs to do any typesetting in these > fonts. Fontinst furthermore makes it easy to create fonts > containing glyphs from more than one base font, taking > advantage of e.g. expert font sets. > > Fontinst cannot examine files to see if they contain any > useful information, nor automatically search for files > or work with binary file formats; those tasks must > normally be done manually or with the help of some other > tool, such as the pltotf and vptovf programs. Thanks for the new version, I installed it as fonts/utilities/fontinst For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN upload notification: FPL Fonts (fwd)
by Rainer Schöpf 09 Aug '04

09 Aug '04

The following message is sent on behalf of Walter Schmidt: =================================== schnipp ================================== > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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. LaTeX support is provided by Walter Schmidt's improved > > Palatino metrics. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- These metrics and VFs will be integrated into the next version 9.2 of PSNFSS. A pre-release can be downloaded via <http://home.vr-web.de/was/psnfss.html> Feedback is welcome :-) Walter ================================ schnapp =====================================

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CTAN upload notification: sauerj (several small packages)
by Reinhard Zierke 08 Aug '04

08 Aug '04

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload(a)nova.dante.de ----- Name of contribution: SauerJ Name and email: Jonathan Sauer <jonathan.sauer(a)gmx.de> Suggested location on CTAN: tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/sauerj Summary description: Three packages for LaTeX2e: parcolumns, processkv and zahl2string License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Three LaTeX2e packages I wrote recently: - parcolumns provides an environment for typesetting text in two or more columns columns in parallel. - processkv provides macros for processing of key-value-lists by calling a user-defined macro for each key-value-pair. - zahl2string provides macros for formatting numbers as german words, i.e. `1' gets formatted as `eins'. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. I installed these packages as suggested in CTAN:tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/sauerj/ Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN upload notification: leaflet 1.0
by Reinhard Zierke 08 Aug '04

08 Aug '04

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload ----- Name of contribution: leaflet 1.0 Name and email: Rolf Niepraschk <Rolf.Niepraschk(a)ptb.de> Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/leaflet Summary description: Create small handouts (flyers) License type: LaTeX Project Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A document class to create small hand-outs (flyers) that fit on a single sheet of paper which is then folded twice. Pages are rearranged by LaTeX so that they print correctly on a single sheet -- no external script is necessary. (Works with PostScript and PDF.) This is a complete reimplementation with permission of the original author Juergen Schlegelmilch. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. I installed this as suggested replacing Juergen Schlegelmilch's original version. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: TeX Converter
by Jim Hefferon 06 Aug '04

06 Aug '04

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon make 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: TeX Converter Author's name: Steve Mayer Location on CTAN: nonfree/support/tex_converter Summary description: Windows front-end to various LaTeX to HTML converters License type: nosource Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TeX Converter is a Windows front-end to 4 programs that convert TeX to HTML - HeVeA, TtH, TeX4ht and LaTeX2HTML. These programs run in DOS and require complicated command lines. The purpose of TeX Converter is to make these programs easy to run. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/nonfree/support/tex_converter 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: ebib
by Jim Hefferon 04 Aug '04

04 Aug '04

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thank you for the contribution, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: ebib Author's name: Joost Kremers Location on CTAN: biblio/bibtex/utils/ebib Summary description: Ebib is a BibTeX database manager for GNU Emacs License type: bsd Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ebib is a BibTeX database manager that runs in GNU Emacs. With Ebib, you can create and manage a BibTeX database within Emacs, without having to edit the raw .bib-file. It supports @string and @preamble definitions, multi-line field values, searching, and integration with Emacs' (La)TeX mode. Ebib's homepage is located at <http://ebib.sourceforge.net>. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/ebib 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: CTAN submission -- contour.sty
by Rainer Schöpf 04 Aug '04

04 Aug '04

On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Harald Harders wrote: > I have uploaded contour-v2_00.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de. It contains the new > version of contour.sty. Please replace the files in > CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/contour by its contents. License stays LPPL. > > >From the README: > > This package generates a colored contour around a given text in order > to enable printing text over a background without the need of a > color box around the text. > > ChangeLog: > > 2004/08/03 v2.00 Harald Harders (h.harders(a)tu-bs.de), > Morten Høgholm (moho01ab(a)student.cbs.dk) > - Allow arbitrary numbers of copies and automatic determination of > this number. Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested, in macros/latex/contrib/contour For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN upload notification: FPL Fonts
by Rainer Schöpf 04 Aug '04

04 Aug '04

On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 Ralf Stubner submitted a new package to CTAN: > Name of contribution: FPL Fonts > Suggested location on CTAN: fonts/fpl/ > Summary description: SC and OsF fonts for URW Palladio L > License type: gpl > > Announcement text: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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. LaTeX support is provided by Walter Schmidt's improved > Palatino metrics. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload, I installed it in fonts/fpl For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN upload notification: eqparbox
by Rainer Schöpf 02 Aug '04

02 Aug '04

On Mon, 2 Aug 2004 Scott Pakin submitted an update to his eqparbox package: > Name of contribution: eqparbox > Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/eqparbox/ > Summary description: Create equal-widthed parboxes > License type: lppl > > Announcement text: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > LaTeX users sometimes need to ensure that two or more > blocks of text occupy the same amount of horizontal > space on the page. To that end, the eqparbox package > defines a new command, eqparbox, which works just like > parbox, except that instead of specifying a width, one > specifies a tag. All eqparboxes with the same tag -- > regardless of where they are in the document -- will > stretch to fit the widest eqparbox with that tag. This > simple, equal-width mechanism can be used for a variety > of alignment purposes, as is evidenced by the examples > in eqparbox's documentation. > > Version 2.0 makes better use of TeX's memory, allows > numbers and symbols to appear in tags, preserves fonts > across \ boundaries, and eliminates some incorrect > global prefixes. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload, I installed the new version. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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