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Re: CTAN upload notification: abbr
by CTAN Announcements 10 Aug '05

10 Aug '05

On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 The Thanh Han submitted a new package called abbr to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /macros/generic/abbr Summary description: a simple macro supporting abreviations for plain and latex License type: pd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- abbr is a set of some simple macros to support abbreviations in plain or latex. It allows writting e.g. <TEX> instead of TeX, hence frees users from having to escape space after parematerless macros. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: exteps
by FTP archive maintainer 10 Aug '05

10 Aug '05

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: exteps Author's name: Palle Jørgensen Location on CTAN: /graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/exteps Summary description: Tool for inclusion of EPS figures into MetaPost figures. License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 has a new package: dottex
by FTP archive maintainer 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should by now have made its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: dottex Author's name: Lars Kotthoff Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/dottex Summary description: Create dot graphs within LaTeX License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dottex allows you to create dot graphs (part of the graphviz package http://www.graphviz.org, creates directed graphs) within LaTeX documents. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/dottex . 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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tug.ctan.org upload: TpX
by FTP archive maintainer 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

A major package update has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to all other CTAN sites. Thank you for the update, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: TpX Author's name: Alexander Tsyplakov Location on CTAN: /graphics/tpx/ Summary description: TpX: A LaTeX-friendly drawing tool for Windows License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TpX 1.2 is on CTAN TpX is a lightweight, easy-to-use graphical editor for Windows platform for creation of drawings and inclusion them into LaTeX files in publication-ready form. It can also be used as a stand-alone editor for vector graphics. The output is a file (with extension .TpX) containing the drawing as LaTeX code or as an includegraphics link to an external file created by the program. User can choose between several output formats. TpX saves its own data in TeX file comments so that the drawing could be loaded into TpX and edited again. This internal TpX format is based on XML and could be understood and edited easily. TpX can import EMF/WMF pictures created by other Windows applications, including many applications producing scientific graphs. In most cases the result is nice, though sometimes imported picture needs some manual editing. So TpX can be used as a EMF-to-any converter. Homepage: http://tpx.sourceforge.net/ Distributed under GNU Public License - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/tpx/ . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN has a new package: arev
by FTP archive maintainer 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon appear, as if by magic, at your favorite mirror. Thank you for the contribution, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: arev Author's name: Stephen Hartke Location on CTAN: /fonts/arev Summary description: Virtual fonts and LaTeX support files for Arev Sans License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package arev provides virtual fonts and LaTeX packages for using Arev Sans. Arev Sans is a derivative of Bitstream Vera Sans created by Tavmjong Bah by adding support for Greek and Cyrillic characters. Bah also added a few variant letters that are more appropriate for mathematics. The primary purpose for using Arev Sans in LaTeX is presentations, particularly when using a computer projector. Arev Sans is quite readable for presentations, with large x-height, open letters, wide spacing, and thick stems. The style is very similar to the SliTeX font lcmss, but heavier. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/arev . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN has a new package: talk
by FTP archive maintainer 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org from whence it will go forth into the world -- and in particular to your favorite mirror -- real soon. Thanks for the contribution, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: talk Author's name: Martin Wiebusch Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/talk Summary description: A LaTeX class for presentations License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The talk document class allows you to create slides for screen presentations or printing on transparencies. It also allows you to print personal notes for your talk. You can create overlays and display structure information (current section / subsection, table of contents) on your slides. The main feature that distinguishes talk from other presentation classes like beamer or prosper is that it allows the user to define an arbitrary number of slide styles and switch between these styles from slide to slide. This way the slide layout can be adapted to the slide content. For example, the title or contents page of a talk can be given a slightly different layout than the other slides. The talk class makes no restrictions on the slide design whatsoever. The entire look and feel of the presentation can be defined by the user. The style definitions should be put in a separate sty file. Currently the package comes with only one set of pre-defined slide styles (greybars.sty). Contributions from people who are artistically more gifted than me are more than welcome! - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/talk . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN has a new package: volumes
by FTP archive maintainer 29 Jul '05

29 Jul '05

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks again. Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: volumes Author's name: Frank Küster Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/volumes Summary description: Typeset only parts of a document, with complete indices etc. License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package tries to help you if you want to produce separate printed volumes from one LaTeX document, as well as one comprehensive, all-inclusive version. It suppresses the part of the table of contents that are not typeset, while counters, definitions, index entries etc. are kept consistent throughout the input file. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/volumes . 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: BaKoMa TeX 7.36 - TeXWord and DVIEW improvements.
by CTAN Announcements 29 Jul '05

29 Jul '05

On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Basil Malyshev submitted an update for the bakoma package. Location on CTAN: systems/win32/bakoma License: shareware Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf > Most noticeable improvements are: > > * Instant update of source text window in TeXWord. > [problem remarked in `bakoma micro-review' in comp.text.tex] > * Changed default of hash_extra from 0 to 10000 in order > to support more packages (i.e. beamer) > without additional configuration. > * Remove selected text at entering letters in source text window. > * Fixed bug in DVI Forward/Inverse Search in Math (DVIEW). > * Fixed erasepage in View/Orientation = landscape (TeXWord). > * Support of clipsave/cliprestore Postscript Level 3 operators. > > More details about changes and another bug fixing see at: > <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes7.html> > > -------------------- About BaKoMa TeX 7.36 ------------------ > > BaKoMa TeX 7.36 supports two coexisting IDE: > 1) BaKoMa TeX Word - True WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor. > 2) Text Editor + DVI Viewer - Clasical IDE. > > About BaKoMa TeX Word. > > BaKoMa TeX Word is True WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor. > > The word `True' is used to highlight two following facts: > > 1) It is True WYSIWYG Editor. > It means that display shows precisely the same what will be printed. > It looks such that you edit your document immediately in DVI Viewer. > 2) It is True LaTeX Editor. > It edits LaTeX source text without any import/export procedure. > It means that you can load and edit any LaTeX 2e document. > > BaKoMa TeX Word is built on top of BaKoMa TeX graphic engine and > consequently it inherits all features of BaKoMa TeX related > with import graphics, font support, and document export. > > It supports processors: > (1) Standard TeX and (2) e-TeX. > Other processors such as Omega may be added in future. > > It imports: > EPS, PDF, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, > MSP, BMP, WMF, EMF, FIG, HPGL, and DXY. > It supports fonts: > OpenType (OTF/TTF), TrueType, PostScript Type1 (including MM), > PostScript Type 3, and TeX PK/VF. > It exports: > DVI, PDF, SVG, PS, PNG (with HTML wrapper), and HTML (TeX4HT). > > It includes built-in PostScript interpreter accessible via DVIPS > compatible special interface that supports such macro packages as: > Prosper, PSTricks, PSFrag, graphics (psfig), draftcopy, etc. > > Most important application of BaKoMa TeX Word is > final step corrections of LaTeX papers before publishing. > > Editing Prosper's slides in WYSIWYG interface > is another impressive feature of `BaKoMa TeX Word'. > > More information about `BaKoMa TeX Word' is at: > <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/texword.html> > > Some snapshots are available at: > <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/snapshots/> > > Root of BaKoMa TeX distributions is at: > <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/> >

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New CTAN package: pst-barcode
by CTAN Announcements 28 Jul '05

28 Jul '05

Herbert Voß writes: > Authors: Terry Burton and Herbert Voß > > pst-barcode is a new package which allows > printing of barcodes. > Possible barcodes are: > isbn; ean13; ean8; ean5; ean2; upca; upce; code128; > code93; code39; code11; interleaved2of5; code2of5; > rationalizedCodabar; postnet; royalmail; msi; plessey. > > As part of the PSTricks bundle, it requires the main > pstricks package. pst-barcode uses PostScript for > calculating the bars. For a PDF output use ps2pdf. the package was installed this morning, so will already be available from the other ctan sites, and many mirrors. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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New CTAN package: flowfram
by CTAN Announcements 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

> An upload to cam.ctan.org is in /anfs/ctan-inc/upload-20050727-162648/ > > ====================================================================== > > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: flowfram > Author's name: Nicola Talbot > Author's email: ... > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/flowfram > Summary description: Create text frames for posters, brochures or magazines > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The flowfram package is designed to enable you to create > frames in a document such that the contents of the document > environment flow from one frame to the next in the order in which > they were defined. This is useful for creating posters, brochures > or magazines or any other form of document that does not conform to > the standard one or two column layout. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > You can have a look at the package at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/flowfram/ > or download the whole thing via > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/flowfram.zip i've installed the package at cambridge: it should be at the other two main ctan sites pretty soon. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: pdfbook
by FTP archive maintainer 26 Jul '05

26 Jul '05

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: pdfbook Author's name: Jaap Eldering Location on CTAN: /support/pdfbook Summary description: Rearrange pages for booklet printing License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Rearrange pages in a PDF file into signatures and (optionally) rescale to fit 2 original pages on 1 physical one. Allows one to easily convert pdf documents to booklet format, e.g. transform from A4 paper to A5 pages on A4 paper, such that one can fold the pages and obtains a small booklet. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/pdfbook . 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 TUG node has a new look
by FTP archive maintainer 23 Jul '05

23 Jul '05

The TeX Users Group branch of the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network http://tug.ctan.org has a new web interface. When you visit you will notice a new look, including a wonderful drawing by Duane Bibby. You will also notice an improved organization: directory browsing now includes more information about packages, an introduction for newbies to TeX is right up front, and there is a way to search all package documentation. Many more features will come online in the future. For example, we will have a keyword search of packages, but as yet the packages do not have keywords, so that search is disabled for the moment. Another example is that we will have a more sophisticated upload facility, that for one thing allows authors to enter keywords for their package. There are also some incomplete links, etc. We are working on these features, but rather than wait longer, now is the right time to bring this new system online -- for one thing, the functioning features are already an improvement over what was there. These improvements would not be possible without the support of the user groups, including Dante's travel support for three maintainer's meetings and TUG's purchase of a new site machine with increased power. We gratefully acknowledge that without this support by user groups, this development would not have happened. No doubt people will find bugs, and have comments and feature requests. In particular, the first few days might be rocky :-} We apologize for shortcomings and thank you for your patience. We have set up a mailing list for discussion of this project; see https://lists.dante.de/mailman/listinfo/ctanweb/ . Because archives of this list are available for public viewing you can see if there has already been a discussion of the point. Finally, note that the web interface to other two CTAN core nodes http://www.cam.ctan.org and http://dante.ctan.org/ remain stable throughout this change. Also stable are the FTP and rsync interfaces to all three sites, and of course all of our mirrors. Thank you, Jim Hefferon, for the CTAN team

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CTAN update: poemscol 2.35
by CTAN Announcements 20 Jul '05

20 Jul '05

On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, John Burt submitted an update to the poemscol package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/poemscol Summary description: Macros for typesetting critical editions of poetry License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Poemscol 2.35 provides easier ways of handling long titles of poems and of volumes in a collected poems, in the main text as well as in the table of contents. It also provides simpler ways of customizing the table of contents. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: floatrow v0.1g
by CTAN Announcements 19 Jul '05

19 Jul '05

On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Olga Lapko submitted an update to the floatrow package. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/floatrow Summary description: Customising layouts for floating environments License type: lppl Abstract: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The floatrow package provides many ways to customise layouts of floating environments; it offers possibilities to put floats side by side, to put caption beside float. All floats of one type appear in one layout. Some floatrow settings could be expanded to rows of subfloats (subfig package). Package co-operates with caption 3.x package. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes: - Moving user documentation in the same file with style code; - The support of NON-caption3.x usage ceased; - Redefinitions of any float/caption stuff localized: used inside supported float environments only; - floatrow package tries to follow support for hyperref/hypcap packages, created by caption3.x (now 3.0g) package; - Support for subfloatrow environment (subfig package) moved inside floatrow package; - Added option for longtable which allows to set width of caption equal to table width; ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: BaKoMa TeX 7.35 - TeXWord and DVIEW improvements.
by CTAN Announcements 19 Jul '05

19 Jul '05

On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Basil Malyshev submitted an update to the bakoma package: Location on CTAN: systems/win32/bakoma' > Most noticeable improvements are: > > * Improved moving/selection with arrows in TeXWord page window. > * New `View/Orientation' option in TeXWord and DVIEW > lets to choose Portrait, Landscape, Seascape, Upside-down view. > * Refined Compatibility with EPS saved from Acrobat 7.0 > * New option (`-f') is supported at Centaur command line. > * Console now automatically kills child process. > > More details about changes and another bug fixing see at: > <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes7.html> > -------------------- About BaKoMa TeX 7.35 ------------------ > > BaKoMa TeX 7.35 supports two coexisting IDE: > 1) BaKoMa TeX Word - True WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor [New in V 7.0]. > 2) Text Editor + DVI Viewer - Clasical IDE. > > About BaKoMa TeX Word. > > BaKoMa TeX Word is True WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor. > > The word `True' is used to highlight two following facts: > > 1) It is True WYSIWYG Editor. > It means that display shows precisely the same what will be printed. > It looks such that you edit your document immediately in DVI Viewer. > 2) It is True LaTeX Editor. > It edits LaTeX source text without any import/export procedure. > It means that you can load and edit any LaTeX 2e document. > > BaKoMa TeX Word is built on top of BaKoMa TeX graphic engine and > consequently it inherits all features of BaKoMa TeX related > with import graphics, font support, and document export. > > It supports processors: > (1) Standard TeX and (2) e-TeX. > Other processors such as Omega may be added in future. > > It imports: > EPS, PDF, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, > MSP, BMP, WMF, EMF, FIG, HPGL, and DXY. > It supports fonts: > OpenType (OTF/TTF), TrueType, PostScript Type1 (including MM), > PostScript Type 3, and TeX PK/VF. > It exports: > DVI, PDF, SVG, PS, PNG (with HTML wrapper), and HTML (TeX4HT). > > It includes built-in PostScript interpreter accessible via DVIPS > compatible special interface that supports such macro packages as: > Prosper, PSTricks, PSFrag, graphics (psfig), draftcopy, etc. > > Most important application of BaKoMa TeX Word is > final step corrections of LaTeX papers before publishing. > > Editing Prosper's slides in WYSIWYG interface > is another impressive feature of `BaKoMa TeX Word'. > > More information about `BaKoMa TeX Word' is at: > <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/texword.html> > > Some snapshots are available at: > <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/snapshots/> > > Root of BaKoMa TeX distributions is at: > <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: de-macro
by Jim Hefferon 16 Jul '05

16 Jul '05

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org. Look for it at your favorite mirror real soon now. Thanks, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: de-macro Author's name: Peter Gacs Location on CTAN: /support/de-macro License type: lppl Summary description: Convert your private TeX macros: for publication, communication. Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- de-macro is a Python script that helps authors addicted to using a large number of private LaTeX macros (I even use ewcommand{ }{n} a lot). A technical editor or a cooperating author may balk at such a manuscript. Now, you can just run de-macro on it! - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can look at this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/de-macro . 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: MicroIMP
by CTAN Announcements 16 Jul '05

16 Jul '05

MicroPress Inc have provided a free (though nosource) distribution of their MicroIMP LaTeX-based word processor. This is release 0.12 of the system, and isn't yet considered a finished product: however, it is believed to be usable. I have installed the distribution on CTAN at systems/win32/microimp. Users may view the directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/microimp/ and the full distribution may be downloaded from http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/microimp/mimp-012.zip I append the README file from the directory; this is an extract from the documentation pdf, which is in the directory (as well as being part of the zip file). Thanks to MicroPress for suggesting that we should hold this software on CTAN. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team =========== The Concept The idea behind MicroIMP is to reconcile two so far disjoint worlds: the World of the Word Processors and the World of quality technical typesetting. In the World of the Word Processors, where Microsoft Word reigns, the document are easy to make and no learning cycle is required; but the document are often lack in quality and the easiness comes at the cost of sacrificing features. In the World of Quality Technical Typesetting, where TeX reigns, features and quality are abundant; but the learning cost turns off most of the new users dooming TeX to the niche enthusiast market. Enter MicroIMP: an intuitive WYSIWYG document preparation system, based on LaTeX. MicroIMP delivers easiness: no TeX markup needs to be learned; no commands, and no backslashes. WYSIWYG. Ready to use the moment you run it. Don't struggle with the syntax, but Imp with Impunity. MicroIMP delivers power: it is based on a TeX kernel and incorporates TeX formatting techniques; these include math, hyphenation, automatic ligatures, and much else. As MicroIMP grows, more TeX/LaTeX features would be added -- without any burden on the user. (Hardcore TeX users should not disappointed by the above: there is a way to enter TeX commands and s in the document...if you so insist.) Overview: MicroIMP has a typical Word Processing look and feel: you can enter the text right away, and use the formatting commands from the menus to change its appearance. Most of the menu commands are intuitive and no additional documentation is needed to explain them. MicroIMP features include * Full WYSIWYG interface. * Spelling checker. * Multiple language support (English, German, Dutch, Italian, French) * Table of Contents generation. * Index generation. * References. * Accent command support. * Lists, including itemizing, enumerating and description (build 012). * Tables. * Mathematics. * Equation numbering. * Box rotation and scaling. * Graphics inclusion (all common bitmap formats.) * Trees. * Hyperlinks. * Copy/Paste of text (including Unicode), markup, and images. * Read/Write blocks of text. * Save as TML (native format), PDF/PS, and LaTeX * Support for the TeX-standard CM fontset, EC, and a number of alternatives. * RTF import.

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CTAN update: mhchem bundle v3.00
by CTAN Announcements 15 Jul '05

15 Jul '05

On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Martin Hensel submitted version 3.00 of the mhchem bundle to CTAN. Currently, the mhchem bundle consists of two packages: mhchem and rsphrase. The mhchem package provides two commands: one for typesetting chemical molecular formulae and one for typesetting chemical equations with these formulae. The rsphrase package contains the text of all official Risk and Safety (R and S) Phrases that are used to label chemicals. At the time being, these phrases are available in English, German (current spelling), and Danish. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/mhchem/ Summary description: for typesetting chemical formulae, chemical equations and Risk and Safety (R and S) Phrases License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 3.00 of the mhchem bundle. added: more bonds Don't mind about the version changing to 3.00. It is only due to a very small change in the user-interface. However, I promised myself never to use a sub-optimal user-interface only because of `historical reasons', and so I changed the meaning of the ond command. The changing interface in turn had to be reflected in the version number. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN upload notification: movie15
by CTAN Announcements 15 Jul '05

15 Jul '05

On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Alexander Grahn submitted an update to the movie15 package. This package defines includemovie with PDF-1.5 compatibility. Option 'autoplay' causes the media clip to be started right after the page has loaded. This is useful for side by side movie clips to be played back synchronously. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/movie15/ Summary description: multimedia inclusion package License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This release fixes a bug in connexion with the `3D' package option and adds a 3D specific command option which specifies the aperture angle of the virtual camera. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: csquotes 3.0
by CTAN Announcements 15 Jul '05

15 Jul '05

Philipp Lehman writes: > I've placed `csquotes.tar.gz' in the incoming directory of the CTAN UK > node. This is an update for macros/latex/contrib/csquotes. Please > purge the old files, install the new ones, and announce the upload as > usual. i have installed the files as requested; thanks for the upload. users may view the new version at: http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/csquotes/ or download the entire package at: http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/csquotes.zip > ABOUT > > This package provides advanced facilities for inline and display > quotations. It is designed for a wide range of tasks ranging from the > most simple applications to the more complex demands of formal > quotations in academic writing, especially in the humanities and the > social sciences. The facilities include commands, environments, and > user-definable `smart quotes' which dynamically adjust to their > context. Quotation marks are switched automatically if quotations are > nested and they can be adjusted to the current language if the > interface to the babel package is enabled. There are additional > facilities designed to cope with the more specific demands of > academic writing. All quote styles as well as the optional active > quotes are freely configurable. > > CHANGES > > * Extended lockquote > * Extended foreignblockquote > * Extended hyphenblockquote > * Extended setquotestyle > * Added cquote > * Added foreigncquote > * Added hyphencquote > * Added lockcquote > * Added foreignblockcquote > * Added hyphenblockcquote > * Added environment `displayquote' > * Added environment `foreigndisplayquote' > * Added environment `hyphendisplayquote' > * Added environment `displaycquote' > * Added environment `foreigndisplaycquote' > * Added environment `hyphendisplaycquote' > * Extended DeclarePlainStyle > * Added SetCiteCommand > * Renamed lockcite to mkcitation > * Added mkccitation > * Added mkmidblockpunct > * Added mkfinblockpunct > * Added evaluation of terminal punctuation in block quotations > * Added ifquotepunct > * Added ifquoteterm > * Added ifquoteperiod > * Added ifquotecomma > * Added ifquotesemicolon > * Added ifquotecolon > * Added ifquoteexclam > * Added ifquotequestion > * Added ifstringblank > * With onfrenchspacing, adjust space factor codes of backend quotes > * Improved nesting control when running under e-TeX > * Added interface to internal quotation marks > * Revised and expanded user manual > * Revised and expanded tutorial Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: sciposter
by CTAN Announcements 15 Jul '05

15 Jul '05

> An upload to cam.ctan.org is in <blah blah> > > ====================================================================== > > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: sciposter > Author's name: Michael H.F. Wilkinson > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/sciposter/ > Summary description: sciposter.cls v1.13, makes posters of ISO A3 size and larger > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Bug-fix of v1.12, page color seting now also works in presence of > right logo, manual improved as well. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i've installed the new version; thanks for the upload. > You can have a look at the package at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/sciposter/ > or download the complete new version at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/sciposter.zip Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN upgrade: pstricks-add
by CTAN Announcements 14 Jul '05

14 Jul '05

Herbert Voss writes: > I am just uploading pstricks-add to the uk mirror. > Please replace all files with the ones in > /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pstricks-add/ i have installed the update as requested. > This new version 2.57 has: > > - several bugfixes > - some improvements to psgraph > - new option ChangeOrder for listplot > - psplotDiffEqn, solving and plotting differential equation > (Adams, Ruge-Kutta), needs _newest_ pst-eqdf.pro and pstricks.pro > done by to Dominik Rodriguez > - psplotTangent to plot the slope at a given math function > done by to Dominik Rodriguez thanks for the upload. Users can view the updated material at: http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pstricks-add/ or download the whole package via: http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pstricks-add.zip Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN upload: wadalab font packages
by CTAN Announcements 13 Jul '05

13 Jul '05

On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Werner LEMBERG submitted font bundles for the Japanese Wadalab fonts which work with the CJK package. . All subfonts now have glyph names compliant to the Adobe Glyph List, making ToUnicode CMaps in PDF documents (created automatically by dvipdfmx) work correctly. . All font bundles now contain virtual Unicode subfonts. The files have been installed in fonts/wadalab Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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New CTAN packagve: commath
by CTAN Announcements 13 Jul '05

13 Jul '05

> An upload to cam.ctan.org is in /anfs/ctan-inc/upload-20050712-131539/ > > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: commath > Author's name: Wolfgang Putschögl > Author's email: <snipped> > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/commath > Summary description: Mathematics support > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > commath -- A LaTeX package which provides some commands which help > you to format formulas flexibly. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > You can have a look at the package at > http://http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/commath > and download the entire directory with the URL: > http://http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/commath.zip thanks for the upload: i have installed the package as indicated. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: numprint
by CTAN Announcements 13 Jul '05

13 Jul '05

On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Harald Harders submitted an update to the numprint package. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/numprint/ License: LPPL 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. ChangeLog: 2005/07/11 v1.35 Harald Harders (h.harders(a)tu-bs.de) - Support not to separate percent sign from number. Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: babelbib
by CTAN Announcements 13 Jul '05

13 Jul '05

On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Harald Harders submitted an update to the babelbib package. Location on CTAN: biblio/bibtex/contrib/babelbib/ License: LPPL 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: 2005/07/11 1.14 Robert Fuster (rfuster(a)mat.upv.es) - Complete and correct catalan. Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN upload: iopart-num
by CTAN Announcements 11 Jul '05

11 Jul '05

> An upload to cam.ctan.org is in /anfs/ctan-inc/upload-20050711-162503/ > > ====================================================================== > > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: iopart-num > Author's name: Mark Caprio > Location on CTAN: biblio/bibtex/contrib/iopart-num > Summary description: BibTeX style for use with IOP journals > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > BibTeX style providing numeric citation in Harvard-like format. > Intended for use with Institute of Physics (IOP) journals, including > Journal of Physics. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/iopart-num or download the entire directory at http://http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/iopart-num.zip thanks for the upload Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: breakurl v1.00
by CTAN Announcements 11 Jul '05

11 Jul '05

On Sun, 10 Jul 2005, Vilar Camara Neto submitted version 1.00 of the package breakurl to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/breakurl Summary description: The breakurl is an extension to hyperref package that allows line-breakable url-like links when compiling via latex + dvips + ps2pdf. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This new version adds compatibility with UrlLeft and UrlRight macros (documentation inside url.sty). Also, since I consider breakurl to be stable, I decided to tag it Version 1.00. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: poemscol 2.33
by CTAN Announcements 11 Jul '05

11 Jul '05

On Sat, 9 Jul 2005, John Burt submitted an update to his poemscol package. Location on CTAN: /tex/latex/contrib/poemscol Summary description: macros for critical editions of poetry License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Poemscol 2.33 fixes a bug in the formatting of the index of titles and first lines introduced (I think) in version 1.7. Also fixes the odd interaction between fancyhdr and reversemarginpar. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: New CB Type 1 fonts
by CTAN Announcements 11 Jul '05

11 Jul '05

On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Apostolos Syropoulos submitted a new version of CBfonts a package containing CB Type 1 fonts that have been regenerated with a new fonts proper font encoding. People willing to get these fonts should first read the README file. The old directory fonts/greek/cb has been replaced by the new one: fonts/greek/cbfonts Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: nag
by CTAN Announcements 11 Jul '05

11 Jul '05

On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Ulrich M. Schwarz submitted an update to the package nag to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/nag Summary description: nag -- detecting obsolete commands License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Fixed missing globals. - Now checks for csnames without elaxing them. (This is a bugfix release.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: thumbpdf v3.8
by CTAN Announcements 11 Jul '05

11 Jul '05

On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Heiko Oberdiek submitted an update to his package thumbpdf to CTAN. Thumbpdf provides support, using Perl, for thumbnails in pdftex and dvips/ps2pdf using ghostscript using ghostscript to generate the thumbnails which get represented in a TeX readable file that is read by the package thumbpdf.sty to automatically include the thumbnails. Works with both plain TeX and LaTeX. Location on CTAN:support/thumbpdf/ License remains LPPL. Changes of v3.8: * Fix because of pdfTeX 1.30. Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN upload: MnSymbol
by CTAN Announcements 11 Jul '05

11 Jul '05

On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Achim Blumensath submitted a new package mnsymbol to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /fonts/MnSymbol Summary description: math symbol font for Adobe MinionPro License type: pd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MnSymbol is a symbol font designed to be used in conjunction with Adobe MinionPro. The current release is a beta version. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN upload: The caption package v3.0g
by CTAN Announcements 11 Jul '05

11 Jul '05

On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Axel Sommerfeldt submitted an update to the package caption to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/caption/ Summary description: Customising captions in floating environments License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The caption package provides many ways to customise the captions in floating environments like figure and table and cooperates with many other packages. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is mainly a bugfix release of the caption package 3.0. Changes to v3.0f: - Bugfix: ContinuedFloat (hyperref) changed so includeonly works again (28.6.05) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN upload: makecell 0.1a
by CTAN Announcements 11 Jul '05

11 Jul '05

On Sun, 3 Jul 2005, Olga Lapko submitted a new package called makecell to CTAN. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/makecell Summary description: Tabular column heads and multilined cells License type: lppl Abstract: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package offers command, based on one-column tabular environment for tabular column heads. This macro allows to support common layout for tabular column heads in document. Also is offered command for creation of multilined tabular cells. Package also offers: 1) macro, which changes vertical spaces around all cells in tabular (like in tabls package); 2) macros for multirow cells, which use macro from multirow package. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: fontspec v1.8
by CTAN Announcements 11 Jul '05

11 Jul '05

> An upload to cam.ctan.org is in /anfs/ctan-inc/upload-20050710-011231/ > > ====================================================================== > > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: fontspec v1.8 > Author's name: Will Robertson > Author's email: <...> > Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/latex/fontspec > Summary description: Advanced font (and font feature) selection in XeTeX-based LaTeX > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > fontspec is a LaTeX package for XeTeX, a Mac OS X-only extension of TeX > that supports unicode input and OpenType fonts directly. This package > provides a simple interface for font selection and advanced font feature > selection. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i have installed the updated package, and it should have propagated to the other main ctan machines by now. thanks for the upload. You can have a look at the package at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/fontspec or download the whole bundle as http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/fontspec.zip Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN Update: xkvview v1.4a (part of xkeyval)
by CTAN Announcements 10 Jul '05

10 Jul '05

Hendri Adriaens has uploaded a new version to cam.ctan.org: > xkvview v1.4a: > Resolved a small inconsistency in defs in xkeyval.tex > and xkvview.sty. The update has been installed at Cambridge and will make its way to the other ctan sites over the next few hours. You can view the entire distribution at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xkeyval/ and download the lot using http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xkeyval.zip Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN submission -- pdfcolmk v0.7
by CTAN Announcements 09 Jul '05

09 Jul '05

Heiko Oberdiek writes: > I have uploaded pdfcolmk.sty in the /incoming directory > of ftp.dante.de. It updates > CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek/pdfcolmk.sty > > License remains LPPL 1.3. > > Changes of v0.7: > * It adds output support for memoir, > provided by a fix of Lars Madsen. i have installed the new version; thanks for the upload. the new version may be viewed at/downloaded from http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek/pdfcolmk.sty Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: esint
by Jim Hefferon 07 Jul '05

07 Jul '05

The package esint has been updated at tug.ctan.org and the changes should soon propogate to your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: esint -- addition of plain TeX macros Author's name: Michael M. Tung, Martti Nikunen Location on CTAN: /fonts/ps-type1/esint Summary description: addition of macros for using esint integral font under plain TeX License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Added to this package are TeX macros to use Eddie Saudrais's esint10 fonts (and their Type 1 format by Martti Nikunen) under plain TeX. A plain TeX sample and test file for the integral symbols is included. Martti graciously agreed to include this material in with his existing work. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/ps-type1/esint 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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UK TeX FAQ, version 3.14
by CTAN Announcements 07 Jul '05

07 Jul '05

I have just installed at Cambridge this version of the UK FAQ; I have update both the web entry (http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq) and the CTAN directory help/uk-tex-faq. This is mostly a consolidation release, but see CHANGES-3.14, below. Note, I do not intend that the next release should be 3.141; I entertain some hopes that the next release will incorporate a new Web-access mechanism that I have in sketch form ... in which case the release will be called 4.0. Robin Fairbairns UK TeX FAQ maintainer, for the CTAN team CHANGES-3.14 Changes in version 3.14 New answers: Label breaklinks: why hyperlinks don't break under dvips Label cmdstar: defining a LaTeX command with an optional * Label errmissitem: what to do about perhaps a missing item Label minxampl: how to write a minimal example of a problem Label plninltx: pros and cons about using non-LaTeX commands in LaTeX Label wrongpn: the unreliability of hepage Revised answers: Label archives: edited out things we no longer do, removed fine detail of archive locations (has been wrong for some time)... Label bibtranscinit: another trick from Philip Ratcliffe Label codelist: while recommending listings, explain alternatives Label conditional: changes to cope with new release of extract package Label commercial: mention the self-help group for users of Y&Y TeX Label drawing: describe pgf Label dtx: describe makedtx Label findfiles: rewritten, striving for clarity Label ftncapt: rewritten in an attempt at greater clarity Label RCS: extend to cover subversion (packages svn and svninfo) Label spell: slightly restructured for CTAN changes Label tabcellalign: ghastly error corrected New or revised packages (or just ones never before mentioned): breakurl (mentioned in label breaklinks) c2latex (mentioned in label codelist) checkend (mentioned in label endingroup) makedtx (mentioned in label dtx) pgf (mentioned in label drawing) pseudocode (mentioned in label algorithms) splitbib (mentioned in label multbib) suffix (mentioned in label cmdstar) svn (mentioned in label RCS) svninfo (mentioned in label RCS) tgrind (mentioned in label codelist) Presentation: The subsection LaTeX macros has been split into two: LaTeX macro tools (generally stuff for programmers) and LaTeX macro techniques (generally stuff for users who just want a simple job done). zip and tar.gz retrieval have been switched in HTML generation; since many directories have pre-created zip archives, this reduces the danger of hitting the retrieving unknown file effect in some browsers.

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CTAN package update: algorithms
by Jim Hefferon 06 Jul '05

06 Jul '05

The package described below has been updated. The new material shoul have already reached your favorite mirror. Thank you for the update. Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: algorithms Author's name: Rogério Brito Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/algorithms License type: lgpl Summary description: New line references and line numbering features. Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The new version of algorithms incorporates two frequently requested features: * The ability of using label's and ef's for making references to specific lines of a given algorithm; * The ability of changing both the size and delimiters of line numbering. You can specify any size you wish and use (almost) any string as the delimiter of the line numbering generated by the package. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can look at this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/algorithms . 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: subfig
by Jim Hefferon 05 Jul '05

05 Jul '05

The package described below has bee updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: subfig.sty Author's name: Steven Douglas Cochran Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/subfig License type: lppl Summary description: LaTeX package for providing support for the inclusion of small, `sub', figures and tables. It simplifies the positioning, captioning and labeling of them within a single figure or table environment. In addition, this package allows such subcaptions to be written to the List of Figures or List of tables if desired. Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Several bug fixes, software and documentation updates: o Added lofdepth and lotdepth keywords (default value is 2). Just adding one of these to the keyword list, when loading the subfig package will setup the associated List-Of page to display the sub-captions. In addition, if new sub-floats are created with the ewsubfloat command, than an appropriate keyword is also produced for use with the captionsetup command. o Generalized the input of boolean values (i.e. made similar to the caption package). Boolean keywords may use any of the following synonyms: - For true: on, yes, or 1. - For false: off, no,or 0. o Changed the included configuration filename from subfig.cfg to altsf.cfg so that it will not be automatically included, as this configuration file modifies the subfig package to be mostly backward compatible with the (obsolete) subfigure package. Note, however, that the default configuration name remains the same: subfig.cfg. o Fixed problem with the loose and tight options in the altsf.cfg configuration file. o Added 'debug' setting to select which sort of skips or rules are used in laying out the subfigures. This puts the debug version of the package under ltxdoc control rather than requiring hand-editing. o Added caption keyword (for easy, caption=false) to allow the use of the subfig package without loading all of the caption package. This is needed for use with classes that have special caption formatting. o Added check for classes or packages that use let rather than def to modify the endfloat and enddblfloat commands. o Extended the subref* command to allow alternative formats using the (new) DeclareSubrefFormat command and subrefformat keyword. o Added compatibility with the FloatRow package. o Fixed some incompatibilities with the hyperref package references and a problem in the interaction of the hyperref package and the subfig package when continued floats are desired. o Many documentation changes, including discussion of new features, repair of reported typo's and other requested changes to clarify the package. o Fixed bug that required new float types to have their corresponding sub-floats defined in order to use the ContinuedFloat command. It is necessary to define the associated sub-floats only if they are to be used. In the process of these changes, a major bug was found in the internals of the subfig package. This bug could cause whitespace (e.g. spaces) between subfloats to allow a line break. Such whitespace is now ignored. However, if this 'feature' was used to format subfloats, than the formatting of such papers will change. If subfloats become mis-alligned when using this version of subfig, than the user will need to add an explicit linebreak, \ where needed. See the README file for more details. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can look at this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/subfig . 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: movie15
by CTAN Announcements 03 Jul '05

03 Jul '05

On Fri, 1 Jul 2005 Alexander Grahn submitted an update to the movie15 package. This package defines includemovie with PDF-1.5 compatibility. Option 'autoplay' causes the media clip to be started right after the page has loaded. This is useful for side by side movie clips to be played back synchronously. Location on CTAN: /CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/movie15/ Summary description: multimedia inclusion package License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This update adds the new PDF-1.6 feature of embedding 3D content into PDF. Have a look at the example file http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/movie15/example/exampl… ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: Herbert Voss's Mathmode
by CTAN Announcements 30 Jun '05

30 Jun '05

Herbert Voss writes: > I am just uploading mathmode.tgz to the uk mirror. > Please delete the file > /info/math/voss/Voss-Mathmode.pdf > and put the new ones in there. I deleted the prefix > Voss, because it makes no sense here, the directory > has the same. Too many Voss is not good ... :-) > > The version 2.00 of Mathmode comes with the sorce files. with Herbert's agreement, i have installed this version of mathmode in a directory of its own. users may browse the directory via http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/math/voss/mathmode/ and the document itself is at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/math/voss/mathmode/Mathmode.pdf the files were installed a while ago, and will probably be available via other ctan sites by now. thanks, Herbert, for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: tex2tok
by Jim Hefferon 30 Jun '05

30 Jun '05

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: tex2tok Author's name: Jonathan Fine Location on CTAN: /support/tex2tok Summary description: tex2tok: convert a TeX source file into token License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- tex2tok: convert a TeX source file into tokens usage: $ tex '&tex2tok' 'LEX{story}' This will create a file story.tok. This file will contain one line for each token. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/tex2tok although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror of CTAN that is near to you; see http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors .

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CTAN update --- trajan bundle
by CTAN Announcements 30 Jun '05

30 Jun '05

Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded trajan.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use this to replace > the current fonts/trajan. > > The trajan bundle provides fonts (both METAFONT and PostScript Type 1) > based on the capitals caved on the Trajan column in Rome in 114 AD, plus a > package to access them. i've installed the updated version as requested. users may inspect the fonts, etc, at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/trajan or at other ctan sites as the installation propagates. thanks for the upload Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: xkeyval v2.5c
by CTAN Announcements 30 Jun '05

30 Jun '05

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Hendri Adriaens submitted an update to the xkeyval package. This package is an extension of the keyval package and offers additional macros for setting keys and declaring and setting class or package options. The package allows the programmer to specify a prefix to the name of the macros it defines for keys, and to define families of key definitions; these all help use in documents where several packages define their own sets of keys. ------------------------------------------------ xkeyval v2.5c ------------------------------------------------ Bug solution: avoid initializing control sequences used in define@cmdkey(s) to elax ------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: LFB
by Jim Hefferon 30 Jun '05

30 Jun '05

The package described below has been installed on tug.ctan.org and through the magic of Rainer's mirroring process, will soon propagate to your favorite mirror. Thanks for the contribution, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: LFB Author's name: Laurie Field Location on CTAN: /fonts/greek/lfb Summary description: Greek font, written in METAFONT, with normal and bold variants. License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a Greek font I wrote in METAFONT several years ago after being inspired by the Bodoni typefaces I had seen in the old books in my school library. It is stylistically a little more exotic than the standard textbook greek fonts, particularly in glyphs like the lowercase rho and kappa. It aims for a rather calligraphic feel, but I also think it blends well with Computer Modern. I included a ligature scheme which automatically inserts the breathings required for ancient texts, making the input text more readable than in some schemes. Since it is now de rigueur to use outline fonts, I have largely abandoned this project, but I hope someone finds it useful. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/greek/lfb/ 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 has a new package: sudoku
by Jim Hefferon 29 Jun '05

29 Jun '05

I apologize; I misspelled the name of the package in the prior announcment, giving in an incorrect URL. The material is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/sudoku . A corrected announcement is below. Sorry, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: sudoku Author's name: Paul Abraham Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/sudoku Summary description: Sudoku environment for creating sudoku grids License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sudoku is an environment for typesetting sudoku grids. A sudoku puzzle is a 9x9 grid where some of the squares in the grid contain numbers. The rules are simple: every column can only contain the digits 1 to 9, every row can only contain the digits 1 to 9 and every 3x3 box can only contain the digits 1 to 9. More information, including help and example puzzles, can be found at http://www.sudoku.org.uk. This site also has blank sudoku grids (or worksheets), but you will not need to print them from there if you have this package installed. - - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/sudoku 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: sudoku
by Jim Hefferon 29 Jun '05

29 Jun '05

The package described below has been installed on tug.ctan.org. It should soon appear at yoiur favorite mirror. Thank you for the upload, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: sudoku Author's name: Paul Abraham Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/sudoko Summary description: Sudoku environment for creating sudoku grids License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sudoku is an environment for typesetting sudoku grids. A sudoku puzzle is a 9x9 grid where some of the squares in the grid contain numbers. The rules are simple: every column can only contain the digits 1 to 9, every row can only contain the digits 1 to 9 and every 3x3 box can only contain the digits 1 to 9. More information, including help and example puzzles, can be found at http://www.sudoku.org.uk. This site also has blank sudoku grids (or worksheets), but you will not need to print them from there if you have this package installed. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/sudoko 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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