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CTAN update: xkvview v1.4 (part of xkeyval bundle)
by CTAN Announcements 20 May '05

20 May '05

On Fri, 20 May 2005, Hendri Adriaens submitted an update to his package xkeyval to CTAN. This package is an extension of the keyval package and offers additional macros for setting keys and declaring and setting class or package options. The package allows the programmer to specify a prefix to the name of the macros it defines for keys, and to define families of key definitions; these all help use in documents where several packages define their own sets of keys. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/xkeyval License: lppl ----------------------------------------------------- Update information: 1) some examples for the default value system have been added to the docs 2) xkvview has been fully reimplemented; lots of new options (select columns, rows, write overviews to file, etc) ----------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: movie15
by CTAN Announcements 19 May '05

19 May '05

On Thu, 19 May 2005 Alexander Grahn submitted a new version of the movie15 package to CTAN. 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 is a bugfix release. An incompatibility with the hyperref package has been removed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: poemscol 2.3
by CTAN Announcements 19 May '05

19 May '05

On Wed, 18 May 2005 John Burtsubmitted an update to his poemscol package, containing macros for critical editions of poetry. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/poemscol License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Poemscol 2.3 adds the ability make linenumbers for prose sections such as the author's introduction or for prose poems. Footnotes or endnotes of various kinds can be made for prose sections just as for poetry. Solved the problem which sometimes caused the ``missing number'' error on first runs. Changed the names of some counters, in order to make poemscol compatible with lineno. This makes version 2.3 slightly incompatible with versions 2.26 and earlier. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: png2pdf-1.0.9
by CTAN Announcements 19 May '05

19 May '05

On Wed, 18 May 2005 Dirk Krause submitted an update to his png2pdf package to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /support/png2pdf Summary description: PNG to PDF converter License type: bsd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The png2pdf program converts PNG images to PDF. An alpha channel in the PNG file can be used to mix against a specified background color and/or to create a PDF image mask or PDF alpha channel. The program may be of interest for pdfLaTeX users creating posters, flyers having colored background. This release contains a documentation update only, the program code was not changed. There was a question in comp.text.tex how to use png2pdf with the beamer document class. I added an example to the PDF manual. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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small babel update
by Johannes L. Braams 19 May '05

19 May '05

Hi, I have just refreshed the following files: - babel.dtx with a fix for PR3756 (clash with amsart, due to handling of marks) - hebrew.fdd with a fix for PR 3774 (unusable .fd files) - italian.dtx as was submitted by Claudio Beccari Johannes Braams

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Re: CTAN upload notification: lineno.sty/ednotes.sty (critical editions, revising submittings)
by CTAN Announcements 18 May '05

18 May '05

On Tue, 17 May 2005 Uwe Lück uploaded an update to his lineno package. This package adds line numbers to selected paragraphs with reference possible through the LaTeX ef and pageref cross reference mechanism. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/lineno License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANGES for lineno.sty v4.3 2005/05/16: 1. Option `displaymath' (proper numbering at paragraphs containing math displays) becomes default (`obsolete'. 2. Compatibility with hyperref now indeed (at least much more). 3. Tidied up documentation: terrible confusion of ewcounter vs. stepcounter; sections on the same matter written at different times; ... 4. Additional internal improvements that perhaps hardly are observable (no more spurious linenumbers in math displays from vertical mode; some compatibity with packages that use holdinginserts; linelabel in headings etc.). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update --- mempatch.sty
by CTAN Announcements 17 May '05

17 May '05

Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded mempatch.sty to UK incoming. Please use this to replace > the current macros/latex/contrib/memoir/mempatch.sty > > mempatch.sty v3.10 (2005/05/16) enables the memoir class and the xtab > package to work together. i've installed the file as requested; thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has three new packages: berling, frutiger, and palatinox
by Jim Hefferon 16 May '05

16 May '05

Three new packages have been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon appear at your favorite mirror. Thank you for the contribution, Jim Hefferon ========================================================== Name of contribution: palatinox Author's name: Marc Penninga Location on CTAN: /fonts/truetypemetrics/ Summary description: Metrics for TrueType versions of Monotype Berling, Linotype Frutiger, and Linotype Palatino License type: lppl ------------------------------------------------ These packages contain everything you need (apart from the fonts themselves) to use the Truetype version of these fonts in your Latex documents. ------------------------------------------------ You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/truetypemetrics although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror of CTAN that is near to you; see http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors .

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CTAN update: Bakoma 7.20
by CTAN Announcements 16 May '05

16 May '05

On Wed, 11 May 2005, Basil Malyshev uploaded an update to the bakoma package. > Most important improvements are: > > + `Options/Install DVIPS font MAP file' command > lets to setup packages of Type1 fonts preconfigured for DVIPS program. > + `Lat1-7' keyboard mapper lets to convenient way to convert input > eight-bit character codes into TeX's seven-bit codes like to U. > + Numerous improvements in graphics engine: > Robust extraction of bounding box from EPSF figures. > Importing PDF files with embedded TrueType/CID fonts. > Added processcolors key in statusdict to force use colors. > Added ScaleMatrix and OrigFont keys in font dict. > Added Predictor = 2, for Flate and LZW Decode filters. > PDF Generation Changes: > Version of generated PDF is 1.3 (gradient patterns). > Added `Embed even Base Fonts' option into generation dialog. > Enabled CMYK output option in PDF generation from TeXWord. > > 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 7.20 ------------------ > > BaKoMa TeX 7.20 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 update: corrected map files for LM fonts
by CTAN Announcements 14 May '05

14 May '05

On Sat, 14 May 2005, Staszek Wawrykiewicz submitted a number of small corrections to some map files in fonts/lm/ 05.14.2005 corrected pltext-lm.map and vnrtext-lm.map and comment typos in cmtext-lm.map and cmtext-lm-interpolated 00readme and newmaps.zip updated accordingly Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: csquotes 2.8
by CTAN Announcements 14 May '05

14 May '05

On Wed, 11 May 2005, Philipp Lehman submitted version 2.8 of the csquote package. This package provides markup for inline quotations by means of control sequences and active quote characters. The quotation marks are context sensitive, they alternate for nested quotes and can adapt to the document language by interfacing with the babel package. The active quote characters and all quotation styles are fully configurable. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/csquotes License: lppl CHANGES * Added DisableQuotes * Fixed bug causing kerning restoration to fail in some rare cases Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: lineno.sty (ednotes.sty) -- LaTeX: critical editions, revising ...
by CTAN Announcements 14 May '05

14 May '05

On Wed, 11 May 2005 Uwe Lück submitted an update to the lineno package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ednotes Summary description: miscellaneous improvements License type: dfsg Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Restored global version of numbering lines of a parbox or minipage or ... (I had missed and disabled this in taking over lineno.sty, and disabled), explained in documentation. 2. Enabled flushbottom in two-column pagewise or switching mode. 3. Re-implemented modulo mode -- disabling certain users' tricks, see lineno.pdf sec. 5.5, also for a still supported substituting trick. 4. Tidied up setting the next line number globally vs. locally (TeXbook p. 301). 5. Tidied up discussions (in documentation) of possible changes in implementation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN upload: jcc.bst
by CTAN Announcements 14 May '05

14 May '05

On Wed, 4 May 2005 Antonio Cervellino submitted an update to jcc.bst a Bibtex style file for J. Comp. Chem. current (2005) style to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /biblio/bibtex/contrib/chem-journal/jcc.bst License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I made some modifications to the jcc.bst to make it really compliant with the journal's present style requirements, as : author's initials after the name, authors' names separated by ;, no brackets around the year... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: mfpic
by Jim Hefferon 14 May '05

14 May '05

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: mfpic Author's name: Daniel Luecking Location on CTAN: /graphics/mfpic Summary description: Macros to generate Metafont/Metapost for drawing pictures. License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mfpic is a package of (La)TeX macros that produce drawings by writing a Metafont/post file. This is a fairly major upgrade adding facilities to create MF loops, to create picture variables and place copies of them, and to read results of an MF expression into a TeX macro. Also 7 new curve creation macros, one new curve modifier and one new rendering macro (double-line) have been added. Plus new options for arc, circle and arrow. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/mfpic 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: LEd (LaTeX Editor)
by Jim Hefferon 14 May '05

14 May '05

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: LEd (LaTeX Editor) Author's name: Sebastian Deorowicz and Adam Skorczynski Location on CTAN: /support/LEd Summary description: Environment for rapid TeX/LaTeX document development License type: nosource Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LEd (LaTeX Editor) is a free environment for rapid TeX/LaTeX document processing. The main goal of the development of the editor is to make the process of TeX/LaTeX document production easier thanks to the integration of most helpful tools in one application. HomePage: www.latexeditor.org - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/LEd 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: harmony
by CTAN Announcements 12 May '05

12 May '05

On Tue, 10 May 2005 uploaded an update to the harmony package. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/harmony License type: lppl Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: The caption package v3.0e
by CTAN Announcements 12 May '05

12 May '05

On Tue, 10 May 2005 Axel Sommerfeldt submitted an update to the caption package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/caption/ Summary description: Customising captions in floating environments License type: lppl 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: - Increased compatibility: Behaviour of labelformat=default changed (algorithm2e package) (12.4.05) - Bugfix 05-04-28: labelformat=default,indention=<amount> works now again (28.4.05) - Code documentation & re-organisation (5.5.05) - Bugfix: caption{} now works correctly for sidecap captions, too. (5.5.05) - Bugfix: captionsetup[longtable]{width=...} overrides LTcapwidth now (5.5.05) - Bugfix: captionsetup[table/figure]{margin=...} has no effect on sidecaptions anymore and captionsetup[table/figure]{justification=...} will be overwritten by sidecap justification option, too. (5.5.05) - Improvement v3.0d: opcaption* and ottomcaption* implemented (5.5.05) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN UPDATE: msg package V 0.32
by CTAN Announcements 11 May '05

11 May '05

Bernard Gaulle writes: > I just upload on ftp.tex.ac.uk an update of msg, the localization package > for LaTeX package/class writers. It should not change (if no bug...) > until any new language will be added. > > The upload on ftp.tex.ac.uk is: msg.tar.gz > Ctan directory: macros/latex/contrib/msg > > % This file may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of > % the LaTeX Project Public License as of http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt > % > % This file has the LPPL maintenance status maintained. > % The current maintainer is Bernard.Gaulle at idris.fr > > V 0.32 mods in case of previously loaded inputenc package. I've installed the new version at the Cambridge CTAN; it will progress to the other ctan sites soon. Thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: MetaPost 0.901 announcement
by CTAN Announcements 11 May '05

11 May '05

Taco Hoekwater writes: > The MetaPost team is happy to announce a new release of MetaPost: > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > MetaPost 0.901 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > The sources, as well as binary packages for both fptex and miktex > installations can be downloaded immediately from > > http://sarovar.org/projects/metapost/ > > * The source package should compile normally on all systems that are > capable of compiling a modern web2c-based TeX distribution. > > * The web2c-win32 package is intended for fptex or a similar > web2c-based installation, and has been tested only with TeXLive 2003. > > * The miktex package contains macros and binaries for miktex 2.4, > kindly provided by Christian Schenk himself. > > Of course, we welcome any comments (either good or bad) that you may > have. Simply replying to this message is fine, but see the bottom of > this message for a more formal way to report bugs and feature requests. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Changes in version 0.901: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > * A corrected bugfix for the degerate path bug (the old fix > made metapost fail the trap test) > * Included mpost.mp for mem generation > * Updated trap test > * The mpost executable is now version 0.901 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Legal notice / license / bug reports > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > MetaPost is a system for producing graphics developed by John Hobby > at AT&T, based on Donald Knuth's Metafont. The MetaPost home page > is http://tug.org/metapost. > > MetaPost and related programs are in the public domain. > > The MetaPost development project is currently hosted at Sarovar, > http://www.sarovar.org/projects/metapost; please report bugs and > request enhancements through there if possible. Alternatively, you > can reach us through the <metapost(a)tug.org> mailing list as well. > (Please do not send bug reports or feature requests directly to > Dr. Hobby any more) > > > Have fun! > > Taco Hoekwater, for the MetaPost team, May 11, 2005 i've installed this new release on the cambridge ctan, in directory graphics/metapost -- it will make its way out to the rest of the world in due course. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: antomega, cm-lgc, grkfinst, ofntinst
by Jim Hefferon 10 May '05

10 May '05

The packages described below have been updated on tug.ctan.org and should make it to your favorite mirror real, real soon. Thanks for the updates, Jim Hefferon This is the update message from the package maintainer: ========================================================== I have just uploaded to tug.ctan.org/incoming new versions of my 4 packages, namely antomega v. 0.8, cm-lgc v. 0.5, ofntinst 0.2.2 and grkfinst 0.3.2. Please update the corresponding directories on CTAN (antomega is installed into systems/omega/contrib/antomega/, cm-lgc into fonts/ps-type1/cm-lgc/, and my fontinst packages into fonts/utilities/fontinst-contrib/). Note that cm-lgc 0.5 is a major new release, with a lot of new features added (the full list of enhancements is available in the HISTORY file inside the package). Antomega 0.8 is a great step to a really stable version, and, although I continue a sequential version numbering, it may be considered a major new release too. The following new features are most important ones: ======================================================= - -- added (experimental) support files for new languages (Spanish and Latin); - -- added special options allowing to use antomega with Scientific Word/Scientific Workplace; - -- added a concept of Unicode-based encoding definitions, so that standard encoding description files (like t1enc.def) are no longer used by antomega; - -- new concept of handling TeX accents and Unicode combining accent marks is introduced, allowing to workaround the known Omega problem. In Omega the accent command may produce correct results only if its second argument is given in document's output encoding; but this is no longer a problem for antomega. - -- Greek hyphenation patterns updated. - -- Thanks in advance, Alexej Kryukov

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CTAN update: pdfcprot
by CTAN Announcements 09 May '05

09 May '05

On Fri, 6 May 2005 Tobias Schlemmer uploaded an update to pdfcprot Author's name: Tobias Schlemmer Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/pdfcprot Summary description: pdfcprot does implement a package for the pdflatex margin kerning feature License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The new version implements access to different font encodings and provides some limited support for cyrillic encodings. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: mhchem bundle v2.01
by CTAN Announcements 09 May '05

09 May '05

On Sun, 8 May 2005 Martin Hensel submitted version 2.01 of mhchem to CTAN. 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is an update to version 2.01. What's new? - rsphrase: Spanish R and S phrases. Thanks to Ignacio Fernández Galván. - mhchem: bugfix ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: movie15
by CTAN Announcements 09 May '05

09 May '05

On Wed, 4 May 2005 Alexander Grahn submitted an update to the movie15 package to CTAN. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/movie15/ Summary description: multimedia inclusion package License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This release removes a bug which occasionally produced unusable media inclusions. This issue occurred, when a TeX generated pagebreak fell in between two consecutive media inclusions and only if pdfLaTeX was used. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update:xkeyval v2.5 and extract v1.8
by CTAN Announcements 09 May '05

09 May '05

On Sat, 7 May 2005, Hendri Adriaens submitted updated versions of the packages xkeyval (v2.5) extract (v1.8) to CTAN. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/xkeyval macros/latex/contrib/extract > ------------------------------------------- > xkeyval v2.5 > ------------------------------------------- > 1) Added define@boolkeys, define@cmdkey > and define@cmdkeys > 2) Simplified setkeys internals > 3) Solved small bug in setkeys which allowed > families to take over save or preset key > settings when a key was defined in multiple > families > 4) Updated xkvview > 5) Restructured docs > 6) Some small things > ------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------------------- > extract v1.8 > ------------------------------------------- > 1) Added `copydocumentclass' option > 2) Changed option `no-header' to `header' > 3) Changed option `document-handles' to `handles' > 4) Revised docs and examples > 5) Solved a bug not extracting empty lines > ------------------------------------------- Thanks for the updates. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: Lshort Upload (note the quote)
by CTAN Announcements 08 May '05

08 May '05

Tobias Oetiker writes: > I have uploaded lshort-4.16 to ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming/lshort-4.16. note: skipping version 4.15 > If you think it is appropriate, announce it please. i think announcement is appropriate in this case. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: sketch
by Jim Hefferon 05 May '05

05 May '05

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: sketch Author's name: Eugene K. Ressler Location on CTAN: /graphics/sketch Summary description: 3d sketching in a PSTricks-like language generates PSTricks code License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sketch is a small, simple system for producing line drawings of three-dimensional objects and scenes. It began as a way to make illustrations for a textbook after we could find no suitable tool for this purpose. Existing scene processors emphasized GUIs and/or photo-realism, both un-useful to us. We wanted to produce finely wrought, mathematically-based illustrations with no extraneous detail and be able to easily overlay TeX math and text. The input language is reminiscent of PSTricks, so will be easy to learn for current PSTricks users. See http://www.frontiernet.net/~eugene.ressler . - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/sketch 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: nomencl
by Jim Hefferon 03 May '05

03 May '05

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks for the update, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: nomencl Author's name: Lee Netherton Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/nomencl/ Summary description: Update to nomencl package License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the latest release for the nomencl package which includes an increased compatibility with other glossary packages, as well as minor updates and support requests. More information can be found at http://sarovar.org/projects/nomencl/ - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/nomencl/ 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: fontools
by Jim Hefferon 03 May '05

03 May '05

The package described below has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: fontools Author's name: Marc Penninga Location on CTAN: /fonts/utilities/fontools/ Summary description: Tools to simplify using fonts (especially Truetype/Opentype ones) with Latex and fontinst. License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package provides a few tools to ease using fonts (especially Truetype/Opentype ones) with Latex and fontinst: AFM2AFM - reencode .afm files; designed to replace fontinst's eencodefont for big .afm files. AUTOINST - simplify the use of the LCDF TypeTools by creating a command file for otftotfm, plus .fd and .sty files. CMAP2ENC - convert glyph indices in TrueType fonts without glyph names (such as Linotype Palatino) to Adobe glyph names. FONT2AFM - create font metrics; this is just a wrapper script around tools such as pf2afm, ttf2afm, pfm2kpx and ot2kpx. OT2KPX - extract all kerning pairs from an OpenType font. PFM2KPX - extract all kerning pairs from buggy .pfm files (the ones where pf2afm complains .notdef character occurred among kern pairs). SHOWGLYPHS - create a pdf file that shows all glyphs in a font. Please see the documentation of the individual programs for further information. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/utilities/fontools 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: Zigarettenschachtelhuellenzeichnung
by Jim Hefferon 02 May '05

02 May '05

The package described below has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon make it to your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: Zigarettenschachtelhuellenzeichnung - drawing of cigarette pack covers Author's name: Régis Lachaume Location on CTAN: /graphics/zigaretten Summary description: Allows the drawing of cigarette pack covers to hide ugly warnings and as License type: pd Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is meant to design cigarette pack covers that hide the death warnings and the advertising present on most packs. It imitates the original look of packs in the European Union by allowing the placement of fancy warnings (e.g. Caution: inflammable device) in the well-known black frames. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/zigaretten 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 Policy: Documentation of packages
by CTAN Announcements 02 May '05

02 May '05

For some time, the CTAN team has been asking those who submit to the archive to provide documentation files that can easily be read by archive browsers. We often find packages, which may be of real use to other users, for which there is little prospect of a new submission. We propose to reserve the right to generate a PDF documentation file from the author's original resources, in such cases. Note that we do not intend this to take the place of author-supplied documentation, but rather only that we may generate documentation where there is now none (notably on older packages). We remain eager to install documentation provided by authors themselves. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: juramisc
by CTAN Announcements 02 May '05

02 May '05

On Mon, 2 May 2005 cversion 0.76 (beta) of the juramisc package was uploaded to CTAN. Author's name: Axel Sodtalbers Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/juramisc Summary description: Typesetting German juridical documents License type: lppl Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN submission -- getfileversion
by CTAN Announcements 01 May '05

01 May '05

On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Harald Harders submitted a new package called gefileversion Location on CTAN: support/getfileversion/ License: LPPL >From the README: This simple shell script prints the version and date of a LaTeX class or style file. Syntax: getfileversion <file> This programme handles style files (extension .sty) and class files (extension .cls). If no extension is given, .sty is assumed. This is the initial version v0.1. Thanks for the submission. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN: Move of protext system image
by CTAN Announcements 29 Apr '05

29 Apr '05

Last night, protext-1.2.exe, the MiKTeX installer image, appeared on CTAN. Protext is distributed as part of the annual user group distribution of discs to members and others. This evening, the new image has been moved from systems/texlive/Images to a new directory systems/protext It was felt that the texlive location for a MiKTeX-derived product was anomalous. We trust that users will find the change helps them in browsing the archive. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: lineno.sty / ednotes.sty for criticaleditions
by CTAN Announcements 29 Apr '05

29 Apr '05

On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 Uwe Lück submitted an update to the lineno package to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/lineno Summary description: real update License type: LaTeX Project Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- lineno.sty as uploaded formerly was *not* the recent one with the announced features, so please download again if ... If you don't find v4.21, please ... [Sorry. But v4.2 was seriously flawed anyway.] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN upload: harmony
by CTAN Announcements 29 Apr '05

29 Apr '05

On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 Arnim Wegner submitted a new package harmony to CTAN. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/harmony Summary description: LaTeX2e package for typesetting harmony symbols etc. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LaTeX2e package for typesetting harmony symbols etc. in musicological texts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: xlop
by Jim Hefferon 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

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: xlop Author's name: Jean-Côme Charpentier Location on CTAN: /macros/generic/xlop Summary description: xlop (eXtra Large OPeration) calculates and displays operations License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- xlop allows to typeset operation ``as in school'' or inline. e.g opadd{2}{3} give 2 +3 or 2+3=5. - - --- 5 Furthermore, numbers could be very large, e.g 200 figures (with a very long compilation time). Many other features allow to deal with numbers (tests, display, some high level operations, etc.) - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/generic/xlop 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 27 Apr '05

27 Apr '05

The package described below has been updated on tug.ctan.org and will soon be at 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: nosource Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LaTeXPiX bugfix on CTAN17 release. Memory usage indicator didn't work in Windows 9x/2000. This caused LaTeXPiX not to start up, an error was displayed indicating that psapi.dll could not be found. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/latexpix although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror of CTAN that is near to you; see http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors .

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CTAN has a new package: Maltese
by Jim Hefferon 27 Apr '05

27 Apr '05

The package described below has been installed at tug.ctan.org and will, through the magic of mirroring, 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: Maltese Author's name: Paulseph-John Farrugia Location on CTAN: /language/maltese Summary description: Package facilitating the input of Maltese non-Latin characters in Latex License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package facilitates the input of Maltese non-Latin characters in Latex. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/maltese 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: pst-func
by CTAN Announcements 27 Apr '05

27 Apr '05

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 Herbert Voss submitted an update to his pst-func package to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-func Summary description: plotting special mathematical functions License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 0.40 2005-04-09 new option xShift for psPolynomial and Gauss fix typos in the doc ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: mhchem bundle version 2.00
by CTAN Announcements 27 Apr '05

27 Apr '05

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 Martin Hensel submitted an update to the mhchem bundle to CTAN. 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is an update to version 2.00. The mhchem bundle consists of two packages: mhchem and rsphrase. The mhchem package provides commands for typesetting chemical molecular formulae and equations. What's new? - a new versioning system that tries to incorporate old and improved syntax into one file. (usepackage[version=2]{mhchem}) - the command cee which can take & and \ as input, for use in equation environments - ce now works in text mode as well - new symbol added: ^. - basic support for bonds: A-B=C#D - math inside formulae can be achived using cmath - new option for reaction arrows: ->C[+H2O] is a shortcut for ->[ce{H2O}] 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 Englisch, Danish, French and German (current spelling). What's new? - French phrases. Thanks to Dominique Richard for his work. - bugfixes ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: HLaTeX and HLaTeX fonts
by CTAN Announcements 27 Apr '05

27 Apr '05

On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 Koaunghi Un uploaded HLaTeX version 1.0.1 and HLaTeX fonts to CTAN. Location on CTAN: language/korean/HLaTeX/, fonts/korean/HLaTeX Summary description: LaTeX package for typesetting Korean documents License type: lppl Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: isodate package
by CTAN Announcements 25 Apr '05

25 Apr '05

On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Harald Harders submitted an update to the isodate package. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/isodate/ License: LPPL >From the README: Tune the output format of dates. This package provides ten output formats of the commands oday, printdate, printdateTeX, and daterange (partly language dependent): ISO (yyyy-mm-dd), numeric (e.g. dd.,mm.~yyyy), short (e.g. dd.,mm.,yy), TeX (yyyy/mm/dd), original (e.g. dd. mmm yyyy), short original (e.g. dd. mmm yy), as well as numerical formats with Roman numerals for the month. The commands printdate and printdateTeX print any date. The date is given as an argument using the actual date format for output: printdate{yyyy-mm-dd}, printdate{dd.mm.yyyy}, or printdate{dd/mm/yyyy}, and printdateTeX{yyyy/mm/dd}. The command daterange prints a date range and leaves out unnecessary year or month entries. E.g. 2000-05-03 to 2000-05-08 leads to `2000-05-03 to 08'. ChangeLog: 2005/04/15 v2.28 Harald Harders (h.harders(a)tu-bs.de) - Add Italian language by Philip Ratcliffe. - Introduce option cleanlook for English date format. 2005/03/11 v2.27 Harald Harders (h.harders(a)tu-bs.de) - Add option british. Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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New CTAN package: thmbox
by Robin Fairbairns 25 Apr '05

25 Apr '05

The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > Name of contribution: thmbox > Author's name: Emmanuel Beffara > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/thmbox > Summary description: a LaTeX package for fancy theorem outlining > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This package defines an environment thmbox aimed at presenting > theorems, definitions and similar objects in boxes decorated with > frames and various aesthetic features. The standard macro > ewtheorem is redefined to use this format. i have installed the package as suggested; thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: WinTeX XP
by Jim Hefferon 25 Apr '05

25 Apr '05

The package described below has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should by now have made ti to your favorite mirror. Thanks for the update, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: WinTeX XP Author's name: Michael Muecke Location on CTAN: /nonfree/systems/win32/wintex2000/ Summary description: Easy to use shell and editor for Windows. License type: shareware Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- New Version of WinTeX. Syntax highlighting for better readability of the TeX source Spell checking including automatic spell checking as you type your text with support for several languages English thesaurus for searching of synonyms Log file browser for for TeX and BIB log files makes bug fixing of your documents easy Special database like editor for BIB files with integrated description for all item types and fields Structure browser for TeX files for easy navigation in large documents WinTeX projects ... - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/nonfree/systems/win32/wintex2000/ 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: NEdit LaTeX-Mode 0.9.1
by CTAN Announcements 25 Apr '05

25 Apr '05

On Sun, 24 Apr 2005, Joerg Fischer submitted an update for his NEdit LaTeX-Mode to CTAN. Location on CTAN: support/NEdit-LaTeX-Extensions/ License: GPL Text for announcement: The NEdit LaTeX-Mode v0.9.1 is a package or set of macros, i.e. small programs, written in the NEdit scripting language. It will turn NEdit, the Nirvana text editor, into an advanced LaTeX editor. NEdit version 5.4 or later is required. The home page of the LaTeX-Mode is http://nedit.gmxhome.de/latexmode.html Changes from 0.9 to 0.9.1: ========================== - simple test if we are on MS Windows using MiKTeX (variable $windows was mistakenly set to true, which caused shell commands to fail on Unix/Linux) - enhancements for the spell-checking macro (following a user request) Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: User's Guide for AMS package (vietnamese version)
by Jim Hefferon 22 Apr '05

22 Apr '05

A new package has been installed on 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: User's Guide for AMS package (vietnamese version) Author's name: kyanh Location on CTAN: /info/amslatex/vietnamese Summary description: User's Guide for AMS package (vietnamese version) License type: lgpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- User's Guide for AMS package (vietnamese version) - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/amslatex/vietnamese 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: pst-circ
by CTAN Announcements 22 Apr '05

22 Apr '05

On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 Herbert Voss submitted an update to the pst-circ package to CTAN. pst-circ is a package built above PSTricks and in particular pst-node. It can easily draw current dipoles, some tripoles and quadrupoles used in elecronic or electric theory. Authors' names: Christophe Jorssen, Herbert Voss Location on CTAN: graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-circ/ Summary description: A PSTricks package for drawing electrical circuits License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.39 2005-04-03 (hv) fixed introduced bug in wire 1.38 2005-03-07 (hv) added an option for the OA and some more types for dipoles 1.37 2005-03-06 (hv) fix bug with wire and arrows 1.36 2005-02-14 (hv) add another zener symbol 1.35 2005-02-06 (hv) fix some bugs in the documentation 1.34 2004-12-31 (hv) new transistormacro 1.33 2004-12-28 (hv) fix bug for specialCoor in transistor 1.32 2004-12-28 (hv) make transistor changeLR option run 1.31 2004-12-27 (hv) make transistor run 1.30 2004-12-28 (hv) make option arrows=... available, but transistor is broken for this version 1.22 2004-10-31 (hv) use pst-xkey instead of pst-key ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: noreinserts renamed tamefloats
by CTAN Announcements 21 Apr '05

21 Apr '05

On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 Uwe Lück submitted the package tamefloats (previously called noreinserts) to CTAN. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/tamefloats/ License type: LaTeX Project Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The former *noreins.sty* against bad interference of footnotes with figures, tables, and marginpar's has been renamed into `tameflts.sty' and appears in a new directory `tamefloats'. Command names have changed as well. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: svninfo
by CTAN Announcements 21 Apr '05

21 Apr '05

On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Achim D. Brucker submitted version 0.2.1 of the package svninfo to CTAN. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/svninfo/ License: LPPL Description: The svninfo package is used to extract the revision and file information provided by the subversion (svn) revision control system and provides commands for accessign them within LaTeX documents. Also support files for the latex2html converter is provided. Note, that this is an adaption of the rcsinfo package for rcs. So, if you know rcsinfo, you will also be familar with svninfo. This version removes the latex2html build-dependency and provides a new command svnId mimicking the behaviour of $Id:$ strings. Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: LaTeXPiX
by Jim Hefferon 19 Apr '05

19 Apr '05

A package has been updated at 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: LaTeXPiX Author's name: N.J.H.M. van Beurden Location on CTAN: /As Is Summary description: As Is License type: nosource Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The seventeenth CTAN release has the following improvements: * PGF support for plain, shaded and colour ellipses as well as plain, shaded and colour circles. * Added support for WinEdt 5.4 icon addition. * Removed bug when previewing EEPIC. The colour filled ellipses and circles were always black. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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