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CTAN package update: microtype
by Jim Hefferon 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

The package described below 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: microtype Author's name: R Schlicht Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/microtype Summary description: An interface to the micro-typographic extensions of pdfTeX License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes in version 1.7: * Possibility to specify ranges of font sizes in the set declarations and protrusion/expansion settings * Always take font size into account when trying to find protrusion/expansion settings * New command LoadMicroTypeFile to manually load a font configuration file * New option `verbose=errors' to turn all warnings into errors * Compatibility with the `chemsym' and `statex' packages * Disable expansion inside showhyphens * Warning when running in draft mode * Hook for font package authors - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/microtype although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror of CTAN that is near to you; see http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors

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Re: cam.ctan.org upload: Feyn
by CTAN Announcements 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

Norman Gray, through the oracular source http://www.tex.ac.uk/upload, writes: > An upload to cam.ctan.org is in /anfs/ctan-inc/upload-20050324-123949/ > > ====================================================================== > > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: Feyn > Author's name: Norman Gray > Location on CTAN: fonts/feyn (replacing current contents) > Summary description: A Metafont for Feynman diagrams > License type: gpl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The Feyn font can be used to produce relatively simple Feynman > diagrams within equations in a LaTeX document. > > Version 0.2 is a substantially restructured release, now with arrows > integrated into the majority of the characters, and with annotation > (with momenta) easier than before. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thanks for the upload; i've installed the files as requested. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN submission --- Updated ccaption package
by CTAN Announcements 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded ccaption.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use this to > replace the current macros/latex/contrib/ccaption. The distribution is under > the LPPL. > > >From the README: > The ccaption package provides commands for `continuation captions', > unnumbered captions and legends. Methods are provided to define captions for > use outside float environments, and to define new float environments and > subfloats. Tools are provided for defining your own captioning styles. > > Changes in version 3.2 (2005/03/21) > o New commands for bilingual captions in longtables. i've installed the revised package as requested: thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN submission --- Updated booklet package
by CTAN Announcements 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded booklet.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use this to > replace the current macros/latex/contrib/booklet. The distribution is under > the LPPL. > > >From the README: > booklet provides some aids for printing simple booklets or signatures > for longer books. > > Changes in version 0.7 (2005/03/23) > o Cleaner interface with the memoir class i've installed the replaced package as requested: thanks for the upload Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN submission --- Updated mempatch.sty --- fixes for memoir class
by CTAN Announcements 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded mempatch.sty to UK incoming. Please use this to replace > the current /macros/latex/contrib/memoir/mempatch.sty > > This version stops packages used with the memoir class from whinging about > the ifpdf package. i've installed the file as required; thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: cam.ctan.org upload: Textpos
by CTAN Announcements 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

Norman Gray spake, through the medium of http://www.tex.ac.uk/upload, thus: > ====================================================================== > > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: Textpos > Author's name: Norman Gray > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/textpos > Summary description: Provides absolute positioning of text on the LaTeX page > License type: gpl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Version 1.5 implements a TPMargin command, which causes a margin to > appear round the blocks of text within textblock environments. This makes it > easy to use blocks of colour which are larger than the block of text by a > decent margin, or to put a border round textblocks by setting a suitably- > sized margin and using the showboxes package option. > > This is a long-overdue implementation of a feature-request. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i've installed the new version here at cambridge, as suggested. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: breakurl
by Jim Hefferon 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

This package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should within a day or two make its way to your preferred mirror. Thanks for the update, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: breakurl 0.03 Author's name: Vilar Camara Neto 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 given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This version corrects a bug that prevented the use of the pdfeTeX engine (which is the default for some teTeX distributions). Also, there's a new package option, `vertfit', which controls the behaviour of the link rectangle's height (and depth). - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/breakurl although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror of CTAN that is near to you; see http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors

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CTAN upload: DTK book reviews
by CTAN Announcements 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Juergen Fenn uploaded four PDFs with book reviews that were published in DANTE's journal Die Technische Komödie (DTK) in 2004: > dtk_jetztlerne.pdf > Markus Kohm: > Jetzt lerne ich LaTeX2e von Thomas Demmig > DTK 1/2004, S. 61--67. > > Zilm_Das_Einsteigerseminar.pdf > Christian Faulhammer und David Kastrup: > LaTeX -- Das Einsteigerseminar von Thorsten Zilm > DTK 3/2004, S. 51--57. > > Wilms_LaTeX_echt_einfach.pdf > Blandyna Bogdol und Christian Faulhammer: > LaTeX echt einfach (3. Aufl.) von Roland Willms > DTK 3/2004, S. 57--62. > > Niedermair_Praxisbuch.pdf > Juergen Fenn und David Kastrup: > LaTeX. Das Praxisbuch von Elke und Michael Niedermair > DTK 4/2004, S. 45--51. Location on CTAN: digests/dtk/book_reviews/ License: unknown Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: breakurl
by Jim Hefferon 22 Mar '05

22 Mar '05

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and by now should have made its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks for the package, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: breakurl Author's name: Vilar Camara Neto Version: 0.02 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 given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This version adds two main benefits to the initial release: * Contiguous link segments are now condensed into only one clickable rectangle, allowing the use of link borders; * The user can now enable line breaks after hyphens. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/breakurl 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: eso-pic v1.1b
by CTAN Announcements 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 Rolf Niepraschk uploaded eso-pic v1.1b, a package to add picture commands or backgrounds to every page. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/eso-pic License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This version adds the new package options texcoord and pscoord and the picture command AtPageLowerLeft. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: Latin Modern 0.982
by CTAN Announcements 19 Mar '05

19 Mar '05

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Staszek Wawrykiewicz uploaded version 0.982 of the Latin Modern font family to CTAN. Authors: JNSteam License: GPL Location on CTAN: fonts/fm Note that the directory contains an extra file lm0982mt1.zip, containing fonts sources for MetaType1. > The Latin Modern family of fonts is based on the Computer Modern fonts > in the PostScript Type 1 format, released into public domain by the > American Mathematical Society. The fonts, as compared to the CM family, > contain a lot of additional characters, mainly accented ones, but not only. > The current distribution contains: > Latin Modern fonts in the PostScript Type 1 and OpenType formats, > source files for MetaType1 plus all requisites for using the fonts with > TeX/pdfTeX; there is one set of PostScript fonts and five sets of TeX Font > Metric files, corresponding to: > -- EC (Cork) encoding (ec-*.tfm), > -- QX encoding (qx-*.tfm), > -- TeX'n'ANSI aka LY1 encoding (texnansi-*.tfm), > -- T5 (Vietnamese) encoding (t5-*.tfm), > -- Text Companion for EC fonts aka TS1 (ts1-*.tfm). > LaTeX *.sty and *.fd files were also added plus a few test files. > Most important recent changes concerned the addition of Vietnamese > characters and the dvips support for the substitution for CM, CS, PL, > and VN fonts. The current release (version 0.982) was revised and corrected > after EuroTeX2005. Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: pdfrack
by Jim Hefferon 19 Mar '05

19 Mar '05

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon appear on your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: pdfrack Author's name: Marc Boyer Location on CTAN: /support/pdfrack Summary description: A hack for using psfrag and pdflatex License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A hack for using psfrag and pdflatex (Unix only). - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/pdfrack 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: TeXmate
by Jim Hefferon 19 Mar '05

19 Mar '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 package, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: TeXmate Author's name: Federico Garcia Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/texmate Summary description: Comprehensive Chess Annotation in LaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TeXmate formats chess games from very simple ascii input. The clean 1. e4 e5; 2. Nf3 Nc6; 3. Bb5 a6 will produce the same results as the sloppier 1 e4 e5; Nf3 Nc6 3.. Bb5 a6. The resulting format is fully customizable. There are 4 levels of commentary: 1 is the main game, 2-3 are commentaries. Each has its fonts, punctuation marks, etc., and these are also customizable. The package includes a tool for the creation of diagrams. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/texmate 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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footmisc package: bug fix
by CTAN Announcements 17 Mar '05

17 Mar '05

a user reported on comp.text.tex that the footmisc para option produced overflow errors on very wide pages (such as those used by the a0poster class). the new version of the footmisc package uses e-tex facilities, if they're available, to replace the previously vulnerable code (the bug is still there, for latex systems not built using e-tex). Robin Fairbairns (in personal capacity)

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CTAN package update: LaTeXPiX
by Jim Hefferon 16 Mar '05

16 Mar '05

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: LaTeXPiX Author's name: 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 sixteenth CTAN release has the following improvements: * Shifting of scrollbars from the main menu did not work. Added mousewheel support to scroll the canvas vertically. * Preview of PGF drawings by using PDFLaTeX is now possible. * Added more support for PGF: plain/shaded/color polygons, Bezier curves and arrows. * Coordinate editing added (CTRL+F2). * Transferred cm/inch selection to toolbar. * Added log file viewing of output preview. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: complexity
by Jim Hefferon 16 Mar '05

16 Mar '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: complexity Author's name: Chris Bourke Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/complexity Summary description: complexity is a LaTeX package that defines commands to typeset Computational Complexity Classes such as $P$ and $NP$ (as well as hundreds of others). License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- complexity is a LaTeX package that defines commands to typeset Computational Complexity Classes such as $P$ and $NP$ (as well as hundreds of others). It also offers several options including which font classes are typeset in and how many are defined (all of them or just the basic, most commonly used ones). No dependencies other than the standard ifthen package. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/complexity although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror of CTAN that is near to you; see http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors

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Re: msg package update V 0.31
by CTAN Announcements 16 Mar '05

16 Mar '05

Bernard Gaulle writes: > I 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 0.31 mods: added a noop option and a user's guide thanks for the upload. i've installed it in cambridge, and triggered mirroring. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: xcolor 2.01
by CTAN Announcements 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 Uwe Kern submitted version 2.01 of his xcolor package to CTAN. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/xcolor/ Summary description: Driver-independent color extensions for LaTeX and pdfLaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2005/03/15 v2.01 * New features: - `prologue' option for comprehensive `named' color support in conjunction with `dvips': on-the-fly generation of PostScript prologue files with all color definitions, ready for dvips inclusion and/or post-processing with device-specific parameters (e.g., spot colors); - dvips prologue file xcolor.pro to support additional `named' colors; - colorlet may now also be used to create named colors from arbitrary color expressions; - enhanced color definition syntax to allow for target-model specific color parameters, e.g. definecolor{red}{rgb/cmyk}{1,0,0/0,1,1,0}, facilitating the usage of tailor-made colors both for displays and printers; - `deferred definition' of colors: preparecolor and definecolors enable decoupling of color specification and control sequence generation, especially useful (= memory saving) for large lists of colors, of which only a few names are actually used; - `dvipsnames*' and `svgnames*' options to support deferred definition. * Changes: - higher accuracy: most complement calculations are now exact for all 5-digit decimals; - angeRGB and similar variables may now be changed at any point in a document; - aftergroupdef now performs only a first-level expansion of its code argument; - XCfileversion and similar internal constants removed from .sty and .def files; - improved memory management (reduced generation of `multiletter control sequences' by @ifundefined tests); - several internal macros improved and/or renamed. * Bugfixes: - XC@getcolor could cause unwanted spaces when psset was used inside |pspicture| environments (`pstricks'); - arithmetic overflow could happen when too many decimal digits were used within color parameters, e.g. as a result of `fp' calculations. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: BaKoMa TeX 7.10 - e-TeX for TeXWord - WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor.
by CTAN Announcements 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Basil Malyshev submitted an update to his bakoma package to CTAN. Location on CTAN: nonfree/systems/win32/bakoma > New version works with improved implementation of e-TeX > which supports following: > > 1) BaKoMa TeX Word -- True WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor; > 2) Dynamical Preview with support of dual caret; > 3) DVI Forward/Reverse Search with character precision positioning; > 4) E option at TeX error brings to proper column of source; > 5) Automatical generation of BB-files for imported graphics; > 6) TCX tables; > 7) It is based on TeX version 3.141592 (instead of 3.14159). > > See also: > <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/etex.html> > > More details about changes see at: > <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes7.html> > > Bye. > Basil K. Malyshev > 14-Mar-2005 > > > -------------------- About BaKoMa TeX 7.10 ------------------ > > BaKoMa TeX 7.10 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 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 upload: lshort-bulgarian
by CTAN Announcements 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 Stefka Karakoleva submitted to CTAN the bulgarian translation of The not so short introduction to LaTeX2e. Name of contribution: lshort-bulgarian Location on CTAN: info/lshort/bulgarian/ Summary description: Bulgarian translation of The not so short introduction to LaTeXe License type: pd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The booklet The not so short introduction to LaTeXe in Bulgarian language ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: etaremune v1.0
by CTAN Announcements 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, Hendri Adriaens submitted the new package etaremune to CTAN. Location on CTAN:/macros/latex/contrib/etaremune License: LPPL etaremune v1.0 --------------------------------------------------- This package implements the etaremune environment which is similar to the enumerate environment, except that labels are decreasing instead of increasing. This package provides an alternative to the revnum package which uses a lot of counters. See for more information the pdf documentation of this package. --------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN upload: breakurl
by CTAN Announcements 13 Mar '05

13 Mar '05

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 Vilar Camara Neto submitted a new 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 package provides a command much like hyperref's url that typesets a URL using a typewriter-like font. However, if the dvips driver is being used, the original url doesn't allow line breaks in the middle of the created link: the link comes in one atomic piece. This package allows such line breaks in the generated links. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: isodate 2.27
by CTAN Announcements 13 Mar '05

13 Mar '05

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Harald Harders submitted version 2.27 of his package isodate to CTAN. >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: 2005/03/11 v2.27 Harald Harders (h.harders(a)tu-bs.de) - Add option british. 2005/03/10 v2.26 Harald Harders (h.harders(a)tu-bs.de) - Support different input formats containing slashes. - Force year in four digits for long formats. 2005/02/21 v2.25 Harald Harders (h.harders(a)tu-bs.de) - Changed year, month, and day from macros to counters. - Warning for unknown languages. - Fall-back format for unknown languages. Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: poemscol 2.02 (bug fix)
by CTAN Announcements 10 Mar '05

10 Mar '05

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 John Burt submitted version 2.02 of the poemscol package to CTAN. The poemscol package is a set of LaTeX macros for typesetting critical editions of poetry. Its features include automatic linenumbering, generation of separate endnotes sections for emendations, textual collations, and explanatory notes, special marking for cases in which page breaks occur during stanza breaks, running headers of the form ``Notes to pp. xx--yy''for the notes sections, index of titles and first lines, and automatic generation of table of contents. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/poemscol License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fixes bug in typesetting poems without formal titles. Customizes formatting of poem titles. Runover portions of verse lines can be flushed to the right rather than indented. Streamlined formatting of endnotes sections. Fixed a bug which requires an .aux file from a previous run to set endnotes sections. Titles with italics or international characters no longer need special handling. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: lineno 4.11 and ednotes 1.1
by CTAN Announcements 09 Mar '05

09 Mar '05

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 Uwe Lück submitted updates to his packages lineno and ednotes Locations on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/{lineno,ednotes} License type: LaTeX Project Announcement text for lineno: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Rows of `array' and similar math environments may be treated like usual lines, be numbered accordingly (included in the sequence of surrounding text lines), and be referred to by these numbers. Thus they also can be subject to ednotes.sty. To make use of this, please read the CHANGES.txt next. 2. linelabel produces an error outside line numbering mode. This may be helpful when you have forgotten to switch and wonder why all line numbers are 1, e.g. -- also with ednotes.sty. 3. Some explanations in lineno.sty/tex/pdf have been amended -- cf. CHANGES.txt for details. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Announcement text for ednotes: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This upgrade is mainly concerned with 1. the number of possible notes, 2. page break oscillations, 3. `array' and similar mathematical environments, and with 4. a hopefully helpful error message; also with 5. amendments of documentation. Namely (see CHANGES.txt for more details): 1. Reimplementation of `ednotes.sty' with version v1.1, vital for huge editions (commercial/professional applications). You can now make three times as many notes as before, regarding the memory compartment for multiletter control strings. One user exhausted this by 11.000 notes on 450 pages (recent MiKTeX installation). Now he can add another 22.000 notes ... Warning: Customizations of epeatref and linewithpage as well as option `countoccurrences' need updates. 2. A checking function has been added for finding startings of page break oscillations. These typically must be fixed for getting correct references to lemmas in the apparatus. Explanations in `lblchng1.sty' v0.2 needed to be replaced by some of v0.32. 3. The `edtable' option of `ednotes.sty' now supports math environments like `array'. Explanations (`edtable.sty' v1.3) have been extended considerably, structured more clearly, and supplied with examples. 4. You get an error message when you have forgotten to switch into line numbering mode. I generalize from my own experience that this may be useful when strangely everything refers to line no. 1 ... 5. Documentations in `lineno.sty/tex/pdf' and `ednotugb.pdf' have been amended (additionally). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN upload: plotting data in matlab style,with metapost
by CTAN Announcements 09 Mar '05

09 Mar '05

On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 Yang Yang submitted metapost macros to plot data in matlab style. Location on CTAN: /graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/matlab Summary description: MetaPost data plotting License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- matlab.mp ------- Metapost data plotting in matlab style Matlab has powerful data plotting ability, but one annoying problem prevents it from being perfect: when you increase the linewidth, the dotted line size stays the same, so the plotted line no longer looks like a dotted line. another problem is matlab bug: it oftern cuts away some curves and captions. plus, matlab is expensive. on the other hand, the free gnuplot also doesn't produce very satisfactory visual effects. I got accustomed to matlab's easy interface. so I want to integerate the powerful graphic function of Metapost and the easy interface of Matlab. so I wrote this script matlab.mp. this is based on graph.mp, I just collected the data into 2-D arrays, and remembered the line styles, so it's easy to plot out legends. FEATURES: all kinds of line color, width, style (dotted/dashed, etc), and markers. you can easily expand this by modifying the code. easy interface. very similar to matlab full power of latex in caption/legends, by using the latexmp package. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: lhfonts v3.5b
by CTAN Announcements 08 Mar '05

08 Mar '05

On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Olga Lapko submitted: The lhfonts package 3.5b Location on CTAN: fonts/cyrillic/lh Summary description: Cyrillic fonts with support of LaTeX standard encodings License type: lppl Abstract: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The lh fonts for the `T2'/X2 encodings (for cyrillic languages).. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes: - Added 4 new Unicode letters. Updated Unicode encoding/font. - Changed letter ukre_uml to erev_uml in Unicode font - Corrected some bad paths in low resolutions. - Deleted some code doubles in unusual encodings - Added support for cmtex* fonts (this font could be used too rarely but it more serious than cmdunh10) - Created Cyrillic letters for Concrete (Russian letters were loaded in previous version) - Added Support (creation of mf-headers) for Concrete fonts (added by V.Volovich) - Added Support (creation of mf-headers and some mf-files) for CMBright fonts (added by V.Volovich) - Restored italic Unicode Old Slav letters - Corrected some definitions of font parameters in ec-like T2 fonts The directory layout is changed, it follows the TDS structure. Thanks for the upload, For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: Updated mempatch.sty --- fixes for memoir class
by CTAN Announcements 08 Mar '05

08 Mar '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. > > Version 3.8 of mempatch fixes a problem with booktabs related code (see > thread Bug in booktabs' trim command?, 5 March on CTT). i have installed the file as requested; thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: attachfile
by CTAN Announcements 08 Mar '05

08 Mar '05

On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 Scott Pakin submitted a new version of his package attachfile to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/attachfile/ Summary description: Attach arbitrary files to a PDF document License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Starting with PDF 1.3 (Adobe Acrobat 4.0), PDF files can contain file attachments -- arbitrary files that a reader can extract, just like attachments to an e-mail message. The attachfile package brings this functionality to pdfLaTeX and provides some additional features not available in Acrobat, such as the ability to use arbitrary LaTeX code for the file icon -- including things like includegraphics, tabular, and math. Settings can be made either globally or on a per-attachment basis. attachfile makes it easy to attach files and customize their appearance in the enclosing document. (This is a bug-fix release.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: floatrow v0.1d
by CTAN Announcements 07 Mar '05

07 Mar '05

On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Olga Lapko submitted version 0.1d of the package floatrow Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/floatrow 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 a caption beside a float. All floats of one type appear in one layout. Some floatrow settings could be expanded to rows of subfloats (subfig package). Package gets the best with co-operation with caption 3.x package. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes: - Bug fixing in counting of widths in float row and float box building. - Bug fixing: the color frames with color package get correct colours. - Restoring separate usage of floatbox command (outside of float environment) - Adjusting of floatsetup keys and options (naming and declaring). - Created new command DeclareFloatStyle command (instead of definefloatstyle), which uses floatsetup mechanism for float style building. - The lengths captionskip and floatfootskip became commands. - The floats with beside captions can be placed in floatrow environment. - The layout for floats with besdie captions advanced (added new possibilities of width setting). - The new sub-package fr-subfig (beta) with subfloatrow environment created: for usage with subfig package, this environment try to expand float style settings to subfloats. Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: europecv class
by CTAN Announcements 07 Mar '05

07 Mar '05

On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 Nicola Vitacolonna submitted an update to his package europecv an unofficial class for European curricula. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a major update of the europecv class. The standard European model for curricula vitae has been recently modified. This update implements such changes. Please be warned that the translations are not complete yet: I invite people to send me the definition files and templates for their languages, and any needed correction of the existing ones. A short description of the class follows. This class is an unofficial LaTeX implementation of the standard model for curricula vitae as recommended by the European Commission. Although primarily intended for users in the European Union, the class is flexible enough to be used for any kind of curriculum vitae. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: mempatch.sty --- fixes for memoir class
by CTAN Announcements 07 Mar '05

07 Mar '05

On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Peter Wilson uploaded mempatch.sty, patches for the memoir class. > I have uploaded mempatch.sty to UK incoming. Please use this to replace > the current /macros/latex/contrib/memoir/mempatch.sty. > > Version 3.8 of mempatch fixes a problem with booktabs related code (see > thread Bug in booktabs' trim command?, 5 March on CTT). Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN upload: WordML2LaTeX
by CTAN Announcements 07 Mar '05

07 Mar '05

On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 Ruggero Dambra submitted his package WordML2LaTeX to CTAN. WordML2LaTeX is a meeting point between two titans in word processing: Microsoft Word 2003 and LaTeX2e. It is a XSL stylesheet that transforms a Word document (WordML) in a LaTeX2e source. With it You can use Word as a front end for LaTeX. Location on CTAN: /support/WordML2LaTeX License type: gpl Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN upload notification: fontspec v1.6
by CTAN Announcements 07 Mar '05

07 Mar '05

On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 Will Robertson submitted version 1.6 of the package fontspec for xetex. fontspec is a LaTeX package for XeTeX, a Mac OS X only extension of TeX that supports unicode input and OpenType fonts natively. The package provides a simple interface for font selection and advanced feature selection for NFSS simple interface for font selection and advanced feature selection for NFSS. Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/latex/fontspec Summary description: Advanced font selection in XeTeX-based LaTeX License type: lppl Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: Tame The BeaST
by CTAN Announcements 07 Mar '05

07 Mar '05

On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 Nicolas Markey uploaded a new version of his package Tame The BeaST It is an (as complete as possible) tutorial about bibliographies in LaTeX, thus mainly about BibTeX. Location on CTAN: /info/bibtex/tamethebeast/ License type: dfsg Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: LM fonts
by CTAN Announcements 07 Mar '05

07 Mar '05

On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Staszek Wawrykiewicz uploaded version 0.98 of the Latin Modern font family to CTAN. Authors: JNSteam License: GPL Location on CTAN: fonts/lm The Latin Modern family of fonts are based on the Computer Modern fonts in the PostScript Type 1 format, released into public domain by the American Mathematical Society. The fonts, as compared to the CM family, contain a lot of additional characters, mainly accented ones, but not only. The current package for TeX users contains: Latin Modern fonts in the PostScript Type 1 format plus all requisites for using the fonts with TeX/pdfTeX; there is one set of PostScript fonts and five sets of TeX Font Metric files, corresponding to: -- EC (Cork) encoding (ec-*.tfm), -- QX encoding (qx-*.tfm), -- TeX'n'ANSI aka LY1 encoding (texnansi-*.tfm), -- T5 (Vietnamese) encoding (t5-*.tfm), -- Text Companion for EC fonts aka TS1 (ts1-*.tfm). LaTeX *.sty and *.fd files were also added plus a few test files. Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: preview-latex 0.9
by CTAN Announcements 04 Mar '05

04 Mar '05

On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, David Kastrup submitted version 0.9 of his package preview-latex and a separate package called preview Locations on CTAN: support/preview-latex and macros/latex/contrib/preview License: GPL Release notes for version 0.9 of the preview-latex package: preview-latex makes LaTeX a tightly integrated component of your editing workflow by visualizing selected source chunks (such as single formulas or graphics) directly as images in the source buffer. You get to have your eye candy and edit it, too. The employed style file preview.sty is independently useful for extraction of selected text elements as images. EPS Graphics that were created using dvips can now be used with the tightpage option, and some new commands and options are available for selecting previews. The package is released under the GNU Public License (GPL). At the current point of time, at least GNU Emacs-21.3 under the X window system or XEmacs-21 in version 21.4.10 or later, AUCTeX (11.51 or later required for PDF support), a working LaTeX installation and GhostScript are required. dvipng (version 1.4 or later: teTeX-3.0 works, TeXlive2004 not), a very fast dvi converter, can be used to speed up the conversion. For Windows, MacOS Carbon or native GTK+ toolkit support, a developer version of GNU Emacs (to be released as 22.1) is definitely required; for other platforms, use of it is advantageous. This version finally gets rid of all 8bit issues that plagued cooperation with several TeX distributions, and supports utf-8 and other multibyte input. X-Symbol (as of 4.5.1-beta) will still require an 8bit-transparent TeX executable. As a result of a drastic overhaul in image file allocation, all known GhostScript versions should now work for PostScript and PDF in SAFER mode. Icons now come in several sizes, blending better with the text display, and have been redesigned. The installation procedure has been made more flexible and robust, more conservative in the installation choices, and the Lisp startup file will now be installed automatically. It is strongly recommended that you remove a previous installation before installing this version to avoid keeping conflicting or unnecessary files. The README file provides adequate information for firing up preinstalled distributions, and pointers how to provide feedback. The INSTALL file contains a special section with advice for package providers. There is also a file INSTALL.windows detailing instructions for users of that operating system. The home page is <URL:http://preview-latex.sourceforge.net>, the SourceForge project page that among others offers anonymous CVS access is located at <URL:http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex>. However, development and CVS access are scheduled to be folded into the AUCTeX project (located at Savannah) shortly after this release. If you can spare the time, you can also comment on or rate this project at <URL:http://freshmeat.net/projects/preview-latex>. Paypal donations to the maintainer are possible directly or via SourceForge. Additional files can be found at <URL:http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/preview-latex>: * If you don't have texinfo 4.0 or later installed, prebuilt documentation files can be found there. * Tarballs of preview-latex for all users, alternatively RPMs for RedHat Linux. For the binary RPMs, you will need the preview-latex-common RPM as well as the Emacs-flavor specific RPM. * AUCTeX is now located at <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex>. The download area should also provide you with RPM files. * dvipng is currently available via its current project page <URL:http://sourceforge.net/projects/dvipng> and from CTAN. Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: mf2pt1
by Jim Hefferon 01 Mar '05

01 Mar '05

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you for the upload, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: mf2pt1 Author's name: Scott Pakin Location on CTAN: /support/mf2pt1/ Summary description: Produce PostScript Type 1 fonts directly from Metafont source License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mf2pt1 facilitates producing PostScript Type 1 fonts directly from a Metafont source file without losing quality to autotracers. mf2pt1 is not, as the name may imply, an automatic converter of arbitrary Metafont fonts to Type 1 format. The program imposes a number of restrictions on the Metafont input. If these restrictions are met, mf2pt1 will produce valid Type 1 output with more accurate control points than can be reverse-engineered by TeXtrace, mftrace, and other programs which convert bitmaps to outline fonts. Version 2.0 sports the following improvements over the previous version: * A new --rounding option enables control points to be placed with higher precision. * Fonts are automatically run through t1asm to convert them from disassembled format to true .pfb font files. * Fonts are automatically run through FontForge, if available, to clean up curves and automatically add font-hinting information. A new --ffscript option lets the user override the default FontForge script. * mf2pt1 includes a workaround for a MetaPost turningnumber bug. * A new glyph_name command and asis encoding vector enable font programs to specify their own encodings -- useful for creating a large font out of multiple 256-character fonts. * mf2pt1 now supports an encoding vector for TeX T1 (i.e., 8-bit) encoding. * There are various bug fixes, code cleanups, and documentation improvements. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/mf2pt1/ 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: ebezier v4
by CTAN Announcements 01 Mar '05

01 Mar '05

On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 Gerhard A. Bachmaier submitted version 4 of his package ebezier to CTAN. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ebezier Summary description: Picture enhancement License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ebezier supports device independent bezier curves e.g. for drawing larger circles. Additionally lengths of these curves can be calculated. This is update version 4 which corrects minor deficiencies. It includes the documentation as a PDF file. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: tif2eps 0.79
by CTAN Announcements 01 Mar '05

01 Mar '05

On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Staszek Wawrykiewicz sumitted version 0.79 of the package tif2eps to CTAN. Authors: Boguslaw Jackowski, P. Pianowski and P. Strzelczyk License: GPL Location on CTAN: support/pstools/tif2eps TIF2EPS is a PostScript program for the conversion of TIFF files (ver. 6.0) to EPS ones. Compression (LZW, CCITT Fax, RLE, Flate, DCT) and ASCII85 encoding is available. The package may be used for generating colour- separated EPSes, `EPS thumbnails,' and, moreover, little header EPSes, containing only a pointer to a source TIFF file. Employing Ghostscript guarantees portability and efficient processing. News in ver. 0.79: A bug in -o2 (ovewrite if newer) option fixed. Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: xmpincl
by Jim Hefferon 28 Feb '05

28 Feb '05

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should make its way to your favorite mirror real soon now. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: xmpincl Author's name: Maarten Sneep Location on CTAN: /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xmpincl Summary description: Include eXtensible Metadata Platform data in pdflatex License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The XMP (eXtensible Metadata platform) is a framework to add metadata to digital material to enhance the workflow in publication. References are given below, but the essenence is that the metadata is stored in an XML file, and this XML stream is then embedded in the file to which it applies. New in this version is that the <?xpacket ?> tags are automatically added, which makes the whole package much more standards compliant. The package checks the xmp file to see if it is used on an older file to avoid double inclusion of the <?xpacket ?> tags (no changes to older sources are needed). - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xmpincl 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: TpX
by Jim Hefferon 28 Feb '05

28 Feb '05

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and will soon propogate to your favorite mirror. Thanks for the upload, 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 drawing tool for Windows License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TpX 1.1 is on CTAN TpX is a simple, easy-to-use graphical editor for Windows platform for creation of drawings and inclusion them into TeX 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 TeX 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. Homepage: http://tpx.sourceforge.net/ - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/tpx/ 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: cam.ctan.org upload: datetime
by Robin Fairbairns 28 Feb '05

28 Feb '05

Nicola Talbot writes, through the medium of http://www.tex.ac.uk/upload: > Name of contribution: datetime > Author's name: Nicola Talbot > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/datetime > Summary description: Change format of oday with commands for current time > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The datetime package can now be used with babel and LaTeX2HTML > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thanks for the upload. i've installed the updated package as requested, and triggered mirroring. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: WinShell 2.6 submission
by CTAN Announcements 28 Feb '05

28 Feb '05

On Sun, 27 Feb 2005, Ingo H. de Boer submitted version 2.6.0.4 of his winshell package to CTAN. Location on CTAN: systems/win32/winshell License: nosource --------------------------------------------------------------------------- WinShell is a graphical user interface for easy working with LaTeX or TeX. It includes a text editor, different tool bars and user configuration options. It is NOT a LaTeX system. An additional LaTeX package for Windows is needed. Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: upload
by Robin Fairbairns 28 Feb '05

28 Feb '05

Eitan Gurari writes: > > + what you've uploaded > > tex4ht-all.zip > > + which CTAN node you've uploaded to > > cam.ctan.org > > + where you want the files to go > > Replace > > /tex-archive/support/TeX4ht/tex4ht-all.zip > > + what licensing conditions you apply to your software (see list > below). > LPPL > > + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do. > (please note that the mail should be in english for speedy processing) > > Yearly update of the TeX4ht system for translating TeX-based > files to hypertext. i've installed the file as requested; thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: upload
by Robin Fairbairns 28 Feb '05

28 Feb '05

Eitan Gurari writes: > + what you've uploaded > > AlProTex.zip > > + which CTAN node you've uploaded to > > cam.ctan.org > > + where you want the files to go > > Replace > > /tex-archive/web/protex/AlProTex.sty > > + what licensing conditions you apply to your software (see list > below). > LPPL > > + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do. > (please note that the mail should be in english for speedy processing) > > Yearly update of the AlProTex system for literate programming. i've installed the new version; thanks for the update. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: Updated mempatch.sty --- fixes for memoir class
by Robin Fairbairns 27 Feb '05

27 Feb '05

Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded mempatch.sty to UK incoming. Please use this to replace > the current /macros/latex/contrib/memoir/mempatch.sty > > Version 3.7 of mempatch fixes a slight font leakage into memoir's > footnotes and adjust a change made by fixltx2e that is unwarranted for > memoir and which caused table* in twocolumn documents to fail. i've installed the file as requested. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN auto-archiving: the future
by Robin Fairbairns 26 Feb '05

26 Feb '05

Auto-archiving is the mechanism that allows you to get all of a directory's contents at once, by asking your ftp client for a download of <directory name>.zip or <directory name>.tar.gz . The ftp daemon creates these bundles on the fly. Auto-archiving is available at some CTAN sites and mirrors as a convience for users. The great advantage of auto-archiving is that it provides short-cuts for the ordinary user, who doesn't want to perform a retrieval operation for every file in a directory, or is concerned about how many files to download. An additional advantage is the simple fact of compression: there are savings in network bandwidth, and hence download time, to be had. The management of CTAN has been concerned, for some time, about auto-archive offered by the central CTAN nodes, for two reasons: a. Auto-archiving is offered by a small minority of mirror sites. While we have a script that checks, once a week, whether a site offers the service, the situation continues to provoke surprise. b. Auto-archiving is not possible using the newer generation of ftp daemon software. There are compelling reasons for us to try that software, but we can't do so while we claim to offer an auto-archive service. For these reasons, the CTAN team is considering withdrawing the auto-archive facility. However, we want to retain as many of the advantages of its availability as is possible. We are therefore populating CTAN with .zip archives of directories; so, for example, you will find 2005/02/17 | 8129 | macros/latex/contrib/alnumsec.zip 2005/02/16 | 862 | macros/latex/contrib/alnumsec/README 2005/02/16 | 20567 | macros/latex/contrib/alnumsec/alnumsec.dtx in FILES.byname; alnumsec.zip is a copy of the directory containing the other two files. We chose .zip as an archiving format since it's the nearest approach to a compression format that's (relatively) readily available on all common platforms. (Among other things, the free unzip application (from the info-zip project) has nice properties in dealing with different operating systems' text file formats.) Better compression performance is available with other formats, but we believe a conservative approach will serve the community better. Anyone with concerns about this move may either discuss the matter on the texhax mailing list or the comp.text.tex newsgroup, or they may mail their concerns to the CTAN team at the usual address: <ctan at dante dot de> Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN submission: csquotes 2.6
by CTAN Announcements 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Philipp Lehman uploaded version 2.6 of his package csquotes to CTAN. 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: * Always reset quote style, even for inner quotes * Fixed bug preventing hyphenation in certain places Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: cam.ctan.org upload: makedtx
by Robin Fairbairns 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

Nicola Talbot writes, through the medium of http://www.tex.ac.uk/upload/: > ====================================================================== > > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: makedtx > Author's name: Nicola Talbot > Location on CTAN: > Summary description: Perl script to help generate dtx and ins files > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The makedtx bundle is provided to help LaTeX2e developers to write > the code and documentation in separate files, and then combine them > into a single .dtx file for distribution. It automatically generates > the character table, and also writes the associated installation > (.ins) script. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- i've installed the package in support/makedtx; it should make its way to the other ctan sites in the next few hours. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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