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CTAN update: ocgtools
by CTAN Announcements 08 Apr '10

08 Apr '10

This should be at your local mirror within a day. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: OCGtools Version number: 0.6 Author's name: Robert Marik Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ocgtools Summary description: hanlding PDF document's this.dirty License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This new version keeps PDF document's this.dirty and hence the users of Adobe Acrobat are not bothered by the question Save changes? if the user only opened/closed the layers and related buttons and nothing else has been changed in document. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ocgtools . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/ocgtools (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: fancytooltips
by CTAN Announcements 08 Apr '10

08 Apr '10

This should reach your local mirror within a day. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College .......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: fancytooltips Version number: 1.6 Author's name: Robert Marik Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/fancytooltips/ Summary description: Added new options and examples, expanded documentation License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The new version includes the following * New options active and inactive allow to extract labeled equations, figures and theorem-like environments and put tooltips to the output of ef and eqref commands. This all is done automatically. (See the demo file examples/fancy-preview/fancy-preview-demo.pdf and script fancy-preview in the same directory.) * Starred versions of ooltip and ooltipanim commands (see the demo file above). * Expanded documentation and new option for debug debugging problems (see the file fancytooltis-example-min-dvips.pdf in the examples directory). * Handles PDF's this.dirty variable and the users of Adobe Acrobat are not bothered by the questions about saving changes. * Created repository with forum for reporting problems and with development version of the package at http://bitbucket.org/robert.marik/fancytooltips . The version from this repository is considered to be unstable, the last stable version is always the version at CTAN. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/fancytooltips/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/fancytooltips (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN Update: installfont
by CTAN Announcements 08 Apr '10

08 Apr '10

On Wed, 7 Apr 2010, Josef Kleber submitted an update to the installfont package. Summary description: A bash script for installing a LaTeX font family License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- With this script you can install a LaTeX font family (Postscript Type1, Truetype, Opentype). At least the four basic cuts + light + (faked) small caps + faked slanted, but no expert fonts. The script will rename the fonts automatically (optinal) or will otherwise expect *.afm files and the font files (in Postscript Type1 format!) named in the Karl Berry scheme (e.g. 5bbr8a.pfb). After running the script, you should have a working font installation in your local TeX tree. License: LPPL New in v1.4: - added support for light font - Bugfix: added Book as grep search pattern for regular font ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/support/installfont . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=installfont (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: jeopardy
by CTAN Announcements 08 Apr '10

08 Apr '10

This should within a day be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ....................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: jeopardy package Version number: 1.1a Author's name: Robert Marik Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/jeopardy/ Summary description: Redesigned examples to work in TeXlive 2009. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The demo files for Jeopardy package stopped to work under TeXlive 2009 due to some conflict between packages used in these files. This update of demo files solves the problem. The pdfscreen.sty package has been replaced by web.sty package. This solves also problems with pdfscreen, babel and select@language command, which has been reported by some users. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/jeopardy/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/jeopardy (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: latexmk
by CTAN Announcements 07 Apr '10

07 Apr '10

This should within a day be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: latexmk Version number: 4.15 Author's name: John Collins Location on CTAN: / Summary description: Fully automated LaTeX document generation routine License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Changes of default settings for running latex and pdflatex with latexmk's -quiet option; they are now TeX-Live compatible for all OSs. 2. Small improvements in diagnostics and error handling. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/latexmk . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/latexmk (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: prerex
by CTAN Announcements 07 Apr '10

07 Apr '10

This should within a day be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College .......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: prerex Version number: 5.7 Author's name: Bob Tennent Location on CTAN: /graphics/prerex Summary description: macro support, editors and viewers for producing prerequisite charts License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- + corrected coordinate calculations in the vprerex application + the delete command in the prerex editor can now do multiple deletions + more detailed documentation ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/prerex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/prerex (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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UK TeX FAQ, version 3.19d
by CTAN Announcements 07 Apr '10

07 Apr '10

i continue to make small updates of the faq, while pondering a new web interface. today's release (some details below) contains a number of minor improvements and extensions, and some corrections. the web interface (such as it is) remains at http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq Changes in version 3.19d This file lists changes since its most recent release (version 3.19c). New answers: +Label plaintex: explains writing in tex, was part of Label whattex Relabelled answers: <none> Revised answers: +Label codelist: mention the minted package +Label docs: single reference to epslatex (via catalogue) +Label etex: add ctan link +Label filesused: rewrite to clarify the issue with input +Label luatex: now version 0.60.0 +Label fonts-pln: replace some complete gibberish (undoing mis-edits, I guess) +Label parallel: mention the pdfcolparcolumns package +Label seccntfmt: remove superfluous expandafter in programming, tidy text +Label tabcellalign: editorial on PBS macro discussion +Label texfuture: rehashed, in light of today's situation +Label whattex: simplified by removal of material for Label plaintex Deleted answers: <none> Web interface: Extension of links to catalogue, to packages distributed as part of... Abbreviate header text (omitting long list of helpers -- which will ultimately be available in a separate file online) Convert alphabetic SGML entities to use numeric equivalents (stragglers are bound to show up, but most have gone) Users may view the faq's catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/uk-tex-faq.html or browse the faq directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/uk-tex-faq The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: seuthesis
by CTAN Announcements 07 Apr '10

07 Apr '10

This should within a day be at your local mirror. Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: seuthesis Version number: 1.3.0 Author's name: Xu, Yuan Summary description: The LaTeX template for thesis of Southeast University License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The LaTeX template for thesis of Southeast University, Nanjing China ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/seuthesis . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/seuthesis (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN has a new package: pgf-umlsd
by CTAN Announcements 07 Apr '10

07 Apr '10

This should be at your local mirror within a day. Thanks again, Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College .................................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: pgf-umlsd Version number: 0.5 Author's name: Xu, Yuan Summary description: Some LaTeX macros for UML Sequence Diagrams. License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Some LaTeX macros for UML Sequence Diagrams. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pgf/contrib/pgf-umlsd . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pgf-umlsd (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN Update: softmaker-freefont
by CTAN Announcements 07 Apr '10

07 Apr '10

On Tue, 6 Apr 2010 Josef Kleber submitted an update to the softmaker-freefont package. Summary description: Support files for SoftMaker free fonts available at www.freefont.de License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- In June 2009 www.freefont.de offered a beautiful handwriting font for free download: The Softmaker Stone Handwriting. As handwriting fonts are a quite limited resource in the LaTeX world, i decided to create support files for this beautiful font. Therefore, Stone Handwriting will be the starting point for the softmaker-freefont bundle. Other fonts will be included in future. Supported fonts at the moment: Baskerville-Nova (regular + bold + italic + bold italic), Canossa (regular + bold + light), Congress (regular + bold + italic), Delano-Caps, Flagstaff, Henderson, Iceberg (regular + bold), Jugendstil, Old Blackletter, Stone Handwriting, Sunset (regular + bold) License: LPPL (not the fonts themselves) New in v1.10: - added support for the font family Canossa (regular + bold + light + faked slanted + faked small caps) Attention: The font is not included! This font is font of the month (April 2010) and can be downloaded for free (at least this month) at: http://www.freefont.de Later you can buy it from Softmaker - added smfflseries.sty (provides the commands extl and lseries for light fonts) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/softmaker-freefont/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=softmaker-freefont (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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