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CTAN update: atbegshi v1.2
by CTAN Announcements 20 Apr '07

20 Apr '07

On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Heiko Oberdiek submitted an update to the atbegshi package, part of the oberdiek bundle. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek/ License: LPPL Update: * atbegshi v1.2 * AtBeginShipoutEarly removed for simplification reasons. * Forgotten definition of AtBegShi@Info added. * Patches for packages `crop' and `everyshi' and class `memoir' added. _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: doi
by CTAN Announcements 18 Apr '07

18 Apr '07

The package described below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: doi Author's name: Maarten Sneep Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/doi Summary description: Ensure correct hyperlinks to dx.doi.org License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A minor update to the doi package, mainly bug fixes (spurious spaces). Documentation is in the style file. The doi package produces correctly formatted, hyperlinked doi numbers, even when horrible characters are used (>, <, and ; come to mind). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/doi . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=doi (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: The caption package v3.0q
by CTAN Announcements 17 Apr '07

17 Apr '07

On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a bugfix/improvement release of the caption package 3.0: - Accidentally caption.pdf was a4paper in the last versions, changed back to letter format - Bugfix in KOMA-Script compatibility stuff: "singlelinecheck=false" within usepackage options was not working anymore since v3.0m (See changelog for details.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/caption/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=caption (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: oberdiek bundle -- atbegshi v1.0
by CTAN Announcements 17 Apr '07

17 Apr '07

On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Heiko Oberdiek submitted an upadte to the oberdiek bundle. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek License: LPPL New package: * atbegshi v1.0 This package is a modern reimplementation of package `everyshi' without the burden of compatibility. It makes use of e-TeX's if available. Both LaTeX and plain-TeX are supported. Updates: * Packages atenddvi, pdflscape and zref now use atbegshi instead of everyshi. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This bundle is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=oberdiek and http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=atbegshi (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 has a new package: mkjobtexmf v0.1
by CTAN Announcements 17 Apr '07

17 Apr '07

On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Heiko Oberdiek submitted the new package mkjobtexmf to CTAN. It's a new program: NAME mkjobtexmf -- Generate a texmf tree for a particular job SYNOPSIS The progam mkjobtexmf runs a program and tries to find the used file names. Two methods are available, option -recorder of TeX (Web2C) or the program strace. Then it generates a directory with a texmf tree. It checks the found files and tries sort them in this texmf tree. It can be used for archiving purposes or to speed up following TeX runs. Status: experimental Location on CTAN: support/mkjobtexmf License: Same as perl (Perl Artistic/GNU) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/mkjobtexmf . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=mkjobtexmf (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: pdftex.def v0.04g
by CTAN Announcements 17 Apr '07

17 Apr '07

On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Heiko Oberdiek submitted an update to the pdftex.def file. Location on CTAN: graphics/pdftex/pdftex.def Changes of version 0.04g: * pagecolor overloads shipout. This is now done in a more robust way using e-TeX if available. Also void boxes are ignored as shipout does. _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: arabxetex
by CTAN Announcements 17 Apr '07

17 Apr '07

On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 François Charette submitted the new package arabxetex to CTAN. Location on CTAN: macros/xetex/latex/arabxetex Summary description: An ArabTeX-like interface for XeLaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ArabXeTeX provides a convenient ArabTeX-like user-interface for typesetting languages using the Arabic script in XeLaTeX, with flexible access to font features. Input in ArabTeX notation can be set in three different vocalization modes or in roman transliteration. Direct UTF-8 input is also supported. The parsing and converting of ArabTeX input to Unicode is done by means of TECkit mappings. Version 1.0 provides support for Arabic, Maghribi Arabic, Farsi (Persian), Urdu, Sindhi, Kashmiri, Ottoman Turkish, Kurdish, Jawi (Malay) and Uighur. The documentation (not yet complete) covers topics such as typesetting the Holy Quran, typesetting bidirectional critical editions (with ednotes), and information on various recommended OpenType fonts for the Arabic script and for transliterating Oriental languages. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/arabxetex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=arabxetex (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: BaKoMa TeX 7.92 - VISTA ready, LaTeX, eTeX, Nomenclature.
by CTAN Announcements 17 Apr '07

17 Apr '07

On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Basil Malyshev submitted an update to the bakoma package. Location on CTAN: systems/win32/bakoma > Most important improvements: > > * BaKoMa TeX 7.92 is running under VISTA > Final tests were passed. All known problems were solved. > So, we declare that BaKoMa TeX is ready for running under VISTA. > > * TeX Word Improvements: > + 'Insert/Nomenclature Entry...' - new command. > This command inserts LaTeX command omenclature. > Also, it automatically includes nomencl or nomentbl package > with proper configuration of MakeIndex program. > + Added automatical launching of BiBTeX for gloss package. > + Fixed eventual crashing of TeXWord at View/Refresh (F5) > > * Centaur Improvements: > + 'Options/TeX Running Parameters ...' - improved dialog. > It is made more consistent with TeXWord. > Set of utilities launched after every TeXing is associated with > document. > Flexible configuration of files for sorting by MakeIndex program. > is associated with document and is shared between TeXWord and Centaur. > + Online manual includes (click [?] in 'TeX Running Parameter' dialog) > examples of MakeIndex configuration for most popular packages. > > * More Updates: > + LaTeX is updated. > + eTeX is updated to V 2.2 > > More details about changes and another bug fixing see at: > < > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes7.html> > > Bye. > Basil K. Malyshev > 16-Apr-2007 > > > -------------------- About BaKoMa TeX 7.92 ------------------ > > BaKoMa TeX 7.92 supports two coexisting IDE: > 1) BaKoMa TeX Word - True WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor. > 2) Text Editor + DVI Viewer - Clasical IDE. > > About BaKoMa TeX Word. > > BaKoMa TeX Word is True WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor. > > The word `True' is used to highlight two following facts: > > 1) It is True WYSIWYG Editor. > It means that display shows precisely the same what will be printed. > It looks such that you edit your document immediately in DVI Viewer. > > 2) It is True LaTeX Editor. > It edits LaTeX source text without any import/export procedure. > It means that you can load and edit any LaTeX 2e document. > > BaKoMa TeX Word is built on top of BaKoMa TeX graphic engine and > consequently it inherits all features of BaKoMa TeX related > with import graphics, font support, and document export. > > It supports processors: > (1) Standard TeX and (2) e-TeX. > Other processors such as Omega may be added in future. > > It imports: > EPS, PDF, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, > MSP, BMP, WMF, EMF, FIG, HPGL, and DXY. > It supports fonts: > OpenType (OTF/TTF), TrueType, PostScript Type1 (including MM), > PostScript Type 3, and TeX PK/VF. > It exports: > DVI, PDF, SVG, PS, PNG (with HTML wrapper), and HTML (TeX4HT). > > It includes built-in PostScript interpreter accessible via DVIPS > compatible special interface that supports such macro packages as: > PSTricks, PSFrag, graphics (psfig), draftcopy, > PowerDot, Prosper, Beamer, etc. > > Most important application of BaKoMa TeX Word is > final step corrections of LaTeX papers before publishing. > > Editing slides in WYSIWYG interface > (with such packages as PowerDot, Prosper, Beamer, etc.) > is another impressive feature of `BaKoMa TeX Word'. > > TeXWord dramatically simplifies editing complex formulas and tables. > > TeXWord is transparent for cooperation. > TeXWord don't use additional macro packages. > It uses only standard LaTeX packages, so that documents made up > in TeXWord may be compiled in any LaTeX setup without any adaptation. > In other side, TeXWord can handle arbitrary LaTeX documents. > So, that your coleagues may even don't know that you use > powerful WYSIWYG tool to edit your part of common work. > > Beginner users of LaTeX may consider TeXWord as > good start point for learning LaTeX together with writing papers. > > 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 upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: svninfo 0.7.1
by CTAN Announcements 17 Apr '07

17 Apr '07

On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Achim D. Brucker submitted an update to the svninfo package for incorporating the values of Subversion keywords into typeset documents. Location on CTAN: /tex/macros/latex/contrib/svninfo/ Summary description: A LaTeX package for accessing svn keywords License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The svninfo package is used to extract the revision and file information provided by the subversion (svn) and svk revision control systems 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. Fixed the behavior of svnMaxToday and introduced svnInfoMaxToday as an alternative name for svnMaxToday. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/tex/macros/latex/contrib/svninfo/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=svninfo 0.7.1 (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 has a new package: bidi
by CTAN Announcements 17 Apr '07

17 Apr '07

On Sat, 14 Apr 2007, François Charette submitted the new package bidi to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/latex/bidi Summary description: Support for bidirectional typesetting with XeLaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A convenient interface for typesetting bidirectional texts with XeLaTeX. (Also works with pdfLaTeX, though in this case its usefulness is doubtful). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/bidi . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=bidi (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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