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Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: simplewick
Author's name: Jindrich Kolorenc
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/simplewick
Summary description: Drawing Wick contractions above and bellow expressions
in math mode.
License type: gpl
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Drawing Wick contractions above and bellow expressions in math mode.
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: word-to-latex
Author's name: Michal Kebrt
Location on CTAN: /tools/word-to-latex
Summary description: Convert documents written in Microsoft Word into
LaTeX and XML format
License type: nosource
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Word-to-LaTeX (Word-to-XML; two names for the same program :-)) is
a program for converting documents written in Microsoft Word into
LaTeX and XML format (additional formats can be easily added through
the configuration). Word-to-LaTeX runs only on Windows with Microsoft
Word installed. This is the first public release of Word-to-LaTeX
(Word-to-XML) convertor.
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: recipecard
Author's name: Ben Reish
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/recipecard
Summary description: Typesets recipes into note card sized boxes.
License type: lppl
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The recipecard class typesets recipes into note card sized boxes that
can then be cut out and pasted to note cards. The recipe then looks
elegant and fits in the box of recipes.
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On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, Till Tantau submitted version 1.10 of his
PGF/TikZ
package.
Location on CTAN: /graphics/pgf
License: Mixed LPPL/GPL/FDL
PGF is a macro package for creating graphics. It is platform- and
format-independent and works together with the most important TeX backend
drivers, including pdftex and dvips. It comes with a user-friedly syntax
layer called TikZ.
Its usage is similar to pstricks and the standard picture environment.
Unlike pstricks, it can produce either PostScript or PDF output, and works
with plain (pdf-)TeX, (pdf-)LaTeX, and ConTeXt.
Till writes:
>
> I consider this version stable and recommend upgrading to all users.
>
> Changes since version 1.09:
>
> - Renamed pgf@sys@pdf@mark to pgfsyspdfmark.
> - Fixed the ConTeXt support so that it is usable (which is wasn't).
> Best regards,
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Thanks for the update.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
The package below has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at
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Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: Susy
Author's name: Emmanuel Turlay
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/susy
Summary description: Commands to write supersymmetry related documents easily
License type: lppl
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Commands to write supersymmetry related documents easily.
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William F Hammond wrote:
> I've uploaded version 0.8.3 (23 Oct 06) of the GELLMU tarball to
> ftp.tex.ac.uk.
>
> GELLMU stands for Generalized Extensible LaTeX-Like MarkUp.
>
> The package includes software for an XML document type (which may be
> written in LaTeX-like markup) that emulates much of LaTeX article
> while admitting robust translation to XHTML+MathML.
>
> I suggest that it be placed in support/gellmu.
>
> License: GPL
>
> This supersedes version 0.8.2.3 (25 May 06).
>
> It contains an important change for generating XHTML+MathML content
> that has been made necessary by a mid-September (2006) revision in
> Firefox and other Mozilla browsers.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> CHANGES IN GELLMU, VERSION 0.8.3 (23 Oct 2006)
>
> IMPORTANT change necessitated by change in Firefox and other Mozilla
> browsers:
>
> This update is mandatory for those who wish their XHTML+MathML outputs
> to function properly in Mozilla. Because of a mid-September 2006
> change in Mozilla with the handling of equations and arrays of
> equations, previously generated XHTML+MathML outputs will need to be
> rebuilt.
>
> This release also has reduced use of XML namespace switching in the
> XHTML+MathML outputs for the sake of greater compatibilty with
> browsers that do not recognize it.
>
> The XML side door:
>
> The largest change in this update release concerns Regular GELLMU
> (the didactic production system described in the GELLMU Manual). The
> standard translation pipeline leading from LaTeX-like source through
> SGML and XML document types to (1) LaTeX source (hence DVI and PDF
> outputs), (2) classical HTML output with pseudo-TeX math, and (3)
> XHTML with MathML output has been modified to capture along the way a
> variant of the XML document type that is reusable as XML source.
> Subsequent pipeline processing proceeds from that point with end
> results equivalent to those in earlier releases.
>
> The new variant of the XML document type may be regarded as a
> full-featured author level XML document type. It is usable and
> modifiable by authors who choose to write XML syntax rather than the
> LaTeX-like equivalent.
>
> The new author level variant of the XML document type is a suitable
> target for translation from other XML document types, and therefore,
> could provide an alternative way to format other document types for
> PDF, HTML, and XHTML+MathML.
>
> Beyond that document instances under the new author level variant of
> the XML document type should usually be stand-alone instances that
> are suitable for semi-formatted viewing through the web with CSS
> styling. They cannot be fully formatted because, for example,
> numbering has not been inserted, and cross-references have not been
> resolved.
>
> A consequence of having the XML side door is that the automatically
> formatted LaTeX files will tend to have very long lines.
>
> Driver Scripts:
>
> For the regular GELLMU main track use the driver script mmkg to
> build from regular GELLMU source. One should use the new driver
> script mmkgfromx to build from XML source under the document type
> defined in the DTD file xml/axgellmu.dtd. (This DTD file lives
> under the UTF-8 text encoding though presently only one little-used
> element name is non-ASCII, and that name admits Latin-1 representation.)
>
> Windows XP Support:
>
> In the case of a recently acquired (August 2006) ``notebook''
> class computer with ``Windows XP, Home Edition'', it was found after
> (1) installing Cygwin, (2) then installing Cygwin packages for GNU Emacs,
> Perl, Tcsh, TeX and LaTeX, OpenSP/OpenJade, and Expat (for the important
> and basic xmlwf utility), and (3) making sure that all of the
> appropriate executables are in one's command path (within Cygwin),
> that the GELLMU tarball drops easily into /usr/local/gellmu (Cygwin
> filesystem hierarchy), and the Linux driver scripts may be used.
i have indeed placed the new version in support/gellmu; thanks for the
upload.
users who want to view the package, or to download it, may do so via the
catalogue entry
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/gellmu.html
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
Colin Rourke, of Mathematical Sciences Publishers, has provided a new
package. the catalogue entry says:
Pinlabel is a labelling package for attaching perfectly formatted
TeX labels to figures and diagrams in both eps and pdf formats.
It is suitable both for labelling a new diagram and for
relabelling an existing diagram.
and the package may be found on CTAN in directory
macros/latex/contrib/pinlabel
users may browse the new package's directory, and read its
documentation, via the catalogue entry
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pinlabel.html
thanks to colin and msp for the upload --
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your
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Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: JustFontIt TeX Edition v1.0
Author's name: Alexei Kostin
Location on CTAN: /fonts/utilities/JustFontItTE
Summary description: Font utility to generate TeX metric files
License type: other
Announcement text:
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JustFontIt TeX Edition for Win32 is a tool for TeX users. It is intended
to help installing fonts in Type1 Binary (PFB), Type1 ASCII (PFA),
TrueType and OpenType/CFF to use with TeX.
Major features of JustFontIt TeX Edition:
1. Functionality of pltotf, tftopl, vftovp, vptovf tools, initially
developed by Prof. D. E. Knuth.
2. Direct production of TFM and PL TeX metric files from various
sources (PFA, PFB, TTF, OTF, AFM, PFM).
Reencoding.
3. Support for response files and recursive directory search.
4. Evident command-line interface.
5. High performance.
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: uebungsblatt
Author's name: Igor Akkerman
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/uebungsblatt
Summary description: LaTeX-Klasse zur Erstellung von Übungsblättern
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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LaTeX-Klasse zur Erstellung von Übungsblättern
Features:
* schnelles Setzen von Übungsblättern oder deren Bearbeitungen
* einfache, benutzerfreundliche Kommandos
* elegante Seitenformatierung
* vollautomatische Nummerierung der Aufgaben und Teilaufgaben
* Nummer des Übungsblatts wird automatisch aus dem Dateinamen bestimmt
* statische Informationen zur Lehrveranstaltung und den Autoren müssen
nur an einer Stelle angegeben werden
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: AkkTeX
Author's name: Igor Akkerman
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/akktex
Summary description: Collection of new document classes and packages,
especially making easier the creation of math documents
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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* new document classes for technical documents, thesis works,
manuscripts and lecture notes
* many math packages providing a tremendous nuber of macros for
mathematical texts
* layout providing a non-empty parskip with extended length
corrections and new section definition commands
* easy label creation for counters
* german language tools and predefined abbreviations
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