On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 at 15:26 +0400, Basil Malyshev submitted an
update to the
bakoma
package.
Location on CTAN: systems/win32/bakoma
Announcement text:
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> General improvement in BaKoMa TeX 8.10 is caching
> included graphics and slide background (PowerDot package).
> This feature improves editing/browsing documents with many included figures.
> This feature is supported in TeXWord and DVI Viewer.
>
> Caching is enabled by default.
>
> Caching imported graphics and slide background
> may be enabled/disabled independently by new options of <b>View</b> menu:
>
> * 'Use Imported Graphics Cache' - new option.
> This feature enables caching graphics imported by includegraphics.
> It is nice choose instead of disabling imported images or draft option.
> * 'Use Slide Background Cache (PowerDot)' - new option.
> This feature enables caching slide background drawn by presentation
> packages.
> Currently, this feature has effect only for PowerDot package.
> * 'Imported Graphics Appearance' - renamed 'Figures/Bounding Boxes'.
> It was renamed to be more consistent with new options.
>
> More details about changes and another bug fixing see at:
> <
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes7.html
> >
>
> -------------------- About BaKoMa TeX 8.10 ------------------
>
> BaKoMa TeX 8.10 supports two coexisting IDE:
> 1) BaKoMa TeX Word - True WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor.
> 2) Text Editor + DVI Viewer - Clasical IDE.
> They are high compatible, so that you can choose what to use
> depend on kind of a document or stage of work under a document.
>
> 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
ctan-upload(a)tex.ac.uk wrote:
> Name of contribution: xfor
> Author's name: Nicola Talbot
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/xfor
> Summary description: A reimplimentation of LaTeX for-loop macro
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> v1.02: added look ahead facility to check the next value before
> finishing the current iteration.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
thank you for the upload. i have installed the new version and updated
the catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/xfor.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xfor
the catalogue entry (not much changed) won't be updated until some time
tonight; the package itself will get to the other ctan sites pretty
quickly, but won't reach mirror sites in general for 24 hours or more.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the cambridge upload daemon wrote:
> ======================================================================
>
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: glossaries
> Author's name: Nicola Talbot
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/glossaries
> Summary description: Create glossaries and lists of acronyms
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Version 1.04:
>
> added glstextformat to change the way the glossary entry link text
> appears in the document.
thanks for the upload.
i have installed the new version and updated the catalogue repository.
the files themselves will propagate to the other ctan sites fairly
quickly, while the catalogue entry may take rather longer.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/glossaries.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/glossaries
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
the Cambridge upload daemon wrote:
> Name of contribution: makedtx
> Author's name: Nicola Talbot
> Location on CTAN: support/makedtx
> Summary description: Perl script to help generate dtx and ins files
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Version 0.93b:
>
> added following switches
>
> -comment <expr> - surround file matching Perl expression <expr> with iffalse fi pair so that it is not included in the documentation.
>
> -codetitle <text> - Set the title for the documented code section
>
> -version - print version number and exit
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
thanks for the upload.
i have installed the new version and updated the catalogue repository.
the files themselves will propagate to the other ctan sites fairly
quickly, while the catalogue entry may take rather longer.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/makedtx.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/makedtx
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
At Monday, 13 August 2007, Wybo Dekker submitted an update to the
ctable
package.
It should soon be at your favorite mirror.
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ctable
Summary description: Easily typeset centered tables
License type: LPPL
Announcement text:
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- ctable.sty provides commands to easily typeset centered or left or
right aligned tables and (multiple-)figure floats, with footnotes.
Instead of an environment, a command with 4 arguments is used; the
first is optional and is used for key,value pairs generating
variations on the defaults and offering a route for future
extensions.
- major changes (relative to v1.9):
- Footnote markers in the text now stay superscript with nosuper.
- Documentation: added many examples for the options.
- Corrected some unwanted white space in captions.
- Caption package included to correct booktabs errors
in caption position. As a consequence:
- *Captionskip option redefined*: 0pt value now corresponds
to LaTeX defaults
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ctable
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=ctable
(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,
Joachim Schrod
A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at
your favorite mirror.
Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: chemstyle
Author's name: Joseph Wright
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/chemstyle
Summary description: Writing chemistry with style
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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chemstyle is intended as a successor to the LaTeX package provided by
the rsc bundle. The chemstyle package provides an extensible system
for formatting chemistry documents according to the conventions of a
number of leading journals. It also provides some handy chemistry-related
macros.
chemstyle is a much enhanced package compared to rsc, and users of the
later are strongly encouraged to migrate to chemstyle. All of the
additional macros in the rsc LaTeX package are present in chemstyle.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/chemstyle
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=chemstyle
(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 .
The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be
at your favorite mirror.
Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: titlesec 2.7
Author's name: Javier Bezos
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/titlesec
Summary description: Customize section titles
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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- itlepagestyle assigns a page style to a sectioning
command (mainly part and chapter}.
- With the package option explicit the title is not
implicit at the end of the title format but it should
be given explicitly (with a macro parameter).
- leftmargin has now an 'after' argument to add stuff
at he beginning of the paragraph.
- The patch mechanism has been removed (titlesec.new
and titletoc.new no longer exist).
(Some other changes have been left for a later release.)
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/titlesec
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=titlesec
(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 .
A new package has been put on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your
favorite mirror.
Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: mathexam
Author's name: Jan Hlavacek
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/
Summary description: LaTeX package for typesetting exams
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This package can help you typeset exams (mostly in mathematics and
related disciplines where students are required to show their calculations
followed by one or more short answers). It provides commands for inclusion
of space for calculations, as well as commands for automatic creation of
``answer spaces''. In addition, the package will automatically create
page headers and footers, and will let you include instructions and space
for students to put their name.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mathexam
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=mathexam
(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 .
A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon be
at your favorite mirror.
Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: dtxgallery
Author's name: Will Robertson
Location on CTAN: /info/dtxgallery
Summary description: A small collection of minimal DTX examples
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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This work is a collection of files that demonstrate
simple things that are possible with the flexible
and under-appreciated docstrip file format.
It is intended as a companion to Scott Pakin's
excellent and influential dtxtut example of producing
LaTeX packages in this way.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/dtxgallery
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=dtxgallery
(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 .