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CTAN update: fontools
by CTAN Announcements 21 Aug '05

21 Aug '05

On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 Marc Penninga submitted an update to the fontools package. This package provides a few tools to ease using fonts (especially Truetype/Opentype ones) with Latex and fontinst: AFM2AFM - reencode .afm files; designed to replace fontinst's eencodefont for big .afm files. AUTOINST - simplify the use of the LCDF TypeTools by creating a command file for otftotfm, plus .fd and .sty files. CMAP2ENC - convert glyph indices in TrueType fonts without glyph names (such as Linotype Palatino) to Adobe glyph names. FONT2AFM - create font metrics; this is just a wrapper script around tools such as pf2afm, ttf2afm, pfm2kpx and ot2kpx. OT2KPX - extract all kerning pairs from an OpenType font. PFM2KPX - extract all kerning pairs from buggy .pfm files (the ones where pf2afm complains .notdef character occurred among kern pairs). SHOWGLYPHS - create a pdf file that shows all glyphs in a font. Location on CTAN: fonts/utilities/fontools Summary description: Tools to simplify using fonts (especially TrueType/OpenType ones). License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - A few bugfixes - Added support files for a new encoding that may be useful for use with OpenType fonts, since it contains much more empty slots (for alternate glyphs and additional ligatures) than LY1. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: PSTricks
by CTAN Announcements 20 Aug '05

20 Aug '05

On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 Herbert Voss submitted an update to the pstricks package. Location on CTAN: /graphics/pstricks/ Summary description: bugfix to the main pstricks package License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- pstricks.tex v.1.10 - fix bug with multips (spurious blank) (hv) - allow empty optional arrow argument psline[..]{}(2,2) - redefined psarc@iv for negative loops of ccircle - introduce new options shift and showgrid for the main pspicture environment ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: poemscol 2.36
by CTAN Announcements 20 Aug '05

20 Aug '05

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 John Burt uplodaed an update to the poemscol package. Poemscol.sty 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 Summary description: macros for critical editions of verse and prose License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Poemscol 2.36 adds the ability to annotate prose texts by sentence and paragraph number. Notes made using this reference system are stable even if the edition is reset in a different format. Overlapping lemmas are supported. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: vhistory
by CTAN Announcements 20 Aug '05

20 Aug '05

On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 Jochen Wertenauer submitted an update to the vhistory package. Vhistory simplifies the creation of a history of versions of a document. You can easily extract informations like the current version of a list of authors from that history. It helps you to get consistent documents. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/vhistory Summary description: Minor upgrade of vhistory License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Minor upgrade: I changed the directory structure of the documentation to make it compliant to the TeX Live standard. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: gost BiBTeX styles
by CTAN Announcements 20 Aug '05

20 Aug '05

On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Maksym Polyakov submitted a bug fix release of the gost package to CTAN. It contains BibTeX styles to format bibliography in English, Russian and Ukrainian according to GOST 7.1-84 and GOST 7.80-00. License: LPPL Location on CTAN: biblio/bibtex/contrib/gost Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: xkeyval v2.5d
by CTAN Announcements 20 Aug '05

20 Aug '05

On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, Hendri Adriaens submitted version 2.5d of the xkeyval package to CTAN. This package is an extension of the keyval package and offers additional macros for setting keys and declaring and setting class or package options. The package allows the programmer to specify a prefix to the name of the macros it defines for keys, and to define families of key definitions; these all help use in documents where several packages define their own sets of keys. Changes: ------------------------------------------ Added a missing filename@area in document class retrieval in xkeyval.sty ------------------------------------------ Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: CJK 4.6.0
by CTAN Announcements 12 Aug '05

12 Aug '05

On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Werner LEMBERG submitted version 4.6.0 of the CJK package to CTAN. Location on CTAN: language/chinese/CJK/4_6.0 > ====================================================================== > > > Version 4.6.0: new: > 11-Aug-2005 CJKutf8.sty merges basic LaTeX's and CJK's UTF-8 support. > See CJKutf8.doc for details. > > The two new macros Thaispace and Thainospace can be > used to control the EOL behaviour in Thai text blocks > if processed with cjk-enc.el. > > There are now scripts (for Unix) to call pdflatex > instead of latex: bg5pdflatex, sjispdflatex, etc.; > all scripts now pass parameters to latex (the program). > > New documentation files giving hints how to set up the > CJK package for optimal PDF output. > > New documentation file `reftex.doc' describing > customization for RefTeX (which is part of Emacs). > > CJKfntef.sty provides more font effects specific to > CJK scripts. See the example file CJKfntef.tex for > typical usage. > > * All .fdv-files have been renamed to use the suffix > * `.fdx' since they are no longer restricted to vertical > * writing direction. See the new file `fdxfiles.doc' > * for more information. > > changed: > All plain text documentation files now have the suffix > `.txt'. > > * Thai support has been improved. > * > * . Internally, the font creation process now uses > * fontinst to create the TFM files. As a consequence, > * virtual fonts are no longer necessary. > * > * . Due to an uncertain license, the `dbtt' font family > * has been replaced with `garuda', taken from > * thailatex version 0.3.5.1 which you can find at > * > * http://linux.thai.net/plone/TLWG/thailatex > * > * . The directory tree below `utils/thaifont' has been > * updated to reflect TDS 1.1, as supported by the > * forthcoming TeXLive 2005 and teTeX 3.0. > * > * Please replace all files related to Thai fonts in your > * TEXMF tree with the new fonts and font support files. > > * HLaTeX support has been updated to handle fonts from > * version 1.0.1---there are no longer MF source files, > * only PS fonts. Support for non-uhc fonts have been > * removed; you should upgrade to the latest HLaTeX font > * archives from CTAN. Please consult CJK.txt, section > * `Korean input', for the (slightly) changed font names of > * HLaTeX support. > > errors: > Some characters in Big 5 encoding disappeared without > a warning if pseudo-vertical writing was active. > > pinyin.sty: > Umlaut u with diacritc appeared bold. > > Umlaut u with macron above was broken. > > CJKulem.sty: > User-defined CJKglue value was ignored. > > Line breaks before a post-punctuation CJK glyph > weren't disabled when uline and friends were used. > > MULEenc.sty: > extordfeminine and extordmasculine were exchanged > if used with cjk-enc.el. > > contrib/wadalab/*.fdx: > Handle Hiragana-Katagana prolongation mark correctly. > > cjk-enc.el: > Multifile support was partially broken. > > CJKvert.sty: > Both CJKvert and CJKhorz had both local and global > effects. Now they are completely local. Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: arev
by CTAN Announcements 12 Aug '05

12 Aug '05

On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Stephen Hartke submitted an update to his arev font package. Location on CTAN: /fonts/arev Summary description: Type 1 fonts, virtual fonts, and LaTeX support files for Arev Sans License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package arev provides Type 1 fonts, virtual fonts, and LaTeX packages for using Arev Sans for both text and mathematics. Arev Sans is a derivative of Bitstream Vera Sans created by Tavmjong Bah by adding support for Greek and Cyrillic characters. Bah also added a few variant letters that are more appropriate for mathematics. The primary purpose for using Arev Sans in LaTeX is presentations, particularly when using a computer projector. Arev Sans is quite readable for presentations, with large x-height, open letters, wide spacing, and thick stems. The style is very similar to the SliTeX font lcmss, but heavier. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN upload: vhistory
by CTAN Announcements 12 Aug '05

12 Aug '05

On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Jochen Wertenauer submitted a new package called vhistory to CTAN. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/vhistory Summary description: vhistory helps you to create a change log. Use the package sets for set operations. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Vhistory simplifies the creation of a history of versions of a document. You can easily extract informations like the current version of a list of authors from that history. It helps you to get consistent documents. The package sets, which is used be vhistory, allowes you to use sets containing text. You can use the usual operations to union sets, intersect sets etc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Upload: elpres
by CTAN Announcements 12 Aug '05

12 Aug '05

On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Volker Kiefel submitted a new package elpres to CTAN. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/elpres License: lppl Short description: Elpres is a simple class for electronic presentations to be shown on screen or a beamer. Elpres is derived from article.cls and may be used with LaTeX or pdfLaTeX. ------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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