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Re: CTAN upload notification: tex-references
by Rainer Schöpf 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Michael Wiedmann submitted the tex-references package to CTAN. Location on CTAN: info/tex-references Summary description: References for TeX and Friends License type: Generic DFSG Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is an ongoing project with the aim of providing a help file for LaTeX (and its friends like ConTeXt, Metapost, Metafont, etc.) using a state-of-the-art source format, aka DocBook/XML. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN upload notification: ednotes.sty -- new user interface
by Rainer Schöpf 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 Uwe Lück submitted version 1.0 of the ednotes package. Summary description: version 1.0: module files handled by package options License type: LaTeX Project Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ednotes Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The ednotes bundle for critical editions formerly offered > some optional extension files. These are now handled by > new ednotes package options (so no more bothering about the > order of loading). This move requires at least changes of > documentation in former .sty files of the ednotes bundle, > so we recommend updating all of them. See the CHANGES file. > > License: intended to be LPPL v1.3a which corrects former > omission in the NO WARRANTY section > (http://www.latex-project.org/site-news.html: `October 11'.) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN upload notification: lineno.sty -- new features
by Rainer Schöpf 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Uwe Lück submitted the new version 4.1 of his lineno package. Summary description: version 4.1: module files incorporated, options for others License type: LaTeX Project Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/lineno Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Version 4.0 incorporated enhancements that the ednotes bundle > for critical editions had provided before. -- > Stephan I. Böttcher passed maintenance to Uwe Lück for this. -- > Two other packages from the ednotes bundle supported linelabel > in math mode and in tabular environments. They are now > (version 4.1) handled by package options. See the CHANGES file > and the introduction section of lineno.tex/pdf. > > License: intended to be LPPL v1.3a which corrects former > omission in the NO WARRANTY section > (http://www.latex-project.org/site-news.html: `October 11'.) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: Upload -- pstricks-add
by Robin Fairbairns 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Herbert Voss writes: > I am just uploading pstricks-add into the incoming dir. > Please delete _all_ files in > /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pstricks-add/ > and put the new ones in there. > > For the announcement: > > pstricks-add is an additional package for PSTricks. It > collects a lot of the material which was sent to the > mailing list and some new experimental features. This > update, version 2.21, has some bugfixes and three new > macros: > > psParallelLine for lines parallel to another one > psIntersectionPoint sets a node at the intersection point > of two lines > psRelLine for lines relative to another one, depending to > a given angle i've installed the new version as requested. thanks for the upload. robin

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Re: minitoc package documentation update
by Rainer Schöpf 26 Oct '04

26 Oct '04

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Jean-Pierre Drucbert uploaded an update to his minitoc package, which produces a table of contents for each chapter. > updates versus version 39: > ======================================================================= > Version #39 (slightly changed) > Corrections in documentation (minitoc.pdf) for the generation of > minitoc.pdf (thanks to Staszek Wawrykiewicz) for a better > rendering; hyperlinks are active (using pdflatex and > hyperref.sty). > ======================================================================= Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN submission: l2tabuen v1.7.4
by Rainer Schöpf 24 Oct '04

24 Oct '04

On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Juergen Fenn uploaded an updated version of l2tabuen. He writes: > It contains v1.7.4 of my English translation of Mark Trettin's guide > to LaTeX called `l2tabu' v1.7, giving a lot of practical advice about > how to avoid the most common mistakes a user can make (i.e., obsolete > commands and packages). > > I have corrected some minor typos and inserted a new section on the > euler and eulervm packages which may be of interest to those using > LaTeX for mathematical typesetting. I installed the update in info/l2tabu/english Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: floatrow v1.0b uploading
by Rainer Schöpf 24 Oct '04

24 Oct '04

Olga Lapko uploaded an update to the floatrow package. This package allow customising layouts for floating environments. It's license is LPPL. Abstract: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The floatrow package provides many ways to customise layouts of floating environments; offers possibilities to put floats side by side, to put caption beside float. All floats of one type could appear in one layout This package co-operates with caption 3.0 package ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes: Bug fixing in counting of widths in float row building. The floatrow package is located in macros/latex/contrib/floatrow The following files were updated: floatrow.dtx floatrow.ins fr-sample.tex For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Oct 24: Cambridge offline
by Robin Fairbairns 22 Oct '04

22 Oct '04

for at least 0800-1400 (gmt +0100) of 2004-10-24, the central computing facilities of the university of cambridge will be off-line to switch over to a new, beefier, ups. this means that all the cambridge-supplied tex facilities, viz. www.tex.ac.uk, including the uk tex faq ftp.tex.ac.uk, also known as cam.ctan.org rsync.tex.ac.uk we[*] apologise for any inconvenience caused. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team [*] for some value of we: actually, i don't think that cambridge university really cares about tex. but i do, and i apologise...

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Re: CTAN submission: PSNFSS 9.2 bug fix
by Rainer Schöpf 18 Oct '04

18 Oct '04

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Walter Schmidt submitted a fix to PSNFSS. He wrote: > I have uploaded the files > > changes.txt > freenfss.zip > > to the /incoming directory at dante.ctan.org. > Please, substitute them for the corresponding files in the > CTAN directory > > macros/latex/required/psnfss > > This is a fix to PSNFSS 9.2, correcting a major bug in the > metrics and VFs of the Charter fonts. Credits to > Ingo Lepper for pointing me to the problem! Thanks for the update, I installed it. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: Announcement: GELLMU version 0.8.0.5 -- bug fixes and minor changes
by Robin Fairbairns 16 Oct '04

16 Oct '04

William F. Hammond writes: > Version 0.8.0.5, a bug fix release to replace version 0.8 (and an > earlier bug fix release), is now available at CTAN in support/gellmu. > > The bugs addressed all involve the gellmu project's article > document type and its output streams for XHTML+MathML and PDF > (via LaTeX). > > There had been a serious bug in XHTML+MathML output that could > intertwine subscripts in the content of sum (or int or prod) with > the use of a subscript attached to the sum command itself for range. > Also the handling of ot in XHTML+MathML output had been simply > wrong. > > An annoying (and regressive) small bug in LaTeX output had caused > verbatim->verblist to be double spaced. > > There is now an environmental variable for turning off use of UMSS > (which is on by default) and the default location for UMSS materials > (and mxh.css) is now simply ../webstyle (which can be changed > using an environmental variable). > > For other fixes and changes see > > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/gellmu/README > > There have been requests for better documentation and, in particular, > a command glossary. > > The user's guide has been expanded somewhat, but it is still far from > finished. > > A command glossary is now high on my to-do list. For it to be as > reliable as possible it will be implemented as one of the output > streams from a literate document type definition. That will take > some time. > > Please continue to report any bugs you find. > > -- Bill Forwarded by Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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