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CTAN update: poemscol
by CTAN Announcements 30 Mar '05

30 Mar '05

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 John Burt submitted version 2.22 of the poemscol package to CTAN. 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 License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This upgrade to poemscol adds multilevel footnotes, ability to define new kinds of endnote, crossreferencing by line, and easier customization. Removes dependence upon marn.sty ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: TeXshade v1.10
by CTAN Announcements 30 Mar '05

30 Mar '05

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 Eric Beitz submitted a new version of texshade to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/texshade/ Summary description: Update of the DNA and protein sequence alignment LaTeX package TeXshade License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is an update of the DNA and protein alignment shading package TeXshade (v1.10). Major changes are: The plotting speed of bar graphs and color scales along the alignment has been massively accelerated, a new feature style 'restriction' has been implemented as well as more color definitions, a new labeling mode 'tint' has been introduced. Bugs were fixed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN upload notification: bmeps-1.2.4
by CTAN Announcements 30 Mar '05

30 Mar '05

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 Dirk Krause submitted version 1.2.4 of bmeps to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /support/bmeps Summary description: Converter from PNG/JPEG/NetPBM to EPS License type: bsd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- License change and bugfix. The project uses a BSD-style license now. After successfully processing a NetPBM file the program did not set the exit status code to indicate success. This is fixed now. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: latexMP
by CTAN Announcements 30 Mar '05

30 Mar '05

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 Jens-Uwe Morawski submitted versiopn 1.2.0 of latexmp to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/latexmp/ Summary description: LaTeX based typesetting in MetaPost License type: pd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This update keeps the MP prologues variable untouched. Furthermore, the compatibility with MPs btex..etex has been improved. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN submission --- Updated ccaption package
by CTAN Announcements 30 Mar '05

30 Mar '05

Peter Wilson writes: > I have just uploaded ccaption.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use this to > replace the current macros/latex/contrib/ccaption. > > Changes in ccaption v3.2a (2005/03/29) > o Fixed a labelling problem with bilingual captions i've installed the new version as requested; thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN submission --- Proto-Semitic font
by CTAN Announcements 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

Peter Wilson writes@ > I have uploaded protosem.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use this > to replace the current fonts/archaic/protosem. The distribution is > under the LPPL. > > >From the README: > The protosem package provides fonts for the Proto-Semitic script in use > about 1600BC, and which may be a very early ancestor of many of the world's > alphabets. Files for using the font with LaTeX are also included. This is > one of a series of archaic script fonts. > > Changes in version 1.2 (2005/03/18) > o Font supplied as Postscript Type 1 instead of MetaFont. I've installed the files as requested. thanks for the upload. > A SPECIAL REQUEST TO FONT EXPERTS: This is my first attempt at producing > a Type 1 font from one of my original MetaFont sources. I would be very > grateful if you could check this out and let me have any suggestions before > I tackle the other fonts in the set. > > On a Linux box I used mftrace and FontForge to go from MetaFont *.mf to > T1 *.afm & *.pfb files. I tried afm2pfb to get a *.pfb file but the program > stopped with a segmentation fault. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN submission --- ledmac package extensions
by CTAN Announcements 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

Peter Wilson writes: > I am uploading ledmac.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use this to > replace the current macros/latex/contrib/ledmac. The distribution is > under the LPPL. > > >From the README: > The ledmac package is for typesetting critical editions and is a LaTeX > port, and extension, of the plain TeX EDMAC, TABMAC and EDSTANZA macros. The > ledpar package is an extension of ledmac enabling parallel typesetting in > columns or on facing pages. The ledarab package is a further extension > enabling the use of arab script, as implemented by ArabTeX, in critical > editions (temporarily afoot.sty is provided to support regular footnotes in > ArabTeX). > > Changes: > o First public release of ledarab (v0.1) > o ledpar (v0.3) and ledmac (v0.7) reorganized and recoded to improve > efficiency and support ledarab. i've installed the upload as requested; thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN submission --- docmfp package update
by CTAN Announcements 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded docmfp.tar.gz.2nd to UK incoming (upload of > docmfp.tar.gz failed with a timeout). Please use this to replace the current > macros/latex/contrib/docmfp. The distribution is under the LPPL. > > >From the README: > The package extends the doc package to cater for documenting non-LaTeX > code, such as Metafont or Metapost, or even C or Java code. > > Changes in this version: > o Corrected minor typos. i've installed the package as requested; thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: xcolor 2.02
by CTAN Announcements 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 Uwe Lück uploaded version 2.02 of the package xcolor to CTAN. Xcolor provides easy driver-independent access to several kinds of color tints, shades, tones, and mixes of arbitrary colors. It allows a user to select a document-wide target color model and offers complete tools for conversion between eight color models. Additionally, there is a command for alternating row colors plus repeated non-aligned material (like horizontal lines) in tables. Colors can be mixed like color{red!30!green!40!blue}. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/xcolor/ Summary description: Driver-independent color extensions for LaTeX and pdfLaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2005/03/24 v2.02 * New features: - aftergroupedef command to reproduce aftergroupdef's behaviour prior to v2.01; - xcolor's homepage www.ukern.de/tex/xcolor.html now provides also a ready-to-run TDS-compliant archive containing all required files. * Changes: - owcolors and friends are solely enabled by the `table' option; - @ifxempty changed back to more robust variant of v2.00. * Bugfixes: - psset{linecolor=ifcasefoo redor greenor bluefi} did not work with `pstricks' (error introduced in v2.01). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: microtype
by Jim Hefferon 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

The package described below has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks for the update, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: microtype Author's name: R Schlicht Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/microtype Summary description: An interface to the micro-typographic extensions of pdfTeX License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes in version 1.7: * Possibility to specify ranges of font sizes in the set declarations and protrusion/expansion settings * Always take font size into account when trying to find protrusion/expansion settings * New command LoadMicroTypeFile to manually load a font configuration file * New option `verbose=errors' to turn all warnings into errors * Compatibility with the `chemsym' and `statex' packages * Disable expansion inside showhyphens * Warning when running in draft mode * Hook for font package authors - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/microtype although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror of CTAN that is near to you; see http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors

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