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CTAN has a new package: dvdcoll
by CTAN Announcements 18 Jun '06

18 Jun '06

On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 Josef Kleber submitted a new pacakge called dvdcoll to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/dvdcoll/ Summary description: A new class dvdcoll.cls for typesetting DVD archives License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- One day i lost the overview over my DVD archives. I simply could not remember, if i already recorded the documentary running on TV that day. This had to be changed and why not use LaTeX. So, i was dreaming of a hyperlinked and full searchable PDF-document listing my DVDs with all titles, lengths and so on. And the icing on the cake would be a list with all faulty or missing programs for rerecording. That’s exactly what dvdcoll.cls is providing. dvdcoll.cls is following the structure <number><title><length>. Therefore dvdcoll.cls is not limited to DVDs. You can of course typeset archives of CD-ROMs, Audio-CDs and so on. Supported languages at the moment: english, german. Some help is needed for other languages! ;-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Sch�pf

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CTAN has a new package: thailatex
by CTAN Announcements 16 Jun '06

16 Jun '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: thailatex Author's name: Theppitak Karoonboonyanan Location on CTAN: /language/thai/thailatex Summary description: Babel-based Thai support with fonts License type: bsd Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thailatex is a Thai package which enables typesetting Thai with LaTeX's standard document classes. It is meant to become a part of babel, a multilingual package for LaTeX which supports a lot of non-American languages. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/thai/thailatex . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN has a new package: thaifonts-scalable
by CTAN Announcements 16 Jun '06

16 Jun '06

A new package has been put into place at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you again for the contribution. Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: thaifonts-scalable Author's name: Theppitak Karoonboonyanan Location on CTAN: /fonts/thai/thaifonts-scalable Summary description: Make scalable Thai fonts License type: dfsg Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thaifonts-scalable is a collection of Thai scalable fonts available in free licenses. Its goal is to provide fonts that conform to existing standards and recommendations, so that it can be a reference implementation. This package provides fontforge files for producing fonts shipped in the thailatex package. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/thai/thaifonts-scalable . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN package update: sciposter.cls v1.17
by CTAN Announcements 15 Jun '06

15 Jun '06

The package described below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: sciposter.cls v1.17 Author's name: Michael H.F. Wilkinson Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/sciposter/ Summary description: Make posters of ISO A3 size and larger (new version: babel aware) License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- New version of sciposter.cls, now correctly changes captions labels of figures and tables if language is set to other than English using babel. Hook for algorithm caption label provided. Some formatting errors of figures and captions removed. page margin setting made easier. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/sciposter/ . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN has a new package: orderer
by CTAN Announcements 15 Jun '06

15 Jun '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: Orderer Author's name: M. Siddikov Location on CTAN: /support/orderer Summary description: Order references in TeX file License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The script re-orders references in the .tex file (in the order as they appear in the text). This is REQUIRED by most of the journals, this is TEDIOUS to do manually (in average each article contains ~50 citations) and unfortunately none of the LateXs which I know can do this job. The script is written in Perl (pre-installed on most Linux OS), but can be easily rewritten in other languages. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/orderer . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN has a new package: ifxetex
by CTAN Announcements 12 Jun '06

12 Jun '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: ifxetex Author's name: Will Robertson Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/latex/ifxetex Summary description: Provides the ifxetex conditional License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Provides an analogue to ifpdf for XeTeX; this package works for either LaTeX or Plain using eTeX extensions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/ifxetex . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: l2tabuen
by CTAN Announcements 12 Jun '06

12 Jun '06

On Sun, 11 Jun 2006, Juergen Fenn submitted an update to the l2tabuen package, containing v1.8.5.5 of his English translation of Mark Trettin's guide to LaTeX called `l2tabu' v1.8, giving a lot of practical advice about how to avoid the most common mistakes a user is prone to make (i.e., obsolete commands and packages). Location on CTAN: info/l2tabu/english Changes: - Minor fix in the section on graphicspath as to the correct notation regarding Mac OS~X. Thanks to Stephen Eglen. - Adapted to the UK TeX FAQ v3.15a. Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: dante.ctan.org upload: devanagari
by CTAN Announcements 12 Jun '06

12 Jun '06

On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Zdenek Wagner submitted an update to the velthuis package. Location on CTAN: /language/devanagari Summary description: Update to Velthuis devanagari, version 2.14 License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Release 2.14 with enhancements in the preprocessor and better Type 1 fonts ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: sanhyph
by CTAN Announcements 09 Jun '06

09 Jun '06

A new package has been put up on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: sanhyph Author's name: Yves Codet Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/hyphenation/sanhyph Summary description: Sanskrit hyphenation License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Unicode hyphenation patterns for Sanskrit and Prakrit in Devanagari, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam and Telugu scripts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/hyphenation/sanhyph . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: preview
by CTAN Announcements 09 Jun '06

09 Jun '06

On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, David Kastrup submitted version 11.83 of the preview package. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/preview License: gpl Thanks for the update. > > Release notes for AUCTeX 11.83 with preview-latex > ================================================= > > AUCTeX provides by far the most wide-spread and sophisticated > environment for editing LaTeX, TeX, ConTeXt and Texinfo documents with > Emacs or XEmacs. Combined with packages like RefTeX, flyspell and > others it is pretty much without peer as a comprehensive authoring > solution for a large variety of operating system platforms and TeX > distributions. It supports document-dependent completion and syntax > highlighting, easily accessible menus, jumping to error locations in > the source file, a number of editing shortcuts, intelligent > indentation and filling of text during entry, and WYSIWYG previews of > graphical elements like math formulas right in the Emacs source > buffer, by virtue of its preview-latex component. > > One part of the preview-latex subsystem is the central `preview.sty' > file that is independently useful for a number of applications and is > available in unbundled form from CTAN.[1] > > Interfaces and installation procedures in this release remain a moving > target. If you feel you need to consult third-party installation > instructions for some reason, be sure that they refer to the same > version of AUCTeX as you are installing. For installing AUCTeX > itself, the installation instructions in the AUCTeX package should be > preferred. > > AUCTeX needs volunteers in particular for non-programming tasks: > documentation writing, tutorials, translations, reference material, > sleuth work, testing. > > > New features and fixed bugs in this release > ------------------------------------------- > > The new function `TeX-doc' provides easy access to documentation about > commands and packages or information related to TeX and friends in > general. It is accessible with the key binding `C-c ?' or the `Find > Documentation...' entry in the mode menus. > > You can now get rid of generated intermediate and output files by > means of the new `Clean' and `Clean All' entries in `TeX-command-list' > accessible with `C-c C-c' or the Command menu. > > Support for forward search with PDF files was added. That means you > can jump to a place in the output file corresponding to the position > in the source file. Currently this only works if you use the pdfsync > LaTeX package and xpdf as your PDF viewer. The accuracy is in the > range of +/-1 page. > > Adding support for this feature required the default value of the > variable `TeX-output-view-style' to be changed. Please make sure you > either remove any customizations overriding the new default or > incorporate the changes into your customizations if you want to use > this feature. > > The error parsing of AUCTeX as well as preview-latex now deals with > -file-line-error type messages from newer web2c versions (earlier > versions would omit the traditional error context, which will not > work). > > The LaTeX tool bar is now enabled by default. > > A problem in preview-latex in connection with XyMTeX has been fixed. > > IMPORTANT: Many of the new features in the 11.x series rely on special > properties in the variable `TeX-command-list' and will not work if you > customized this variable for a pre-11.5x release of AUCTeX. If this > is the case for you, please re-initialize the variable by erasing the > customization, thereby setting the variable to the new default, and > re-adding your changes afterwards. > > > Requirements > ------------ > > It is required that you use at least GNU Emacs 21 or XEmacs 21.4. > XEmacs requires at least version 1.84 of the xemacs-base package > (released on 01/27/2004) or a sumo tarball dated 02/02/2004 or newer > for compiling AUCTeX: please use the XEmacs package system for > upgrading if necessary. Warning: release 21.4.16 of XEmacs is > severely broken. This leads to crashes and hangs; don't use it. > > The preview-latex subsystem requires image support. This is available > with GNU Emacs 21.3 under the X window system. For Windows[2], MacOS > Carbon[3] or native GTK+ toolkit support[4], a developer version[5] of > GNU Emacs (to be released as 22.1) is definitely required. A recent > developer version of GNU Emacs appears like the best choice even on > X11, however. If you prefer XEmacs-21, it will work in version > 21.4.10 or later. > > You'll also need a working LaTeX installation and Ghostscript. > dvipng[6] (version 1.4 or later: teTeX-3.0 works, TeXlive2004 not), a > very fast dvi converter, can be used to speed up the conversion. > > Availability > ------------ > > AUCTeX can be downloaded in various formats from > <URL:ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/auctex/>. At release time, we provide > the source tarball, source and binary RPMs for Emacs under Fedora > and SUSE, and a platform-independent XEmacs package file (which you > have to install yourself using XEmacs' own package system, after using > it for removing the previous version of AUCTeX). There are also RPMs > just for installing the LaTeX part of preview (AUCTeX itself does not > need them, but possibly other applications). The easiest way for > using AUCTeX, of course, is using versions of Emacs that already > include AUCTeX (check the footnotes below). > > RPMs with minor version 1 are built from the spec file in the tarball which > should work on both SUSE as well as Fedora. The source RPMs should also work > for rebuilding RPMs on other RPM-based distributions. (We have only tested > SUSE and Fedora, though.) > > The XEmacs package file can be discerned by `pkg' in its name. It is > usually more recent and functional than what gets distributed from > XEmacs servers and as part of the Sumo tarball. > > A separate directory for each release contains some stuff from the > tarball, such as ChangeLog, printable manuals, and a reference sheet. > The download area is mirrored to the directory support/auctex on CTAN. > AUCTeX is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2. > > You'll find more information at the web site of AUCTeX > <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/>, including its mailing list > addresses. > > > Future development and additional information > --------------------------------------------- > > AUCTeX is proceeding as a GNU project with the long-term intent of > merging it into Emacs. For that reason, all new contributors need to > assign copyright to their contributions to the FSF (the usual > procedure for Emacs contributors). The same holds for past > contributors. The principal authors and maintainers have already done > so, but it would require a diligent and diplomatic volunteer to find > and ask the rest. > > Current project manager is David Kastrup. Paypal contributions to > <URL:mailto:auctex@gnu.org> would be appreciated in order to > compensate for time, money and hardware required for presenting AUCTeX > at conferences. Extensions may be commissioned: enquire on the > developer list (see above). Other than that, volunteering for tasks > remains the most effective way of helping AUCTeX development. > > The following people contributed to this release series (in > alphabetical order): Ralf Angeli, Masayuki Ataka, Thomas Baumann, > Berend de Boer, Miguel Frasson, Peter S. Galbraith, Patrick Gundlach, > Yvon Hevel, Arne Jørgensen, David Kastrup, Ikumi Keita, Frank Küster, > Jan-Åke Larsson, Dan Nicolaescu, Piet van Oostrum, Davide > G. M. Salvetti, Mike Sperber, Reiner Steib, Christian Schlauer, Shiro > Takeda, Mark Trettin (Please accept our apologies if we forgot > somebody.) > > Footnotes: > > [1] <URL:ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/preview/> > > [2] You can get a precompiled version of CVS Emacs for Windows e.g. at > <URL:http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/EmacsW32.html>. A version with > AUCTeX preinstalled can be found at > <URL:ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/auctex/>. > > [3] Precompiled versions of Emacs for Mac OS X can be found e.g. at > <URL:http://yaced.sf.net/> (including AUCTeX) and > <URL:http://homepage.mac.com/zenitani/emacs-e.html>. > > [4] Debian provides precompiled GTK+ Emacs packages in its `unstable' > distribution (look for `emacs-snapshot-gtk'). Packages for Fedora can > be found at <URL:http://people.redhat.com/petersen/emacs/>. > > [5] If making use of the precompiled variants is not an option for > you, instructions for checking out the CVS version straight from the > GNU's mouth can be found at > <URL:http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=emacs> > > [6] dvipng is available via its project page > <URL:http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/dvipng> and from CTAN. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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