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CTAN catalogue search
by Robin Fairbairns 01 Jul '04

01 Jul '04

I've got an old copy of Jim Hefferon's excellent catalogue search from www.ctan.org; it's been off the air for a bit, but is now available again at http://www.tex.ac.uk/CTANfind.html Does what you need, I think, though it's undoubtedly less pretty than Jim's current thing (which is on a machine that's currently not working...). Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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by Rainer Schöpf 01 Jul '04

01 Jul '04

After a bad storm, the US main CTAN node alan.smcvt.edu is out of service. In particular, the web interface at www.ctan.org cannot be reached. We apologize for the interruption. We will post an announcement when the machine is operational again. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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tug.ctan.org/www.ctan.org out
by Robin Fairbairns 01 Jul '04

01 Jul '04

Jim Hefferon's just reported that the machine has been fried by a storm. He doesn't know how long it will take to get things back on the air again. In the mean time, there's still cam.ctan.org/dante.ctan.org (for ftp) and www.tex.ac.uk and www.dante.de for web access. I fear that www.tex.ac.uk's CTAN search is currently broken, and dante doesn't have one :-( Report problems to ctan(a)dante.de, please. I'll try and get the CTAN search here going again this evening (I had intended to sneak a copy off Jim :-( ) Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: m-bib
by Jim Hefferon 01 Jul '04

01 Jul '04

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and it should be spreading to other sites even as you read this. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: m-bib Author's name: Taco Hoekwater Location on CTAN: macros/context/contrib/bib Summary description: ConTeXt bibliography module License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the ConTeXt bibliography module. There is nothing really new in this release, just a (re)packaging for CTAN. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/context/contrib/bib 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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New release of the free TeX System VTeX/Free
by Reinhard Zierke 30 Jun '04

30 Jun '04

----- Forwarded message from Walter Schmidt ----- ============================================================ VTeX/Free 8.44/8.46 for OS/2 and Linux ============================================================ A new release of the free TeX System VTeX/Free for OS/2 and Linux (x86) is available from ftp://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/vtex and will soon propagate to the other CTAN nodes. About VTeX/Free ---------------- VTeX/Free is a TeX distribution, which is built around the VTeX program. VTeX is an implementation of the TeX typesetting engine, including the eTeX extensions. VTeX can generate PDF or PostScript output immediately from the TeX source file. The distribution includes Plain TeX, a LaTeX system with many additional packages and fonts, and the Bibtex and Makeindex programs. VTeX is developed by MicroPress Inc. In contrast to traditional TeX systems, no intermediate DVI files need to be generated, no DVI driver programs are required, and there is no need to take care of their sometimes fussy setup. The common PostScript and PDF viewers Ghostscript and Adobe Reader (Acrobat) are to be used for (pre)viewing and printing. Output from VTeX is immediately suitable for public distribution, e.g., over the www, since PDF and PostScript are standardized document formats. Actually, VTeX/Free is a port of MicroPress' commercial TeX system VTeX for the Windows platform, see <http://www.micropress-inc.com>. However, the free distribution does not include the GUI and certain tools of VTeX/Win, and it does not support HTML and SVG generation. VTeX/Free comes in two variants: * VTeX/2 is for the OS/2 operating system * VTeX/Lnx is for Linux (on the x86 platform only) VTeX has a built-in Postcript interpreter and supports * inclusion of PostScript images, * inclusion of PDF images, * inclusion of bitmap images (PNG, JPG, TIFF and others), * inline PostScript programming. Thus, packages such as PStricks, PSfrag and draftcopy can be used with VTeX. and are part of the distribution. The hyperref features are supported in both PDF and PostScript mode. PDF encryption is available without external tools. Beside the standard Computer Modern fonts, VTeX/Free includes lots of other free Type1 fonts and the macro packages to use them: * European Computer Modern (EC/TC fonts) * URW's clones of the 35 PostScript base fonts * Pazo Math fonts * the AMS math fonts (Symbols, Euler, Fraktur and others) * various special math fonts: RSFS, WASY, St-Mary-Road, Doublestroke, esint, esvect * the Ibycus 4 system and its Greek typefaces * the ArabTeX system with Arab and Hebrew typefaces * the CJHebrew package with Hebrew typefaces * TIPA (phonetic) typefaces * BrushScriptX-Italic * various symbol fonts: MarVoSym, Cheq, Context navigation symbols, MF-Logo What is new in the currect release? ----------------------------------- * v8.44 of the VTeX compiler for OS/2, v8.46 on Linux * latest LaTeX * additional fonts: Fourier, CJHebrew, esint * ... and more, see the file <ftp://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/vtex/NEWS> NB: The previous distribution site ftp.uni-erlangen.de is NO LONGER IN USE. Please, do not attempt to download VTeX/Free from this site any longer! ----- End forwarded message ----- Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN package name change: stanpage to stdpage
by Jim Hefferon 28 Jun '04

28 Jun '04

Please note that the stanpage package has been renamed stdpage. Jim Hefferon

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CTAN submission -- pdfcrop v1.5
by Reinhard Zierke 25 Jun '04

25 Jun '04

----- Forwarded message from Heiko Oberdiek ----- I have uploaded `pdfcrop.zip' in the /incoming directory of ftp.dante.de. It replaces the files in CTAN:support/pdfcrop/ License remains LPPL 1.2 Current version is 1.5, changes: 2002/11/23 v1.3: Use of File::Spec module's devnull call. 2002/11/29 v1.4: Option --papersize added. 2004/06/24 v1.5: Clear map file entries so that pdfTeX does not touch the fonts. _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. I installed it as suggested replacing the previous version pdfcrop 1.2 in CTAN:support/pdfcrop/ Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: mentis
by Jim Hefferon 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should make its way to your favorite mirror soon. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: mentis Author's name: Georg Michael Verweyen Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/mentis Summary description: Provides adjustments for publishing at mentis publishers in Paderborn, Germany. License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This LaTeX class provides adjustments for publishing at mentis publishers in Paderborn, Germany. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mentis 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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CTAN has a new package: stanpage
by Jim Hefferon 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and it should make its way to your favorite mirror in a day or two. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: stanpage Author's name: Georg Michael Verweyen Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/stanpage Summary description: Produces standard pages with n lines, at most m characters each. For instance the German Normseite: 60 lines of 30 characters each. License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For translations, proofreading, journal contributions etc. standard pages are used. Those standard pages consist of a fixed number of lines and characters per line. This package produces pages with n lines of at most m characters each. For instance the German Normseite: 60 lines of 30 characters each. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/stanpage 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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Re: Upload
by Robin Fairbairns 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

Herbert Voss writes: > I just uploaded pst-grad.tgz to the uk mirror. > Please replace the following files. > > > VERSION /graphics/pstricks/ > pst-grad.pro /graphics/pstricks/dvips/ > pst-grad.tex /graphics/pstricks/generic/ > > > This new version has the option CircleGradient to > build also circled gradients. It is the code which was > published some time ago in the pstricks mailing list. i've installed the files as requested; thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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