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CTAN submission -- bigfoot bundle for critical edition typesetting
by Reinhard Zierke 23 Feb '04

23 Feb '04

----- Forwarded message from David Kastrup ----- I have uploaded files suffix.dtx, suffix.ins, and README to the incoming/bigfoot directory. They are the first of what is supposed to become a larger batch of files in the bigfoot bundle that is primordinarily concerned with providing many of the mechanisms needed for critical edition typesetting. The other files of the suite are available via CVS in workable state, but are still undergoing heavy change and are not yet documented, so I don't want to upload them right now. Pointers to the CVS are given in the README (which also explains the current state of affairs). The files are supposed to be placed into CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/bigfoot directory and are licenced under the GPL (version 2 or later). Sorry that most of the suite is yet available only by CVS. Here is the README file: This is the bigfoot bundle for critical edition typesetting and other concerns, written by David Kastrup (mailto:dak@gnu.org). The complete package in development can be accessed using the CVS instructions at <URL:http://sarovar.org/projects/bigfoot>, and CTAN:/macros/latex/contrib/bigfoot should provide released versions once they are fit for general consumption. The whole bundle is released under the GPL version 2 (or later). Part of the work has been sponsored or commissioned by various parties (including TUG), but further functionality and development depends on your support, financially or by participation. The author has a Paypal account which you might consider contributing to. All of the files (except perpage.sty, for historical reasons) need eTeX 2 as the LaTeX engine. Newer distributions already are eTeX-based; with older distributions you might need to use the `elatex' command. File descriptions for available files: suffix.ins: This is a generated file and not in the CVS archive (but on CTAN). If you need to generate it, you can do so by running `tex docstrip' and answering the prompts infileext=dtx outfileext=ins Options=installer filelist=suffix Running TeX on suffix.ins will generate further files from `suffix.dtx'. suffix.dtx: This is the doc source for `suffix.sty', a package that makes it very easy to define command variants like macro* or macro!. It is included in the critical bundle since typical document classes for real critical editions documents will tend to want weird signs under handy abbreviations, like < and <<, or =>, or things like footnote' macros, or footnote<...footnote> with different formatting/numbering and so on. perpage.sty: Work in progress, CVS only. Used for keeping counters sorted in order of page appearance and making numbering per page possible. bigfoot.sty: Work in progress, CVS only. Used for solving every problem around footnotes and then some. Deals with nested footnotes in several apparatus, uses a backtracking algorithm for finding the optimal break across several footnotes, automatically breaks in-paragraph style footnotes across pages, uses fuzzy logic for deciding about when to prefer in-paragraph layout to one-footnote-per-paragraph layout on a per-note and per-block basis, deals with colors in footnotes even when broken across pages, adapts the document class's footnote style to in-paragraph footnotes as good as it can, allows customization of styles differing across footnote blocks, allows verbatim text in footnotes and so on. ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the upload. I installed the new packages as suggested in CTAN:tex-archive/macros/contrib/bigfoot Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: Pandora-type1
by Jim Hefferon 21 Feb '04

21 Feb '04

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make its way to your favorite mirror in the next day or two. Thank you for the upload, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: Pandora-type1 Author's name: Patrick TJ McPhee Location on CTAN: fonts/ps-type1/pandora Summary description: Type 1 versions of the Pandora fonts License type: nocommercial Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- These are drop-in replacements for the PK version of the Pandora fonts, for use when generating PDF files. You are meant to use the metrics from the original distributon. The license is the same as the license on the original fonts. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/ps-type1/pandora 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: CTAN submission --- experimental ledmac extension
by Robin Fairbairns 20 Feb '04

20 Feb '04

Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded ledmini.sty to UK incoming. Please add this to the > /macros/latex/contrib/ledmac subdirectory. > > ledmini.sty is an experimental package to enable ledmac's line > numbering and footnotes work in a minipage environment. > > I'm hoping some will try it (at their own peril) and > comment. Depending on the feedback I will either delete it or add it > into the ledmac code. i've installed the file as suggested. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: LaTeXPiX
by Jim Hefferon 19 Feb '04

19 Feb '04

A package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and will appear at your favorite mirror in the next day or two. Thanks, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: LaTeXPiX Author's name: N.J.H.M. van Beurden Location on CTAN: systems/win32/latexpix Summary description: As is License type: nosource Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The eleventh CTAN release has the following improvements: * Possibility added to delete points from polygons and splines. * Preview files can now be deleted from the main menu. * Drawing of new objects is now done without dotted lines, improving visibility. * Circular arcs are now available. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/latexpix 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 package update: nomentbl
by Jim Hefferon 19 Feb '04

19 Feb '04

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should be at 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: nomentbl Author's name: Brian Elmegaard Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/nomentbl Summary description: Nomenclature typeset in a longtable License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The nomentbl package has needed a refreshment for a long time. It has now been updated to work the nomencl package version [2000/12/03 v3.1a Nomenclature package (BS)]. The package typesets the nomenclature in a table in four predefined groups: Roman letters, greek letters, subscrips and superscrips. This grouping may naturally be changed. The table includes: symbol|description|unit|equation reference|page reference The two last entries are optional The package supports the options of the nomencl-package including the refeq and refpage options. - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: CTAN submission --- mempatch.sty
by Robin Fairbairns 19 Feb '04

19 Feb '04

Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded mempatch.sty to UK incoming. Please use this to > replace the current macros/latex/contrib/memoir/mempatch.sty. > > Please announce: > > You don't need this patch to memoir unless you are using a command > like linespread (which should never have been invented). i've installed the file here in cambridge, whence it will wend its weary way over the next few hours to the other ctan sites, and thence to mirrors. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN submission: beamer 2.00 and pgf 0.60
by Reinhard Zierke 19 Feb '04

19 Feb '04

----- Forwarded message from Till Tantau ----- I have put version 2.00 of the beamer package (macros/latex/contrib/beamer) on fpt://dante.ctan.org/incoming/latex-beamer-2.00.tar.gz and version 0.60 of pgf (graphics/pgf) on fpt://dante.ctan.org/incoming/pgf-0.60.tar.gz. ChangLogs: beamer version 2.00 Added: - Added placement options to columns and column commands. - Added column command. - Added label option to frames. - Added againframe command for showing a frame again later on (very useful!). - Added includeonlyframe command for typesetting only specific frames. - Added AtBeginSection, AtBeginSubsection, and AtBeginPart commands (very useful!). - Added visible command (opposite of invisible). - Added verse, quotation, and quote environments. - Added abstract environment (not very useful in my opinion). - Added colored option to defverbatim for use with lstlisting. - Added grid density option to grid background. - Added professionalfont option. - Added automatic support of serif math minion fonts. - Added option to pause command to pause only from a specific slide on. - Added unpause to stop the last pause. - Includes enumerate.sty by default and allows one to use its functionality in beamer. - Added dark and tab options to beamerthemesidebar. Other sidebar themes no longer needed. - Made ote work also inside frames. - Added templates for notes. - Added notes=onlyframeswithnotes option for generating only frames that contain a note. - Added options to all insertshortxxx commands. - Added option for passing arguments to color, xcolor, pgf, and hyperref. - Added action and actionenv environments. - Added the concept of actions to overlay specifications. For example, item<alert@2> will alert the item on the second slide and item<2-| alert@2> will furthermore have the item covered before that. - Added <> option to ewcommand and ewenvironment to make the defined commands overlay-specification aware. - only and alt will now also accept an overlay specification at the end. - Block environments now accept overlay specification also before the argument. - Added mode command - Added beamerbasearticle.sty -> makes nearly all beamer commands available in article mode in a sensible way. - Added mode specifications to section and subsection commands (useful for the article version). - Started adding some templates for rendering frames in article mode. - Added lecture command and includeonlylecture (useful for lecture notes). - Added a containsverbatim option to the frame command. Should be used instead of the old frame<all:1> (which is, however, still supported). - Made includegraphics, pgfimage, and pgfuseimage overlay-specification-aware. (useful for pseudo-animations) Changed: - Every frame is now put into a box internally. Slides will never be split over two pages. - pause commands now transcends blocks (very useful, but not compatible!) - Balls are now also used for enumerations, not just for itemize in shadow theme. Use eamertemplateenumeratealpha to get old behaviour. - Changed syntax of alert and structure templates. - Reworked internals of overlay management. Should produce slightly shorter files. - Changed file names of .jpg and .png images to start with beamer- to avoid name clashes. - Renamed original to eameroriginal because of clash with lucidia font styles. - Streamlined themes to use the same basic templates. - oteitems replaced by ote[enumerate]. - ameslide command is now obsolete. Use the label= option instead. - Removed notesonly option. Use notes=only. - Themes beamerthemesidebartab, beamerthemesidebardark, and beamerthemesidebardarktab are now obsolete. Use beamerthesesidebar will appropriate options instead. - Theme beamerthemetreebars obsolete. Use beamerthemetree with option bars instead. - Removed compressnotes option. Use eamertemplatenotecompress instead. Removed: - Removed pauses environment (no longer needed). - Improved pgf makes pgfonly superfluous. Use only instead. - Removed reproducable .pdf example files from repository for faster cvs checkout/checkin. - Removed invisibleon command (was superfluous anyway). - Removed mixinon command (was not very useful and clashes with new pause command; use opaqueness instead). - Removed ewoverlaycommand and enewoverlaycommand. Can be better implemented using ewcommand<>. - Removed article, presentation, and common commands (still quietly tolerated). Should be replaced by mode<article>, mode<presentation>, and mode<all>. - Removed beamer/lyx/doc. Documentation is now incorporated in the main user's guide. LyX: - Added a big example file beamerlyxexample1.lyx. - Changed ableofcontents command so that options can be given in LyX. - Changed frame command in LyX so that options can be given. - Added overprint and overlayarea environments. - Added againframe command. - Changed beamer.layout to use new command column. Old environment no longer supported in lyx. - A new frame and a section or subsection will automatically close the previous frame. EndFrame is only needed before the end of the document, before the appendix, and before out-of-frame material. - Added TitleGraphic command. - Documented the LyX interface in beameruserguide.pdf. Bugfixes: - Fixed bugs with jumping blocks in overlays. - Fixed bug with tabbing in beamerbaseboxes. - Added work-around for problem with black background in older versions of acroread. - Fixed problems with linebreak in short title and short author in sidebar themes. pgf version 0.60: - Replaced some commands for the postscript code by shorter versions for smaller file size. - Fixed bug in pgfbox command that caused incorrect kerning in postscript output. - Fixed bug in pgfsys@defineimage that made page inclusion impossible. - Fixed bug in pgfshading that did not reset dash patterns in shadings in the PostScript version. - Spaces are now allowed inside the pgfpicture environment. - Added pgfgrid command. ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the upload. I installed both packages as suggested replacing the previous versions at CTAN:graphics/pgf and CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/beamer Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: empheq
by Jim Hefferon 18 Feb '04

18 Feb '04

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should make its way to your local mirror in the next day or two. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: empheq Author's name: Morten Høgholm Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/empheq Summary description: empheq v1.05b License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The empheq (emphasizing equations) package is designed for two purposes: 1) To allow a multi line equivalent of oxed from amsmath which can be used with all of the display environments from amsmath. 2) To produce arbitrary delimiters for arbitrary math displays. The user-friendly interface allows the user to put a set of equations inside a box thus enhancing the oxed feature of amsmath. As a side effect it's also possible to add material on both sides of the equations including auto-scaling delimiters. It also supports the end-of-theorem markers from ntheorem out of the box, as the problems with those markers can be circumvented by using empheq. This version of empheq is incompatible with versions prior to and including v0.7a. See the empheq manual for how to deal with this. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/empheq 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 upload notification: xcolor 1.09
by Reinhard Zierke 17 Feb '04

17 Feb '04

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload ----- Name of contribution: xcolor 1.09 Name and email: Uwe Kern <xcolor(a)ukern.de> Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/xcolor Summary description: Driver-independent color extensions for LaTeX and pdfLaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2004/02/16 v1.09 * New features: - color model `HTML', a 24-bit hexadecimal `RGB' variant; allows to specify colors like color[HTML]{AFFE90}; - color names `orange', `violet', `purple', and `brown' added to the set of predefined colors. * New xcolor homepage: www.ukern.de/tex/xcolor.html * Bugfix: xdefinecolor sometimes did not normalise its parameters. * Changes: - slight improvements of the documentation; - example file xcolor1.tex reorganised and abridged. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the upload. I installed as suggested it replacing the previous version in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/xcolor Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN upload notification: png2pdf
by Rainer Schöpf 17 Feb '04

17 Feb '04

On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 Dirk Krause wrote: > Name of contribution: png2pdf > Suggested location on CTAN: /support/png2pdf > Summary description: PNG to PDF converter > License type: gpl > > Announcement text: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Png2pdf is a converter from PNG to PDF. Although one > can use PNG images directly in pdfLaTeX I had problems > sometimes when pictures had an alpha channel. > Using png2pdf one can convert PNG to PDF, the alpha channel > can be used for mixing against a user specified background, > a background color from the PNG file's background chunk > and/or to create an image mask. For PDF level 1.4 the > alpha channel can be transferred into the PDF file. > > The project was moved to SourceForge in November 2003. > This update contains new documentation pointing to > http://png2pdf.sourceforge.net as primary location for > documentation and software. > > No changes in functionality. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update, I installed it. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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