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CTAN has a new package: QCM
by Jim Hefferon 14 Oct '04

14 Oct '04

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and I expect that it has already arrived at your favorite mirror. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: QCM Author's name: Didier Verna Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/qcm Summary description: A LaTeX2e class for making multiple choices questionnaires License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the first public release of QCM. This package provides you with a document class for making multiple choices questionnaires (QCM is the corresponding French acronym) under LaTeXe. A special environment allows you to define questions and possible answers that you can specify as correct or wrong. QCM not only formats the questions for you, but also generates a form (a grid that your students will have to fill in), and a mask (the same grid, already filled in properly). You can then print the mask on a slide and correct the questionnaires more easily by superimposing the mask on top of students' forms. QCM also comes with support for AUC-TeX. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/qcm 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 submission: updated minitoc package
by Reinhard Zierke 14 Oct '04

14 Oct '04

----- Forwarded message from Jean-Pierre Drucbert ----- I just uploaded a new version of the `minitoc' package in ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/minitoc.tar.gz package: minitoc version: 39 position on CTAN : tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/minitoc/ (should replace the version 38) licence: LPPL updates versus version 38: ======================================================================= Version #39 Corrections in documentation modern font commands added @fileswfalse and mtc@hook@beforeinputfile for the notoccite package (asked for by Donald Arseneau) added notoccite option (loads the notoccite package) added language options and .mld files for dialects: canadian (=english) acadian, acadien, canadien (=french) naustrian, ngerman (=ngermanb) added comments in .mld files using special fonts. corrections in the documentation added a paragraph about making a TOC for appendices, not listed in the main TOC. added a PDF version of the english documentation (I used the txfonts to get a better rendering with PDF; the dangerous bend signs are still in a bit-map font, but it is not vital). TODO: compatibility with the memoir class TODO: omtcpagenumbers & memoir class ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the upload; I installed as suggested replacing the old version in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/minitoc/ Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN upload notification: CorrIdx
by Reinhard Zierke 14 Oct '04

14 Oct '04

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload ----- Name of contribution: CorrIdx Name and email: Johannes Karl Fink <fink(a)unileoben.ac.at> Suggested location on CTAN: indexing Summary description: A preprocessor for MakeIndex to sort chemical names in an index License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The CorrIdx program can be used to sort an index with chemical names containing leading numbers, etc. into a proper alphabetical order. It is intended as a preprocessor for the MakeIndex program. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. I installed it in CTAN:indexing/corridx next to the makeindex directory. Note: The program is written in Pascal. A Windows binary and Pascal code are provided. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN package update: PerlTeX
by Jim Hefferon 13 Oct '04

13 Oct '04

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should already have arrived at your favorite mirror. Thank you for the update, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: PerlTeX Author's name: Scott Pakin Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/perltex Summary description: Define LaTeX macros in terms of Perl code License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PerlTeX is a combination Perl script (perltex.pl) and LaTeX2e style file (perltex.sty) that, together, give the user the ability to define LaTeX macros in terms of Perl code. Once defined, a Perl macro becomes indistinguishable from any other LaTeX macro. PerlTeX thereby combines LaTeX's typesetting power with Perl's programmability. The following changes have been made from the previous version of PerlTeX: * perlmacros.sty has been renamed to perltex.sty. * PerlTeX macros can now return LaTeX code which in turn invokes other PerlTeX macros. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/perltex 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: psethiop
by Reinhard Zierke 13 Oct '04

13 Oct '04

----- Forwarded message from ----- Name of contribution: psethiop Name and email: Malte Rosenau <mrosena(a)gwdg.de> Suggested location on CTAN: fonts/psethiop Summary description: Type1 fonts for ethiop.sty License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a set of Type1 fonts for ethiop.sty, a LaTeX package for typesetting Ethiopian languages. The 44 Postscript fonts included in this collection were created from the original Metafont sources with mftrace. Despite the fact that potrace does an amazing job, the quality of the individual glyphs is by no means as good as in the original bitmap version, so please do NOT use them for printing purposes. They look pretty much ok in pdf files. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the upload. I installed the fonts in CTAN:fonts/ps-type1/ethiop/ and created a link from CTAN:language/ethiopia/psethiop/ to fonts/ps-type1/ethiop/ (CTAN:language/ethiopia/ethiop/ is the place of the original font) Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: ANUfinalexam
by Jim Hefferon 12 Oct '04

12 Oct '04

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org. It should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thank you for the contribution, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: ANUfinalexam Author's name: Timothy Kam Author's email: timothy.kam(a)anu.edu.au Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/anufinalexam Summary description: LaTeX document shell for ANU final exam License type: nocommercial Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This LaTeX document shell is created for the standard formatting of final exams in The Australian National University. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/anufinalexam 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 submission -- Beamer version 3.00, pgf version 0.64
by Reinhard Zierke 11 Oct '04

11 Oct '04

----- Forwarded message from Till Tantau ----- I have put new versions of beamer and pgf on ftp.dante.de:/incoming. Announcement: This is version 3.00 of beamer, a class for creating presentations using latex. To use it, you also need - pgf version >=0.63, - xcolor version >=2.00 To install the class follow the instructions in doc/beameruserguide.pdf. This is a major update of beamer, containing many changes, most having to do with a new theme management. Old presentations should still compile without errors, but some slight color and spacing changes may occur, however. The update from pgf 0.63 to 0.64 is just a minor bugfix and not needed to use the new beamer version. Here are the changelogs: Beamer version 3.00: Themes: - Completely new theme management. - Lot's of new variations of themes. - Font/element/layout/color themes are orthogonal and can be freely combined. - Old themes obsolete, but supported for compatibility. - Original default theme is now in beamerthemecompatibility.sty. New default is more minimalistic. + Presentation themes: - There are now 24 ready-to-use presentation themes. - Manuel Carro has send me a theme that I slightly adapted and added as the Madrid theme. + Layout and element Themes: - There are 9 different layouts themes, including three new ones that were not available in the previous version. - There are 4 different element themes (which dictate things like how items are typeset). + Color themes: - There are 10 color themes, including a yellow-on-blue theme. - The seahorse and rose theme allow you to change the colors of headlines and footlines easily to much less aggressive versions. - You can now dictate the color of every minute detail of a presentation individually, (including math!). + Font themes: - 6 font themes. Change the fonts of titles to, say, small caps just by using the smallcaps theme; no need to meddle with templates. - Just like colors, you can individually change all fonts in minute detail without touching any templates. Documentation: - Split documentation into multiple files. - Reorganized and reworked large parts of the documention. - Added a small tutorial to help new users. - Extracted all guidelines and recommendations and put them in a guidelines section. Also added lots of guidelines on fonts. - Added an index (though it's pretty poor, still). Solutions: - Added a solutions directory. It contains ready-to-use solutions for common problems (like a template for a conference talk). - Help appreciated (see the documentation). Added: - Added frame environment (finally!). - Added the dot notation to overlay specifications. If a dot is used instead of a plus, the beamerpauses counter is not incremented. - Added xmpmulti.sty. Very useful for including Multi Metapost graphics. - Added some functionality to onslide to get it more in sync with ha-prosper. - Made eamerdefaultoverlayspecification work also outside frames. - Added new version of beamer.el by Thomas Baumann. - footnote now takes an overlay specification. - Added beamercolorbox environment. - Characters like : may now be active (nice for french style). Only exceptions are < and >. - Added a note on how to use msc.sty with beamer. - TOCs in sidebar will now do line breaking (finally!). - Powerful object-oriented new font management. - Powerful object-oriented new color management. - ableofcontents now has more options for showing/not showing entries. - Same is true for the toc in sidebars. - Added keywords command (like subject). - Added a patch to make beamer work together with musixtex. pause will be redeclared inside music environments. - Added insert's for inserting the start and end pages of the current frame, subsection, section, part, presentation, appendix. Changed: - Reordered directories. - beamerboxesrounded now works differently. color schemes no longer needed. - Option class=xxxx onsolete. Use document class xxxx directly instead and load new style beamerarticle. - Cleaned up lot's of internals. - Slight changes to vertical spacing. - slidestop is now called t and slidescentered is called c. - eamersetleftmargin and eamersetrightmargin obsolete. Use setbeamersize instead. - Old themes are now mapped to new internal mechanisms. Slight color and vertical spacing changes may occur. Bugfixes: - Fixed incompatibility with czech.sty. - Fixed some spacing problems with label. - Fixed bug that could cause endless loop if more than two pages resulted from an allowframebreaks. - Fixed bug that caused incorrect counter resets in conjunction with allowframebreaks. - Fixed bug that caused footnotes of suppressed frames to spill over to the next frame. - Fixed bug with AtBeginSection + lecture + mode* - Fixed label bug in article mode in conjunction with amstex - Fixed spacing problems when pause is used in equations - Fixed spacing problem with slides that start with an itemize. - Fixed color problem in itemize in conjunction with evil use of everymath. - Fixed failure of action environment in handout and trans modes. - Fixed bug with shrink + t options. - Fixed lot's of other small things. - Fixed problem with displayed math formulas are message improper halign... - Fixed wrong positioning of mini frames on notes pages. - Fixed bugs in outer theme miniframes. - Fixed foreground coloring problem in beamerboxesrounded. - Fixed alert in article mode problem. - Fixed emporal problem. - Fixed vertical mode after item problem. - Applied patch with typo fixed submitted by Ohura Makoto. - Fixed warnings concerning it/sl substitution for cmss. - Renamed ternary to tertiary and fourth to quaternary. - Changed parent of color frametitle to titlelike. - Fixed problem with ote in lectures that are excluded. pgf version 0.64: - Fixed missing depth of pgfnodebox. - Fixed bug that caused infinite stack loop with pictures inside nodes. ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the uploads. I installed them as suggested replacing the old versions in CTAN:graphics/pgf/ and CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/beamer/ Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN upload notification: fancyhdr.sty
by Rainer Schöpf 11 Oct '04

11 Oct '04

Piet van Oostrum submitted the new version 3.1 of his fancyhdr package. It contains a small patch to solve a problem with verbatiminput and includegraphics. fancyhdr is a package for extensive control of page headers and footers in LaTeX. It is installed on CTAN in macros/latex/contrib/fancyhdr License type: lppl Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: LaTeXPiX
by Jim Hefferon 07 Oct '04

07 Oct '04

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should make its way to your favorite mirror soon. Thanks, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: LaTeXPiX Author's name: Nick van Beurden Location on CTAN: systems/win32/latexpix Summary description: As Is License type: As is Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The fourteenth CTAN release has the following improvements: * Added German translations by Lars Borchert. * Lowered unnecessary RGB to CMYK conversion precision for all colours. * Removed several bugs (thanks to Robert Rutten) in the text editor form and added information label here. * Hopefully fixed the looping automatic upgrading. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systemx/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 upgrade: microtype
by Jim Hefferon 07 Oct '04

07 Oct '04

A package has been upgraded on tug.ctan.org, and should already be at your favorite mirror. Thank you for the upload, 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: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The `microtype' package provides a LaTeX interface to pdfTeX's micro-typographic extensions: character protrusion and font expansion. NEW: ===== * new font sets: `allmath' and `basicmath' enabling character protrusion in math mode * protrusion factors for Computer Modern Roman math symbols * more protrusion factors for Adobe Garamond and Computer Modern Roman in TS1 encoding CHANGES: ========= * if an alias font name is specified, it will be used as an alternative, not as a replacement * more tests for sanity of settings and whether all fonts will be set up * more robust parsing of sizes in font sets * more bug fixes - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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